Ibrahim Mousawi

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    Ibrahim Mousawi (

    Arabic: إبراهيم الموسوي; also spelled Moussawi, El-Moussaoui, born 1965) is a Lebanese journalist and spokesman for the Islamist group Hezbollah
    .

    Biography

    He was born in 1965 to a family from Baalbek and grew up in the southern suburbs of Beirut.[1] Mousawi is

    Shiite
    . He has two BAs in Journalism and
    head master at secondary schools
    . Mousawi is editor of the weekly Hezbollah newspaper al-Intiqad (Criticism)[2] in Beirut. He has been quoted as a Hezbollah
    spokesman since at least 1998.[3]

    He joined the Hezbollah TV station

    Al Manar (the beacon), which does not include Israeli officials in its broadcasts because, according to Mousawi, "It [Israel] is an enemy state," and "why would you put spokesmen for an enemy state on the air?"[4]
    He hosted a political talk show and worked as editor-in-chief of foreign news at Al Manar. In an article for the
    Protocols of the Elders of Zion, Mousawi said the ban resulted from "political pressure by the Jewish lobby".[7]
    He earned his MA in Political Science from the American University of Beirut (AUB) in 2003.

    Mousawi rose to prominence during the 2006 Lebanon War as a spokesman for Hezbollah. He said that "pain is the only language that the enemy understands".[8] Following the cessation of hostilities, Mousawi was invited to speak to European audiences in Ireland, Germany[9] and the UK,[10] where he was announced as a Hezbollah spokesman on posters of the Stop the War Coalition.[11] Mousawi received a PhD in Political Islam from

    Birmingham University in 2007.[12]
    The title of his dissertation was "Compatibility between Islam and democracy; Shiism and democracy under Wilayat Al-Faqih, Iran as a case study". He coauthored an article on "Hizbullah's Jihad Concept"[13] and lectures on political science at AUB.[14]

    In October 2007, Mousawi was refused entry to Ireland on security grounds following a recommendation from the Gardaí[15] and he is also barred from entering the United States because of his links with Hezbollah.[16] The British Conservative Party tried to have Mousawi banned from Britain like Yusuf al-Qaradawi and Moshe Feiglin in February 2008, but failed.[17] Mousawi's visit has been condemned by Leader David Cameron in the House of Commons and by shadow Defence Minister Baroness Neville-Jones, a former chairwoman of the Joint Intelligence Committee.[18] In February 2009, Hezbollah publicly appointed Mousawi as its new media relations officer.[19] When Mousawi was announced for a UK visit in March 2009, campaigners from the Centre for Social Cohesion pledged to seek an arrest warrant for him.[20] He was banned from the UK in March 2009.[21]

    References

    1. Daily Star
      , 17-12-2007
    2. ^ Al Intiqad weekly
    3. ^ in an interview with Al J. Venter "Middle East Mind Games: Interview With Hezbollah," Soldier Of Fortune, January 1998. p. 63 according to The Political Warfighter Mr. Erik Evans, Small Wars Journal, Feb 2006 - and: Violence escalates along Israel-Lebanon border CNN, December 23, 1998
    4. ^ LEBANESE TV STATION MAKES NO DISGUISE OF ITS HATRED FOR ISRAEL By Jon Sawyer, Post-Dispatch Washington Bureau Chief February 10, 2003
    5. ^ "Fadlallah Explains Religious Basis for Suicide Attacks," Daily Star, June 8, 2002
    6. ^ In the Party of God - Are terrorists in Lebanon preparing for a larger war? Jeffrey Goldberg, The New Yorker on October 14, 2002
    7. ^ France offers 'hate TV' reprieve BBC News 20 August 2004
    8. ^ A. Hackensberger: »Israel versteht nur die Sprache der Gewalt« Neues Deutschland, August 3, 2006
    9. ^ M100 - Das internationale Medientreffen im Rahmen der Medienwoche Berlin-Brandenburg[permanent dead link] in Potsdam, 7 September 2007
    10. ^ i.e. Mousawi in Belfast in October 2006 and at the "World Against War international peace conference" in London, December 2007
    11. ^ poster for a public meeting by the Stop the War Coalition Archived 2011-04-25 at the Wayback Machine on February 28, 2008 at Euston Road, London: in English "Editor of Hizbollah newspaper Al-Intiqad", in Arabic "Editor of Magazine "Intiqad" and spokesperson for Hizbullah"
    12. ^ Prof. Scott Lucas was the examiner of his Ph.D. thesis: A Tale of (British or Lebanese) Extremism: My Friend "The Radical Propagandist" Archived 2009-03-16 at the Wayback Machine blog Watching America by Professor Scott Lucas, March 3, 2008
    13. ^ Hizbullah’s Jihad Concept Archived 2011-10-28 at the Wayback Machine by Hilal Khashan (American University of Beirut) and Ibrahim Mousawi (Birmingham University) in: The Journal of Religion and Society Vol. 9 (2007) ISSN 1522-5658
    14. ^ AUB News January 2008[permanent dead link]
    15. ^ Lebanese TV journalist refused visa for anti-war conference[permanent dead link] galwayfirst, 14 October 2007
    16. ^ London pressed to deny visa to Hizbullah spokesman By Andrew Wander, Daily Star, February 28, 2009
    17. ^ Freedom of Information request: Home Office silent on how Hizbollah man was given entry to UK by Simon Rocker, The Jewish Chronicle 28 March 2008
    18. ^ David Cameron, House of Commons Hansard Debates for 14 Nov 2007, Mr. Amess, Oral Answers House of Commons, Monday 3 December 2007, Lord Strathclyde, House of Lords Hansard text for 19 March 2008
    19. ^ Hezbollah appoints new media relations officer iloubnan.info - February 04, 2009
    20. ^ Campaigners will seek arrest of Islamic radical By David Barrett, The Telegraph 7 March 2009
    21. ^ ""Lebanese newspaper editor to be denied entry to Britain", Press Gazette, 13 March 2009". Archived from the original on 6 March 2012. Retrieved 13 March 2009.
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