Mick Hartley

Those experts at the Met are at it again. Back in the early days of these interminable post-Oct 7th anti-Israel rallies they assured us that calls for Jihad on the marches were nothing to worry about, as Jihad can mean spiritual struggle. Those Muslims calling for Jihad were merely suggesting we should all undertake a deep inner spiritual journey. 

Now it's flags.

While this tweet has been deleted, the claim about flags is still being shared.

The flags in the lower left photo are not those of ISIS.

They are the ‘shahada’ which is a declaration of faith in Islam. ISIS flags may appear similar but are not the same.

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— Metropolitan Police (@metpoliceuk) October 21, 2023

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We have specialist officers with knowledge of flags working on this operation to assist with these assessments, they assure us.

Khaled Hassan responds:

I have never been as resentful of British public institutions, celebrities and police as I am today. You see, I have a big fucking problem. I was born a Muslim. I grew up in a Muslim family. My Muslim, Egyptian mother studied at Al Azhar University, the world's oldest Islamic educational institution, and I lived like any other Egyptian Muslim.

Not for once in my fucking life, from the day I was born in 1990 until I left Egypt in 2016, did I see any single Muslim say that there's something called the "shahada" flag. I knew ministers, Imams, and scholars, interviewed terrorists and radicals, and pretty much crossed paths with almost every kind of Egyptian/Arab you could think of. Not one of them ever spoke about a "shahada" flag. Let me tell you why.

The Shahada is a declaration of faith in one Gd, Allah. Understandably, no fucking one carries a flag of it around to show people that they believe in Allah. Why would you? No one gives a shit.

When you are declaring Jihad, however, you wave the banner of Jihad. This is why Bin Laden had the same "Shahada" flag. This is why ISIS had the same flag. So, what do you think? Do you think those waving this flag in London are doing it because they want the bloke next to them to congratulate them for believing in one Gd? Or, is it more likely that, when a Jihadist group, Hamas, is waging war on Jews, they are waving this banner in support of this Jihadist group and Jihad in general?

I can't get my head around this. I am in a situation where I have to either believe the Met police, and dismiss 25 years of firsthand experience of Islam in Egypt, or simply accept that the Met is either horrifically inept or, even worse, spineless. It's like watching someone refer to cancer as a "common cold" when you are an experienced doctor. You're telling them it's fucking cancer, and they're telling you "Nah, mate. It's just a cold. I'll take some paracetamol and I'll be fine".

I had quit smoking for about 3 years before Oct 7th. I am back to smoking now. It's getting absolutely fucking unreal!