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December 17, 2006

UK: MCB Leader Claims Muslims Persecuted Like Jews

In what appears to be a new trend for Muslims who seek to exploit their fictitious victimhood, the secretary-general of the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB), Dr Muhammad Abdul Bari, has compared Muslims in Britain to Jews under Hitler.

Last week, the Scottish spokesman for the Muslim Association of Britain, Osama Saeed, said: "Hitler was a product of German society, where anti-Semitic attitudes had existed unchecked for decades. We have got to listen and learn from what happened there and be vigilant." The irony in Saeed's comment is that MAB (which is affiliated to the MCB) was founded by Muslim Brotherhood members, with one of them being a former fund-raiser for Hamas. The "spiritual leader" of the Muslim Brotherhood is Yussuf al Qaradawi, who supports suicide bombing against Israeli civilians.

Dr Mohammad Abdul Bari (pictured, above left), who became head of the Muslim Council of Britain in early June, is also the chairman of the East London Mosque.

In today's Sunday Telegraph, it is reported that Bari has criticized the government for "unfairly targeting" Muslims. In a presentation to members of parliament, Bari blamed the government for blaming extremism on the "largely deprived" Muslim community. Bari claimed this led to a "deterioration of community cohesion and fuels xenophobia". He said: "What is the degree of xenophobia that tipped Germany in the 1930s towards a murderous ethnic and cultural racism?"

He said: "In recent months there has been a veritable drip-feed of ministerial statements stigmatising an entire community. We have seen ministers' tours and even legislation being proposed on the premise that 'mosques are a problem'."

"We have been told to accept that greater numbers of Muslims will be stopped and searched and also to 'inform on our children'. You will understand our worry about where all this is leading. Some Muslims have even sought the MCB's advice on whether they should change their names in order to avoid remarks."

"This is what happens when a community is singled out by those at the helm of affairs."

Bari spoke of the "relentless barrage" of anti-terror laws, and later defended the MCB's continued policy of boycotting Holocaust Memorial Day.

By continuing to oppose any commemoration of the Holocaust, in which 6 million Jews were slaughtered, yet comparing Muslims in Britain to those same victims, Bari's hypocrisy is astounding.

His comparisons of Jews under Hitler to the Muslims in Britain today has been condemned by Jon Benjamin, the chief executive of the Board of Deputies of British Jews. Mr Benjamin said: "To try to recast modern Britain as equivalent to Nazi Germany is equally offensive and disingenuous, but also dangerous in that it will fuel alienation and anger, particularly at a time when conciliation is vital."

Bari sees fit to associate himself with Jews when he wants to cast those he purports to represent as "victims". However, he has a history of also seeing fit to associate himself with virulent anti-semites when presenting his credentials as a "good Muslim".

The East London Mosque which he heads was built with Saudi donations. Shortly after it was completed, the mosque welcomed from Saudi Arabia the controversial Saudi state-appointed senior imam at the Grand Mosque at Mecca, Sheikh Abdulrahman al-Sudais.

Sudais (also spelled Sudeis or Sudayyis) has made numerous sermons condemning Jews, even in one announcement calling for Allah to annihilate the Jews. Sudais called Jews ""the scum of the human race, the rats of the world, the violators of pacts and agreements, the murderers of the prophets, and the offspring of apes and pigs."

In another sermon, Sudais said: "Read history and you will understand that the Jews of yesterday are the evil fathers of the Jews of today, who are evil offspring, infidels, distorters of words, calf-worshippers, prophet-murderers, prophecy-deniers... the scum of the human race 'whom Allah cursed and turned into apes and pigs...' These are the Jews, an ongoing continuum of deceit, obstinacy, licentiousness, evil, and corruption..."

John Ware, one of the BBC's foremost investigative journalists, last year confronted Dr Bari about his welcoming the anti-semite Sheikh Sudais to the East London Mosque. The conversation appeared in a documentary entitled "A Question of Leadership", broadcast on August 21, 2005. The Panorama documentary can be viewed in its entirety (40 minutes long) HERE.

The segment where Bari is confronted over his links to Sudais can be found on Little Green Footballs. Ware asked Bari of the SHeikh's anti-semitic comments: "Do I take it that if you were satisfied he had said such things you would not have invited him over?"

Bari answered: "Well of course if it was proved that he exactly said this thing that you mentioned then why do you invited people who would be saying like this?" Bari then went on to deny that that the Sheikh had made such comments.

Bari at that time was the deputy secretary-general of the MCB. The documentary by John Ware was condemned by the press officer of the MCB, Inayat Bunglawala, who wrote to the BBC before the broadcast. Bunglawala accused the BBC of being "pro-Israel". The letter stated: "It appears that the Panorama team is more interested in furthering a pro-Israeli agenda than assessing the work of Muslim organisations in the UK."

In 1992, Bunglawala had accused the media of being led by Jews, calling one media controller, Michael Green one of the "Tribe of Judah", who "as joined an elite club whose members include fellow Jews Michael Grade and Alan Yentob." He also praised Omar Abdel-Rahman as "courageous", a month before the blind Egyptian Sheikh bombed the World Trade Center on February 26, 1993. He also described Osama bin Laden as a freedom fighter.

Until June this year, the secretary-general of the Muslim Council of Britain was Iqbal Sacranie, who had led protests against Salman Rushdie's book "The Satanic Verses". Sacranie had said of Ayatollah Khomeini's death fatwa issued against Rushdie: "Death, perhaps, is a bit too easy for him .. his mind must be tormented for the rest of his life unless he asks for forgiveness to Almighty Allah." Sacranie made this comment on Tuesday, February 14, 1989, the day the fatwa was initially broadcast.

Sacranie consistently opposed the Holocaust Memorial Day, but still found time to attend a memorial service for Sheikh Ahmad Yassin, the founder of the terrorist group Hamas. Sacranie even defended Yassin as a "freedom-fighter".

But Bari has followed in the footsteps of Sacranie, and has argued that Britons should engage in arranged marriages. In September, Bari argued that the police and the media were directly responsible for "Islamophobia" in Britain. He threatened that if such "demonizing" continued, "Britain will have to deal with two million Muslim terrorists - 700,000 of them in London. If you attack a whole community, it becomes despondent and aggressive."

Threatening terrorism if one does not get one's way is hardly a secure method of argument. Bari is typical of the MCB, which tried to sabotage Britain's Terrorism Act 2006. On August 12, the MCB was a signatory to a letter demanding Britain change its foreign policy or face the threat of terrorism on home soil.

In June at the East London Mosque, Bari hosted the extremist Delwar Hossein Sayeedi, a Bangladeshi Islamist who compares Hindus to excrement and persecutes Ahmadiyya Muslims in his native country as "heretics".

Bari's latest comments about how Muslims in Britain are to be compared to Jews living under Hitler are disingenuous. And they also fly in the face of documented facts.

Jews in Britain are a far smaller group than Muslims in Britain. Yet Jews are on the receiving end of more physical attacks based on their religion than are Muslims. The Telegraph highlights this today. Jewish people are FOUR TIMES more likely to be on the receiving end of faith-based attacks than Muslims.

And to make matters worse, even though figures on the faith of attackers is not recorded, it seems that many attacks against Jews are carried out by Muslims.

Rabbi Alex Chapper is from Ilford in Essex. Last year, he was attacked by a group of seven Muslim teenagers while returning from a synagogue with three Jewish friends. The Jews were identified by their wearing of skull caps. The Muslims called out "Yehudi", and one shouted: "We are Pakistani, you are Jewish. We are going to kill you." This individual then punched Rabbi Chapper in the face. One of the rabbi's friends was hit over the head with a bottle.

Rabbi Chapper said: "We identified the youths and told the police but they were never prosecuted. They just did not seem interested. I feel very let down."

The anti-Semitism within Islam cannot be blamed merely on the existence of the state of Israel, even though most political Muslims in Britain condemn Israel's existence, and whine about "Zionist conspiracies". Contempt for Jews is contained within Islam's "sacred texts", the Koran and the Hadith.

In the Koran, certain Jews were turned into apes and pigs (5: 60), and in Sura 5, verse 82, one finds the words: "Thou wilt find the most vehement of mankind in hostility to those who believe (to be) the Jews and the idolaters."

The Hadith of Sahih Muslim, Book 041 (Kitab Al-Fitan wa Ashrat As-Sa'ah), Number 6985, states:

Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: The last hour would not come unless the Muslims will fight against the Jews and the Muslims would kill them until the Jews would hide themselves behind a stone or a tree and a stone or a tree would say: Muslim, or the servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me; come and kill him; but the tree Gharqad would not say, for it is the tree of the Jews.

Sheikh Sudais invokes Surah 5:60 to condemn all Jews as "apes and pigs". Before Israel came into existence, the period leading up to World War II, the so-called Palestinians were actively involved in their own massacres of Jews. The Mufti of Jerusalem, Amin al-Husseini, engaged in slaughters of Jews in the 1930s, and went to Germany where he was welcomed by Hitler. Amin al Husseini then went on to found a regiment of Muslim Nazi soldiers in Bosnia. Details of Amin al-Husseini can be found HERE. Husseini is shown (right), meeting Heinrich Himmler, who with Adolf Eichmann had been an architect of the Holocaust.

So far in Britain, attacks by Muslims against Jews have been verbal and sometimes physical. But soon, Britain may be facing the same sort of situation as exists in Paris. Here, groups such as Tribu Ka, a black Muslim group which formed itself upon the ideology of the Nation of Islam, has attacked Muslims physically, and in May even paraded itself through the Jewish district of Marais, threatening Jewish civilians. Tribu Ka was banned in July.

Banning specific groups who openly publicize themselves and their activities is one thing. But the ideology which motivates them can not be so easily removed. On February 13, the body of a young Parisian Jew, Ilan Halimi was found naked, tied to a tree in Sainte-Genevieve-des-Bois in Essonne, Ile de France, a suburb of Greater Paris. Ilan had been subjected to prolonged torture. He had been cut with knives, burned with cigarettes, acid had been poured on him, and he had been set on fire. He died on his way to hospital.

Ilan had been kidnapped by a Muslim gang, the "Barbarians" a fortnight earlier. Their leader, Youssef Fofana (pictured, left), had deliberately sought out Ilan as a target because he was Jewish. Fofana paid Yalda, a 17 year old schoolgirl, $5,400 to seduce Ilan at the cellular phone store where he worked. She met him, seduced him, and arranged a meeting, knowing Ilan was to be abducted.

Fofana had planned to kidnap several Jews, and extort money from their relatives. Ilan's family received phone calls and demands for money, interspersed with quotes from the Koran, but they were poor and could not afford the ransom.

The Representative Council of Jewish Institutions in France stated that when the second Palestinian intifada began in 2000, attacks upon Jews in Paris rose abruptly. Some of the blame for attacks upon Jews has been laid at the feet of Dieudonné M'bala M'bala, a Muslim comedian who was convicted in June of inciting racial/religious hatred.

Muslim spokespeople in Britain, such as Osama Saeed and Dr Muhammad Abdul Bari are currently playing on the ludicrous assumption that their "victimhood" is remotely commensurate with the fate of the Jews under Hitler.

The truth is - Muslims have made no attempts to condemn the anti-semitic words of leading imams, such as Sheikh Abdulrahman al-Sudais in Mecca, and the host of others who appear on Saudi and Palestinian TV calling for the destruction of Jews.

When the Koran and the Hadith of Sahih Muslim perpetuate myths that Jews are descended from apes and pigs, and that Allah will exterminate all Jews in the prelude to Judgement Day, there is no religious need for them to condemn such anti-semitism. Hostility against Jews, irrespective of what may happen in Israel and Palestine, is an article of Muslim faith.

Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at December 17, 2006 8:26 AM

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