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Date: August 18, 2007 11:29:41 PM PDT
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Subject: Brotherhood Among Fascists
The Foreign Office ought to be
serving Britain, not radical Islam
Nick Cohen
The Observer, July 9, 2006
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1816257,00.html
On Tuesday, three days before the anniversary of the 7/7
atrocities, the Prime Minister spoke simply and well to the
Commons: 'If we want to defeat extremism, we have got to defeat its
ideas and we have got to address the completely false sense of
grievance against the West.'
As we are fighting a battle of ideas between democracy and
totalitarian religion as much as a military campaign, this was an
obvious truth, albeit one that could do with greater repetition.
The prudent as well as the principled position is to prefer those
who don't support 'martyrs' to those who do; to show solidarity
with those who support democratic values rather than those who
don't. How hard a choice is that for a British government?
An easy enough decision for Tony Blair to make, it turns out, but a
surprisingly difficult one for his unmanageable Foreign Office.
This week will generate a lot of publicity for the longest and most
revealing series of leaks from a government department I've seen in
my career. For months, Martin Bright, the political editor of the
New Statesman, has been receiving confidential Foreign Office
documents almost daily with his morning post.
On Friday at 7.30pm, Channel 4 will screen a documentary by Bright,
Who Speaks for Muslims, which shows how the Foreign Office views
the Islamist far right as potential allies.
To accompany the programme, the Policy Exchange think-tank will
publish 'When Progressives Treat with Reactionaries: the British
State's Flirtation with Radical Islamism', a pamphlet stuffed with
enough state secrets to induce coronary arrests in previously
healthy MI5 officers.
They describe the FO's attempts to woo the Arab Muslim Brotherhood,
whose closest allies in Britain are the Muslim Association of
Britain, and its south Asian counterpart, Jamaat-e-Islami, whose
supporters are at the top of the Muslim Council of Britain. The
mandarins reason that these groups are not part of al-Qaeda, which
is true; that they are growing in power, which is regrettably true
as well; and that they are composed of reasonable men with whom
Britain can do business, which is palpable nonsense.
The Muslim Brotherhood is an imperialist movement that wants to
establish a Muslim empire in which laws will come from an early
medieval holy book rather than the parliaments elected by mortal
men and women. It is sexist because its clerics justify the beating
and circumcision of women. It is homophobic because it justifies
the execution of homosexuals. And it is psychopathic because it
justifies the murders of apostates, any Jew in Israel and any
British or American soldier in Iraq.
Angus McKee, of the FO's Middle East and North Africa desk, thinks
this gruesome record should be rewarded with large amounts of
British taxpayers' money.'Given that Islamist groups are often less
corrupt than the generality of the societies in which they
operate,' he wrote, 'consideration might be given to channelling
aid resources through them, so long as sufficient transparency is
achievable.'
And since January 2006, the FO has been engaging with the Muslim
Brotherhood abroad while providing free passes for its clerics at
home.
Mockbul Ali, its Islamic issues adviser, whom Labour ministers
treat with excessive deference, recommends that the brotherhood's
favourite theologian, Yusuf al-Qaradawi, should be admitted to
Britain, despite his sympathy for the judicial murder of
homosexuals and free-thinkers. When Delwar Hossain Sayeedi, an MP
in Bangladesh who preaches violent hatred against the West and
Hindus, wanted to come to talk to British Muslims, Ali described
him as a 'mainstream' figure.
He isn't, he's a fantastically controversial figure among British
Bengalis. Bright interviews Bengali leaders who regard him as a
malign extremist and cannot understand why the Foreign Office wants
him to preach Islamist radicalism to their children.
Nor can a few clear voices in Whitehall. Sir Derek Plumbly, the
British ambassador to Egypt and the only diplomat to emerge with
credit from the affair, noted that there is no reason to expect
that the Muslim Brotherhood will moderate its views because Britain
appeases it. His masters confused 'engaging with the Islamic world'
with 'engaging with Islamism', and ignored the policies of the
Islamist far right as they did it.
In doing so, they abandoned all the Muslims in Britain and the
Islamic world who believe in the very values of 'democracy, freedom
of expression, respect for human rights' Her Majesty's government
is meant to uphold.
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