Pimping out underage vulnerable girls across the UK for cash is a very lucrative and tax-free moneymaker for some Muslim men, and selling illicit and counterfeit cigarettes and alcohol, as well as money laundering, is an even bigger business. There is currently a petition going around that urges government to sanction any Pakistani individuals involved in money laundering.
The UK is widely seen to be a safe haven for Muslim corruption. I’m never convinced that petitions accomplish anything, since the government seem to be extremely selective about which ones they will debate, but at least the 37,000 signatures this one has received so far show that the public is awake to what is going on.
Some examples from the past couple of years:
Mohammed Mohammed (seriously, you can’t make this up) showed a “blatant disregard” for the law as he was caught on more than ten occasions selling counterfeit cigarettes from his store, as well as laundering money over a period of three years, sending £100K to foreign bank accounts. “Also during the period Mohammed’s account had almost £70,000 paid into it while the account in his wife’s name received £56,730…He has been pursued persistently and despite that he continued to sell regardless and after being interviewed by police…On some occasions officers would attend the store days later to find the shelves had been restocked with illegal cigarettes and Mohammed selling individual cigarettes to customers.”
In another case, “Omer and Mahmood were completely brazen in their offending; when the shop was raided, the illegal tobacco products were found simply piled up in an open suitcase in the back of the shop. They knew what they were doing was wrong but continued to peddle their illicit wares, even after the shop was first raided. These products are dangerous for consumers; you don’t know what is in them, and they often won’t self-extinguish making them a huge fire risk. We’ve also seen how the trade in illicit tobacco attracts other crime and anti-social behaviour to an area, further damaging our communities.”
When caught and charged, these men often don’t turn up to their appointed court dates to face justice. The law finally caught up to Ramen Amini after a “cat and mouse” game which saw him receive mild fines of “£120, ordered to pay a £34 victim surcharge and £500 costs.” It took six years for the law to catch up with Zemnako Azad Salih. As soon as he was caught, he fled the city and then attempted to make his way out of the country via Dover some years later, where he was finally apprehended. He was a director of the supermarket where he was selling illegal products. It’s also a fact that the names of the owners of these shops, and the directors, can change in an instant upon police inspection in attempts to avoid prosecution, and to avoid leaving a paper trail that might further indict them.
Their (oftentimes illegal) staff are usually not employed by the owner. When caught by the police, they are simply “helping out” or “watching the store” for their friend, in spite of the obvious fact that they are working there. And NFA (no fixed abode) is generally given as an address in order to limit the ability of the police to inspect their homes and find evidence of further criminality. Arifi Ahmedi, a.k.a. “Mr. Big,” was the ringleader of a cigarette smuggling gang that flooded the streets with “potentially deadly knock-off cigarettes” which were blamed for the death of a seventy-one-year-old pensioner. His staff/friend won’t be deported either, even though he’s here illegally and committing crimes.
Many Muslims don’t care about the law and think they are above it: “Nine days later, on November 28, officers returned to the store for a follow-up visit and found MORE illegal cigarettes behind the till and hidden in a back room. Across both raids, officers seized 12,950 cigarettes, including 920 counterfeit, and 148 counterfeit pouches of tobacco, with an estimated total street value of £11,256. Abdullah was sentenced to 200 hours of unpaid work and ordered to pay costs of £920.” There really aren’t many deterrents within the law that would prevent these men from continuing to do what they are doing.
Another individual with so much disregard for the legal system that he also failed to attend his court hearing is Omer Mohammed Karim Jaf. He has been scheduled to appear at a new date in May, where he will have to answer “19 charges brought by West Yorkshire Trading Standards, including possession of thousands of packets of counterfeit cigarettes ‘likely to be mistaken’ for official brands such as Benson and Hedges and Lambert and Butler.”
The reason any of this is relevant is because it shows the reach of Pakistani criminality into the UK. It also disrupts the big claims that Muslims make about themselves: that they are peaceful, deeply religious, and incredibly offended by any accusations as to the content of their character. They’d have us all believe that every one of them is pure and noble, even in the face of the facts. Yet increasingly in Britain, Islam is a crime syndicate, and not much more.
Image: Reuters