ENGAGE has learnt that Azad Ali, the Muslim civil servant who was suspended from his job at HM Treasury following a witch hunt agitated by (surprise, surprise) amongst others the anti-Muslim website Harry’s Place and the Mail on Sunday, is back at work after having been cleared by a Civil Service investigation into the scurrilous allegations leveled against him.

Readers won’t be surprised to learn that the focus on Azad and his considerable work with various civil liberties organisations caught the attention of Harry’s Place where David Toube and ‘habibi’ blogged about him in the articles ‘Our friends, our enemies’, and ‘The jihad lover and the Civil Service’, among others. Harry's Place and it's ideological offshoots have made it their mission to smear those Muslims who are politically engaged in a transparent bid to promote an alternative depoliticised Islam. Unseating Azad from his various affiliations appeared to be HP’s goal as bloggers sought to systematically malign his reputation and undermine his involvement in organisations like the Muslim Safety Forum, Liberty, and his role as president of the Civil Service Islamic Society.

The Mail on Sunday obliged with a front page article entitled ‘Muslim civil servant suspended over ‘kill British soldiers’ blog’. The MoS also gave itself the credit for forcing Azad's suspension claiming ‘Cabinet Secretary Sir Gus O’Donnnell – patron of the [Civil Service Islamic] society - acted immediately after being alerted to the comments by The Mail on Sunday. Shortly after this newspaper contacted the Cabinet Office, a senior official disclosed that Mr Ali had been suspended for the remarks made on his personal internet blog’.

Indeed, so sure was the MoS of its interpretation of Azad’s comments on the blog Between the Lines, that it later pulled the story from its website altogether. Though not before having caused considerable damage to Azad’s reputation.

The Evening Standard also jumped on the defamation bandwagon with an article by Andrew Gilligan in March entitled ‘Mayor gives £30,000 of taxpayers' money to Muslim group led by 'extremist'’.

It is immensely gratifying to see Azad back in his post at the Treasury, exonerated of these ridiculous allegations.

Still, the campaign by pro-Israeli organisations to vilify politically active Muslims is set to continue...



 

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Sack Blears  - Well done, Azad!   |2009-06-27 08:54:27 It must have been incredibly stressful to be faced with such a witch-hunt. Well done to Azad for being patient and coming through this test. All who work to combat injustice and its practitioners will face similar trials. As the Quran says, God is with those who are patient.

Illuminati  - Don't forget Quilliam's cowardly role   |2009-06-27 14:03:09 Good news, but we should not also forget the role played by the morally bankrupt duo Ed Husain and Maajid Nawaz who also issued an 'alert' about Azad Ali: http://www.iengage.org.uk/component/content/article/1-news/319-quilliam-stooges-target-the-islam-channel Ed, Maajid and that Faisal Gazi from Spittoon are hand in glove with the pro-Israel lot at Harry's Place. Look at the venom with which they target any Muslim who dares to speak out about Israel or the UK's wars against Iraq and Afghanistan. They are mercenaries pure and simple.

Bill Corr  - THINKING ABOUT DEPORTATION   |2009-06-28 21:08:37 So that is what Azad Ali looks like? Who'd want to be on the same bus or tube train? Assume a maximum of 2.5 million Muslims in Brtain. Assume 200 Muslims on a plane. That's 12,500 flights; 100 planes a day for 125 days. A Muslim-free Britain. Easy enough. All Britain owes the Muslims currently here is a capacious suitcase, a one-way ticket to the Trashkanistan of his/her choice and a guarantee of safe conduct to the nearest international airport. Start with the 10% of the prison population who claim to be Muslim. And let's not hear "Ali and Ahmed were born here..." Rats and cockroaches are born in stables every day but that hardly makes them horses.

Haroon   |2009-06-29 09:30:30 Thanks for summing things up Bill, great to feel so welcome. By the way just wanted to share the glad tidings that my wife has 2 buns (or cockroachs by your definition) in the oven, expected birth in August :)

Muslim and Black   |2009-06-29 10:41:23 Where do you start with me, my colour or my belief? Are you confused Bill? that's easily done eh, for those BNP sy

Immigrant  - Immigrant   |2009-06-29 11:47:44 Firstly I am happy to hear that Azad Ali is back at work. The witch hunt has failed in its primary objective! Second, I'd like to ask Bill what he plans to do with me, a Muslim white English woman? I would like to think Bill is not for real, but unfortunately our nation is now heading towards ultra right wing hatred faster than we care to comprehend!

Bill Corr   |2009-07-01 00:18:23 Does mass deportation of the unassimilable sound extreme or unreasonable? Independent Algeria achieved it quickly enough - 'The suitcase or the coffin' was the slogan heard in Oran at the time.

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