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Looking at the Quilliam Alert of the Quilliam Foundation we have this “poetic” intervention into the episode. I quote

Muqeem then lunged forward to continue his attack on Maajid but restaurant staff and others physically stopped him. As he was forcibly removed, Muqeem threatened Maajid, saying ‘this is only a slap compared with what I am going to do to you’.

Now the Quilliamite (supposed “independent consultant” )”Khurram” in a comment (probably Rashad Zaman Ali who is also very likely to be FLARI on the MPAC discussion boards ) thinks that and I quote

…Witnesses in Pakistan are a ‘dime a dozen’.

Interesting that when we have in the very same press release a reliance on anonymous witnesses from Pakistan. I quote

Eyewitnesses say Maajid promptly stood up and offered ‘salam’ or ‘peace’ to his attacker

Maybe these eyewitnesses were not Pakistani. Maybe they where English Neo Con Gove supporters on Holiday in Lahore. Who knows these days ?

What makes this more preplexing is that the same staff that “physically removed” Tayyab for being rather “obnoxious” testify that he was a peaceful man that was a regular at the Cafe! In fact the cafe owner agrees with Tayyib’s account! So according to the Quilliamite conspiracy theory, we cannot depend on local testimony from Pakistan unless it is a Quilliam Alert. We also have to believe that the very staff that “booted” him out of the Cafe later were given money to testify for him

Wonderful, the fairy tales that we get from the Quilliam traitors!

Salaam Alekuum again from the traditionalislamism site. Another exclusive! We have the eye witness report from the owner of the Java Cafe itself! An email account is provided for all those who want to double check the information. We must remember that the eye witness testimony of the other witness is from someone that is a British national who is independent and not affiliated to any Muslim group. Anyway, here is the account by the cafe owner.

My name is Shazad Baig, I own Jammin Jave Coffee Chain in Lahore, I was present on the night of the 14th May when the incident took place between Maajid Nawaz and Tayyib Muqeem. I can say with certainty that Mr. Muqeem was sitting alone doing some work on his laptop with his coffee at the table in the dining area. Maajid Nawaaz was sitting in the patio area. Maajid Nawaz got up and approached Mr. Tayyib Muqeem and stood over his table for some time, I could see that Mr. Tayyib Muqeem was clearly troubled and was gesturing the former to leave him alone. I don’t know what discussion took place between them but I saw Mr Nawaz with his hand outstretched for an unusually long period of time, Mr. Muqeem got up out of his seat and it was then that Maajid Nawaz went face to face with him. At this Tayyib Muqeem attempted to push Maajid Nawaz away, but unfortunately Mr. Nawaz lost balance and fell onto the settee beside him. Tayyib Muqeem is one of my regular customers and I was shocked to see the distorted press release about him on the Quilliam Foundation Website the next day.

baig.shahzad@gmail.com

Now this is starting to get ridiculous and we may even have more up our sleeves. Are these people all part of an “Islamist” conspiracy against the Quilliam Foundation ? Given the history of sensationalism in this foundation and , let us just say , an interesting concern for accuracy  what do you think ?

Interestingly I was just looking at the so called “retraction” against Yasir Qadhi as well. The Quilliam Foundation still accuses him of initially denying the holocaust. He never did!

Personally, let me give my view. We have Maajid getting involved in a silly incident in far off Lahore at the Jave Cafe. Now most people would think that this is something not to be concerned about.

But oh no, we have a national Quilliam Alert that the whole of the United Kingdom if not the whole world should be concerned about. I bet, if Maajid had his way some lost tribe in the Amazon would be also chased about the “shock” news (ok, ok, using the “poetic license” of Quilliam. I will return it by special delivery).  Sigh, may Allah help us all! They are clearly getting desperate!

Statement:
 
My name is Iftikhar, I am a British National doing business in Pakistan. I also frequent Jammin Java Cafe, as it is one of my favourite haunts. About the night in question I saw the gentleman, Mr. Nawaz approach the table of Mr Muqeem, I was at a distance of about 20 yards and in the outside section of the cafe, whereas the incident took place inside (it is separated by a glass partition). It seemed by Mr Muqeem’s gestures that he was asking Mr Nawaz to go away, As these gestures become more animated, I felt that in the interest of harmony I needed to intervene, so I hurriedly approached Mr Muqeem’s table at which time I clearly heard Mr Muqeem asking Mr Nawaz to go away. However, Mr Nawaz didn’t seem to heed the request. I then saw Mr Muqeem push Mr Nawaz away resulting in Mr Nawaz falling onto the sofa next to him. Mr Muqeem DID NOT PUNCH Mr Nawaz, AS CLAIMED BY THE QUILLIAM FOUNDATION. And by the way, let me make clear that I am NOT a member of Hizb ul Tehrir and have no role in the organisation whatsoever- I am just a neutral onlooker who is defending the honour and reputation of an innocent man, Mr Tayyib Muqeem.
 
ibukhari@gmail.com

May Allah be my witness, along with the two other witnesses with me, and the scores of customers & staff present at the ‘Jamin Java’ cafe in Lahore, Pakistan. None of them are Hizb ut-Tahrir (HT) members, and the media are free to verify the facts from them. I speak from the heart and I speak the truth, being a Northerner from the UK, I’m a frank person and don’t like to mince my words. My name is Tayyib Muqeem, I’m proud to announce that I’m a member of Hizb ut Tahrir and currently live and work in Lahore, Pakistan as an English Language Teacher.
On the 14th May very late at night I was working on my laptop computer in the Cafe, when somebody who I had never met or spoken to in my life, namely Maajid Nawaz, approached me unexpectedly. Contrary to his claim, I was not waiting to attack him. Maajid was in the Cafe with a girl, and because of what I know of him from the news, his renowned scaremongering and exaggerations, not to mention his £1 million a year backing from the British authorities and likely collusion with British intelligence; I did not want to entertain a conversation with him and didn’t want to reply to his greetings. I believed his greetings were a cynical, insincere and an opportunist attempt to trap me into some sort of debate that he would later use for his own ends. I knew very well that Maajid Nawaz was touring Pakistani universities on a Government funded mission to continue a malicious campaign against Islam and to spread confusion amongst Muslim students, being an educationist I was infuriated, but helpless nevertheless.
I also feared for my safety because Maajid’s business partner at the Quilliam Foundation, Ed Husain, proudly admitted when he was in Damascus, Syria, that he reported two members of Hizb ut-Tahrir to the notorious Syrian Baathist dictatorship. Like all Baath Party regimes, e.g. under Saddam Hussain, the Syrian secret police are known to routinely torture, and they acted quickly to arrest those two individuals, all thanks to Ed. In the café Maajid continued to arrogantly, rudely insist on talking to me and shaking my hand, making a scene, goading me and gesturing me haughtily. I asked him to leave me alone at least three times, so that I could continue with my work.
In the end I stood up frustrated with his harassing of me at my table, and asked him to leave me alone again. Maajid provocatively came into my personal space, into my private comfort zone, in an acrimonious way. I then attempted to merely push him away from me, but in his cowardly reaction he moved towards me and one of my hands intended to push him away slightly pushed the side of his head, which made him loose balance and he fell onto a nearby sofa.  I was in control of my emotions and again asked him to leave me alone. I soon left the café before he did, freely and without coercion.
 
So contrary to the Maajid Nawaz’s Quilliam Foundation press statement & their briefing of the media which sadly didn’t decide to check the facts, I didn’t approach him, I didn’t wait for him outside, I didn’t follow him from Britain, I didn’t punch him, He didn’t go to the floor, It wasn’t premeditated, I wasn’t forced out of the Café by the staff, and Hizb ut-Tahrir does not need to renounce violence because since the founding of the party, it has been avowedly against using violence to achieve it’s aims, and has condemned 9/11, 7/7, the Madrid bombings, and other such activities as Haram.
 
I find it highly suspicious, considering I had never met or spoken to Maajid before, how he knew me, and recognised me in a Cafe in Lahore? How did he get all of the information about me which he released in a press statement within a couple of hours of the incident in the middle of the night?
 
Furthermore, my students at the university where I teach are now being contacted by Quilliam’s hosts in Pakistan (a ‘Ms Sabeeha’, Director of Bargad a local NGO originating from Gujranwala, Pakistan) to confirm my designation at the establishment and requesting to hold talks here! So rather than ‘violent, vigilante’ members of the Hizb going after Maajid, it is HE who is in fact hounding us! All to fulfill the anti-Islam agenda of his backers in the West. 
 
What is laughable is the duplicitous ‘challenge’ in the Quilliam Foundation press statement “to meet ideas with ideas”; this is clearly designed to appeal to fair minded people, and liberals. If they really believed in this; why did Ed Husain loose his nerve & refuse to participate on BBC radio interview, when the BBC also invited a HT member to respond to his (false) accusations? If they wanted “to meet ideas with ideas” why did Ed Husain report 2 British members of HT in Damascus to the Syrian authorities? If they wanted “to meet ideas with ideas” why did they campaign to Ban Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi from entering Britain, but campaigned to allow Geert Wilders (who made the Danish film ‘Fitnah’) to enter Britain? If they wanted “to meet ideas with ideas” why they refuse to sit in a discussion on Islam Channel with Azad Ali from East London Mosque, and demand Azad Ali is banned from the show if they are to attend? If they wanted “to meet ideas with ideas”
 
Qulliam’s constant stream of manipulative, exaggerating, attention seeking, Muslim bashing, sycophantic public statements are full of fear mongering about the ‘Islamist’ threat, and is aimed not at sincere discussion but malicious typecasting or pigeon holing of all Islamic activists into the “potential terrorist” category, without recognizing the fact that 99% of all Islamic movements are peaceful and actively discourage terrorism since it is clearly a prohibited (haram) method in Islam. Their real target is to achieve the British Government’s stated aims in the Contest 2 policy document, namely to eradicate political Islam and to discredit Shariah Law, Jihad and the call for the reestablishment of the Caliphate as extremist ideas.
 
Finally, their trigger happy press releases were exposed when they had to retract information in their press release attacking Islam Channel & Sheikh Yasir Al-Qadi, after what I suspect was a legal threat. My character has also been attacked in the media thanks to these liars, Maajid Nawaz approached me, he harassed me, he entered my private space so I too am seeking legal advice and they may soon be hearing from my lawyers.

Tayyibmuqeem@hotmail.com