Make noise
So…what’s the Home Office thinking? That now that Pervez Kambaksh is out of prison and safely out of Afghanistan, it’s only right to replace him with another apostate? Or what?
[Anonymous], activist of the Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain (CEMB) and One Law for All Campaign, has been detained on September 10, 2009 and is facing imminent deportation back to Afghanistan where he will face the death penalty for ‘apostasy.’ As part of his fight against the Islamists, [Anonymous] has publicly renounced Islam in order to break the taboo that comes with such a renunciation and push for the right to leave religion, particularly crucial given that apostasy is punishable by death under Sharia law. As [Anonymous] has said on the CEMB’s website: ‘I was not born to be a Muslim and be afraid of God and more importantly I did not sign an agreement with him/her /it to worship him. As a child, religion has been forced upon me. I have been forced to pray, fast, etc… In Afghanistan where I was living, questioning the existence of god or religion is deemed blasphemy and punishable by stoning to death. Now in the UK I have the opportunity and courage to declare who I am. I AM A FREE MAN WITHOUT ANY EXTRA BONDAGE ON ME.’
He was, until last Thursday, when he was summoned to the Gillingham police station in Kent.
[H]e was issued a Home Office refusal letter that very afternoon and told he would be deported to Afghanistan in a couple of days. The authorities initially tried to force him to sign his removal order and refused him any calls until he persisted…[Anonymous]’s removal to Afghanistan will create yet another Perwiz Kambakhsh with far worse consequences because of the severity of his ‘crime.’
He didn’t just read some material about women’s rights under Islam, he explicitly rejected Islam. The HO can’t send him to Afghanistan – it’s not their policy to deport people to be executed.
Join the Facebook group; get your friends to join; get them to get their friends to join. Write to Phil Woolas. Blog about it. Make a stink.
OK I’ll make noise and send a letter.
I haven’t been able to find any information about why the HO issued him a refusal letter. Why? Or can they just decide to deport someone when they feel like it? I don’t get it, maybe b/c I’m not English. (So don’t know what all they can up and do). I do know people who couldn’t stay w/their boy-girlfriends and had to leave, but then I also know someone who got citizenship and stayed for 30 years. None of them were in danger of execution upon returning to the U.S. either.
I haven’t either – it’s baffling. I mean they must know he’s an explicit public ex-Muslim (never really was a Muslim except in the born-into-it sense) and they know about the death penalty for ‘apostasy’ in Afghanistan so what are they playing at? I have no idea but suspect more will emerge tomorrow when the weekend is over.
I have come to the conclusion that either working for the immigration service in UK requires you be immoral to start with, or that within a short time of starting to work for it you are required to undergo training that removes any vestiges of compassion you might have.
A case in point: A year or so ago a woman was removed from a hospital here in Wales and deported back to her country of origin in Africa. She had initially had a work permit but it had expired and she had stayed on. Sadly she developed cancer of the kidney, which was going to be terminal.
The heartless bastards in the Home Office decided to deport her anyway. No matter that there would not be the palliative care she needed. The local British ambassador paid for her initial hospital care on arrival out of his own pocket.
There was a TV film crew on hand when the immigration officials arrived to take her to the airport. Not one of them the courage to allow his face to be shown on TV.
Joined up, signed up, sent harrumphing letter, etc,etc…
but interestingly couldn’t find *any* coverage of the case anywhere on the BBC website, either through their search facility, or good old manual ‘trawling’ all the news pages.
Odd, considering how prominent Afghanistan is at present…?
I’ve complained, anyway, not that they’ll probably pay much attention.
Thank you.
Letter sent, cc’d to my own MP.
Disgraceful business.
Quite so. Now to keep up the slow steady maddening pressure until they give him asylum.
Good letter, GT.
I have written to my MP and fellow Labour Party member Phil Woolas. I sent an email first but this was refused. I may be an ex Labour Party member if this goes ahead.
I believe Woolas can be emailed through http://www.writetothem.com/.
Like Martin Rodgers, I sent an email but it was refused. Kharin’s suggestion didn’t work for me because one needs a UK post code. Since I don’t know what district he represents, I don’t know how to find him.
In the mean time, I shall send a letter the old fashioned way and if any British readers can let us outsiders know how, I shall be glad to try email again.
Speaking about women’s rights under Islam, did you see this post over at Wilkins’ blog?
http://evolvingthoughts.net/2009/09/14/uh-wait-what/
Hmm…the Daily Mail is the only source – as Wilkins points out, cautiously. If it’s true…jeezis.