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August 31, 2006

UK: 80% Think Muslim Council Fails In Tackling Extremism

News from the Daily Mail and This is London describes the results of a poll made by PR Week magazine, an international public relations news organisation. The original poll results require paid subscription to be viewed, however.

The most important part of the survey was its finding that 78% of those polled thought that the Muslim Council for Britain has not done nearly enough to combat anti-Western extremism.

Readers of anti-Islamist blogs already know that the MCB, far from countering extremism, positively supports it. The Muslim Council does not exist to make Muslims more amenable to Britain, but to make Britain more accommodating to Muslims, extremist Muslims included. Its last general secretary, Iqbal Sacranie, had tried in 1996 to invite Osama bin Laden to an Islamic "rally" in London and his sidekick, press spokesman Inayat Bunglawala, similarly praised Osama bin Laden as a "freedom fighter". Sacranie attended a memorial service for the wheelchair-bound Islamist, Sheikh Yassin, founder of terror organisation Hamas, which has killed countless Israeli civilians. Yet Sacranie calls the dead cleric a "freedom fighter" and mendaciously compared him to Gandhi and Nelson Mandela.

Bunglawala, who like Sacranie is a dyed-in-the wool anti-semite, famously wrote in January 1993 that the Egyptian Islamist Sheikh Omar Abdul Rahman was "courageous". A month later, the blind cleric ordered a truck laden with explosives to be detonated beneath the World Trade Center, killing six people. Bunglawala could be regarded as stupid for making such comments, or evil. It is more likely that he is both.

The current feuhrer at the MCB is Bangladeshi-born Dr Muhammad Abdul Bari, who is also chairman of the East London Mosque, which was built with money from Saudi Arabia. Proof of Bari's contempt for "moderation" came when he invited Delwar Hossain Sayeedi to the East London Mosque in July. Sayeedi belongs to the Jamaat-e-Islami party, whose youth wing murders and threatens professors who promote secularism. Sayeedi has also said that Britain and the US "deserve all that is coming to them" for overthrowing the Taliban in Afghanistan.

Dr Bari also supports the notion of arranged marriages, and the Muslim Council of Britain recently persuaded the British government to abandon its plans to outlaw forced marriage, even though every year, 250 young girls are subjected to this abuse of their basic human rights.

And far from encouraging measures to defuse extremism, such as Britain's Terrorism Act 2006, the MCB actively campaigned to sabotage it. Abdurahman Jafar, vice chairman of the legal affairs committee of the MCB had in November tried to emasculate the bill by trying to have its clause against "glorification of terrorism" removed.

And when it was revealed that one of the 400 groups for which the MCB acted as an "umbrella organisation" was extremist, the MCB merely stated that it did not make checks on the attitudes of those it claimed to represent. Birmingham-based Ahl-e-Hadith with 41 branches across Britain carried on its website the statement that its followers should "be different from Jews and Christians" whose "ways are based on sick or deviant views".

And one of the Muslim Council of Britain's main tools is blackmail. On August 12, barely two days after details emerged of a massive plot to bomb at least nine planes bound to the US, devised by "British" Muslims, the Muslim Council for Britain sought with others to blackmail the government. A letter, printed in most newspapers, called for Britain to alter its Foreign Policy to satisfy British Muslims (a piddling 3% of the national demographic), as this would end extremism.

Anyone who reads blogs such as ours already knows that the Muslim Council for Britain is populated by extremists and supporters of terror, whose manipulations are only matched by their dishonesty.

What is so refreshing is that after more than a year of holding very public press conferences, and being portrayed since 7/7 as the faces of "moderate" Islam, if ever such a thing existed, the poll from PR Week has shown that the British public is not fooled any more by the duplicity and ulterior motives of the MCB.

Among the over-55s, who have been around long enough to be able to recognise political and lying scoundrels, the figure for those who thought the MCB was not doing enough to counter anti-Western extremism rose to 90%.

And despite the MCB's ubiquitous presence on media outlets whenever there is a Muslim outrage, the respondents found that they were undecided if the MCB was "tolerant of Western practices", split 50-50 on the matter.

What is surprising is that 40% thought that the MCB was not doing enough to uphold the Muslim faith.

These people are probably still living under the influence of media dhimmitude, and do not recognise that Mohammed, the founder of Islam, delighted in murder, war and theft (as well as paedophilia), which somehow disqualifies Islam as a real "faith". They also fail to recognise that the MCB is a purely political organisation, an unelected body abusing British democracy by unduly influencing the policies of an elected government.

Founded in 1997, the MCB's stated aim is to "promote cooperation, concensus and unity on Muslim affairs in the UK."

What its mission statement fails to mention is that Muslims are not expected to cooperate, but the British public are the ones who are expected, like those interrogated by Nazis, to do the "cooperating".

A spokesman for the MCB expressed disappointment about the poll, and made noises such as: "I don't think many people actually know what the MCB does. I'm not sure, for example, how many realise we are working with police to produce half a million pocket guides to go out to young Muslims to promote a new anti-terror hotline number. And we have repeatedly said that Muslims have a duty to inform police if know anything about a terrorist plot - not just a legal duty, but also an Islamic obligation."

"At the same time, we are not a law enforcement body. It's undoubtedly true that in recent years some Muslims have become so radicalised that they are prepared to contemplate murdering fellow citizens. The question we need to answer is what has contributed to that phenomenon. After all, we never saw this happening in the 1970s, 80s and 90s when Muslims were here in large numbers. Is it imams, is it preachers on back streets, is it the Internet, is it Government policy? We called for a public inquiry in the wake of the July 7 bombings to examine these questions but the Government has not agreed to hold one."

The spokesman said the MCB received no regular funding from the government, but failed to mention that it has received government funding of at least £500,000 ($951,714) from the Home Office. Last February it was awarded £150,000 ($285,555) from the Home Office's "cohesion and faiths unit" for the financial year that ended in March 2006.

The MCB has been registered as a UK charity, under the name "The Muslim Council of Britain Charitable Foundation" (number 1084651) since 23 January 2001. It has not completed its financial returns to the Charity Commission since it became registered as a charity five yeas ago, and its last statement of expenditure was made more than three years ago.

Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at August 31, 2006 9:18 PM

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