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Kasim Hafeez “Wingnut” – Muslim Zionist and Proud
by Laura Stuart
Sunday, April 29th, 2012
Yesterday Ynet published an article about Kasim Hafeez, a U.K. -born Pakistani Muslim who loves Israel. We don’t have much information on just who Kasim Hafeez was before his current celebrity, but I feel sure he was someone very banal. How then did he propel himself onto the pages of an Israeli newspaper?
WingNut
The answer is really quite simple: by claiming to be a Muslim Zionist. Just how he reconciles his love of Israel with the reality of occupation and ethnic cleansing, is something he never bothers to explain. His metamorphosis from self-proclaimed budding jihadist to Israel-lover came after reading a book by Alan Dershowitz of all people! Dershowitz as we know, has worked tirelesly in attempting to label Gilad Atzmon’s book “The Wandering Who” as anti Semitic. Read about it here.
Definitely Kasim Hafeez is an extremist – a true extremist in the real meaning of the word. He also seems rather unstable. For example, he claims the following:-
When speaking to predominantly Jewish audiences, Kasim Hafeez often begins by saying the following words: “When I was in university, I would have gladly killed every one of you.”
But do I really believe him? How many students who were born in the U.K. really want to kill Jews? Many of us hate the actions of the Israeli state, but his story of his radicalisation at Uni just seems a bit too convenient at a time when Jewish pro-Israel lobby groups are trying their best to oppress University Islamic Societies. A quick look at the pro- Israel, Islamophobia award-winning Harry’s place blog is educational as they openly discuss their tactics for controlling exactly which Islamic scholars get to speak to Muslims on Britain’s University Campuses.
Personally, I think if I found myself sharing hall space with Kasim Hafeez I would back carefully towards the exit – and this is largely due to his evidently unstable nature. His supposed upbringing by an anti-Semitic father who didn’t think Hitler did a good enough job of killing Jews followed by his radicalisation at university followed by his visit to Israel where he apparently fell madly in love with the Jewish State – his life story seems just a bit too fantastic and I must confess I am very sceptical about it.
I really don’t know why he chose to make this 180 degree turn from one extreme to the other although I suspect he may have found money and celebrity a huge motivator. I really fail to see why the Israelis are so excited about someone who can make such sudden changes of heart. What if he wakes up tomorrow feeling like killing Jews again?
After all, with someone that unstable you never know.
مُّذَبْذَبِينَ بَيْنَ ذَٰلِكَ لَآ إِلَىٰ هَٰٓؤُلَآءِ وَلَآ إِلَىٰ هَٰٓؤُلَآءِ ۚ وَمَن يُضْلِلِ ٱللَّهُ فَلَن تَجِدَ لَهُۥ سَبِيلًۭا
Wavering between them, [belonging] neither to the believers nor to the disbelievers. And whoever Allah leaves astray – never will you find for him a way.
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6 Responses to Kasim Hafeez “Wingnut” – Muslim Zionist and Proud
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Ariadna Theokopoulos
April 29, 2012 at 1:26 am
No need to fear him.
He is just a little hasbaRat (copyright® Greg Felton) nibbling on a crust.
Times are hard. Few are lucky to even get a steady job as sanitation workers.
His is tougher: they don’t even provide him with gloves and a mask.
In the US these are called “moderate muslims” and they show up at conferences typically called “Is Islam compatible with democracy?”
A few years ago I so wanted to write about some I had in mind in particular but my friends dissuaded me saying it would only give them “google hits.” *
In the end I wrote about one in Italy and only described a couple of those in the US without naming them:
http://palestinechronicle.com/view_article_details.php?id=13621
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*It appears that my friends were prescient: we now know there is such a thing and it is called the Dersh Effect
Greg Felton
April 29, 2012 at 7:36 am
Thanks, Ariadna! I am hoping hasbaRat will find its way into the dictionary.
Regarding this quisling Muslim, I would be interested to find out what inducement he was given to shill for Israel.
Laura Stuart
April 29, 2012 at 8:16 am
Well, there’s the thing Ariadna – if money is the incentive then he can easily be bought back, so no one should feel safe with someone like that.
Greg there is another one that I have written about Hasan Azfal,http://www.deliberation.info/self-haters/ I read somewhere that he had given up his studies at Uni so no doubt someone is paying for him to survive.We have such extremists also who now get fat salaries from “The Quilliam Foundation” or the government or who knows exactly but to stand up and say I used to be a jihadi but now I love Jews/Brits/Peace etc looks like it brings a lot of publicity and probably money as well.
Greg Felton
April 30, 2012 at 9:41 am
Thanks, Laura.
I think Hafeez is symptomatic of the general historical propensity of the upper classes and intellectuals in a society or movement to sell out the masses for personal gain. Scotland is a good example.
mombser2
July 4, 2012 at 10:11 am
It always fails me to read-when one side downgrades someone who changes their attitude to a situation because if fails their agenda-
Oh! how one supports the lies of Finklestein and Chompsky for their attitudes – are they Wingnuts?
So I find name calling rather immature- unless used in retaliation-
Laura Stuart
July 4, 2012 at 11:23 am
Mentioning Kasim Hafeez Finkelstein and Chomsky in the same sentence is wrong.