Abdul Bari from the MCB
The Muslim Council of Britain has called on Alan Johnson MP the Home Secretary to do more about the rise in anti-Muslim hatred in the UK.
Abdul Bari, Secretary of the MCB, wrote:
“Amongst many British Muslim communities, there is a growing disenchantment at the lacklustre response from our political leaders to speak out against anti-Muslim hatred. Whether this exists in explicit form through the actions of far-right groups, or implicitly with hysterical headlines in our media, the policy response to any of these has been far from satisfactory.”
On the MCB’s web site Bari expresses his concern about last Saturday’s mini skirmish between the English Defence League and the police in Stoke-on-Trent. The MCB’s secretary didn’t mention the BNP by name but said: “We ask you to take leadership in this matter, especially in a year where divisive elements may well flourish in the run-up to the next general election.”
The MCB are right to raise the issue of the rise in anti-Muslim sentiment in the UK. There are nearly 2 million UK Muslims: a majority of whom are moderate and live ordinary lives.
In recent times the BNP have sought to exploit the growing legitimate concerns about the rise in UK Islamist activity by claiming that Britain is being turned into a Caliphate. To lend credibility to their cause, the BNP have deliberately sought to conflate Islamism with Islam. This has led to some very worrying trends developing in social cohesion, particularly in areas where there are large Muslim populations living alongside non-Muslim populations.
But the MCB should also accept some responsibility in the rise of extremist groups like the EDL and the BNP. The BNP are a reaction to a number of government policy failures including inequality, integration and immigration. Many people (not just white non-Muslims) have felt that the mainstream parties are responsible for them being culturally, economically and socially excluded from British society. But groups like the MCB, who claim to represent over 500 affiliated national, regional and local organizations, mosques, charities and schools, have also contributed to the rise of intolerance by legitimizing bigotries within their own ranks.
Daud Abdullah
A good example of this is Daud Abdullah, Bari’s deputy. Mr. Abdullah sparked controversy when he became a signatory of the Istanbul Declaration in 2009, which declared war on foreign naval vessels that sought to stop weapons entering into Gaza (at the time Britain’s navy had offered its assistance to the Israeli government). Mr. Abdullah has not been removed from his position as Deputy-Secretary General.
Mr. Abdullah’s alignment with a piece of paper that appears to authorize terrorist attacks against naval vessels, and possibly the British Navy, and the MCB’s refusal to distance themselves from him only helps to raise concerns about the effectiveness of Britain’s integration Muslims and plays straight into the hands of the BNP’s narrative of British Muslims acting like fifth columnists.
It should also be noted that Mr. Abdullah is also a senior researcher at the pro-Hamas Palestinian Return Centre, which Nothing British exposed in November for inviting Kristina Morvai MEP, a close associate of Nick Griffin’s in the European Parliament and leader of the Hungarian extreme right party Jobbik. Mr. Abdullah’s name appeared – alongside Ms. Morvai’s – on a list of speakers who were due to address a pro-Hamas conference.
Kristina Morvai
Despite one of its senior officials being prepared to share a stage with a gypsy-baiter, whose party regularly makes anti-Semitic remarks, one hopes that the MCB are against not just anti-Muslim sentiments but also anti-Jewish and any other bigotries.
This seems unlikely.
In previous years the MCB have boycotted Holocaust Memorial Day. One hopes that in a time when the Holocaust denying Griffin becomes an MEP and when its memory is increasingly becoming a distant memory they attend it this year.
Maurice Cousins
I think the MCB are pushing an extreme Islamic agenda & may well try to get some sort of anti blasphemy law put forward to try & stop criticism of Islam.
If they suceed then, anti Islamic feeling will manifest itself in other ways, as a lot of people feel Islam is pandered to, too much already.
Voters who feel that way, will vote for any anti Islamic party or take other actions.
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The MCB want nothing of the sort..just another ‘Muslims want to ban Xmas’ type story…but its nice to know that the Europeans havent lost their lust for pogroms even after all these centuries…Sweet dreams!
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Why don’t you tell the whole story? Why are you hiding the facts about why the MCB’s Mr Abdullah attended the Istanbul Conference??? When did this site become defenders for and a mouthpiece of the IDF??? Why do people like you masquerade as anti-racists but turn on Muslims as soon as it comes to the illegal Israeli occupation and murderous acts of your fellow Zionists? Shouldn’t you be telling your readers of your Zionist credentials? You and your Zionist friends are no better than the BNP!
So I see so you want the babies of Gaza to be butchered and be burnt to cinders with the use of illegal Israeli chemical weapons! And when the fathers of these children decide to defend themselves to protect their own children they are prevented from doing so by a blockade by the British Army.
So not only do you want innocent Muslims men women and Children to be butchered but they must keep quiet about it. Furthermore if anyone advocates self-defence against vastly superior combined military forces i.e. in this case Mr Abdullah they must also keep quiet and if they don’t they are responsible for extremism! What a load of BS!!!
Mr Abdullah is not the problem the problem is very clear MUSLIM LIFE IS WORTH SHIT TO YOU! Extremism will stop when there is justice and when Muslim children s lives are treated the same as European and Israeli lives at the moment they clearly aren’t and this article seems to endorse that view! Where is the British sense of fair play and justice? Oh sorry that only applies if you are not a Muslim. I guess I am now a raving crazy fundamentalist extremist Muslim nut job hey??
Well done for notching up anti-muslim feelings! BNP fighter my ass you are! Just another Zionist with loyalty to Israel! nothing British about that either!
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Well you are correct in saying this site is pro Israel.
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It would be nice if all the islamists and zionists found a desert and got on with their fight and left everyone else alone, go for it boys destroy each other. I’m sick too the back teeth of them both. Mr Goyim kaffer man.
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Couldn’t have put it better myself mate!
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you cannot trust a word that comes out of a muslims mouth, it is a commandment of the koran to kill the infidel and spread islam, it also says use trickery and lies to decieve the enemy, mohammad made a treaty for 10 years with the citizens of medina, he kept it only long enough to build his army enough to invade (he broke it after 2). see this website for a brief history of islam http://www.americancongressfortruth.org its first 20 minutes of the webcast
ps sajuk
isnt it true that the duallist laws of the sharia say that an infidels life is worthless eg its a much smaller sentence for a muslim to kill an infidel than the other way round?
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Who is the muslim man who uses the term ” use europeans”, i highly suspect he also lives in Europe with possibly a British passport so if that is the case he is also a european,though he will be one of the many with no loyality to these shores, yet the pc crowd think anybody who can get here and obtain a passport is British !
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Sajuk, your rant shows a severe lack of balance and perhaps some bigotry. It also talks sheer nonsense. Please tell me wher the British Army is forming a blockade pertaining to Gaza!
Personally I am anti-Zionist and wish to see that country forced to return to it’s pre-1966 borders. I am aware that it foments trouble to increase it’s borders.
I am also against the number of immigrants entering this country who refuse to adapt to our society. Those of the Muslim faith are, by far make the largest transgressor group.
Perhaps, instead of settling in the UK, unchanging Muslims should settle in Gaza and build up the defences and infrastructure of that poor benighted area. It might be easier for all of us.
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Johnny English knows a lot about Islam, most of the information is hardly gathered by impartial or objective sources and is therefore biased. We can all read religious scripture from any faith and highlight things which are outdated offensive etc.
If you ever visit Sharm El Sheik in Egypt, there is the monastry of St Catherine on Mt Sinai. It has and important historical document from Mohammed called the Achtiname. Heres a translation to English.
This is a message from Muhammad ibn Abdullah, as a covenant to those who adopt Christianity, near and far, we are with them. Verily I, the servants, the helpers, and my followers defend them, because Christians are my citizens; and by Allah! I hold out against anything that displeases them. No compulsion is to be on them. Neither are their judges to be removed from their jobs nor their monks from their monasteries. No one is to destroy a house of their religion, to damage it, or to carry anything from it to the Muslims’ houses. Should anyone take any of these, he would spoil God’s covenant and disobey His Prophet. Verily, they are my allies and have my secure charter against all that they hate. No one is to force them to travel or to oblige them to fight. The Muslims are to fight for them. If a female Christian is married to a Muslim, it is not to take place without her approval. She is not to be prevented from visiting her church to pray. Their churches are to be respected. They are neither to be prevented from repairing them nor the sacredness of their covenants. No one of the nation (Muslims) is to disobey the covenant till the Last Day (end of the world).
Sajid i think youll find a lot of correspondants on this site are a million miles away from being pro Israeli or Zionists.
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The MCB shoud look closer to home for the anti Muslim feelings in this country, MUSLIMS in my opinion are the cause but the MCB will not criticises their own, we have blacks Chinese Hindus etc, all living here in relative harmony but Muslims with their aggresive element among them claim to be victims, who in their right mind could swallow this claptrap ‘
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Islam is at odds with our more enlightened western thought, but more worrying is that adherents to Islam carry a huge chip on their shoulders, and this leads resentment of the west , which leads to terrorist acts. Quite frankly the west would be better off if Muslims returned to their places of origin; they can do what the hell they like there.
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Vor has returned from Kazakstan, or has he been training in Yemen again?
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Hahahaha AA. I love your sense of humor !!
Nah ive been in India on a tunnel project. Bleeding miserable job but the money is ridiculous, 60 more days and then its back to my studies.
Lol yeah the Guy pleaded not guilty to the attack.. Liar liar pants on fire seems appropriate. Dig into it a little more though he apparently didnt have a passport and was guided onto the plane by an Indian looking guy. The company who control the security at schipol also are in the same group as the ones who make the bodyscanner… false flag perhaps ?
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VOR welcome back…why are yous pinching all our players?
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We’ll see what happens next, maybe our mainstream politicians will offer them that without them asking for it?
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They have been talking up Yemen ever since that attack, so maybe that is now on the “to do” list?
It seems strange he could get on an American plane without a passport, I wonder if that will come out at the trial or will some of it be surpressed?
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