Islamization of UK > Muslim Extremists trying to buy Scottish island for new Sharia compliant Islamic home

 

UK: Shi’ite Muslim cleric raises $3,850,000

to buy small island and turn it into

Sharia-adherent Islamic state

Jul 29, 2024 3:00 pm By Robert Spencer

A man should not be able to buy land in a sovereign nation and enforce a legal system separate from that of the nation itself. But shattered, staggering, dhimmi Britain is unlikely to summon the will to stop Yasser al-Habib. To do so would be “Islamophobic.”

Anyway, Yasser al-Habib is impatient. Before too long, the whole country will be under Sharia anyway.

Hate cleric with his own ‘army’ raises £3m to create Islamic homeland on Scottish island – as the extremist who already runs military-style training camps bids to build his own school, hospital and mosque and practise sharia law at remote spot

by Abul Taher and Daisy Graham-Brown, Daily Mail, July 28, 2024:

A firebrand cleric who has been accused of spreading hate has raised more than £3 million to buy a small British island and turn it into his own Islamic state.

The Mail on Sunday can reveal that Sheikh Yasser al-Habib, 45 – who claimed asylum in Britain 20 years ago after fleeing his native Kuwait – and his followers are in advanced talks to buy the remote isle of Torsa, off the west coast of Scotland.

Torsa is one of the Slate Islands in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. Lying east of Luing and south of Seil, this tidal island was inhabited until the 1960s. There is now only one house there, which is used for holiday lets. Wikipedia

Area: 113 ha

Highest elevation: 62 m (203 ft)

Island group: Slate Islands

Population: 0

Sovereign state: United Kingdom

The extremist scholar, who already runs military-style training camps, hopes his organisation can build its own school, hospital and mosque on the island, where it intends to practise sharia law.

In a video encouraging supporters to donate towards their £3.5 million target, the cleric says he will negotiate with the Government to allow Muslims ‘from all over the world’ to be given a visa in order for them to live in their new ‘homeland’.

Residents on the neighbouring island of Luing reacted with concern when The Mail on Sunday revealed his plans to them.

One man said: ‘I’ve spent much of my life working in Muslim countries so have no issues whatsoever with that community, but this group do seem alarming from what I’ve just seen now.’

Al-Habib, who is accused of stirring up sectarian hatred in Britain and in the Arab world between Shias and rival Sunni Muslims, has his ‘global headquarters’ in the picturesque village of Fulmer, South Buckinghamshire….

Al-Habib has since said on Fadak TV that Torsa, which comes with two little adjoining islets, is an ‘irreplaceable opportunity’.

Encouraging supporters to donate, he said Torsa will become an Islamic ‘homeland’ which they will create to prepare for the coming of their messiah, known as mahdi.

In one three-minute video, al-Habib says: ‘If you want to live free under the banner of the imam [Shia leader], in a special homeland where you feel everything in it reminds you of the awaited mahdi, everything is the Shia homeland…support this project.’

In the same video, another man, who is filming from Torsa, says: ‘Here, my brothers, God willing, we want to build a large mosque, a school and a hawza [Shia seminary]. We want this place to be a homeland to the Shias and the believers.’ The footage switches to images of al-Habib’s ‘army’, called Al-Shurta Al-Khamis, training and doing drills in the grounds of his mosque in Fulmer.

In another video, al-Habib, who spent nearly three months in jail in Kuwait for insulting the Sunni faith, said the MSU will obtain the right for Shias from around the world to immigrate to the island….

Turning this bleak, little island into Mecca NW is going to take an engineering miracle. Can you imagine thousands or tens of thousands of people on this island? What are they going to eat and where will they get water from, not to mention building materials.  

127 Dead and 9,000 Arrested in Duterte-Style Drug Crackdown in Bangladesh

And - Bangladesh plans to move Rohingya to deserted island in Bay of Bengal

It's hard to imagine land in Bangladesh where no-one lives, especially land that is probably quite fertile. There must obviously be a reason no-one lives there, but the government has a plan, apparently.

First, Bangladesh drug war

Jonathon Gatehouse · CBC News 

Police arrest a group of people for allegedly taking and selling drugs during an anti-narcotics operation in Dhaka, Bangladesh, this week. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina authorized the anti-drug campaign that human rights activists have compared to the aggressive drug war launched by Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte in the Philippines. (Monirul Alam/EPA-EFE)

Bangladesh has launched its own Duterte-style "war on drugs" with a national crackdown that has seen 9,000 people arrested and at least 127 shot dead over the past 17 days.

The sweeps, led by the police Rapid Action Battalion — normally an anti-terrorism squad — have seized 1.7 million methamphetamine pills and 23 kilograms of heroin to date, according to the country's home ministry.

Bangladesh's Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) soldiers stand guard during a raid on suspected drug dealers at Mohammadpur Geneva Camp in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on Saturday. (Mehedi Hasan/Associated Press)

But human rights groups are expressing concern over the large number of suspected dealers and users who are dying in what police say are almost daily gun battles.

Today, the Bangladesh Daily Star reported five more killings by police overnight. In most of the cases, police reported that "rival groups" of drug dealers were attacking each other, drawing officers to the area.

"Sensing the presence of police, drug dealers opened fire on law enforcers," says one official account.  

And a raid of a slum in the capital of Dhaka, involving 500 officers and several police dogs, resulted in the arrest of 28 suspects and the seizure of three kilograms of cannabis, along with smaller amounts of methamphetamine, heroin and Demerol.

Dhaka Metropolitan Police load a group of people into vans after their arrest for allegedly taking and selling drugs on Monday. (Monirul Alam/EPA-EFE)

Many of the killings have occurred in areas close to the border with Myanmar —the source of much of South East Asia's illicit drugs. Heroin, opium, and pot are all produced in its hard-to-reach outlying states, often under the watchful eye of rebel groups or the military.

But meth — or yaba as it is known locally — has become Myanmar's biggest export. In 2015, police in Bangladesh seized 50 million pills. The following year their haul was 98 million.

Still, it hardly makes a dent. Authorities estimate that 300 million pills crossed the border last year.

Bangladesh border guards search a fishing boat during their patrol along the Naf River in Teknaf between Myanmar and Bangladesh, in April. Meth is spilling into Bangladesh at record rates. (Munir Uz Zaman/AFP/Getty Images)

And the trade isn't just a problem in Bangladesh. Last week, customs officials in Malaysia discovered nearly 1.2 tonnes of crystal meth disguised as tea in a container at Kuala Lumpur's port. The shipment, valued at $20 million US, had originated in Myanmar.

Authorities in Bangladesh have frequently blamed the influx of Rohingya for both the increased availability of meth and its soaring use. They cite the drug problem as a justification for a controversial plan to establish a new refugee camp on an isolated island in Bay of Bengal. (See below) 

Bangladesh border guards examine small bags of the drug yaba (methamphetamine) recovered from a passenger bus at a checkpoint along the Teknaf-Cox's Bazar highway in Teknaf in April. (Munir Uz Zaman/AFP/Getty Images)

However, the new drug war seems to have more to do with the upcoming elections and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's bid for another term.

"The government's development work in all sectors is being overshadowed by the failure to curb the curse of drugs from the country," a high-ranking member of the ruling Awami League told the Dhaka Tribune last week.

Resettling refugees

Bangladesh is not expecting much help from foreign donors as it forges ahead with plans to relocate 100,000 Rohingya refugees to an uninhabited island, an undertaking that does not yet have a timeline, a state minister said in an interview.

A Rohingya refugee boy carries water in the Kutupalong refugee camp, in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh March 22, 2018. REUTERS/Mohammad Ponir Hossain

The minister of state for foreign affairs, Mohammed Shahriar Alam, told Reuters on Friday that Bangladesh was paying the entire roughly $280 million to build homes and fortify the muddy island in the Bay of Bengal from cyclones, and that it was mulling a formal request for international funds.

No refugees who fled a military crackdown in Myanmar would be moved there against their will, he added.

FILE PHOTO: Rohingya refugees build shelter with bamboo at the Jamtoli camp in the morning in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, January 22, 2018. REUTERS/Mohammad Ponir Hossain/File Photo

Some 700,000 Rohingya Muslims crossed the border from Myanmar’s Rakhine state since August, and are in cramped camps at Cox’s Bazar. Because a repatriation deal between the neighboring countries has been delayed, Bangladesh aims to prepare new homes on the nearby island, called Bhasan Char, before the onset of seasonal monsoon rains that could come in late April.

“We don’t have a timeline because it’s a lot of money,” Alam said at Bangladesh’s United Nations office in New York. “We are so far building it with our own finances. I am not very hopeful about how much funds the international community will be able to raise.”

The latest wave of refugees joined about 300,000 Rohingya already in Bangladesh, one of the world’s poorest and most crowded countries, who fled previous bouts of violence. A U.N. coordination branch has separately requested $951 million for immediate relief.

He brushed off as “misunderstandings” concerns raised by humanitarian groups such as Amnesty International that the silt island was vulnerable to flooding. “Some people raised concerns about Bhasan Char (but) there is absolutely no reason to be concerned because we are building an embankment,” he said.

Bangladesh sees the island as a temporary arrangement for refugees but has given conflicting signals on how much freedom they would have to leave once there.

Alam said Bangladesh shared the building designs with the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, which suggested “we engage people, countries and organizations to come help and contribute” to the cost. “We are yet to do it,” the minister said. “We haven’t decided on that.”

Bhasan Island, Bangladesh