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{{Short description|Banned Islamist group in the United Kingdom}}
'''Muslims Against Crusades''' (abbreviated '''MAC''') is an Islamic group in the United Kingdom. The group was founded in 2010 by ].<ref name='27apr2011telegraph'>{{cite web|last=Gammell|first=Caroline|title=Muslims Against Crusades earn notoriety in less than a year|url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/8461436/Muslims-Against-Crusades-earn-notoriety-in-less-than-a-year.html|work=]|accessdate=27 April 2011|date=21 April 2011}}</ref> ] and ] are members of the group.<ref>http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.9293/pub_detail.asp</ref><ref>http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1372291/Muslim-Anjem-Choudary-warns-Royal-wedding-terror-attack-highly-likely.html</ref> '''Muslims Against Crusades''' ('''MAC''') is a banned radical Islamist group in the United Kingdom. The group was founded in 2010 by Abu Assadullah.<ref name='27apr2011telegraph'>{{cite news|last=Gammell|first=Caroline|title=Muslims Against Crusades earn notoriety in less than a year|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/8461436/Muslims-Against-Crusades-earn-notoriety-in-less-than-a-year.html|work=]|access-date=27 April 2011|date=21 April 2011|location=London}}</ref> Professional boxer ] and ] spokesman ] are associated with the group.<ref>{{cite web |author=The Editor |url=http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.9293/pub_detail.asp |title=Britain - Jailed for Burning a Koran » Publications |publisher=Family Security Matters |date=2011-04-19 |access-date=2011-11-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110930060451/http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.9293/pub_detail.asp |archive-date=2011-09-30 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=Tom Pettifor |url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2010/06/16/muslim-militants-hurl-abuse-at-military-parade-in-barking-115875-22336550/ |title=Muslim militants hurl abuse at military parade in Barking |date=15 June 2010 |publisher=mirror.co.uk |access-date=2011-11-10}}</ref>


Muslims Against Crusades maintain that Muslims are not "obliged to obey the law of the land in whatever country they reside".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.muslimsagainstcrusades.com/obeythelaw.php|title=Obey the Law of the Land?|work=Muslims Against Crusades|access-date=27 April 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110424140110/http://www.muslimsagainstcrusades.com/obeythelaw.php|archive-date=24 April 2011}}</ref> In 2011, the group proposed that Muslims should set up independent ]s in select cities in the UK, operating under ] (Islamic law) entirely outside British law. The group suggested the towns of ], ], and ] in the ] as the possible first test beds for these entities.{{cn|date=June 2020}} The group has often clashed with the ].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thisislocallondon.co.uk/news/9229836.WALTHAM_FOREST__Ban_on_protest_marches/ |title=WALTHAM FOREST: Ban on protest marches (From This Is Local London) |publisher=Thisislocallondon.co.uk |date=2011-09-02 |access-date=2011-11-10}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Attewill |first=Fred |url=http://www.metro.co.uk/news/875111-muslims-against-crusades-and-english-defence-league-clash-during-9-11-silence |title=Muslims Against Crusades and English Defence League square up at 9/11 ceremony |publisher=Metro.co.uk |access-date=2011-11-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121127112643/http://www.metro.co.uk/news/875111-muslims-against-crusades-and-english-defence-league-clash-during-9-11-silence |archive-date=2012-11-27 |url-status=dead }}</ref> ] ] banned the group from midnight on 11 November 2011, making membership or support of the group a criminal offence.
⚫ MAC is responsible for a number of incidents including protests outside the ] and in ] on 11 November 2010, when two large plastic ] were burned during the ] silence.<ref name='27apr2011telegraph' />


The group has been denounced by the ], who described MAC as "a tiny, and utterly deplorable, extremist group".<ref>{{cite news|last1=Williams|first1=Olivia|title='Poppy-Burning' Muslim Protest Group To Be Banned In UK|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2011/11/10/muslims-against-crusades-ban_n_1085739.html|access-date=10 April 2016|work=The Huffington Post UK|date=10 January 2012}}</ref>
⚫ Throughout ] and 2011 there were various protests against the imprisonment of Muslims, with calls for their release; and calls for a withdrawal from ] countries. There was a protest again ] during the Quran burning incident in Florida in early ].


⚫ == Rallies ==
They applied to stage a demonstration in London to disrupt the ] on 29 April 2011, but were rejected by ].<ref>{{cite web|title=Royal wedding: Muslim group's Abbey protest blocked|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13125846|work=]|accessdate=27 April 2011|date=19 April 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Police 'engaging with royal wedding protesters'|url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/royal-wedding/8461575/Police-engaging-with-royal-wedding-protesters.html|work=]|accessdate=27 April 2011|date=19 April 2011}}</ref> They planned to burn effigies of Prince William and Kate Middleton on the wedding route through central London.<ref>{{cite web|last=Camber|first=Rebecca|title=Muslim fanatics plot to hijack Royal Wedding by burning effigies of Kate and William along route of the procession|date=20 April 2011|url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1378527/Royal-Wedding-Muslim-fanatics-plot-burn-effigies-Kate-Middleton-Prince-William.html|work=]|accessdate=27 April 2011}}</ref> They later cancelled their protest due to a "Possible danger to life"<ref>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oITwfpkqQjQ&feature=player_embedded</ref><ref>http://www.muslimsagainstcrusades.com/</ref>


⚫ MAC is responsible for a number of incidents, including protests outside the ] and in ] on 11 November 2010, when two large plastic ] were burned during the ] silence.<ref name='27apr2011telegraph' />
On May 7, hundreds of UK Muslims and Muslims Against Crusades members held a pro-Bin Laden rally outside the U.S. Embassy in ] and staged funeral prayer for Bin Laden. Protesters clashed with police when they tried to storm the embassy. ] – a British national of ],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.icsr.info/publications/papers/1276697989CatherineZaraRaymondICSRPaper.pdf |title=Pg.19, Al Muhajiroun and Islam4UK, The Group nehind the ban – by Catherine Zara Raymond |format=PDF |date= |accessdate=2011-05-12}}</ref> who organised the protest, predicted an attack similar to the ] in response to bin Laden's death.<ref>, Daily Mail, May 7, 2011</ref>


A 2010 Remembrance Day ceremony in London was disrupted by members of the organization, who were protesting against British military presence in Afghanistan and Iraq. They burnt large ] and chanted "British soldiers burn in hell" during the two-minute silence. Two of the men were arrested and charged for threatening behaviour. One was convicted and fined £50.<ref>. BBC News. 7 March 2011.</ref> The same group planned to hold another protest in 2011 named Hell for Heroes, declaring that soldiers fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan deserve to go to hell.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/user/izharudeen#p/a/u/0/sJg9wHsEiEU |title=Interview with convicted terrorist Abu Izzadeen about 'Hell for Heroes' proests |date=1 November 2011 |publisher=Izharudeen.com |access-date=1 November 2011}}</ref><ref> Daily Mirror</ref> The group was banned by the ] the day before the planned protest.<ref>{{cite news|last=Casciani|first=Dominic|title=Muslims Against Crusades banned by Theresa May|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-15678275|publisher=BBC News|access-date=11 November 2011|date=10 November 2011}}</ref>
⚫ == Beliefs ==
⚫ Throughout 2010 and 2011 there were various protests against the imprisonment of Muslims, with calls for their release; and calls for a withdrawal of non-Muslim forces from ] countries. There was a protest against pastor ] when he ] (the holy book of Islam) in ], US on 20 March 2011.


They applied to the police to stage a demonstration in London to disrupt the royal ] on 29 April 2011, but this was not allowed.<ref>{{cite news|title=Royal wedding: Muslim group's Abbey protest blocked|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13125846|work=]|access-date=27 April 2011|date=19 April 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Police 'engaging with royal wedding protesters'|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/royal-wedding/8461575/Police-engaging-with-royal-wedding-protesters.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110514143558/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/royal-wedding/8461575/Police-engaging-with-royal-wedding-protesters.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=May 14, 2011|work=]|access-date=27 April 2011|date=19 April 2011|location=London}}</ref>
Muslims Against Crusades believe that Muslims are not "obliged to obey the law of the land in whatever country they reside".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.muslimsagainstcrusades.com/obeythelaw.php|title=Obey the Law of the Land?|work=Muslims Against Crusades|accessdate=27 April 2011}}</ref>

On 2 May 2011, ], who had led the Islamist ] organization responsible for ], ]. On 7 May, hundreds of UK Muslims and MAC members held a rally and ] (funeral prayer) for him outside the ]. When protesters tried to storm the embassy, there were clashes with police.

On 30 July, around 50 members of MAC and Waltham Forest Muslims marched for two hours from ] to Walthamstow town square, calling for democracy to be replaced by sharia law and chanted slogans such as 'democracy—hypocrisy', 'Sharia for UK' and 'Secularism go to hell'.<ref>, Guardian Series, 30 July 2011</ref> In August, members of Muslims Against Crusades held a demonstration denouncing the ] denomination and "anti-Islamic" Shia regimes of Syria and Iran.<ref>{{dead link|date=November 2011}}</ref><ref>{{dead link|date=November 2011}}</ref> To mark the tenth anniversary of the 11 September attacks, around 100 men linked to the group protested outside the ] in London, burning US flags and chanting through megaphones. The protest could be heard by mourners in the September 11th Memorial Garden nearby, where a minute's silence was being observed to mark the first airplane hitting the ] in New York City.<ref>{{cite web |last=Attewill |first=Fred |url=http://www.metro.co.uk/news/875111-9-11-minutes-silence-interrupted-by-muslims-against-crusades-protest |title=Muslims Against Crusades and English Defence League square up at 9/11 ceremony |publisher=Metro.co.uk |access-date=2011-11-10 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120903163750/http://www.metro.co.uk/news/875111-9-11-minutes-silence-interrupted-by-muslims-against-crusades-protest |archive-date=2012-09-03 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

On 10 November 2011, British ] ] banned the group after it planned to repeat the poppy-burning demonstration; membership of Muslims Against Crusades became illegal at midnight.<ref>{{cite news|last=Casciani |first=Dominic |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-15678275 |title=BBC News - Muslims Against Crusades banned by Theresa May |work=BBC News |date=10 November 2011 |access-date=2011-11-10}}</ref>

On 2 December 2011, twenty people were arrested on suspicion of being members of a banned group, and two for obstruction and violent disorder at a demonstration outside the US Embassy in London; the police did not confirm a report that the protesters were members of MAC.<ref>{{citation |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-usa-arrests-idUSTRE7B11C120111202 |title=Reuters - Over 20 arrested at U.S. London embassy protest |date=2 December 2011 |publisher=Reuters|access-date=2011-12-02}}</ref>

==Cultural impact==

On '']'', the group was discussed, with ] saying "aren't they a couple hundred years late, these Muslims Against Crusades?"<ref>''Have I Got News for You'', series 41, episode 3</ref>

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==References== ==References==
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Latest revision as of 11:25, 1 February 2024

Banned Islamist group in the United Kingdom

Muslims Against Crusades (MAC) is a banned radical Islamist group in the United Kingdom. The group was founded in 2010 by Abu Assadullah. Professional boxer Anthony Small and Islam4UK spokesman Anjem Choudary are associated with the group.

Muslims Against Crusades maintain that Muslims are not "obliged to obey the law of the land in whatever country they reside". In 2011, the group proposed that Muslims should set up independent emirates in select cities in the UK, operating under sharia (Islamic law) entirely outside British law. The group suggested the towns of Bradford, Dewsbury, and Tower Hamlets in the East End of London as the possible first test beds for these entities. The group has often clashed with the English Defence League. Home Secretary Theresa May banned the group from midnight on 11 November 2011, making membership or support of the group a criminal offence.

The group has been denounced by the Muslim Council of Britain, who described MAC as "a tiny, and utterly deplorable, extremist group".

Rallies

MAC is responsible for a number of incidents, including protests outside the Royal Albert Hall and in Kensington on 11 November 2010, when two large plastic poppies were burned during the Remembrance Day silence.

A 2010 Remembrance Day ceremony in London was disrupted by members of the organization, who were protesting against British military presence in Afghanistan and Iraq. They burnt large poppies and chanted "British soldiers burn in hell" during the two-minute silence. Two of the men were arrested and charged for threatening behaviour. One was convicted and fined £50. The same group planned to hold another protest in 2011 named Hell for Heroes, declaring that soldiers fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan deserve to go to hell. The group was banned by the Home Secretary the day before the planned protest. Throughout 2010 and 2011 there were various protests against the imprisonment of Muslims, with calls for their release; and calls for a withdrawal of non-Muslim forces from Muslim countries. There was a protest against pastor Terry Jones when he burnt a Quran (the holy book of Islam) in Florida, US on 20 March 2011.

They applied to the police to stage a demonstration in London to disrupt the royal wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton on 29 April 2011, but this was not allowed.

On 2 May 2011, Osama bin Laden, who had led the Islamist al-Qaeda organization responsible for violent attacks on the United States on 11 September 2001, was killed in Pakistan by US forces. On 7 May, hundreds of UK Muslims and MAC members held a rally and Salat al-Janazah (funeral prayer) for him outside the US embassy in London. When protesters tried to storm the embassy, there were clashes with police.

On 30 July, around 50 members of MAC and Waltham Forest Muslims marched for two hours from Leyton tube station to Walthamstow town square, calling for democracy to be replaced by sharia law and chanted slogans such as 'democracy—hypocrisy', 'Sharia for UK' and 'Secularism go to hell'. In August, members of Muslims Against Crusades held a demonstration denouncing the Shia denomination and "anti-Islamic" Shia regimes of Syria and Iran. To mark the tenth anniversary of the 11 September attacks, around 100 men linked to the group protested outside the US Embassy in London, burning US flags and chanting through megaphones. The protest could be heard by mourners in the September 11th Memorial Garden nearby, where a minute's silence was being observed to mark the first airplane hitting the World Trade Center in New York City.

On 10 November 2011, British Home Secretary Theresa May banned the group after it planned to repeat the poppy-burning demonstration; membership of Muslims Against Crusades became illegal at midnight.

On 2 December 2011, twenty people were arrested on suspicion of being members of a banned group, and two for obstruction and violent disorder at a demonstration outside the US Embassy in London; the police did not confirm a report that the protesters were members of MAC.

Cultural impact

On Have I Got News for You, the group was discussed, with Ian Hislop saying "aren't they a couple hundred years late, these Muslims Against Crusades?"

See also

References

  1. ^ Gammell, Caroline (21 April 2011). "Muslims Against Crusades earn notoriety in less than a year". The Daily Telegraph. London. Retrieved 27 April 2011.
  2. The Editor (2011-04-19). "Britain - Jailed for Burning a Koran » Publications". Family Security Matters. Archived from the original on 2011-09-30. Retrieved 2011-11-10. {{cite web}}: |author= has generic name (help)
  3. Tom Pettifor (15 June 2010). "Muslim militants hurl abuse at military parade in Barking". mirror.co.uk. Retrieved 2011-11-10.
  4. "Obey the Law of the Land?". Muslims Against Crusades. Archived from the original on 24 April 2011. Retrieved 27 April 2011.
  5. "WALTHAM FOREST: Ban on protest marches (From This Is Local London)". Thisislocallondon.co.uk. 2011-09-02. Retrieved 2011-11-10.
  6. Attewill, Fred. "Muslims Against Crusades and English Defence League square up at 9/11 ceremony". Metro.co.uk. Archived from the original on 2012-11-27. Retrieved 2011-11-10.
  7. Williams, Olivia (10 January 2012). "'Poppy-Burning' Muslim Protest Group To Be Banned In UK". The Huffington Post UK. Retrieved 10 April 2016.
  8. "Man guilty of burning poppies at Armistice Day protest". BBC News. 7 March 2011.
  9. "Interview with convicted terrorist Abu Izzadeen about 'Hell for Heroes' proests". Izharudeen.com. 1 November 2011. Retrieved 1 November 2011.
  10. Daily Mirror
  11. Casciani, Dominic (10 November 2011). "Muslims Against Crusades banned by Theresa May". BBC News. Retrieved 11 November 2011.
  12. "Royal wedding: Muslim group's Abbey protest blocked". BBC News. 19 April 2011. Retrieved 27 April 2011.
  13. "Police 'engaging with royal wedding protesters'". The Daily Telegraph. London. 19 April 2011. Archived from the original on May 14, 2011. Retrieved 27 April 2011.
  14. WALTHAM FOREST: Extremists march through borough, Guardian Series, 30 July 2011
  17. Attewill, Fred. "Muslims Against Crusades and English Defence League square up at 9/11 ceremony". Metro.co.uk. Archived from the original on 2012-09-03. Retrieved 2011-11-10.
  18. Casciani, Dominic (10 November 2011). "BBC News - Muslims Against Crusades banned by Theresa May". BBC News. Retrieved 2011-11-10.
  19. Reuters - Over 20 arrested at U.S. London embassy protest, Reuters, 2 December 2011, retrieved 2011-12-02
  20. Have I Got News for You, series 41, episode 3

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