Imagine if there had been no Declaration of Independence. We would still be living under a regime that functions like this.
After the success of the movie ‘Citizen Vigilante’ on social media, the Muslim Council of Britain has written to an arm of the British government demanding that action be taken against X for allowing the movie on its platform despite all the ‘Islamophobia’.
“The Muslim Council of Britain has written to Ofcom asking why it has failed to take regulatory action against X for posting the film “Citizen Vigilante.” The movie is replete with Islamophobic tropes and has fuelled a surge in hatred.”
You may not be too shocked to learn that the Muslim Council of Britain has its own ‘Jihadist’ history.
During the 1988 Rushdie affair, the violent fury in Britain unleashed against a work of literature, the Satanic Verses, and its author was chiefly organized by extreme Islamist factions within British Muslim groups, which later formed the core of the Muslim Council of Britain.
No position held by MCB officials has proved too unreasonable for the media to balk at consulting them or instead seek a second opinion from the Muslim community: not when founding MCB secretary general Iqbal Sacranie said of Salman Rushdie that “Death is perhaps too easy for him”; not when eight Glasgow Mosques affiliated with the MCB issued a fatwa in 2001, accusing Scottish publisher and Qu’ran scholar Paigham Mustafa, on headed paper of its affiliate Glasgow Central Mosque, of “satanic thoughts” for questioning traditional Islamic practices such as stoning adulterers and apostates. The fatwa called on Muslims to “terminate these elements and to protect the youth from this temptation.”
The MCB’s influence even survived, in 2009, when the British government stopped engaging with the group after its deputy secretary general, Daud Abdullah, signed the Istanbul Declaration, which, a government minister declared, “supports violence against foreign forces – which could include British naval personnel” and advocates “attacks on Jewish communities all around the world.”
Most of the media did not flinch during the MCB’s six year boycott by the council of Holocaust Memorial Day; nor stop consulting with the MCB when the 2016 BBC Radio 4 documentary “The Deobandis” uncovered active links between leaders of MCB affiliated mosques in Edinburgh and Glasgow and the banned Sunni extremist group Sipah-e-Sahaba (SSP), which is linked to the Taliban and Al-Qaeda.
And there were no consequences for the MCB in 2015 when leaflets were found at one of its affiliates, Stockwell Green Mosque, which incited the murder of Ahmadi Muslims should they refuse to convert to Sunni Islam.
Clearly, Citizen Vigilante and ‘Islamophobia’ are the real problems here.