A BBC investigation has revealed that a group of Islamophobic biker gang bigots have been providing security at Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) sites. UG Solutions, a private contractor, has employed members of the Infidels Motorcycle Club to work at the US- and Israel-backed aid sites.
As the BBC reported:
Infidels MC was set up by US military veterans of the Iraq war in 2006 and members see themselves as modern Crusaders, using the Crusader cross as their symbol – a reference to the medieval Christians who fought Muslims for control of Jerusalem.
The gang is currently hosting anti-Muslim hate speech on its Facebook page and has previously held a pig roast “in defiance of” the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.
This is only the latest scandal to involve GHF. Many Palestinians have been slaughtered whilst queuing for aid at GHF sites.
Biker gang bigots work for GHF
As the Canary’s Charlie Jaay reported, GHF have been lambasted by the United Nations (UN) and other humanitarian groups, including Doctors Without Borders (also known as Médecins Sans Frontières/MSF). Jaay wrote:
UN agencies, MSF, and many other humanitarian groups, have warned that this model risks the safety and dignity of Palestinians seeking aid, and not only violates basic humanitarian principles—including neutrality, impartiality, and humanity—but directly endangers the safety of people in desperate need of assistance.
In fact, MSF called GHF:
a mechanism of dehumanisation and orchestrated killing.
Now, the BBC investigation has revealed that there are at least 10 members of the biker gang working in Gaza. And, 7 members of this gang are in senior positions. GHF said that is has:
a zero-tolerance policy for any hateful, discriminatory biases or conduct.
Of course, that statement flies in the face of the fact that they exist as a US and Israel-sponsored death machine that slaughters starving Palestinians. For their part, UG Solutions have insisted that its employees are qualified and, bizarrely, said that they do not filter people out for:
personal hobbies or affiliations unrelated to job performance.
Infidels MC
So, what are these “personal hobbies or affiliations”? One of these team leaders who also belongs to the biker gang, Josh Miller, has the word “crusader” tattooed on his fingers, as well as “1095.” The latter, as the BBC explained:
is the year when the leader of the Catholic church, Pope Urban II, launched the first crusade, attacking Muslims as a “vile race.”
On the Infidels MC Facebook page, one post outlined how the use of 1095 refers to the start of:
a military campaign by western European forces to recapture Jerusalem and the Holy Land from Muslim control.
Edward Ahmed Mitchell, deputy director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), said:
When you see anti-Muslim bigots today celebrating 1095, celebrating the Crusades, they are celebrating the wholesale massacre of Muslims – the erasure of Muslims and Jews from the holy city of Jerusalem.
In one flyer from the biker gang’s social media should:
a woman wearing a burka that has been torn off from the neck down, exposing her chest.
And, the BBC ultimately found that:
The Infidels MC Facebook page has hosted clearly Islamophobic discussions. In 2020 the club shared a link to a false, satirical article claiming four US Democratic politicians, two of them Muslim, wanted the Bible to be deemed hate speech.
According to an estimate from a former contractor, it is believed that around 40 of 320 people were recruited from Infidels MC.
Rotten core
Mitchell, the representative from CAIR, was forthright:
Putting the Infidels biker club in charge of delivering humanitarian aid in Gaza is like putting the KKK in charge of delivering humanitarian aid in Sudan. It makes no sense whatsoever.
It’s bound to lead to violence, and that’s exactly what we’ve seen happen in Gaza.
The Islamophobia of this biker gang is steeped in absurd fantasies of the crusades. The fact they revealed their existence to the BBC investigations team by accidentally replying all to an email is testament to their fuckery. They’re such virulent bigots that they’re almost cartoonishly racist. But, given the deadly chaos that GHF have orchestrated over Palestinians, it’s still a despicable and abhorrent racism.
What better legacy for the war on terror could there be, than a bunch of disgraced ex-military men turned private contractors? As ever, the spectre of 9/11 continues to unleash untold violence on generations of Muslims.
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