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BY SHIRAZ MAHER<\/strong><\/p>\n The Muslim Public Affairs Committee (MPAC) is a virulently anti-Semitic organisation. Almost since its inception, the group has obsessed about Jews and Israel, pumping out a near endless stream of articles on the topic. <\/p>\n Yesterday, the group\u2019s website posted this response<\/a> to an article in the Jewish Chronicle about the disgraced Inayat Bunglawala\u2019s ongoing and vicious sectarianism at a time when he is trying to rebrand himself a \u2018moderate\u2019:<\/p>\n Here is a clear case of stirring trouble and hatred (which Zionists are good at)<\/p>\n Do you see how Zionists divide Muslims? Is it not time we united against this scum of the earth?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Zionists are \u2018scum of the earth\u2019 \u2013 a telling insight into the mindset of MPAC. The story which offends them so much comes from a piece by Martin Bright highlighting<\/a> Inayat Bunglawala\u2019s disgusting behaviour after British Muslims for Secular Democracy<\/a> (BMSD) attracted support from some British Jews for their decision to organise a protest<\/a> against the fanatics of al-Muhajiroun.<\/p>\n Of course, Bunglawala launched his own campaign against al-Muhajiroun at the same time \u2013 riding on BMSD\u2019s coattails \u2013 despite having had more than a decade to do something like this. <\/p>\n Bright\u2019s article revealed emails sent from Bunglawala to members of the Islamic Society of Britain and Young Muslims group on Yahoo. One said:<\/p>\n I have received some emails from people concerned that British Muslims for Secular Democracy (whose chair opposes the wearing of the hijab, openly admits to drinking alcohol etc) are also demonstrating. Muslims4UK will be completely separate from them and will have our own area, banners and placards, insh\u2019Allah.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Four days later Bunglawala sent another email:<\/p>\n The BMSD \u2013 whose leading members advocate that Muslim schoolgirls should be forbidden from wearing the hijab and believe there is nothing wrong with drinking alcohol in Islam \u2013 have naturally attracted the support of Zionists like Mel P, Harry\u2019s Place and the Spittoon blog.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Then we really get a glimpse into Bunglawala\u2019s worldview:<\/p>\n Muslims4UK [Bunglawala\u2019s new group] have spoiled that little plan of theirs, Alhamdulillah!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n He reconfirmed his problem with \u2018Zionists\u2019 in a statement to the Jewish Chronicle, saying:<\/p>\n The only support BMSD appear to attract seems to be from pro-Israeli groups. That itself is very telling.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Indeed, some things are very telling. BMSD\u2019s director, Tehmina Kazi, was naturally shocked by this, saying the organisation was \u2018really disappointed\u2019 by Bunglawala\u2019s behaviour. She added:<\/p>\n We are an impeccably non-sectarian organisation. We invited Inayat to join the demonstration in good faith. We were therefore surprised to discover that he had asked for a separate pen to protest in.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n That is the way Bunglawala operates \u2013 duplicitous, insincere and sectarian \u2013 he could learn a lot from Kazi and BMSD. Just last week I wrote here<\/a> about Bunglawala\u2019s ongoing support for the deeply anti-Semitic cleric Yusuf al-Qaradawi. Now we have these emails. Small wonder then, that Inayat supports MPAC.<\/p>\n When it was revealed<\/a> that MPAC\u2019s founder, Asghar Bukhari, had given financial support to help the holocaust denying David Irving in his libel action, Bunglawala showered MPAC and Bukhari with the following encomium:<\/a><\/p>\n This story has mysteriously surfaced at this time in a clear attempt to try and discredit Asghar Bukhari and MPACUK. Asghar\u2019s donation of sixty pounds to David Irving over six years ago may be regarded as perhaps overly idealistic and indeed naive. However, it is disgraceful \u2013 though not unexpected, of course \u2013 that the usual suspects have tried to use this incident in an attempt to portray Asghar as an anti-semite.<\/p>\n I know that Asghar is a staunch critic \u2013 and rightly so \u2013 of Zionism and the bloody and repressive policies of the Israeli government, but also that he has absolutely no truck whatsoever with anti-semitism or any other form of racial prejudice.<\/p>\n I hope MPAC will not be deterred by this episode and continue to focus on encouraging British Muslims to play their full role in the mainstream of British society and not allow themselves to be marginalised through inaction and passivity.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Bukhari wanted to support<\/a> Irving\u2019s \u2018fight for the truth\u2019, believing that he \u2018suffered\u2019 because he was \u2018trying to expose certain falsehoods perpetrated by the Jews\u2019. Inayat dismisses this as \u2018overly idealistic\u2019 while focusing on what really troubles him \u2013 \u2018the usual suspects\u2019. <\/p>\n Bunglawala might try to dismiss all this as \u2018McCarthyism\u2019<\/a>, arguing that Bukhari has \u2018changed\u2019 and that he wants to dissociate himself from some of MPAC\u2019s more recent pronouncements. After all, we saw this with a few<\/a> people<\/a> after the jihadist theorist, Anwar al-Awlaki, came out<\/a> in support of the Fort Hood shootings. <\/p>\n Pre-empting cries of \u2018foul play\u2019, it\u2019s worth taking a look at exactly what MPAC was saying and doing before Bunglawala offered them his support in November 2006. <\/p>\n In September 2006, the Report of the All-Party Parliamentary Inquiry into Anti-Semitism<\/a> found that MPACUK is one of \u2018a minority of Islamist extremists in this country [who] do incite hatred towards Jews\u2019. That claim is not without foundation. MPAC has repeatedly reproduced anti-Semitic cartoons on its website, such as this one<\/a> it copied from a neo-Nazi website called globalfire.tv<\/a> in 2005.<\/p>\n The previous year MPAC published a picture of a big-nosed, media-controlling, Jew vomiting propaganda into the living rooms of unsuspecting TV watchers. You can view it here<\/a>. <\/p>\n In an article for the Institute for Jewish Policy Research, Dave Rich found<\/a>:<\/p>\n The Muslim Public Affairs Committee have used their website to reproduce material taken from the sites of both David Irving and The Heretical Press (a far right publisher based in Hull)\u2026 Often when Islamist organisations use far right sources it reveals a deeper antisemitism. The Muslim Public Affairs Committee\u2019s reproduction of material from the far right sits on their website alongside open support for Holocaust denier David Irving, accusations of Zionist media and political control, lists of Jewish donors to New Labour and an investigation into whether the Talmud is \u201cthe most Powerful and Racist book in the world\u201d. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n A common worldview on Jews is not all that Bunglawala shares in common with MPAC. Like him, they are also terribly sectarian, casting aspersions over Muslims they regard as too impious. For Bunglawala it was the fact that Yasmin Alibhai-Brown does not want to see prepubescent girls enveloped by a headscarf and that, on occasion, she enjoys a tipple of wine which put her beyond the pale. <\/p>\n For MPAC it was the sexuality of a secretary at the Al-Islah Muslim Girls\u2019 School in Blackburn who was hounded out of her job. MPAC published private pictures<\/a> from her facebook account which showed her with short hair, wearing a shirt, trousers, drinking and smoking.*<\/p>\n Nothing from Bunglawala on that \u2018McCarthyism\u2019 \u2013 but then perhaps MPAC were just being \u2018overly naive\u2019 again?<\/p>\n *The pictures have since been removed.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/i><\/a><\/i><\/a><\/i><\/a><\/i><\/a><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n No related posts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Muslim Public Affairs Committee (MPAC) is a virulently anti-Semitic organisation. 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