Only in the UK.
The UK arrests 30 people a day, 12,000 a year, for online posts, especially those critical of Islam and Muslim mass migration. When a Kurdish man burned a Koran in front of the Turkish consulate and a Muslim man stabbed him, the UK police let the stabber out on bail and locked up the Koran burner on the charge of having “intent to cause against the religious institution of Islam.” Jewish and non-Jewish people have been arrested for condemning Hamas and Hezbollah.So you can understand why Shahid Butt is the candidate of the moment to “unite” the United Kingdom.
An activist who was jailed for his part in an armed terror plot is seeking election. Shahid Butt says he believes he is the ‘ideal candidate’ to unite a divided community and city, push back against the far right and defeat Labour in one of its traditional strongholds.
“Activist” is that what we’re calling Islamic terrorists now?
In a launch video for his campaign with the two men, he tells people that he will be relying on the ‘support of Allah, these guys and you’ to win the seat.
Butt was convicted on terror charges in 1999 amid claims he was part of a terrorist enterprise conspiring to terrorise Yemen. He was found guilty of forming an armed gang and conspiring to bomb the British consulate, an Anglican church and a Swiss-owned hotel in Yemen.
The group was supposedly linked to Islamic radicals who kidnapped 16 Westerners in 1998, four of whom were killed. They were accused of being sent to Yemen by radical cleric Abu Hamza.
I still remember Don King’s, ‘Only in America’. But only in the UK can a Muslim terrorist plot to bomb the British consulate, move there and run for office to destroy the UK.
From the UN’s cheerfully upbeat summary…
In the early 1990’s Shahid travelled to Bosnia as an aid worker, and on seeing the terrible situation he stayed and joined the foreign fighters brigade of the Bosnian army.
During the next 8 years he travelled to Afghanistan and Kashmir
So much ‘activism’.
Butt comes up again in a terrorism welfare fraud case, ubiquitous among Pakistan Muslim settlers in the UK. --->READ MORE HERE
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Butt recently called on Muslims to travel to Birmingham to confront Israeli soccer fans
A Muslim activist who served a prison sentence for his role in an overseas terror plot is now seeking elected office in Birmingham, Britain’s second-largest city, as local elections approach amid heightened communal tensions.Shahid Butt was convicted by a Yemeni court in 1999 and sentenced to five years in prison after being found guilty of forming an armed gang and conspiring to bomb the British consulate in Aden, an Anglican church and a Swiss-owned hotel in Yemen. At the time, Yemeni prosecutors said the group had been sent to carry out violence by Abu Hamza, the extremist preacher who was the father of one of the convicted men.
He is now standing as a candidate for the newly formed Independent Candidates Alliance in the May 7 Birmingham City Council elections.
Butt maintains his innocence, claiming his confession was coerced through torture, and that evidence against him was planted, The Daily Telegraph reported.
He will contest the Sparkhill ward, an area where nearly two-thirds of residents are of Pakistani background, according to The Daily Telegraph.
Butt’s candidacy comes as Birmingham — home to one of the largest Muslim populations in the U.K. — has faced renewed strains over foreign policy, identity politics and public order. Those tensions came into sharp focus last November when Israeli soccer club Maccabi Tel Aviv played Aston Villa in a Europa Conference League match.
Ahead of the game, Butt used social media to call on Muslims from around the country to travel to Birmingham to show solidarity with Palestinians and to prevent the Israeli team’s supporters from, in his words, "desecrating" and "dirtying" the city. In one post, he referred to the visiting fans as "IDF babykillers," according to Birmingham Live. --->READ MORE HERE
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