Recently I have been linked by some leftie bloggers and their Islamist friends to a group called the Cheerleaders Against Islamic Extremism. “ Wightman linked to Cheerleader thugs” has been their mantra. The point of the smear - to make people think that a thoroughly exposed stalker is the victim of stalkers himself.
The link is a total fabrication backed up by an edited email and fiction borne of acrimony. My statement on these Cheerleader characters went online a month ago. I made clear then, as now, I am nothing to do with them. Period.
Linking me with these pom-pom bearers is an attempted smear by extreme lefties and Islamists to "neutralize" a voice (mine) which merely exposes both groups for who they are - quislings and totalitarian hotheads respectively. Two sad groups married for convenience who have little in common except a perennial inability to achieve any kind of power. And all the time my voice gets louder.
My colleagues have belly-laughed at the "linked with thugs" smear. They know the closest I ever got to "thugs" was at Walkabout, Covent Garden in the early hours of a winter morning dodging a flying pitcher of Long Island Ice Tea. Or perhaps on a rugby tour of the North - but even then I was well-removed on the wing or at full-backs.
Such smears merely help me professionally as they embolden my allies and supporters and make me write even more about Islamists and their quisling leftie friends. None of us are going to have these half-wits be invasive - just as we block our nostrils when walking past open sewers. This year I was focused less on exposing the Hizb ut Tahrirs and Al Muhajirouns - now I can't help but focus on doing just that. Whereas before I ignored the far left because they were irrelevant, now I've seen what sitting ducks they have become I am thrilled at putting more of these Citizen Smiths on their back.
Meanwhile, many are asking who are these Cheerleaders? How many of them are there? Where are they based? Are they a Muslim group? Who runs them? Who funds them? There seem to be a lot of people writing an awful lot about them who know next to nothing about them. Has anyone actually bothered asking them?
Since the Cheerleaders have publicly been making the blogger Tim Ireland’s life even more of a misery and winding up his sidekick, the Reverend Richard Bartholomew, many have been asking who exactly is involved with their crowd? Are they really thugs? If so, where’s the incident sheet? What’s their relationship with violence? Are they likely to go round to Ireland’s house and beat him up with pom-poms? Is there a chance they will make bespectacled stirrer, Richard Bartholomew, suffer torture by twirling stick?
I have publicly condemned the Cheerleaders’ tweet threats to Ireland and others. I’ve publicly chided them for their antisocial antics before - hacking and sending saucy images to my mobile phone which the wife might find and use to accuse me of intellectual adultery.
I suppose I too have wondered who these Cheerleaders are, though I’ve never felt threatened by them; more intrigued by how they came to be. Being threatened by a cheerleader hardly seems comparable to being threatened by saber-wielding nutters with long beards in pyjamas with trousers cut off as if they’re permanently expecting a flood. Neither worth losing any sleep over by the way.
There’s not a lot online about the Cheerleaders. I suppose I’ve felt some duty to search them out and expose them, though Ireland’s whining has hardly made me focus a full time investigation on them (not exactly my kind of damsel in distress). I don’t know anyone on the ground who knows their numbers or where they live and work. It’s far easier working out who the key cadres are in the LTTE in London or who’s who in Al Muhajiroun’s pecking order than working out who the Cheerleaders are.
I have had a live email address for the Cheerleaders for some time (also a mobile number which seems to have gone dead). One of their “choreographers” called Princess Calamity sent me some info-dumps on MPAC’s Chief Dweeb Asghar Bukhari and a few other Islamist whelks some months back by email. A fortnight ago I sent the following questions to the live email address (which is for Princess Calamity) but nothing came back. I presumed they didn’t need the extra exposure what with Ireland allegedly calling the police on them.
Presumably Ireland and Bartholomew also sent them some questions, as I’d made the email address I had for the Cheerleaders public. Or maybe they were too scared. Ireland’s new colleagues Glen Jenvey and his still-associated sidekick, the part-time marketing lecturer Michael Starkey might have sent the Cheerleaders some questions too but they might have been too busy covering up past tracks, erasing all record of their dodgy story agency (great marketing idea that turned out to be!), while busily making Jenvey’s conversion look more real than it is for Operation Redemption.
After a marvellous day of enemy errors on Saturday, out of the blue on Sunday some answers from Princess Calamity finally arrived - an A4 sheet duct-taped to the door of a house I use suddenly appeared. On the sheet were the following answers to my questions and a video link, stapled to a message which read:
“Finished chatting to the girls about your questions, here’s the answers. The doc also contains the video trailer they've done, and they said it's most important that you don't tamper with the questions and that you get the Youtube clip into the post. If you can post that tonight, that's brilliant. Thankyoo. Princess Calamity xxx”
I have not seen this document in person - I was not at that house at the time. On the doorstep the Cheerleaders also left a book by Dr Christopher Green entitled “Toddler Taming”. (I think I get the Cheerleaders’ drift).
I’ve not tampered with the Cheerleaders’ answers or my original questions (that’s the kind of thing my left-wing and Islamist opponents do). I thought about not publishing the contents of their document at all but decided that it’s in the public interest (all ten of you who are interested) to do so. After all I asked the questions in the first place not for myself but for those asking.
So here are the Cheerleaders’ answers and my original questions as given (be warned, some of the answers require post-watershed viewing):
- How and why were the Cheerleaders formed?
Princess Calamity: it started as a spinoff from the TFC Cheerleaders and the DDCL Cheerleaders; like a lot of these things, it began as a joke- “Cheerleaders Against Islamic Extremism”... and then it got serious LOL!
Lady Terror: Yeah, now it's Cheerleaders Against Everything :)
PC: But anyways, it's a popular thang. We fight fascists, rapists, people who bully women, stuff like that. Oh and run a dating agency!
Shooter: yep bigup to my dating agency.
PC: “Cheerleaders Against Salafism, Wahaabism, Deobandism and Fascism” didn't fit on the t shirt.
2.Are you based in London or international?
PC: erm, Basildon actually...
3.How many of you are there?
Shooter: (ahem, head count:) ...er, dunno. 13 Hur al-Ayn girls, 134 Cheerleader massive, and a cat called Moiderer.
4. Are you personally the leader?
PC: Charlotte Wadia is the head girl.
Lady Terror: no, it's me!
Shooter: I'm Spartacus!
5. What structure do you have? Hierarchical?
Lady Terror: LMAO. None whatsoever!
PC: Dyou wanna see our film trailer? Check it out, it's well-skill:
Shooter: That is a very unflattering angle of me in that film :(
6. What are your goals?
PC: Jimmy Choos for every girl.
Shooter: Cake!
PC: Seriously? We fight fascism.
Lady Terror: empowering females in the Islamic community, and building bridges of understanding.
Shooter: Cake!
7. How many Muslim members do you have?
PC: 40 percent maybe? Dunno. I used to be Muslim but left cos I got fed up with all the Salafi bigotry flooding people's minds.
8. What is your relationship with violence?
Lady Terror: we used to go out together but it was a long-distance relationship and didn't work out.
PC: yeah we're just good friends now.
Shooter: I hurt someone's feelings the other day.
9. What is your relationship with the Fighting Cocks?
Shooter: it was all their fault, they're a conveyor belt to radicalisation!
Lady Terror: nice people, and they do lots in the Muslim community that's good. They have a good scene around them, the Cheerleading scene and that.
10. What is your view of the EDL?
PC: right, I can only speak personally on this one: I get on well with them and I don't think they're racists.
Shooter: their hearts are in the right place but I think they're going about the demos an that the wrong way. Can I just say we also have good relationships with Hope Not Hate, and lots of other organisations. Like Priya said, we fight fascism, which ain't just Nazis.
11. “ the BNP?
PC: CUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUNNNNNNNNNNNTS
12. The left?
Shooter: they're doing some dangerous and wrong things. I'm a bit torn cause I support what Unite Against Fascism do too, but not when they side with Islamic extremists, sorry, no way.
13. Your female/male split?
PC: ay? What, our males and females have split up? Don't get the question, sorrreee.
Lady Terror: Mr. Rivers, who wrote these questions?
14. How would you dream of seeing Britain?
Shooter: Tidy.
15. What is your view of the bloggers Tim Ireland and Richard Bartholomew?
PC: LOL: Shooter would you like to answer this one?
Shooter: Tim Ireland is a bully, end of. “Richard Bartholomew” doesn't exist. He's a fake online ID.
16. How does “Charlie Flowers” fit into your group?
PC: even more LOLz! Aisha?
Lady Terror: doesn't exist either. I made him up to wind people up!
PC: thankyoo for your questions, it was good fun! Xxx
Dominic Wightman is Editor of the Westminster Journal.
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