Gerard Batten

Gerard Batten is a UKIP MEP.

He wrote the Proposed Charter for Muslim Understanding,  which was published by Colin Dye's Pilcrow Press.  

Barthsnotes reports: 

"A March 2011 report in Searchlight claimed that Alan Lake, who was at that time involved with the EDL (he’s since fallen out with the group) “boasts of his links with Batten”, although details are scarce and so far as I can see unproven. Searchlight also speculates that Lake may have come across Solomon previously – Lake formerly attended Kensington Temple, a large neo-Pentecostal church in London where Solomon has given at least one sermon."

Update October 2012:
Batten’s statement re. his meetings with Lake was published on twitter by an ex-UKIP employee, Jasna Badzak:

Final tweet tonight-#UKIP MEP Spokesman admits meeting #EDL deputy Lake,connected to Breivik,questioned by Norwaypolice twitter.com/JasnaBadzak/st…
— Jasna Badzak (@JasnaBadzak) October 24, 2012

7th March 2011: Statement from Gerard Batten UKIP MEP about his meeting with Alan Lake and subsequent phone calls:

"In the Autumn of 2010 I was asked to meet with a Mr Alan Lake, who I was informed had some association with the English Defence League. I was informed he wished to explain to me the position of the English Defence League.

Being aware of the phenomenon of the EDL, I wished to establish my own independent assessment of them. I decided therefore, on my own initiative, to meet with Mr Lake. We met in full public view in a cafe in Liverpool St Station for about an hour or more.

Mr Lake gave me his assurances that the EDL were a non-racist, non-violent organisation and that is only concerned with combating the ideology of extremist and fundamentalist Islamism and had no prejudice against Muslims as such.

I decided that no further meetings were either necessary or appropriate.

Since then Mr Lake has made two unsolicited phone calls to me; and a third call today [7th March 2011] to say that his reported comments in the Searchlight article had been misrepresented from an interview he gave to the Daily Star."

Colin Dye

Reverend Colin Dye is the pastor of Kensington Temple, in Notting Hill Gate, west London. Kensington Temple is an Elim Pentecostal Church.

According to Richard Bartholomew: "Dye had links with Christian Right lobby groups such as CCTV, and the church has hosted the anti-Islam speaker Sam Solomon."

Dye has argued that: "the availability of halal food, especially in schools, amounts to a form of ‘economic as well as cultural and religious Islamisation’."  Dye's recommended response is that "the church should step up the process of the re-evangelisation of Britain".


Pilcrow Press
Since Feb 2010, Dye has run a small publishing company, named Pilcrow Press.

Pilcrow Press publications were originally sold through the Kensington Church website, but now can only be found at  

Pilcrow Press published the following titles:  

• Al-Yahud - Eternal Islamic Enmity & the Jews
• Al-Hijra - The Islamic Doctrine of Immigration
• The Mosque and its Role in Society
• The Islamisation of Britain and what must be done to prevent it
• Proposed Charter of Muslim Understanding
• The Truth About A Common Word

Pilcrow Press links to the following websites:

• answering-islam.org
• jihadwatch.org
• barnabusfund.org
• isic-center.org
• ccfon.org
• thememriblog.org
• memri.org
• islam-watch.org

A selection of  articles by Reverend Colin Dye are also offered, including: "Khalifa or Kingdom", "Shari'ah", "The Cart before the Horse - Terrorism and Violence in Islam".

Probably the most well known of the Pilcrow Press publications is UKIP MEP Gerard Batten's Proposed Charter of Muslim Understanding.


ECIRCR
European Centre for Islamic Research and Community Relations (ECIRCR) is a front group run by Reverend Colin Dye and appears only to have a web presence and little else:

"Our goal here at ECIRCR is to better understand the teaching of Islam and promote dialogue between muslims and those of other beliefs and philosophies. A lot is written about religion but much comes fro misonceptions, misunderstandings and a failure to dig deep and explore what makes people tick. We are a group of people all with different experiences of Islam and we want to share our experiences and learn how Islam fits into our society today.

ECIRCR (European Centre for Islamic Research and Community Relations) exists to promote freedom. We believe everyone has the fundamental right and freedom to accept or reject Islam, to question what they don't understand, to criticise what they disagree with and for each person to come to his or her own conlcusions about religion."

Glen Jenvey

Unemployed Actor
In 1997, Glen Jenvey was described as an "unemployed actor", who assaulted a senior policeman in a road rage incident.

Religion
According to an unverified report by someone claiming to be Jenvey's daughter, Glen Jenvey was a Hindu, who later converted to Christianity.

Jenvey claimed a conversion to Islam, which later turned out to  be bogus.


In the Media
Jenvey featured in the anti-Islam film Obsession as a terrorism "expert".

Glen Jenvey "Terrorism researcher"

In 2008, Glen Jenvey featured in a report on BBC Newsnight as a "terrorism researcher".


In January 2009, a story run by newspaper The Sun printed claims, by self-styled "anti-terror expert" Glen Jenvey, that the popular online Muslim forum Ummah.com was being used by extremists to target leading British Jews in revenge for Israel's invasion of Gaza. An investigation by the PCC, into allegations that the forum member "abuislam" was in fact Glen Jenvey, then ensued. :

Jenvey – who had been described as "an extremely capable and knowledgeable analyst" by Tory MP Patrick Mercer – said: 'I'm fully responsible for the story. The Sun was deceived. The Sun did not know that I was behind the postings. I would like to apologise to all the British Jews who we scared and I'd like to apologise to The Sun newspaper.'"

Jenvey was arrested again in December 2009, on suspicion of inciting religious hatred against Jews:

"A self-styled terrorism expert who was behind a fabricated Sun front-page story about Lord Sugar and other Jewish figures being on an Islamic extremist hitlist has been arrested on suspicion of inciting religious hatred against Jews. Glen Jenvey, 44 – who has appeared on BBC Newsnight as an extremism expert and has helped the Sunday Times with research on terrorism – was arrested in a joint operation by Scotland Yard and Wiltshire Police in a dawn raid at his home in Salisbury. He was taken to a police station in Salisbury and questioned for several hours, and then bailed without charge until the end of January. Police took away his computer, his library of audio and DVD materials on Islamic extremists, and his mobile phone. "

 

In Social Media

• On Forums - A  notorious sockpuppeteer, one of Jenvey's online pseudonyms was "abuislam",  which Jenvey used to make threats against Sir Alan Sugar and other prominent British Jews.

• On Wikipedia - User GlenJenvey was banned. Jenvey then appears to have created sockpuppets Ali marshali, Mister Blue Shoe, ToryBlue and PCCLIES. User:PCCLIES made accusations that the PCC are antiJewish and support Islamic terrorism, along with several edits constituting vandalism of the Glen Jenvey wiki entry.

Alleged Family
In August 2012, Glen Jenvey's daughter Aymen Bint Jenvey talked to Sayyful Islam about her father:

"I was born to hindu parents, Glen my father converted to Christianity much later on, My mother left us when we were young as she had caught my father in bed with another man ( a white man )"

"had himself converted to Christianity after dating a Vicar at the local church"