I went to school in Britain too, my parents were Muslims and desired no special treatment for me at school – thank God. My faith was my business, between me and God, that if I wanted to fast, I didn’t expect every one else to put up with my whims, we never asked for special treatments above everyone else. But the Islamicization of this country is headed by men like the MCB and their focus is on women’s status as they perceive it and British Muslim children’s education as they want it.
They have been manipulating government bodies and want to influence foreign policies. Hello?? Are we all living in the same country or not? Gender apartheid printed on an MCB letterhead isn’t going to stop the young from falling in love or marrying non Muslims. Human beings are human beings. Teenagers will be teenagers. I’m sick of these ringleaders of Islam forcing their backward anti-Jewish, anti- gay, anti- women, anti- ex Muslims ideologies down our throats. Who gave them- these unelected nobodies – the right?
They are not Gods ambassadors, God doesn’t need any. They have no right whatsoever to tell Muslims how to live in Britain.
They have to stop forcing the hand of God on us all and reject the writings of Maududi and Syed Qutb. They need to stop inflicting one brand of Islam on us all. They politicized young Muslims the wrong way. The Middle East are not what every Muslim worries about. The situation in Britain has to be addressed.
That’s Gina Khan, a British Muslim from Birmingham, who features in a four-part interview in the Westminster Journal. Well worth a read. Here’s the start of Part One:
Q: So, Gina, tell us a little about yourself, your background and your motivations:
I’m a British Asian Woman from a Pakistani ethnic background; a Sunni Muslim and a lone parent. I grew up in Birmingham in the English Midlands – in an area with a preponderance of Muslims.
I used to be a victim of psychological aggression. With hand on heart and head, I can say this was just because I was born a female into a Muslim family in the West. (Pain figures in the lives of many Muslim women because of accepted Muslim social practices. I was no exception to the rule).
Today the rhetoric you hear from extreme Islamists or the stories you read in British papers about honour killings or forced marriages doesn’t shock me or many others at grassroots level. It’s an old story, one that has been repeated for hundreds of years. Just that today the voices are amplified after 9/11 and there are more extreme mosques and more extreme Islamists than ever on the streets of areas like mine.
I was once one of the ‘silent majority’ who remained silent. I was told silent and good Muslim women are respected and honoured. I was told Islam protects and gives special status to Muslim women/mothers compared to the Western woman.
My life experience proved otherwise.
I have always had an issue with aspects of my religion and culture but was taught never to question. Now I question, seek and acknowledge the truth – the truth as I see it, as I lived it, and as I observed it from others around me, all of my life.
I am not liked by the Islamists. I’ve had bricks thrown through the window and I’ve had family members beaten up. I’ve been told to move on. But I’m not budging. This is my home and I belong here. The Islamists where I live – in Birmingham’s Ward End – are an awful scourge.
Mick Hartley 
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