MCB and 'Sir' Iqbal Sacranie's statements are typical Muslim lies and propaganda...notice the qualifier on the anti-terrorism statement about opposing violence against 'innocent' people...of course in Islam, no non-Muslim is 'innnocent'. The rest is 'taqiyya' - Sharia-required lying by Muslims to non-Muslims for the advancement of Islam. b
http://www.islamophobia-watch.com/islamophobia-watch/2007/9/27/mcnulty-defen ds-kelly-over-mcb.html McNulty <file:///C:/islamophobia-watch/2007/9/27/mcnulty-defends-kelly-over-mcb.html > defends Kelly over MCB Speaking at a Labour Party conference fringe meeting, Home Office security minister Tony McNulty has stated that it was "a mistake to treat the Muslim Council of Britain as if it was the only voice of British Muslims and to 'elevate it to an exclusivity that wasn't warranted'," according to a BBC report. He claimed that the MCB's response to the failed terror attacks in London and Glasgow this summer had been "profoundly different" to 7/7 and praised former communities secretary Ruth Kelly for "recalibrating" the relationship between the government and the MCB. BBC <http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7015154.stm> News, 26 September 2007 Of course, the "recalibration" carried out by Kelly involved shunting a genuinely representative organisation like the MCB aside in favour of the ridiculous neocon-inspired Sufi Muslim Council that represents nobody at all - but had the advantage from Kelly's standpoint that, unlike the MCB, it didn't criticise UK foreign policy. As for the MCB's supposed "profoundly different" reaction to the London and Glasgow terrorist attacks compared with their response to 7/7, this is a myth that appears to be accepted wisdom in government circles - home secretary Jacqui Smith made the same claim in a recent interview with the <http://www.newstatesman.com/200708020014> New Statesman - but lacks any basis in fact. The MCB press release of 7 July 2005 was headed "British Muslims Utterly Condemn Acts of Terror <http://www.mcb.org.uk/media/presstext.php?ann_id=150> ", and the then secretary general of the MCB, Sir Iqbal Sacranie, was quoted as saying: "We must and will be united in common determination that terror cannot succeed. It is now the duty of all us Britons to be vigilant and actively support efforts to bring those responsible to justice." The MCB press release <http://www.mcb.org.uk/media/presstext.php?ann_id=262> of 3 July 2007, though rather longer and more detailed, took an identical line, stating that "those who seek to deliberately kill or maim innocent people are the enemies of all of us" and that the police "deserve the fullest support and cooperation from each and every sector of our society, including all Muslims". In other words, the change that Kelly's so-called "recalibration" has brought about in the MCB's position on terrorism is precisely zero. Perhaps McNulty should talk to someone who actually knows something about the subject rather than to people like Martin Bright, Shiv Malik and Nick Cohen <http://bradfordmuslim.blogspot.com/2007/07/reviewing-prevent-agenda.html> . [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
