Keir Starmer is he the m an we trusted?

Remember when Keir Starmer said that Israel had the right to impose a complete siege on Gaza, cutting off water, food, fuel, and electricity?

A former human rights lawyer. He also called for "the return of the sausages". As Radio 4 works hard to remind us that Keir Starmer is a human being - just like you and I - remember what he was, and is, part of.

Why does my gove

rnment support Isr@el, Without question? Israeli-Backed Sources Funding the UK Labour Party https://green-elephant.uk/wp-content/uploads/Israeli-Backed-Sources-Funding-the-UK-Labour-Party_-A-Comprehensive-Analysis-2014-2024.pdf So the list of humanitarian institutions who accuse Israel of genocide now includes:

Why Prostrate?

A Christian friend of mine

sent me this picture of a footballer and asked, "Why do Muslim players do that every time they score a goal?

I called him on the phone to explain it, but I thought it would be wonderful to share the explanation with all of my friends here as well.

This specific act is known in Arabic as Sujud al-Shukr (the prostration of gratitude).

In this World Cup, you will observe that when Muslim players score a goal, some immediately run toward the corner flag to prostrate on the grass. Others join their teammates in celebration first, and once the hugs and cheers fade, they quietly drop to their knees to prostrate.

This celebration is not a modern innovation; it originates directly from the practice of Prophet Muhammad. 

Authentic historical records show that whenever the Prophet received joyful news or experienced a sudden victory, he would immediately fall into prostration to express his deepest gratitude to Allah. 

Today, this is an act that all Muslims are encouraged to practice in their daily lives whenever they receive good news or achieve a hard-fought success.

As a practicing Muslim, you perform exactly 34 prostrations every single day across the five mandatory daily prayers. That number increases if you choose to perform voluntary prayers.

However, there is a big difference between the daily prayers and the prostration of gratitude:

With the 5 daily prayers, you must perform ablution and you must face the Qiblah (the direction of the Kaaba in Mecca, which is generally east from our part of the world).

For the Sujud al-Shukr,  because good news happens spontaneously, this prostration is done just once and is highly flexible. It can be performed immediately without ablution, and you do not necessarily have to face the Qiblah—which is very practical since one immediately spot the East after becoming happy..

Despite these differences, what is recited while the forehead touches the ground remains the same. 

One humbles himself by reciting:"Subhana Rabbiyal A'la"(Glory be to my Lord, the Most High).

This act has become incredibly popular among Muslim footballers. 

In recent history, the player who has done it most frequently is Mohamed Salah, not just when playing for Egypt, but regularly at the club level for Liverpool, which has helped popularize it globally.

Islam is a complete way of life. 

May Allah give us the understanding to practice it well. 

Aameen.

When will this End

Attacks against Muslims have become alarmingly common - in its severity, it’s devastation and the sustained impact to entire communities - as we wake up today nothing has changed.

In Edinburgh a knife wielding bare chested white 36yrs old man motivated by anti Muslim hatred went on a rampage, kicked down doors, stabbed innocent bystanders and hurled Islamophobic abuse saying he’s "protecting this country from f*****g Muslims”. It left five injured, of which several were from the Muslim community.

More than 24 hours later 👉🏽 ▪️Media is uncharacteristically quiet. No frenzy. Neither any public duty of awareness or outcry. ▪️Almost no one knows of what is a national emergency, or in parallel what another community experienced just weeks ago that became a national outcry. ▪️No MP’s or senior officials expressing rage or even hands to deck public solidarity statements. ▪️No urgent travel into community or city incident by any prominent leader. Not the PM, not the Foreign Secretary, no one. ▪️No COBRA meetings. ▪️No prompt response of increased community security, funding or extra power or laws much like parallel communities have. If there is no hierarchy in hate, race and religion then why do responses time and again tell a different reality? It’s something many of us speak about, bravely share our own stories, even spotlight others. We work hard to dismantle the system and correct the narrative. We too so vulnerably ask you not to hate. Yet we’re in exactly the same place, same severity and same oh well spot that sees zero interest in stopping this vicious cycle. Instead false harmful narratives are pushed daily by politicians and agitators inciting hatred and division. Strategically putting a target on the back of Muslims. Home Office and Tell MAMA data tells us this hasn’t happened in a vacuum and is what these rhetorics produce - The license of repeated hate and violence against an entire community as if it were justice, with no care in the world. Our Communities, including Muslim ones deserve to live, breath and be safe in an environment in which the law and leadership response is applied with the same urgency and stringency that is brought for any other community whom have been subjected to a alarming, threatening and horrific crime. The question remains, why still now after evidence, data and a clear repeated escalation of crimes against the Muslim community adequate and on par priority is not given with the urgency required? When will this vicious cycle end? We require a concerted action and a plan from our Prime Minister and Government (alongside organisations and community leaders) that sets out how he will protect Muslims and end this cycle. For now, I ask that we be there for each other. For our colleagues, our neighbours and friends. We’re the best we’ve got. We’ve got each other, and we’re going to make it count.

The Reality the Hard Truth

Cause and effect are the foundational laws of reality. Hezbollah and Hamas are the effect of Israeli tyranny, not the cause.

Just as the IRA, the South African anti-apartheid movement, the Suffragettes, and the Black civil rights movement (all labeled illegal or terrorist in their time) were the natural effects of oppression, today they are recognized as the heroic resistance movements that won the freedoms so many enjoy today. Historically and today, oppressors have always tried to start the clock only when the victims finally fight back, but the true fight must always be against the tyranny, never the oppressed.

Rupert Lowe MP's Fabricated Report

A twelve-year-old was orally raped by a White British boy at school.

It's in the report. The same report that says Islam is the cause recorded her account in its own pages. Yesterday, to over 800,000 followers, Rupert Lowe said his inquiry proves "without doubt" the link is one religion. Islam. Read his own report. A survivor whose every abuser was White British. A girl first groomed by White British men, later trafficked by a Kurdish gang. A child prostituted to solicitors, care workers and police officers. All White British. We didn't call them Christian. When the evidence doesn't fit, it's left in the footnotes. The report claims 250,000 victims. That's one peer's guess in the Lords in 2019 — Rotherham's 1,400 "extended across the country." Baroness Casey says the scale cannot be quantified. It claims 87–95% are Muslim. The 87% comes from counting distinctively Muslim names in court records — the report's own method. The 95% is one cleric who campaigned to ban the burqa. A name tells you heritage. Not belief. Not motive. The Qur'an forbids even approaching unlawful sex (17:32) and sets a fixed punishment for it (24:2). A doctrine cannot cause the crime it most condemns. In 2013, 500 mosques read the same sermon on the same Friday — condemning the abuse, citing the Qur'an's duty to protect children. Backed by the MCB. If Islam is the connection, why did 500 imams condemn it? Between 1970 and 2015, the Catholic Church recorded over 3,000 instances of child sexual abuse by clergy. Abusers were moved between parishes to protect the Church's name. No one called it a Christian problem. In some towns, Pakistani-heritage men were over-represented. That is documented and real. The report converts ethnicity into religion — without measuring anyone's belief. Read Chloe's account. Her White British stepfather abused her from age ten. Her mother once found him in the shower with her and closed the door and walked out. Police called her a liar. Social services gave her contraception advice. School put her in isolation. Every adult failed her before a single gang member appears in her account. The gangs didn't create her vulnerability. That’s the failure. The eight theological "factors" were written by an Anglican priest, published by Christian Concern — whose founder is recorded in a parliamentary submission as reportedly believing Islam is "the work of the devil." In 2011 they held a meeting on dismantling multiculturalism. Tommy Robinson joined by phone. Northern Ireland's 2014 Marshall Inquiry found the same crime. The minister told the Assembly it had no "ethnic minority dimension." The abusers had paramilitary links. Same crime. No ethnic dimension at all. The exploitation was real. Children were failed. This report makes protection harder. It turns a safeguarding emergency into a culture war. A twelve-year-old told her truth to this inquiry. The report blamed Islam. Every child in it deserved better than that.

Muslim History

 The garrison at Medina led by Fakhri Pasha held out against the rebels. Fakhri Pasha then emerged from Medina with a force of at least two brigades. He fell upon the Arab rear and then pursued them southwards.

The proper revolt, however, began on June 10 when Sharif Hussein took up a rifle to fire the opening shot of the Arab Revolt from his palace in the holy city of Makkah. He fired once at the Ottoman barracks to initiate the rebellion.

Most of those rallying to Faysal’s (son of Hussein bin Ali) call for a revolt were Bedouin tribesmen. Shortly after Sharif's opening shot on 10 June, 4,000 Bedouin horsemen descended on the Red Sea port city of Jeddah. The 1,500 Ottoman soldiers initially repelled the attackers with machine guns and cannon fire, dealing a heavy blow to Bedouin morale.

Previously, the Ottoman victory over the British in the Gallipoli War in 1916 alarmed the British war planners about the reverberations of their defeat across the Muslim world. The British feared their recent string of defeats to the Ottomans would encourage colonial Muslims to rebel against the Allies.

War planners in Cairo and Whitehall hoped that an alliance with the custodian of Islam’s holiest sites would neutralize the appeal of the Ottoman Sultan/Caliph’s Jihad at a moment when Britain’s military credibility was at its lowest point since the start of the war.

Britain was also negotiating with the Zionists and with Sherif Hussein of Makkah to secure their support against the Ottomans, promising the former a Zionist homeland in Palestine and the latter recognition of Arab national aspirations in return.