Imagine the shock of British authorities when they discover that the MCB is really quite mainstream in its views among Muslims, and not “extremist” at all. But right now those authorities are still busy branding anyone who points this out as an “Islamophobe.”
“Charity bankrolling London Ramadan lights funded extremism-linked group,” by David Rose, The Jewish Chronicle, April 3, 2024:
The charity that funded London’s Ramadan lights is bankrolling a media watchdog run by a group which is boycotted by the government over its alleged links to extremism, the JC can reveal.
The lights in Oxford Street and between Piccadilly and Leicester Square were switched on before Easter by London mayor Sadiq Khan, who described the presence of Jewish and other faith leaders as a sign of “hope” amid rising hate in the capital.
The event was attended by Board of Deputies vice-presidents Edwin Shuker and Amanda Bowman, as well as interfaith activist Laura Marks.
Yet the charity behind the lights, the Aziz Foundation, funds the Centre for Media Monitoring, run by the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB), which has been boycotted by the Conservative government since 2015.
The current deputy chief of the MCB praised Hamas’s founder during a visit to Gaza as a “holy warrior” and has hosted a cleric who compared Jews to pigs and monkeys.
The MCB’s deputy general secretary, Mohammed Kozbar, visited the grave of Hamas founder Sheikh Ahmed Yassin in 2015 when he travelled to Gaza and met leaders of the terror group.
At the time, Kozbar praised Yassin as “the master of the martyrs of resistance, the mujahid [holy warrior] sheikh, the teacher”.
In addition, the Aziz Foundation supports an “Islamophobia Response Unit” that was originally set up by Muslim Engagement and Development (Mend), a campaign group accused in the Commons of extremism.
The Response Unit is now an independent organisation. One of its current trustees has called Israel a “terrorist state” that should be shunned like North Korea.
A spokesman for the Campaign Against Antisemitism said: “The Aziz Foundation owes its donors, the Charity Commission and the Jewish community an explanation of why it is funding such divisive organisations, some of whose staff have views that are beyond the pale.”
Launched in 2018 by the MCB, the Centre for Media Monitoring aims to study how “mainstream media reporting of Islam and Muslims is contributing to an atmosphere of rising hostility towards Muslims in Britain”.
The CMM features prominently on the Muslim leadership body’s website….
Barbara says
/www.jihadwatch.org/2024/04/mosab-hassan-yousef-son-of-hamas-unmasks-the-truth-about-hamas-and-the-palestinian-resistance
This is my answer to the British cowardice.
WPM says
I wonder how much money finds it’s way into off shore accounts for non-Muslim elected leaders of the UK from jihadist organizations Here in the Americas I feel the same way about the majority of the democrats elected to office. The Islamic either get their way thru violence or paying off the unbelievers in elected office over the last 40 years that is my humble opinion. That is the only way to explain this making a majority native born citizens second class citizens in their own countries. Keep the borders open for more future doctors lawyers, taxpayers, law abiding “dreamers”.
OLD GUY says
You can take your idea one step farther, they have bought their way into our higher education system with MILLIONS of DOLLARS donated in order to spread their islamic propaganda to our youth.
somehistory says
hamas and its supporters are everywhere. Some of them put up lights and some plot terrorism. Maybe all of them “plot.”
“Hamas weapons cache unearthed in Bulgaria amid European plot fears”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/hamas-weapons-cache-unearthed-in-bulgaria-amid-european-plot-fears/ar-BB1l87Iy?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=c8b98c80a0934cedae0f7c67941c6773&ei=96
Jayell1 says
That very phrase ‘Muslim charity’ should set the alarm bells ringing for a start, because, of course, the islamic idea of ‘charity’ isn’t quite the same as we have in the West, just as the idea of what a ‘religion; is supposed to be is somewhat different. And I notice that the unelected Muslim Council of Britain (that seems to think it’s an arm of Government at Westminster these days) runs the so-called ‘Centre for Media Monitoring’, which sounds very ‘official’ and ‘upright’ since its title curiously omits its direct connection with its muslim controllers; how very typically devious and a good example of ‘organisational taquiya’ – lying by omission through deliberately failing to show its vested islamic interest. Now we see how far the rot has spread in the British establishment. However, they mistakenly think we’re as simple-minded as they are if they think they can get away with that ruse because once they’ve given their game away in one area, everyone just looks for the obvious tell-tale signs elsewhere.
Clem Alford says
When there were less number of immigrants there were hardly any serious problems and clashes. As the numbers increased and politicians became aware if possible votes by promising the earth the UK and other European countries it has all gone to the dogs.
jerry glenn says
UK surges in the international Islamopandering derby