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August 21, 2005
Muslim Council for Britain Whines Again!
Tonight, BBC1 will be broadcasting a documentary report in its Panorama current affairs programme, detailing how the Muslim Council for Britain is viewed by many in the Muslim community as unrepresentative and "hardline", despite its PR campaigns and getting into bed with Tony's cronys in the Labour party. For those in the UK, a must-see programme, I should imagine.
A week ago, the UK's Observer newspaper reported that, far from being a "moderate" group, the MCB had links with extremists. A squeakily angry Inayat Bunglawala thought he could be clever, and wrote a letter accusing the BBC of being pro-Israel. The letter was leaked, and made Bunglawala look even more of an idiot than usual, and not very clever after all. Is the BBC, with a remit to be "impartial", supposed to be anti-Israel, to coincide with the views of those in the MCB? The Observer reports from last Sunday are discussed below.
The MCBs chairman, Sir Iqbal Sacranie famously stated at the time of Khomeini's fatwa against author Salman Rushdie - "Death is too good for him", referring to the harmless author, not the Iranian mass-murderer. Sacranie also tried to invite Osama bin Laden to Britain in 1996 for a so-called "Revival Rally", an event that was thankfully cancelled. Malawi-born Sacranie then stated that bin Laden was an "Islamic scholar", even though his role as a terrorist in Afghanistan was widely known. Here Sacranie was probably right - Osama knows his Koran, and knows therefore that it is OK to murder civilians if you see them as "infidels".
Now, the Muslim Council features in another report from the printed version of the Observer. It quotes Mehboob Kantharia, a founder member of the MCB, who resigned from the organisation last year as saying "It is my personal belief that because they are in a state of denial, they cannot become....really forthright about the kind of extremism that prevails." And in the same paper's Comments Page, the hatchet faced "Sir" Iqbal Sacranie goes on another offensive, prior to the BBC programme being broadcast, in which he defends his views and opinions, indefensible though they may seem to some. He also uses the piece to claim Orthodox Jews have similar tabus to Muslims.
The original report by Martin Bright concerning this "state of denial" about extremists has now been replaced in the online edition of the Observer, with an amended version entitled: Muslim leaders accuse BBC of witch hunt. Since the printed edition was sent to press, the MCB have been making more noises, hoping that their protests will silence the BBC. What was it Shakespeare wrote in Richard III? "Methinks thou protesteth too much".....
The online article claims that:
The row between the Muslim Council of Britain and the BBC intensified last night as the corporation accused the MCB of putting pressure on interviewees on a controversial Panorama documentary to withdraw from the programme.Panorama accuses the MCB's leadership of being in a state of 'denial' about the scale of Islamic extremism in Britain. The MCB has responded by describing the programme as 'deeply unfair' and a 'witch-hunt'.
The Observer understands that the MCB's secretary general, Sir Iqbal Sacranie, called from abroad to approach contributors critical of the organisation. The MCB's media spokesman, Inayat Bunglawala, also called critics after he was passed a transcript of the documentary, entitled 'A Question of Leadership'.
Martin Bright's article also claims that the BBC have had "unorthodox approaches" made to them by members of the MCB, requesting them to withdraw the programme. The BBC maintains that the transcripts are accurate, and they "speak for themselves". Little Inayat Bunglawala's reasons for attacking the BBC for showing tonight's documentary become clearer when one finds that the programme claims that in 2001, shortly before the attack on the Twin Towers, he sent out an email, in which he described Osama bin Laden as a Mujahid, or Holy Warrior. In little Inayat's email, he urged people to study a statement from Osama, which asked for support for the Taliban and its mad Mullah Omar. So it wasn't really about the BBC being "pro-Israel", after all, His complaints show him to be a dissembling toad.
Sacranie complained that:
'It is unfortunate that just when Britain's 1.6 million Muslims are beginning to make progress in terms of their political participation in the mainstream, there are those who are trying to sabotage that process.'
Reading between the lines on the above comment - just when you thought you had the entire government and media eating out of your hand, Sir Iqbal, they realised that what you were feeding them was truly unpalatable, and you don't like it. The Muslim Council for Britain does not represent the vast majority of Muslims in this country, Sir Iq - so your attempts to sound more important and representative than you are just don't cut the mustard. Tony Blair may have given you a knighthood, but this of itself does not make you an upstanding and infallible icon within British society.
And now to Sir Iqbal's spirited defence of himself and his soon-to-be-discredited Muslim Council in the same newspaper's Comments Feature. Upon second thoughts, I am feeling rather sick of describing this farce of two-faced shennanigans and pedigree codswallop. Read it yourself. I'm off, before I throw a fit or throw up. Sorry. Maybe if I take in some fresh air, I will resurface and relate some of Sir Iqbal's balls of an argument, but don't count on it. Sorry again.......
Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at August 21, 2005 4:50 AM
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I'm counting down the minutes to that Panorama programme :-)
Andy
MCB Watch
Posted by: MCB Watch at August 21, 2005 3:17 PM
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