The Scottish National Party and Treason

The point of the SNP is that they want separation from England. At all events that is the impression that I got and lot others too. But it turns out that they are another bunch of communist subversives who bribe Islamic trouble makers as a way of buying votes. But perhaps Private Eye has got it wrong. That I seriously doubt. If the BBC is telling the truth about these thugs there is something very odd going on.

Oh and Salmond wants gun control except for vicious Islamics with AK 47s - the sort that vote for him.

From Private Eye 1219/7
SALMOND STAKES
HOW much longer will Alex Salmond be able to convince the Scottish press and people that he's not a grubby nationalist who fans sectarian hatreds, but a modern politician leading Scotland to a tolerant future? A scandal is looming north of the border that threatens to tarnish the oily one's gleaming image perhaps irrevocably.

Last month the Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations condemned Salmond's government for giving £400,000 to the Scottish Islamic Foundation. the foundation is headed by one Osama Saeed. who just happens to be the Scottish National Party's parliamentary candidate in Glasgow Central. As Stephen Maxwell, the council's director, said, it was "unusual, to say the least" that public money was handed over to a body which had neither been incorporated as a company nor registered as a charity at the time the grant was given.

As Labour and Liberal Democrat members of the Scottish parliament push for an inquiry, they would do well to listen to the Scottish Muslim groups which Salmond won't fund. They say the Scottish Islamic Foundation does not represent their or any other tolerant version of Islam.

Saeed's membership of the SNP is not his only interesting connection. His Islamic Foundation is in fact a front organisation for the Muslim Brotherhood which wants to create a global Caliphate (motto: "Allah is our objective. The Prophet is our leader. The Qur'an is our law. Jihad is our way. Dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope.") Saeed is an enthusiastic supporter and was furious when Nicky Campbell of BBC Radio 5 accurately reported that Yusuf al-Qaradawi, spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, had ruled that wife beating and female circumcision were fine, and that gays, Israelis and apostates deserved death. "This is truly unacceptable from the BBC," Saeed declared.

The Brotherhood's main aim in Scotland is to establish Muslim faith schools, controlled by Saeed's allies, naturally. At the launch of the Scottish Islamic Foundation, Saeed praised Muslim schools in England where children are taught the Koran, boys and girls are segregated and the latter wear the hijab. Salmond stood beside him and pledged state funding.

Amanullah de Sondy, a lecturer in Islamic studies at Glasgow University, believes faith schools "will further reinforce isolationist approaches to education and hamper attempts at building bridges between Muslims and non-Muslims", and says: "I have nothing against the Scottish Islamic Foundation... but they are not representative of the Muslim community." But Salmond didn't listen. He seems to want to make the Scottish Islamic Foundation / Muslim Brotherhood the authentic voice of Scottish Islam, in the hope that it will return the favour by helping the SNP take Muslim votes from Labour.

The Kelvinside numpties who control BBC Scotland are equally impressed and have also been flirting with radical Islamic chic. About the only Muslim voices they allow listeners to hear are those of Saeed and Aamer Anwar, a solicitor and former Socialist Workers' Party activist who was nearly done for contempt of court after he claimed that a wannabe-terrorist, convicted of possessing CDs and videos of guerrilla tactics and bomb-making, was just "doing what millions of young people do every day - looking for answers on the internet".

So large has the Muslim Brotherhood influence grown in Scottish politics and broadcasting that the high commissioner for Pakistan, Dr Maleha Lodhi, used a speech at Glasgow University last year to urge Scottish Muslims to speak up for themselves and not allow the men with the loudest voices to be seen as their sole representatives.

Some hope. As Salmond dreams of becoming the first ruler of an independent Scotland in three centuries, the bonds between nationalism and Islamism are growing tighter. He is talking of putting representatives of the Scottish Islamic Foundation on to commissions investigating the future of Trident and sending them as ambassadors to the Middle East. As for those Scots, Muslim and non-Muslim alike, who don't believe in sexual segregation and the theology of al-Qaradawi, Salmond is riding so high in the polls he thinks he can tell them to get stuffed.
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From Private Eye 1220/7
A-K THE NOO!
SCOTTISH nationalist hearts have always been in the highlands - but traditionally the Nats loved the wild hills of Scotland, not the far wilder mountains of the Pakistan-Afghan border. The Scottish public learnt in August that the SNP's holiday itinerary had changed when the Glasgow Evening Times published footage of Jahangir Hanif firing an AK-47 at a military training camp.

The SNP councillor and millionaire landlord not only let rip himself but also encouraged all his children, including his five-year-old daughter Sana, to blast away with assault rifles too. The family travelled in a blacked-out car into the "Federally Administered Tribal Area" [Fata], where the writ of the Pakistani government does not run. The car pulled up at the village of Durra, in the heart of the most dangerous region of central Asia.

This did not worry Cllr Hanif (SNP, Glasgow Southside). Alex Salmond didn't seem overly concerned either, and his reaction to the scandal shows the growing strength of the bonds between Scottish nationalism and radical Islamism (see last Eye).

Until the Hanif affair, the man who would be the next king of Scotland had taken a hard line on gun control. Last year the SNP accused The British government of "completely overlooking The serious air gun problems facing Scotland". But, lethal though air guns can be, the handful of fatalities they have caused are tiny in comparison to the millions killed with AK-47 automatic assault rifles.

Instead of forcing Hanif to resign, however, Salmond gave him The political equivalent of a slap on the wrist and suspended him for a mere two months. If he thought the story would go away, however, he reckoned without Cllr Hanif's 17-year-old daughter, Noor. She sent a furious letter to Salmond and copied it lo every member of the Scottish parliament.

"I want to explain what really happened when our dad took us to Durra," she wrote. "I don't think we should ever have been taken there, so the lawless area, which I have read is the world's largest illegal gun market. "My dad is a dominating man. I still have nightmares about that day in Durra; The people were scary with their faces covered like in the movies, and the gun shots were deafening... I was very nervous, and was relieved to leave.

"I cannot believe he has been let off. My siblings and I were put in an environment where people were pointing loaded AK-47 guns at each other. I cannot believe you have taken it so lightly."

The letter went on to describe life in the Hanif family, and his lawyers sprung into action. Blogs that had posted its full contents were threatened with writs.

Faced with a choice between an old Scottish Muslim man and a young Scottish Muslim woman, The SNP instinctively came down on the father's side. John Mason, SNP victor in this summer's Glasgow East by-election, said criticism of his trigger-happy colleague was -wait for it - racist.

"The repealed attacks on the SNP's Councillor Hanif are coming across as thinly disguised racism," he fumed. Mason didn't appear to know that the Pakistani government does not control The tribal areas, and went on to insist that criticism of Hanif could "easily be construed as attacks on Pakistan itself and on Pakistan's right to order its internal affairs as it sees fit. I would have expected that way of thinking in the colonial era, but I am disappointed to hear it in 2008."

So there you have it. A party committed to gun control and the rights of women and children has decided that questions about a gun-toting, domineering father are colonialist.

Salmond ducked and dived and tried to keep his name out of the affair. But when challenged by Labour he refused to disassociate himself from Mason's remarks. All politicians should deplore racism "wherever it emerges", he piously declared.
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