“So, you know, if you are 20-year-old individual living in Britain for most of your life, you’ve seen wars against Muslims. So when you ask them these questions, whether they would actually cooperate with the police, they see the raids and arrests. They see a lot of draconian laws which accompany these wars as well, and the Muslim community has been the recipient of these oppressive measures. We’re living in a kind of an apartheid state in Britain as a Muslim community today.
Islamic Jihad Seeks To Heal Rift With Iran
Islamic Jihad Leader Ramadan Abdullah Shallah has visited Iran for bilateral talks after a year-long rift.
On the trip, Shallah met the Iranian leadership for the first time, including Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Foreign Minister Jawad Zarif, and others.
Islamic Jihad sources said that the visit is a culmination of months of reconciliation efforts after Iran all but froze its millions’ worth of financial aid to the militant Palestinian organization after it refused to openly criticize Saudi Arabia’s involvement in the civil war in Yemen.
Last month, Breitbart Jerusalem reported that Iran decided to renew its financial aid, though at a smaller scale than before, after talks bore fruit. Tehran also conditioned its support on the degree of Islamic Jihad’s involvement in the armed struggle against Israel.
Iran’s punitive measures sent the organization into great financial distress. Its activists, numbering in the thousands, had to look for alternative sources of income in Algeria and elsewhere in the Arab world after the movement failed to pay their salaries.
Islamic Jihad sources said that the mere fact that Shallah met with Khamenei indicates the likelihood that relations would soon go back to normal. They said that Iran and Islamic Jihad see eye-to-eye on the Palestinian issue and it makes sense that they would collaborate.