by Hugo Timms, spiked
England’s second city is fast becoming the plaything of Islamic fundamentalists.
Tired of Israelis ‘desecrating’ your city? Sick of having to treat the ‘Jews and Christians as your friends’? Fed up with ‘pacifist’ Muslims who don’t ‘fight back’? Residents of Sparkhill, Birmingham, your local champion has arrived… His name is Shahid Butt.
Butt has formally thrown his hat in the ring for a council seat in May’s local elections. The 60-year-old, father-of-five’s promise to run as an independent has raised more than a few eyebrows. This isn’t only because of his nasty comments about ‘Jews and Christians’. It is also because he is a convicted terrorist.
Butt was released from a Yemeni prison in 2003, where he spent five years for organising an ‘armed terror plot’. The plan included blowing up the British consulate, an Anglican church and a Swiss-owned hotel. Butt, who was born and raised in Birmingham, migrated to Yemen after falling under the influence of the notorious Islamist cleric, Abu Hamza, at the Finsbury Park Mosque in the 1990s. He also ventured to Bosnia and Afghanistan to fight alongside militant Muslims against Western forces.