About Victoria Brittain Terrorism Apologist
Former Guardian editor, crusader for human rights of and justice for muslims against the War on Islam.
Supporters:
Victoria Brittain, journalist and former editor at the Guardian, has authored or co-authored two plays and four books, including Enemy Combatant with Moazzam Begg. Her latest book, Shadow Lives: The Forgotten Women of the War on Terror (Palgrave/Macmillan, 2013), has just been published.
She's written on behalf of a wide range of unjustly prosecuted they-are-not-terrorists:
- Abu Qatata: (terrorist) I know Abu Qatada – he's no terrorist , Abu Qatada became a key al-Qaeda operative in Europe and a “godfather of global terrorism”, whose sermons and writing inspired several al-Qaeda members. Videos of his sermons were found in the Hamburg apartment of Mohammed Atta, a ringleader among the 9/11 hijackers. Abu Qatada is accused of involvement in a failed plan known as the “millennium conspiracy” in 2000, to detonate explosives against Western and Israeli targets during millennium celebrations.Abu Qatada became a “mentor” for international jihadists, who quoted his writings often.
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- .Aafia Siddiqui (terrorist) MIT-educated expert in children’s learning patterns, Dr Aafia Siddiqui, disappeared with her three children in Pakistan
- Anwar al Awlaki (terrorist) "If 'war on terror' detention has driven the US-Yemeni cleric to extremism, that's all the more reason to uphold his legal rights"
- Blind sheik breach of these special measures in relation to her client, the imprisoned blind sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman, that lawyer Lynne Stewart was tried and sentenced to 10 years in prison
- Counterpunch (terrorist apologist)
- Democracy Now
- Foreign Policy Journal
- Guardian: (terrorist apologist) former editor at the Guardian
- Islamic Society of Boston recently invited journalist Victoria Brittain to speak at the mosque
ISB teaching is largely based on Islamists like Muslim Brotherhood spiritual leader Yousef al-Qaradawi and Sayyid Qutb, the Brotherhood cleric who influenced Osama Bin Laden.” (im41.com, April 20, 2013.)
- MichaelMoore.com (terrorist apologist) she wrote that the War on Terror is a “war on Islam” and that Muslims in the West face widespread persecution. In her article,
- Moazzam Begg: (terrorist) book: Enemy Combatant with Moazzam Begg held in extrajudicial detention by the U.S. government in the Bagram and the Guantanamo Bay detainment camp... claimed Begg was an enemy combatant and al-Qaeda member, who recruited for al-Qaeda, provided money for their training camps, and trained at their camps in Afghanistan to fight U.S. or allied troops. Begg has said he spent time at two Islamic training camps in Afghanistan, supported militant Muslim fighters, bought a rifle and a handgun, and was acquainted with persons linked to terrorism, but he denies the remainder of the U.S.'s allegations.After his release, Begg became a commentator on radio and television on issues pertaining to the UK Muslim community. Begg interviewed the al-Qaeda leader Anwar al-Awlaki after his release from jail inYemen in 2007.
- Muslim men, often like Ahmed Abu Ali with no history of violence.
- Richard Falk (terrorist apologist)
- Syed Fahad Hashmi (convicted terrorist)
- War against Islam
ISB teaching is largely based on Islamists like Muslim Brotherhood spiritual leader Yousef al-Qaradawi and Sayyid Qutb, the Brotherhood cleric who influenced Osama Bin Laden.” (im41.com, April 20, 2013.)
Critics
- Brittain also criticized British security services who “returned to a post-9/11 stance on overdrive” in the aftermath of the 2005 London subway bombings, referred to as the “7/7″ attacks.
- England: How England's War on Terror Became a War on Women and Children In the global war on terror, collateral damage also happens at home—transforming families into enemies.
- Harry's place: Victoria Brittain Is a Disgrace ... has never met a terrorist, jihadist, or enemy of a liberal and multicultural society that she doesn't admire
- .Weekly Standard
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.Aafia Siddiqu
In 2003 an MIT-educated expert in children’s learning patterns, Dr Aafia Siddiqui, disappeared with her three children in Pakistan
February 14, 2011
http://counterpunch.com/brittain02142011.html
A COUNTERPUNCH SPECIAL REPORT
A New Turn as Lawyers Release Explosive, Secretly Recorded Tape
The Siddiqui Case
By VICTORIA BRITTAIN
In 2003 an MIT-educated expert in children’s learning patterns, Dr Aafia Siddiqui, disappeared with her three children in Pakistan. Was she, as the Americans said, an Al Qaeda operative who in 2008 emerged after five years undercover, carrying a handbag full of chemicals and plans for major terror attacks in the US, and then attempted to shoot US soldiers? Or was she, as her family, and most people in Pakistan have always maintained, seized by Pakistani agents for reasons unknown?
.Blind sheik breach of these special measures in relation to her client, the imprisoned blind sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman, that lawyer Lynne Stewart was tried and sentenced to 10 years in prison in the Bush years.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/06/holder-humanitarian-ruling-guantanamo
It was for a breach of these special measures in relation to her client, the imprisoned blind sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman, that lawyer Lynne Stewart was tried and sentenced to 10 years in prison in the Bush years.
.Foreign Policy Journal
http://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2013/04/12/seeing-in-the-dark-with-victoria-brittain/
http://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2013/04/12/seeing-in-the-dark-with-victoria-brittain/
.Guantanamo: 'Honor Bound to Defend Freedom'
.Islamic Society of Boston
The Islamic Society of Boston, attended by Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, recently hosted a book event at its cultural center featuring a journalist who has been highly critical of the U.S. and U.K. “War on Terror,” which she described as a “war against Islam.” The Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center also encouraged its members to show their “support of the forgotten women of the War on Terror.” The Cambridge, Massachusetts-based mosque’s affiliated cultural center in Roxbury, Massachusetts — which announced its indefinite closing Friday in light of “the terrible and sad events of last night, the criminal of the bombings on the loose, and the strong recommendations of our Governor” — hosted a book signing and “Meet the Author” event April 6 with British journalist and former Guardian editor Victoria Brittain, who discussed her book “Shadow Lives: The Forgotten Women of the War on Terror.”
...“I stayed in Great Britain. There, my government, in close conjunction with Washington, was pursuing its own version of what, whether anyone cared to say it or not, was essentially a war against Islam. Somehow, by a series of chance events, I found myself inside it, spending time with families transformed into enemies,Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2013/04/19/bombing-suspects-mosque-hosted-author-who-criticized-us-uk-for-war-against-islam/#ixzz2YUpxazhW
.Moazzam Begg
Moazzam Begg’s own book confirms he is a jihadist. In 2006, along with former Guardian journalist Victoria Brittain, Begg coauthored a supposedly autobiographical account of his life entitled, Enemy Combatant: My Imprisonment at Guantanamo, Bagram, and Kandahar. The book is, as one would expect, entirely self-serving. Begg tries to downplay his nefarious activities to the greatest extent possible (denying any substantive ties to al Qaeda or the Taliban) while portraying his American captors in the worst possible light.
often like Ahmed Abu Ali with no history of violence.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/06/holder-humanitarian-ruling-guantanamo
ordeal of American post-graduate student Syed Fahad Hashmi, lawyers have often been obliged to prepare cases without actually sitting with their clients, or being able to show them all court materials. After three pre-trial years mainly in solitary confinement under special administrative measures at the Metropolitan Correction Center, Hashmi accepted a government plea bargain of one count of material support for terrorism and was given a 15-year sentence.
His crime? He allowed an acquaintance to stay at his student apartment in London, use his cell phone, and store a duffel bag there. The bag contained ponchos and waterproof socks that were later supposedly delivered to al-Qaeda, while the phone was used by that acquaintance to make calls to co-conspirators in Britain.
.Richard Falk
Seeing in the Dark with Victoria Brittain
by Richard Falk
.Sources
Victoria Brittain | The Guardian
www.guardian.co.uk/profile/victoriabrittain
I know Abu Qatada – he's no terrorist | Victoria Brittain | Comment is ...
www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/07/abu-qatada-no-terrorist1 day ago - Victoria Brittain: Security services and politicians turned this man into an Islamic counter-terrorism myth. If only they'd talked to him instead.
Victoria Brittain: Guilty Until Proven Innocent - Huffington Post
www.huffingtonpost.com/victoria-brittain/war-on-terror-trials_b_34152...Jun 10, 2013 - A four-month hunger strike, mass force-feedings, and widespread media coverage have at last brought Guantanamo back into American ...Images for Victoria Brittain.
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Victoria Brittain: "Shadow Lives: The Forgotten Women of the War on ...
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Apr 12, 2013As more than 100 Guantánamo prisoners continue their hunger strike, we speak to British journalist Victoria ...
Interview with Victoria Brittain, Maggie Schmitt and Laila El-Haddad ...
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Apr 26, 2013 - Uploaded by TheArabicHour1On today's program we have, long time friends of the Arabic Hour, human rights activist Dr. Nancy Murray ...- More videos for Victoria Brittain. »
Victoria Brittain | The Nation
www.thenation.com/authors/victoria-brittainVictoria Brittain, journalist and former editor at the Guardian, has authored or co-authored two plays and four books, including Enemy Combatant with Moazzam ...
Victoria Brittain - Events - Harvard Book Store
www.harvard.com/event/victoria_brittain/Cambridge Forum welcomes journalist and playwright VICTORIA BRITTAIN for a discussion of her book Shadow Lives: The Forgotten Women of the War on ...
Harry's Place » Victoria Brittain Is a Disgrace
hurryupharry.org/2008/12/03/victoria-brittain-is-a-disgrace/Dec 3, 2008 - Victoria Brittain has never met a terrorist, jihadist, or enemy of a liberal and multicultural society that she doesn't admire. A former associate ...
Victoria Brittain | CiF Watch
cifwatch.com/tag/victoria-brittain/May 28, 2013 - Posts about Victoria Brittain written by Adam Levick, Israelinurse, Guest/Cross Post, and Hawkeye.
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