The Muslim Vote Project & Hizb ut-Tahrir

What else would GB News was saying? That's what they were trying to say. They're basically trying to say that the Muslim Vote Project in The UK is a front for Hezbo Tahrir because the the Thinking Muslim podcast guy, Mohammed Jalal, is apparently a former HT leader. But of course that's not what it means at all. I mean there are many organizations that are putting their names behind this project in The UK, the Muslim Vote Project.

And from what I can tell, they run the spectrum of the Muslim community. So basically they found one guy with a past that they consider suspect, which they are now officially allowed to deem suspect since Hezbo Tahrir has been banned in The UK as an extremist or a terrorist group or whatever. And they not only wanna use they wanna use that to discredit the Muslim Vote Project, but more importantly, I think, they wanna discredit all of those other organizations. All of the organizations that are cosigners of the Muslim Vote Project because their main interest is in demonizing and defaming all Muslim organizations in The UK as extremist or as closet extremist. You know, I watched that piece on GB News and it's obviously grossly biased because of course it is.

Like, say Mohammed Jalal was the head of the Hezbo Tahrir in The UK at the time of the London bombings as if there's any connection whatsoever. I mean, no one as far as I know ever alleged that Hezbo Tahrir had anything to do with the London bombings. In fact, Hezbo Tahrir has never had anything to do with anything, violent or non violent, that pertains to action. I mean, it's absurd to label them a terrorist group. They're a chat group.

They're a naval gazing society where everyone just looks deep into his naval and sees the Khilafa, you know. This is not an interesting group in my opinion. It's like a it's like a property scam because you know their members give money to hizbataria. Their members give money so they're selling to naive and gullible and well meaning Muslims the floor plan of a palace that doesn't exist and that they have no intention of building but it all sounds great so people fall for it. Just like a property scam.

But anyone with any experience in building or architecture would be able to identify immediately that the blueprint is ridiculous. It's a blueprint drawn with crayons. That's their Khilafa. But yes, they're obsessed with politics. That group is obsessed with politics.

And I said obsessed, not educated or informed or insightful. They're obsessed with politics like most so called Islamists. And over time anyone who's connected with Hezbo Tafir will eventually see that the group isn't serious about their own rhetoric and they'll leave HT and then move on to other political projects which they think might actually achieve something. So it isn't surprising that this man from the Thinking Muslim podcast would move from HT to get himself into something like the Muslim Vogue Project. He would move away from that or something like Umatics which is just a kind of, in my opinion, convoluted rebranding of hizmetapri or utopianism.

But again, none of this is particularly interesting to me nor is GB News and what they have to say. The Muslim Vogue Project is interesting to me. You know, went to their website and a few things stood out. One was the talk of connecting with or what do they say, building relationships with allies. Well, that's an interesting term.

It's it's a it's a somewhat revealing term. There's a degree of, in my opinion, psychological colonization in that sort of language. This is a word, first of all, popularized by the liberals, particularly by the woke and the LGBT of this generation. What it means isn't we both support the same cause together, which is what an ally is supposed to mean. What they mean by allies is reciprocal support for each other's goals, each other's communities.

It isn't really allyship in a single cause. It's the this whole identitarian politics notion of so called marginalized communities having each other's back. Well, obviously, that can become a trap. This isn't unity. It's you scratch my back, I'll scratch your back.

That's different from real unity. Another problem with that term, this this term ally, and a problem with that way of thinking in my opinion, is that it already implies a marginalized mindset, a besieged mindset, a sort of isolated mentality where you think that you're on your own. Well, there's the Muslims are 2,000,000,000 people. The entirety of The UK is a drop in the ocean of the ummah. But why aren't you connecting with the Muslims?

Why are you looking for allies over there and looking down on Muslims in the Muslim world? You know, most of these groups have nothing but derogatory things to say about Muslim countries, about Muslim rulers, about Muslim governments. They're alienated from the ummah. They're estranged from us over here in the Muslim world, but they're running after so called non Muslim, so called allies in the West, in The UK, and so on. You're never gonna get strong like that.

They're talking about putting so called Muslim issues at the forefront of politics in The UK. What does that how does that make any sense really? You know, what does that even mean? What are Muslim issues exactly? And why should they be at the forefront of politics in a non Muslim country?

You know, The UK has a lot of problems. They have massive problems. I don't know which one of these problems are distinctly Muslim issues or not Or how focusing on so called Muslim issues is gonna resolve any of the major problems that The UK has. I mean it looks to me like corralling Muslims in Britain around some sort of a niche set of demands or policies or issues is more likely just going to remove the Muslims from contributing to actually solving any of the real problems that The UK is facing. And that's only going to exacerbate those problems.

This is a very flawed approach to politics in my opinion. It's not an Islamic approach to politics either. It's not an Islamic approach to trying to bring improvements to the society which is something that we should as Muslims want to do wherever we are. Whatever kind of society it is. What this approach is gonna do is just create a list of boxes for politicians to tick that demonstrates a sufficient level of pandering to the Muslim community in order to get their vote, in order to get an endorsement from the Muslim Vote Organization.

Never mind whether or not that politician actually has any ideas or any strategies for improving The UK in any sort of real terms. The UK is in recession, you know. Inflation is out of control. Energy prices are rising relentlessly. 15,000,000 people are in poverty.

Tax revenues are down. The NHS is in perpetual jeopardy in crisis. I mean, what exactly is going well in The UK? They have made The UK has made a cascading series of bad decisions after the mother of bad decisions, Brexit, which anyone with any sense could see would turn Britain into a castaway with no shore to swim to for safety but America. So a Muslim British citizen is going to disregard all of that, all of those issues and focus exclusively on so called Muslim issues.

Well, where's that gonna lead? You're you're you're gonna you're going to elect politicians on the basis of whether they cater to your pet issues. Where do you think that's gonna lead? Further incompetence and corruption, frankly. And further division and resentment in the society between Muslims and non Muslims.

I mean, their website they said that 81% of MPs did not back a ceasefire in Gaza. Okay. Do you know why? Do you understand the interests that are involved? For example, as I said, the intensified dependence of The UK on The US.

So you see this is the irony. If we're talking about like Hezbo Tahrir for example, one of the aspects of their political naivete is that they seem to fully believe in the western system, the liberal values, the liberal western values and so on, all while railing against them. But they fully believe all of this. They really do. And they they think it it operates as advertised.

As if all you have to do is elect Muslim MPs, you know, or Muslim allies and everything will improve. As if there's no such thing as as power players, as interests, influencers, and private sector forces. As if as if there's no geopolitical realities that restrict and dictate the policy making process. They have no comprehension. I mean, have the comprehension of a kid in a primary school civics class, democracy for dummies.

And they think it actually works like that. I mean, look, not only did Brexit increase The UK's vulnerability to American domination, it overall increased their dependence and their reliance upon major foreign investors like China and India and The Gulf. I mean, the GCC has invested close to a £150,000,000,000 in The UK. You know, Dubai is a major financier of GB News for goodness sakes. The Gulf was promoting Brexit precisely because it weakened The UK and increased both their own leverage and consequently their own political independence to operate in their region without interference from The UK.

I mean, think that they're calling out radicalized groups like Hezbo Tahrir and the superficially the superficial politicking of things like the Muslim Vogue precisely because it's ultimately detrimental to the Muslims, and it interferes with the interests of both the Muslim world and in fact against the the the general welfare of British society because it's not serious. It's unserious. So like I said before, Muslims in the West, Muslims in The UK, Muslims in America need to figure out whose team they're on. And I'm not talking about having divided loyalty as a citizen. I'm not talking about being a, you know, a British citizen or an American citizen, but having loyalty to a country in the Middle East.

That's not what I'm talking about. That's Zionists. That's who does that. I'm talking about feeling yourself to be a part of the Muslim, the wider Muslim and working in your country on the same page with the Muslims overseas for the betterment of the society you live in. Because like I said, The Gulf has been slowly gaining leverage and influence in The UK, in Europe, and in the West generally.

Brexit, the, sanctions against Russia, the, overall OCGFC plan to destabilize and deindustrialize Europe has created many opportunities to increase that influence. And that's a good thing for society or it can be a good thing for society if we all work together because that means the gradual replacement of the non Muslim private sector powers that be with Brits and Muslim private sector powers that be. Financial powers, economic powers, cultural powers, not political powers. Political powers are the weakest link. I mean, if you're interested in political office in the West today, that's like wanting to be the conductor on the caboose of the train.

Because the destabilization project is happening either way. It's happening one way or the other. And so if we don't step into that vacuum, then a predatory, ruthless, western oriented OCGFC will just burn and loot across Europe until there's nothing left. If Muslims step in, then things can be stabilized again under new management. We're in an historic transition right now and the roles are reversing.

As I've talked about many times, the victims of the West are now nascent powers. The BRICS nations are in ascendancy, and The UK, Europe, and the collective West are in decline. Any domestic political organizing or activism in the West has to consider these realities and this context and organize on that basis. And your most obvious allies are your brothers and sisters in the Muslim world. But you know because of cultish groups like Hezbo Tahirih with their simplistic mentality, and that's extremism really.

I mean extremism of almost any kind is actually just a manifestation of simplistic thinking. We have Muslims in the West thinking that the Muslim world isn't Islamic, thinking that our societies and our governments are un Islamic. So now they wanna Islamize the West, and they wanna do that by basically deepening the divide between Muslims and non Muslims by insisting on prioritizing so called Muslim issues, whatever those are, and by organizing Muslim voters on an identitarian niche basis without actually thinking about the real needs of the broader society. So ultimately, they're just gonna isolate themselves even more in the West while continuing to cut themselves off from Muslims in the Muslim world. So they're actually just making their space and their power smaller and smaller, more narrow and more narrow.

You know, a couple of years from now, watch. They will disavow every candidate that they back in the next election. Take my word. And they'll call them hypocrites and traitors because they're approaching politics like a spoilt emotionally unstable girlfriend. And they'll turn on you the moment you fail to pander to them sufficiently.

Because again, they think somehow that just having Muslims in office or having politicians who prioritize so called Muslim issues, somehow that equates to the Islamization of government. Even though they generally make on Muslim governments, they prioritize Muslim issues in the Muslim world. They make on those and say they're un Islamic. But they have this unrealistic and historically inaccurate conception of Islamic government, of the Khilafa. And then they also have an unrealistic and inaccurate understanding of so called democracy in the West.

So they're blending these two fantasies together along with an overall obliviousness of power dynamics. So they imagine that they can vote this hallucination into reality. But like I said, Muslims in any society are obligated to improve conditions in that society for everyone. And whatever negatively impacts the lives of all citizens, those are Muslim issues. And how those issues are going to actually be addressed in any society will largely be determined by unelected power by the Al Al Harwal Akt.

So you should focus on trying to influence those individuals and those institutions or else focus on becoming members of that group yourself, becoming members of Al Al Harwal Akt. Now I'm not I'm not against organizing Muslim voters per se or educating them politically and so on. Mobilizing them and making their voices count in The UK, that's all good and fine. But the way this project is going about it, the objectives that they've outlined, I don't personally see this as beneficial. Neither for the Muslims nor for society as a whole and Allah.

Hope that their vision will develop inshallah and I sincerely hope that they will build relationships with the rest of the so that we can all work from the same playbook, from the same agenda, for the general betterment of their societies and ours. And I don't see any other way to do it.