Showing posts with label Humza Yousaf. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Humza Yousaf. Show all posts

Wednesday, 23 November 2011

Leaving Scotland to its Fate

I am going to be leaving Scotland soon to live abroad so I will stop this blog here. I hope someone else will take up the torch.

Scotland is being islamised in the same way the rest of Europe has been islamised and the effects will be the same. The other countries of Europe that experienced this didn't know how it would turn out. It was a new phenomenon. They had no precedents to guide them. We don't have that excuse. All we have to do is look around the rest of the continent and see what a disaster third-world immigration, and most especially Muslim immigration, has been for the indigenous people of Europe.

In this light, the decision of Scotland's political elites to throw open the gates to mass third-world immigration amounts to criminal negligence and malfeasance in office.

England's two largest cities now have a majority of third-world origin pupils in their primary schools. The English have had their cities taken away from them. In 50 years, if current trends continue, it will be the same in Glasgow and Edinburgh.

In the person of Humza Yousaf, Scotland now has a jihad operative at the heart of Scottish politics. His cousin Osama Saeed, who praised the now-deceased Jihad leader Anwar Al-Awlaki, was a former spokesman for the Muslim Brotherhood front group, the Muslim Council of Britain. As directors of the Scottish Islamic Foundation, they plundered the Scottish exchequer together for hundreds of thousands of pounds. Yousaf has demonstrable connections to Muslim extremists. Under the auspices of the Scottish Islamic Foundation, he introduced a known jihadist, a Hamas operative described as a terrorist commander by both the BBC and the US State Department, to a Scottish government minister. Yousaf was present at the meeting. The document attesting to this is available on the Scottish government website.

Despite Yousaf's shadowy past, not a word of critique or even inquiry about it has been uttered by the collection of third-rate simpletons who pass for journalists in Scotland. These clowns still think Islam is a religion of peace and anyone who thinks otherwise must be an admirer of Adolf Hitler. Understanding will eventually dawn on them, as it eventually dawns on any people experiencing Muslim colonisation. But the sooner this understanding comes, the more damage can be averted. I hope some other blogger will take up the cause and act as watchman. Because, though no journalist or politician will say so, the enemy is now inside the gates.

Saturday, 29 October 2011

Pakistani Businessman Claims he Avoids Glasgow Airport

A BUSINESSMAN said he has stopped flying from Glasgow Airport because of the number of times he has been stopped and questioned by the police under powers designed to crack down on terrorism.

Mohammad Ashraf, chairman of wholesaler Bonanza, now flies from airports in England to avoid the “insult and embarrassment” of being pulled out of the queue and made to answer questions about his travel plans.

He said other members of the Asian business community had experienced similar “harassment” and were considering a similar boycott of the airport.

Police at Glasgow have come in for criticism for their use of Schedule Seven anti-terrorism powers, detailed in the Terrorism Act 2000, giving officers the right to stop and question airline passengers. It has been claimed officers use racial profiling when selecting people, overwhelmingly picking out travellers of Asian and Middle Eastern appearance.

Now Mr Ashraf has said he and his colleagues are fed up with being targeted and arrange to travel through airports where they are not singled out.

He said: “I’ve lost count of the times it has happened there, so I fly through Manchester or London when I have to travel internationally and I am never stopped at those airports.

“It’s hugely embarrassing and insulting when it happens. You are pulled to one side in front of everybody and asked all sorts of stupid and intrusive questions about where you have been and what you have been doing.”

Mr Ashraf, 51, was born in Pakistan and moved, aged two, to the UK with his family, describing himself as “bred in Scotland”.

He said passengers of European descent were not subject to the same scrutiny.

He added: “They ask all sorts of things about where I’ve been, what mosques I’ve been to and that kind of thing. Stuff that has no relevance to my business.

“There is no point in it. When my passport is scanned they should have my whole profile anyway, so there is no need for me to be constantly spoken to.”

During the summer, Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill held a meeting in Glasgow with about 70 members of the Asian community to discuss their concerns about the way Schedule Seven powers were being used at travel hubs in Scotland.

He admitted there had been occasions when the powers had been used inappropriately, but said they were not deliberately used to target people because of their ethnicity.

But now members of his own party are questioning whether the police’s response is appropriate, with MSP Humza Yousaf calling for more effective targeting of the powers.

Mr Yousaf said: “The use of these powers at Glasgow Airport is clearly not intelligence-led, because the same people are being stopped time and time again. If people are being stopped eight or nine times then you would think something in the system would put an end to this.”

A Strathclyde Police spokesman said there were no formal complaints under investigation on the matter.

Assistant Chief Constable Colin McCashey added: “The threat from terrorism is very real. Schedule Seven of the Terrorism Act 2000 is a vital tool for tackling the threat.

“The service is constantly monitoring the manner in which these powers are utilised to ensure this vital work is conducted in a sensitive and professional manner that minimises undue distress to innocent members of the public.”

A spokesman for Glasgow Airport said: “Schedule Seven checks are a police matter and we therefore cannot comment.

“However, Glasgow Airport has worked, and continues to work, closely with various local ethnic minority groups to help highlight and explain the procedures involved in the security screening process.”
Source: The Herald

Humza still at it. Apparently he feels so secure about his position in Scotland that he is now stepping up to do his bit for the Muslim cause in Britain as a whole. Here he is in the Muslim News agitating for "British Muslims" (sic).

Wednesday, 19 October 2011

Muslims Believe Black Magic Causes Mental Health Problems

Our old friend Humza reveals that many Muslims in Glasgow believe mental health problems are caused by black magic. It would be interesting to see some figures on the incidence of mental health problems in the Muslim population. There are strong statistical correlations between the practice of cousin marriage and various kinds of ill health.
A CITY politician has praised local mosques for taking the first step to combat difficult mental health issues in the community.

MSP Humza Yousaf said he secured agreement with a trio of Glasgow mosques that their imams would address the topic at Friday prayers last week, as part of Mental Health Week.
Within the Muslim community mental health problems can carry a heavy stigma, said Mr Yousaf, and the mosques requested they not be identified because it remains such a sensitive topic.

One in four people in Scotland will have a mental health problem at some point in their life, according to mental health charity SAMH.

Mr Yousaf said: “We all know the stigma surrounding those with a mental health issue in our society.

“However, the stigma related to those from within the black and minority ethnic (BME) community can be even worse.

I’ve heard countless stories of families being completely ignorant of the different mental health conditions that exist.

“Many in the community turn to imams and elders instead of seeking proper medical advice.”

The SNP member added: “Many families believe that so-called ‘black magic’ or a perceived lack of faith is to blame, when the person suffering really needs medical attention.

“In addition, once diagnosed, many families decide to isolate the relative suffering due to concepts such as so-called ‘family honour’ and ‘shame’.

“I congratulate the imams and mosques who are taking this vital step in ridding stigma from our community.”

Shaykh Amer Jamil, an Islamic scholar and founder of the Solas Foundation in Glasgow, said: “Imams and religious scholars have an important role to play in tackling mental health stigma.”

The Glaswegian was unable to reach the mosques involved with Mr Yousaf for comment before going to press.
Source: The Glaswegian

Monday, 1 August 2011

Humza Yousaf: the Hamas Connection


In a post yesterday, I mentioned that Humza Yousaf had been a director of the Scottish Islamic Foundation and that the Scottish Islamic Foundation had ties to Islamic extremists and had even introduced a man alleged to have been involved in terrorism, Mohammed Sahalwa, to officials of the Scottish government.

Now we have the proof that Humza Yousaf himself was personally involved in this. The graphic shows a screen capture documenting a meeting between SIF personnel, including Humza Yousaf, and Mohammed Sawalha. This establishes that Humza Yousaf had a personal acquaintance with Sawalha. The original web page is here.

This page has some excellent information on Mohammed Sawalha's background, some of it reproduced below.

In 2005, the Sunday Times reported:
Sawalha’s link with Hamas emerged after he was named as a co-conspirator in an American court case involving racketeering and conspiracy. Last week the cleric, who arrived in Britain 15 years ago and has been given indefinite leave to remain, said that he still supported Hamas, notorious for its suicide attacks in Israel.

Asked whether he supported the military activities of Hamas, he replied: "I have no comment on the question of military activity."

...According to US court documents, Sawalha was a leading militant in the early 1990s “in charge of Hamas terrorist operations within the West Bank”. The documents, from the federal court in Chicago, claim he met two of the three “conspirators” accused of laundering millions of dollars to finance Hamas activities, including the purchase of weapons.


Hamas was classified as a terrorist organisation by the UK government in 2003.

On Panorama, the BBC reported:
From London, Sawalha is said to have master minded much of Hamas’ political and military strategy. Wanted by Israel, he fled to London in 1990… In London, Sawalha is alleged to have directed funds, both for Hamas’ armed wing, and for spreading its missionary dawah. Then, in January 1993, an operation Sawalha was involved in went badly wrong. Hamas would be forced to reorganise its funding arrangements. A senior Hamas man from America flew into London for instructions from Sawalha. Sawalha’s visitor was en route to the Palestinian territories. The two men travelled to Sawalha’s home. His visitor’s name was Mohammed Salah. Salah’s mission was to distribute funds. Sawalha told him who to meet in the Palestinian territories…. With Sawalha’s agreement Salah began distributing about a quarter of a million dollars to local Hamas operatives. Some was ear marked for military activities. Some for missionary dawah. More money was in the pipe line from his bank in Chicago. But the Israeli’s had been tracking him. Stopped at a check point as he left Gaza, Salah was arrested.’

How can Humza Yousaf complain about being stopped at airports when he has associations with known extremists?

Sunday, 31 July 2011

Humza Yousaf Complains About Being Questioned at Airport

In the Herald yesterday, Humza was at it again - except this time he wasn't just complaining about Muslims in general being searched at airports; he claimed that he himself had been.
AN MSP has become the latest Muslim to be caught up by airport security checks while returning from holiday.

...Glasgow MSP Humza Yousaf was selected from among returning passengers at Edinburgh Airport while coming back from holiday with his wife Gail Lythgoe.

The SNP MSP stressed he was not seeking special treatment just because he was an elected public figure, but he said it demonstrated Schedule 7 stops had no basis in terms of security or intelligence and were based simply on skin colour.

“I was stopped coming into Edinburgh Airport returning with my wife from a break in Istanbul via Charles de Gaulle in Paris, our first holiday since our honeymoon a year ago.

“We were pulled aside, our passports were screened under Schedule 7 and we were asked where we had been and why we were there. It is the fourth or fifth time this has happened to me, but the first since I was married last year.

“My wife felt humiliated and I felt angry at this. Coming into Edinburgh Airport you should be thinking about whether your luggage is there rather than this kind of thing.”

He added: “The problem is that under Schedule 7 they don’t even have to have reasonable suspicion to stop you. It’s a shame. This is my home, my country. It’s where I was born, and I hope I would have a history of public service.

A history of public service? Is that a joke? He was appointed an MSP a few weeks ago and has spent all his time since then agitating on behalf of Muslims and against the interests of the Scottish people. A history of public menace more like.
“I don’t expect any preferential treatment from anyone else, but this demonstrates there is clearly no intelligence involved whatsoever, nothing other than the colour of your skin or the flight you are on. No-one else was stopped on our flight, so far as I could tell. I am not saying this is racist. It’s just that it isn’t led by good intelligence.”

In fact there are compelling reasons why Humza Yousaf's name should be right at the top of the airport security staff's list of suspicious characters.

Humza Yousaf's cousin, Osama Saeed, spoke admiringly of the terrorist leader Anwar Al Awlaki. Like Saeed, who also stood as a candidate for the Scottish National Party, Yousaf was a director of the Scottish Islamic Foundation, which had documented links to Islamic extremists.

The Quilliam foundation said this about these links:
Through the Scottish Islamic Foundation, Osama Saeed has given a platform to some of the most prominent Islamists in the UK. For example, the SIF has arranged on two occasions for Kemal Helbawy, the founder of the Muslim Association of Britain, and Alamin Belhaj, the head of the Libyan Muslim Brotherhood, to lecture young Scottish Muslims on Islam. On other occasions, Saeed’s SIF has given platforms to yet more foreign Islamists, including two senior members of the Brotherhood-linked Council for American Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the former head of the US branch of the Saudi-Wahhabi group the World Association of Muslim Youth (WAMY).


The Times reports that the Scottish Islamic Foundation arranged a "meeting between culture minister Linda Fabiani and Mohammed Sawalha, who is alleged to have directed terror operations in the West Bank."
Sawalha, president of the British Muslim Initiative, was named in US court documents as a leading militant in the early 1990s “in charge of Hamas terrorist operations within the West Bank”.

The documents alleged he met two “conspirators” accused of laundering millions of dollars to finance the group’s activities. In 2006, the BBC’s Panorama accused him of directing funds to Hamas’s armed wing.

The cleric, who arrived in Britain 17 years ago and was given indefinite leave to remain, has refused to denounce the terrorist group.

Wednesday, 20 July 2011

Humza Yousaf Has an Article in the Huffington Post

In the article, he pushes his "moderate Islam/tiny minority of extremists" line. Comments are open there.

Thursday, 14 July 2011

Humza Yousaf Gets In On the Airport Agitation

I was surprised that the Herald's two articles yesterday about the supposed Muslim boycott of Glasgow Airport didn't feature our friend Humza Yousaf. But never fear. Humza has managed to get in on the airport action now in today's Herald.

SOME innocent Scottish Muslims have been questioned by terror police more than 15 times, campaigners against racial profiling at airports claimed last night.

Asians, usually men, say they are being stopped almost every time they fly, regardless of where they are going.

The claims were made by a group of prominent young Scottish Muslims, including Nationalist MSP Humza Yousaf and human rights lawyer Aamer Anwar, as they set up a new Independent Advisory Group on the issue.

Mr Yousaf said: “I was astonished that people claimed to have been stopped at Glasgow airports more than 15 times.”

Mr Anwar said: “Thousands upon thousands of innocent Muslims and other minorities are being harassed and targeted by police every time they go to the airport.”

The Herald yesterday reported some campaigners saying that Muslims are continuing their long-standing boycott of Glasgow Airport, the scene of Scotland’s only major Islamic terror incident and home to what they believe are the most jittery terror police.

Law enforcement sources claim they have stopped asking some of the questions Muslims found most offensive, such as whether they knew Osama Bin Laden.

Britain’s overall terror threat was this week reduced to “substantial” –meaning an attack was a strong possibility rather than a probability.

Assistant Chief Constable Colin McCashey, Scotland’s counter-terrorism co-ordinator, stressed the public would be unlikely to notice any difference in the way police behaved.
Source: Herald

If there's one good thing to emerge from this episode, it is the illustration of how ordinary Scots feel about this Muslim agitation. The comments to the Herald article were much more robust and less politically correct than I would have expected. But that's ordinary people. The elite, of course, are a different story.

Wednesday, 15 June 2011

Humza Yousaf Attacks the Government's New Anti-Terror Strategy

Humza Yousaf has an article in the Scotsman today in which he attacks the (London) government's new anti-terror strategy.

The article carries the headline "If extremism is to be conquered, the Muslim community must be given tools for the job" but he never actually explains what these tools are. His view seems to be that Muslims should simply be left alone. Interestingly, he speaks up in favour of free speech (for Muslims, of course).

The strategy of empowerment must be underpinned by the belief that good speech will always defeat bad speech, something I think we have demonstrated many a time in Scotland.

In 2010, the Scottish Defence League announced they would be marching through Glasgow. Instead of badgering the government to ban such a group, the voices of reason took to the streets under the banner of "Scotland United". Whereas the extremists numbered around 70, the Scotland United group was more than 3,000. While not being complacent, the spectre of the SDL has since dwindled and is almost out of sight.

Somehow I think that his support for free speech won't extend to getting rid of the laws that currently restrict it.

Furthermore, Westminster's attack on university Muslim associations across Britain is also in danger of alienating the moderate majority, who will now be reluctant to put their head above the parapet and challenge extremist ideology should it rear its ugly head.

Ah, ye old Muslim classic argument. "Give us what we want or else we'll kill you" dressed up as something moderate and reasonable.

He endorses our friend Mona Siddiqui and someone called Shaykh Amer Jamil, who I've never heard of but will now need to research.
Dr Mona Siddique at Glasgow University to Shaykh Amer Jamil of the Solas Foundation we are lucky to have some extremely well qualified and moderate voices that are established and respected within the Muslim community in Scotland.


Be sure and leave your comment on his article as unlike the pitiful Herald, the Scotsman doesn't do "prior restraint" censorship. I'm sure some comments will be deleted, but they can't delete them all. All in all, the article is poorly written and structured. He demands that Muslims be given "the tools for the job" without ever explaining what they are. It almost reads like a stream-of-consciousness piece that a not-too-bright student would fling together one morning when he realised he had an essay to hand in that day but had forgotten all about it. This shows his meagre intellectual calibre, but then the Scottish Parliament isn't exactly a highly competitive environment in that respect, is it?

[UPDATE: Actually I see this was actually published a week ago. I missed it at the time.]

Tuesday, 14 June 2011

Humza Yousaf Has Converted His White Wife to Islam

Truly sad. The information comes from a piece about our friend Humza Yousaf in the Scotsman today:

NEW SNP MSP Humza Yousaf says he wouldn't be in the Scottish Parliament if it wasn't for his love of chocolate.

Yousaf, 26, says it was the prospect of a Toblerone from his dad Muzaffar Yousaf – the first non-white member of the SNP – that first got him going out on his bike delivering leaflets for the party.

The Glasgow MSP, who wore a traditional Pakistani sherwani for the swearing-in of the newly elected members, and took his parliamentary oath in Urdu, describes himself as a "secular Muslim" and an "ardent Celtic fan".

He also talks about being threatened with suspension from school for leading a demonstration in George Square against the 2003 invasion of Iraq, only to be saved by his dad who told his son's teachers that they should have been proud of the city-centre protest.

But what marks the young nationalist out as a bright prospect in the next parliament, and likely to go places fast is that he is clearly one of Alex Salmond's favoured sons among the new SNP intake.


Alex Salmond does seem partial to those Muslims doesn't he? Humza Yousaf's cousin Osama Saeed was reported to be another of his "favourite sons".

Yousaf, who is a Glasgow University politics graduate, talks fondly about the time he spent working in Salmond's constituency office in Peterhead, and jokes that he was the "only Asian in the village".

Having worked for the first Muslim MSP, the late Bashir Ahmad, in the last parliament, Yousaf boasts an intriguing CV, which includes stints working in a Scottish Power call centre and in a "dusty" cash and carry warehouse as a teenager.

"Before the politics work, during the school summer holidays, I can remember being put on a work placement at a cash and carry warehouse in Glasgow, which was really dusty.

"I also worked in a Scottish Power call centre, which was so demoralising that I left after two weeks because there was so much of a culture of giving the hard sell to customers over the phone."

Yousaf describes his faith as "important to him", but says his horizons have been broadened by the conversion to Islam of his wife Gail Lythgoe – a fellow SNP activist.

He says: "Faith is quite important to me. My wife Gail Lythgoe is a white Muslim convert and this is obviously something that has broadened my horizon. I would describe myself as a secular Muslim who wants secular laws.

"I have interests outside politics, though, and I go to watch Celtic as much as I can. Also I used to play for an inter faith football team against the parliament team."


A secular Muslim whose faith is important to him? Sure. Gail Lythgoe, or rather Gail Yousaf as her name now presumably is, may want to examine the fate of some other white European girls who formed relationships with Mohammedans. There's an interesting story in the German newspaper BILD today about a German woman who married a Muslim and had a daughter with him. When the relationship broke down, the Muslim tried to sell the 11-year-old daughter to a 70-year-old Saudi.

Thursday, 9 June 2011

Anti-Jihad Training for Primary School Teachers

Our friend Humza Yousaf is at it again, agitating for us to lessen our guard against jihad violence.

SCOTS children as young as five are being targeted by teachers in case they have been radicalised by extremist groups.

The move is part of counter-terrorism training given to staff at primary schools as part of the UK Government’s strategy to deal with the problem.

Teachers at a school in Glasgow contacted local politicians after undergoing the training, which aims to reduce the risk of young people becoming involved in extremism.

The programme will be rolled out to other primary schools, while several secondaries and colleges have also put staff through the initiative, a localised part of the Government’s Contest counter-terror programme.

It has sparked concern counter-terrorism is being added to an already long list of job requirements. It has also led to accusations that teachers are being forced to spy on young children in the name of national security.

Senior officials within Glasgow City Council’s education department have confirmed that staff at Glendale Primary in Pollokshields had attended the training.

Teachers later contacted politicians with their concerns. The school is in one of the most predominantly Muslim communities in Scotland.

The revelation follows the Coalition Government’s decision this week to scrap the Prevent part of the Contest strategy which gives councils a role in fighting extremism.

Officials said the training was about child protection and it was “not just considering the threat from organisations such as al Qaeda, although the police advise us that this is currently the highest threat”.

Correspondence seen by The Herald also states the head teacher at Glendale Primary “had made it very clear that it was counter-terrorism and that it was not targeted at the Muslim community – rather it was within child protection and looked at the influences children can be faced with from a range of pressure groups”.

Glasgow SNP MSP Humza Yousaf said: “If teachers are being asked to look for signs of radicalisation among primary school pupils then this is an incredibly worrying development. This will undoubtedly lead to questions about whether or not students from a particular race or faith background are being unfairly targeted and monitored. We cannot have a culture of teachers spying on primary school pupils. I am sure they would not be comfortable doing so.”

Hugh Donnelly, secretary of the Glasgow branch of the Educational Institute of Scotland teaching union, said: “Clearly this is a sensitive area and if there were any obligations being placed on teachers which would conflict with their role as teachers, particularly with regard to child protection issues, then we would be concerned.”

Pollokshields Tory councillor David Meikle said: “The threat of home grown terrorism is high in this country and it is important we take action to address it, including training teachers to spot early signs of radicalism in young people.

“I also support greater emphasis on integration – this is crucial to ensure strong communities where terrorism cannot flourish.”

Contest has been led in north of the Border by the Scottish Government and the Association of Chief Police Officers Scotland (ACPOS).

Training for teachers has involved workshops and presentations which “help participants to recognise some of the issues that may lead individuals to becoming, or supporting, violent extremists”.

It discusses the role of teachers and how they can get involved and refer individuals to some form of intervention.

A city council spokeswoman said: “The school facilitated a request from Strathclyde Police to deliver the training and guidance to teachers during an inset day.

“Its aim is to advise teachers on the correct procedures they should follow if they have any concerns about information disclosed by a child. The approach is the same as that used for other child protection issues.”

Acpos said it was part of a programme designed to get the anti-extremism message into schools and colleges.


Source

Wednesday, 1 June 2011

Didn't Take Long Did It?

Newly appointed MSP Humza Yousaf has already started to agitate on behalf of Muslim interests and against the interests of the Scottish people, and he seems to have roped the rest of the SNP hierarchy into his plans.


Airport Open Day for Minorities

Notice it says minorities when it's really specifically about Muslims.


Ethnic minority representatives will be invited to a security open day at Glasgow Airport to try to allay fears they are being singled out for questioning by security staff.

Glasgow MSP Humza Yousaf has been in discussions with airport authorities following claims that some ethnic minorities would rather travel to Manchester or London rather than face "awkward questions" at Glasgow.

Mr Yousaf said: "During the election campaign, a number of folk raised it with me. People have been stopped four or five times and asked really awkward questions like: How many times a day do you pray?; What mosque do you go to?; or Does your wife wear a headscarf?."

Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act 2000 empowers police officers to stop and question travellers at UK ports and airports without needing reasonable suspicion that the person is engaged in terrorism.

A BAA Glasgow spokesman said: "Schedule 7 checks are a police matter so we cannot comment specifically. However, we have good relations with ethnic minority groups who we meet with on a regular basis, and we will help facilitate an open day to explain the procedures involved in the security screening process."

Mr Yousaf welcomed the airport's approach. He said: "There was a report in The Guardian (newspaper) that said that people from ethnic minorities are 42 times more likely to be stopped under Schedule 7 in UK airports.

"From speaking to people, the situation seems to be a lot worse in Glasgow than anywhere else, to the point where some people are travelling to Manchester or London to take a flight instead.

"I spoke to one individual who has lived here for 35 years and is well integrated in the community, who has been stopped several times and now takes the train to Manchester whenever he wants to fly."

Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill will be attending the meeting alongside Tayside Police's Assistant Chief Constable Colin McCashey, Scotland`s head of counter-terrorism.

He said: "There are some questions that need to be legitimately asked. Equally, there are manners and ways in which it can be done."


Source: The Herald

Of course the security staff who, before, were simply being appropriately thorough, will now be intimidated and will go softly-softly on the Muslims, increasing the risk to anyone flying in and out of Scotland.

Wednesday, 11 May 2011

Muslim MSP Humza Yousaf Takes Oath of Allegiance in Urdu

Humza Yousaf, the cousin of Muslim extremist Osama Saeed, who was appointed a member of the Scottish Parliament thanks to his top placement on the SNP's Glasgow Regional List, today swore his oath of allegiance in the Scottish Parliament in Urdu. Yousaf wore a traditional Pakistani garment called a sherwani with a tartan plaid.

Mr Yousaf said: "I'm proud, like many in Scotland, of my Scottish-Pakistani identity and by taking the oath in Urdu and English and mixing traditional dress from both cultures I hope to take a further step toward cementing the Scottish-Pakistani identity in Parliament."


Source

Sunday, 8 May 2011

Muslim Agitator Humza Yousaf Appointed to the Scottish Parliament as MSP



A new Muslim agitator has just ascended to the Scottish parliament through the regional list system, meaning no Scot got to vote on him directly. His name is Humza Yousaf although it's notable that the name is sometimes spelled Hamza Yousaf. Muslim malefactors often use the technique of spelling their names in slightly different ways to avoid scrutiny. The SNP website provides some background information on him:
Humza Yousaf, aged 25, has been active in the SNP and Glasgow politics since his teens. Graduating in 2007 from Glasgow University with honours in Politics, he went onto work as a Parliamentary aide to the late Bashir Ahmad MSP, a role he continued up until Bashir's passing.

The SNP's Deputy Leader, Nicola Sturgeon, had a close relationship with Bashir Ahmad. He is said to have looked on her as a daughter.

Humza continued working in the Scottish Parliament for Anne McLaughlin MSP and latterly Alex Salmond as a Parliamentary Researcher up until August 2010. Currently, Humza works for the SNP in their Party HQ in Edinburgh.

Jihadist extremist Osama Saeed, who was an SNP candidate in Glasgow before flocking off to Dubai to work for Al Jazeera, also worked as a researcher for Salmond. It is clear that Muslims have acquired a personal hold over Alex Salmond. According to this story in the Herald, Osama Saeed and Humza Yousaf are cousins.

Humza is an alumnus of the US State Department's prestigious International Visitor Learning Programme, whose other alumni include Rt Hon. Lord Jack McConnell, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown.

This is interesting. There is evidence, notably from France, that the American government has attempted to reach out to ethnic minorities living in European countries and build relationships with them, bypassing the government of the country. The International Visitor Leadership programme, which essentially involves brainwashing the participants to see things from an American perspective, is invitation-only.

In December 2009, Humza was presented the "Political Force of the Future" Award at Glasgow City Chambers as part of the Young Scottish Minority Ethnic Awards 2009.

Humza has been active in Glasgow in a range of community activities from a young age. He has been a volunteer for the International development NGO Islamic Relief since the age of 10. In the last two years he has voluntarily worked as the media spokesman for Islamic Relief Scotland, helping to manage campaigns during the Kashmir earthquake, the Swat Valley conflict, Haiti earthquake and recent Pakistan flooding.

Like most third-worlders who have been allowed to settle in European countries, he clearly identifies with his sectarian and ethnic interest groups, rather than the country that adopted him. Many of these Islamic charities have links to extremism around the world. I intend to research this Islamic Relief charity further and will make a post about it here if I find anything interesting.

Humza has also been involved in a range of other activities such as volunteering in a Glasgow based community radio station over the last 10 years, youth mentoring and producing and distributing food packs for asylum seekers and refugees in Glasgow.

And like most third-worlders in Europe, one of his primary goals is to get more third-worlders into the country so he won't have to feel so out of place.

In this extract from a blog post on a separate site, he makes clear that he intends to agitate further to balkanise Scotland and advance the interests of minority groups at the expense of the Scottish people:

...ethos and the right mentality are, unfortunately, not always enough to eradicate inequality and racism, a legislative framework is needed. Currently, equalities legislation is a matter for the reserved Government; they are moving in a dangerous direction, keen to impose their ‘muscular liberalism’ agenda.

Just as with many other reserved powers, the sooner Scotland has control over the equalities framework the better and only then will we be able to work fully towards a more equal and fairer society for all.

So Harriet Harman's sweeping Equality Act was not enough? He wants to go even further. We can only tremble at the prospect of the new Inquisition he and his enablers in the SNP would like to set up.

His reference to "muscular liberalism" is to David Cameron's speech in which he said multi-culturalism had failed and European governments needed to take active steps to inculcate civilised values in their third-world immigrant communities, rather than allow them to stew in their own natural barbarism, as had been done heretofore. Humza Yousaf clearly opposes this and wants Muslims to be allowed to remain in their state of moral squalour.

The video above shows Humza Yousaf agitating against anti-terror laws, deploying the standard Muslim argument that if the Muslims don't get what they want, they will turn increasingly to extremism. Stripped of the verbiage, this boils down to: do what we say, or else we'll kill you.

When, in 2004, France passed a law that banned the wearing of conspicuous religious symbols in French schools, Muslims organised protests in Paris, London and Edinburgh. Humza Yousaf participated in the Edinburgh protest.
Humza Yousaf, who travelled to the capital from Glasgow to "support our Muslim sisters" said: "We feel we have to do something. All we want is the freedom to express our religious right."

At the famous Auctiongate affair in a halal-only Glasgow restuarant, which saw items such as a Pakistani cricket top and lunches with Alex Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon sold off to assorted Glasgow Muslims while the SNP leader and deputy leader sat smiling in attendance, the auctioneer was Humza Yousaf.

The Scottish Islamic Foundation has been one of the great Scottish scandals of modern times. Set up by former SNP candidate, and friend of Alex Salmond, Osama Saeed, a former Muslim Brotherhood spokesman who had been denounced as an extremist by Quilliam and the Centre for Social Cohesion, it was given £400,000 by the SNP government to produce an Islam festival. No festival materialised and it eventually paid back only £128,000 of the £400,000 originally given. In the meantime, its staff largely consisted of Osama Saeed and his family members. One of those family members was Humza Yousaf, Osama Saeed's cousin. He served as director of the foundation for two years. The organisation has been mired in financial scandal. In February this year, its auditors resigned because they had not been paid for work done in 2009. Indeed, it is not clear whether the organisation still exists. Its website is no longer functioning. The Scottish Islamic Foundation had a track record of supporting Islamic extremism. Humza Yousaf served as the organisation's director. Indeed, in light of the recent death of Osama Bin Laden, and the speculation that he might be replaced by Anwar Al-Awlaki, it is interesting to note that former SNP candidate Osama Saeed said of Al-Awlaki "He preached nothing but peace, and I pray he will be able to do so again." Does Humza Yousaf share his cousin's views? I think we should be told.

It seems that Muslims the world over are rejoicing about Humza Yousaf's appointment to the Scottish Parliament. (I say appointment rather than election because the regional list system mean that no one personally voted for him.) He sent this message over Twitter:

Overwhelmed by msgs of support and congrats have received. From my dad's home village in Pakistan 2 New York to right here at home

Friday, 6 May 2011

Scotland Has Two New Muslim MSPs

While George Galloway has fortunately been rejected by the good burghers of Glasgow, and will no doubt now slink off back to London, or perhaps stand for the Muslim Brotherhood in the upcoming elections in Egypt, Scotland now, unfortunately, has two new Muslim MSPs: Hanzala Malik (Labour) and Humza Yousaf (SNP).

This means the Muslims have now captured two out of the 129 overall MSP positions.

It's notable that both of these new MSPs got their seats through the Regional List rather than through direct election at the constituency level. In fact, both were placed first on the Region Lists of their respective parties in the Glasgow region. So no Scot got to vote on these people directly. They were simply appointed as part of a bureaucratic system.

I will post more about these two characters in separate posts. From what I have learned about them so far, they seem to be exactly what you would expect: typical Muslim agitators, seeking to advance the cause of Islam and use the power of the state to suppress any disquiet the indigenous population might express about what is being done to their country, their continent and their civilisation.

Tuesday, 3 May 2011

The Herald Uses the Death of Bin Laden as an Opportunity to Do Some PR for Muslims

Humza Yousaf, one of Scotland’s most prominent young Muslims and an SNP candidate for Glasgow in Thursday’s Holyrood election, said: “There is no doubt members of the Muslim community will also be relieved that the world’s most dangerous mass murderers is no longer a threat.

“This will hopefully give closure to hundreds, if not thousands, of people in the UK and US, but will also hopefully bring about the beginning of a stable and secure Pakistan, and an end to drone attacks in the region that have killed many civilians.”

Dr Salah Beltagui, convener of the Muslim Council for Scotland, also welcomed bin Laden’s death and said he hoped it would lead to less “military interference” in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

He said: “It’s a bit of a relief really, relief that this symbol of this organisation, having at last been removed, will see the start of the end of this idea of killing people with no justification, especially those who have no part of any military action.”

Hanzala Malik, a leading Labour Glasgow City councillor, said: “This is a landmark victory for Pakistan, as well as the rest of the world. Someone connected with so much carnage has met his maker and that will undoubtedly dent his organisation.

“Hopefully the message goes out to young Muslims that bin Laden’s way was not the way of Islam and that while he has been a beacon for many, the fear he instilled could not protect him in the end.”

Dr Nazim Ghouri, a director of the Scottish Islamic Foundation, said: “I’m on holiday and have only just caught the headlines. What has struck me, though, is the efficiency of the whole operation.”

Aamer Anwar, the Glasgow-based lawyer, said he believed events in the Middle East this year had already marginalised bin Laden within the Muslim world.


Notice how they have managed to infiltrate Scottish political parties.

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