Channel 4’s Dispatches programme broadcast last night has confirmed the accuracy of Nick Griffin’s warning during his famous “free speech trial” six years ago, that the teachings of radical Islamist philosopher Abul A’la Mawdudi were being widely used in Britain as part of a subversion programme.
“I was put on trial for warning that radical Islamists posed a serious threat to Britain,” Mr Griffin told BNP News last night after watching the Channel 4 show.
During Mr Griffin’s trial — at which he was ultimately acquitted — he made reference to Abul A’la Mawdudi and his works, specifically the book Let us be Muslims published by the Islamic Foundation (UK) .
Mr Mawdudi’s teachings featured in the Channel 4 show which revealed how Islamists had used the pro-immigration and pro-multicultural positions of the establishment parties to seize control of Tower Hamlets borough council and to effectively take over parts of the Labour Party in East London.
The Islamists are also influencing the Conservative Party and the Liberal Democrats in particular, the show revealed.
“In my court case, I pointed out that even the so-called ‘moderate’ Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) was being influenced by Mr Mawdudi’s worldview,” Mr Griffin said.
At the time, the MCB’s Secretary General, Inayat Bunglawala, said he had a deep respect for Mawdudi and was quoted in the media as saying that “Mawdudi is a very important Muslim thinker. The book that brought me to practise Islam was Now Let Us Be Muslims by Mawdudi.”
“Mr Bunglawala is MCB media secretary and has written articles for the Times, Daily Telegraph, the Guardian, Daily Express, the Observer and the Sun,” Mr Griffin said.
“He was also selected as one of seven ‘conveners’ for a Home Office task force with responsibilities for tackling extremism among young Muslims.”
However, a review of the opinions of Mr Bunglawala’s philosophical mentor, Mr Mawdudi, reveals precisely the thoughts which brought the “moderate” MCB official to Islam.
On the topic of Jihad, Mr Mawdudi wrote that the Islamic state should not be limited to just the “homeland of Islam” and that it was for all the world.
“Islam wishes to destroy all States and Governments anywhere on the face of the earth which are opposed to the ideology and programme of Islam regardless of the country or the Nation which rules it,” Mr Mawdudi wrote in Vol 2, No1 of his work, The Faithful Struggle.
“It must be evident to you from this discussion that the objective of Islamic ‘Jihad’ is to eliminate the rule of an un-Islamic system and establish in its stead an Islamic system of State rule. Islam does not intend to confine this revolution to a single State or a few countries; the aim of Islam is to bring about a universal revolution,” that book continued.
In regard to the non-Muslim, Mr Mawdudi wrote: “His very tongue which, on account of his ignorance advocates the denial of God or professes multiple deities, is in its very nature ‘Muslim’… The man who denies God is called Kafir (concealer) because he conceals by his disbelief what is inherent in his nature and embalmed in his own soul. His whole body functions in obedience to that instinct… Reality becomes estranged from him and he gropes in the dark” (Mawdudi, A., Towards Understanding Islam).
Mr Mawdudi also taught that the sovereignty of Allah and the sovereignty of the people are mutually exclusive (Abu al-A’la al-Mawdudi, Political Theory of Islam) and that therefore what he called “Islamic democracy” was the “antithesis of secular Western democracy which transfers hakimiya (God’s sovereignty) to the people” (Ibid).
“These are the teachings which underpin even the so-called moderate MCB,” Mr Griffin said. “It boggles the mind to think that I was put on trial for predicting that Islamists would set off bombs and that the teachings of Mr Mawdudi were being used as part of a deliberate plan to undermine Britain.
“I am, however, grateful that one establishment media channel has now at last woken up to the fact that I and the British National Party have been right all along,” Mr Griffin said.
“We warned years ago that Islamists were incompatible with Britain. Now, as the chickens are coming home to roost, the British public will see that we were right.”
