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November 20, 2006

UK: Muslim Made A "Grave Error" Financing Holocaust Denier

Asghar Bukhari was a founder of the Muslim Public Affairs Committee (MPAC or MPACUK), and he regularly appears on media debates with the BBC or Sky News complaining about Islamophobia. His group, MPACUK, has been banned on university campuses since 2004 on account of its antisemitism.

The Observer yesterday revealed that in 2000, Asghar Bukhari (pictured) made a donation of £60 ($114) to David John Cadwell Irving, who was at that time engaged in a libel case which he brought against Penguin Books. The latter had published Denying the Holocaust -The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory, by Professor Deborah Lipstadt. This book had said that Irving was a Nazi apologist, an admirer of Hitler and that he resorted to "distortion of facts and manipulation of documents to support his contention that the Holocaust did not take place."

Irving's denials that the Holocaust took place were common knowledge before the libel trial, even though Irving later retracted his claims after he lost the case. There is no way that Asghar Bukhari, whose role as a media pundit forces him to have an opinion of all aspects of UK society, could not have known that Irving denied the Holocaust.

Bukhari sent an email to Irving, stating: "You may feel like you are on your own but rest assured many people are with you in your fight for the Truth." Later, Bukhari followed this up with another saying: "Here is the cheque I promised. Good luck, if there is any other way I can help please don't hestitate to call me. I have also asked many Muslim websites to create links to your own and ask for donations."

For Bukhari, denying the Holocaust was his preferred version of "Truth". MPACUK's website had, typically, called the Observer's findings "just another Islamaphobic attack aimed at undermining and harming the brave individuals who support the Palestinian cause and the cause of Muslims within Britain."

When writing of this case, I thought the description of the reporting of Bukhari's open support for anti-semitism and denial of the Holocaust as "another Islamophobic attack" seemed so laughably removed from reality that it needed no comment.

It appears from today's Telegraph that MPAC(UK) has realized that they cannot defend Bukhari's position.

Yesterday, MPAC admitted yesterday that Bukhari had made a "grave mistake". Catriona Davies in the Telegraph states: "Mr Bukhari said he now realised that Irving held "despicable" views. He made the £60 donation on the basis of a "limited" number of articles he had seen because he believed then that Irving was a respectable historian standing up to Israel."

This is obviously a lie, unless Bukhari was living in a sensory deprivation tank for the period leading up to 2000. The Holocaust happened before Israel was founded. The MPAC is an openly anti-Israeli website, reflecting the antisemitism of the Koran and its author, the child-molester Mohammed.

The "acknowledgement" of Bukhari's errors as found on the website of MPAC (UK) is not immediately visible, as it is buried in an article entitled: <"http://www.mpacuk.org/content/view/3028/35/">Just Another Smear Campaign". The article states "If Asghar Bukhari had known of David Irving's holocaust denial and racism he would have condemned him, not given him any support!".

"Twisting an innocent gesture of support (even if gravely mistaken) into more than it is, is just another Islamaphobic attack aimed at undermining and harming the brave individuals who support the Palestinian cause and the cause of British Muslims."

There was nothing innocent about Bukhari's donation. Irving in 2000 was well-known as an anti-semite. If only Bukhari and MPAC would be honest and admit their anti-semitism, as we at Western Resistance openly admit our contempt for the sexist and fascistic religion of Islam and its founder - our "Islamophobia" as it is described (a phobia implies an "irrational fear" - there is nothing irrational about distrusting a religious/political ideology which aims to dominate and subjugate the planet). We oppose the spread of Islam into the West, but do not support racism, and we do not have contempt for those misguided souls who happen to be Muslims. We hope they will realize the error of their ways, and become apostates.

When Irving was jailed in Austria for holocaust denial in February this year, he was nabbed under a warrant which had been issued for him in 1989, for a speech he had made in that year denying the existence of Nazi gas chambers ad Auschwitz.

Today, MPAC (UK) carries another anti-Israeli article, written in its usual facile tones of anti-semitism, entitled We Will Not Be Silenced. "Israel is sad these days. Sad that things are just not going their way. Last week Olmert made a fool of himself in front of the entire American people, including the Jewish community. The weekend saw Israel again making a fool of itself, this time in front of the whole world, by having their Ambassador walk out of a UN meeting. Yesterday they were faced with the dilemma of to bomb or not to bomb hundreds of civilians protecting one of their brothers. As the illustration above shows... when Israel is sad, the rest of the world is happy. This should tell them something. Let's hope they finally get the message."

MPAC and Asghar Bukhari are anti-semites and liars. Hopefully Sky News and the BBC will not, in the near future, be giving them the oxygen of publicity they crave.

Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at November 20, 2006 4:54 AM

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