MPACUK was left speechless over the last few weeks when a barrage of attacks slammed into the Muslim community, from calls that Shariah was about to take over Britain to Ministers coming out, calling Muslims ‘inbred’.

We were not gob smacked because of the ferocity of the attack - that’s something MPACUK has steeled itself to be prepared for. Instead, what was so surreal was how the very so-called ‘practicing’ leadership of this country’s Muslim groups had actually slept through the whole thing. The biggest mouths in Britain, always teaching their zombie-like, unthinking students to spout off about Shariah, were the first ones to run and hide as the storm raged.

The so-called practicing cliques, too, were nowhere to be seen. No loudmouth student emirs, no over-pious, self-proclaimed ‘practicing Muslims’. It was as if they were all collectively hiding under the same rock, or more likely, attending the same talk on Shariah, so they didn’t even know what the real world was doing. Where were they?

It’s almost a case for the X Files!

I mean, how hypocritical can you be, all day and night these cults teach their followers how great Shariah is, and then Shariah gets attacked, and they all shut up and hope no one can see them!

What were the so-called scholars doing? Sticking their fingers in their great wise ears and saying ‘LALALALALA’ really loud, so they could not hear the world’s media attack their very teaching. Reminds me of that old bloke who sometimes appears on Islam TV, ‘the one who thinks TV is haraam’ unless he is appearing on it. What was he going to talk about this week: ‘the permissibility of nail varnish’?

There is simply no excuse for it - these leaders and their followers sucked, and they can’t pretend they didn’t. They have never done a single thing to defend the Ummah, and now they went further and hid while Islam was attacked. We have to congratulate them, ‘Great work lads, another day ignorance is another day of bliss, you guys are always sticking your neck out for Islam, if only everyone could do as little as you lot, the world would be a better place.’

But it’s not all bad news. Some groups are actually starting to do something. A bit like the ‘Ents’ (tree people) in the Lord of the Rings, take years, decades of discussion over minor issues before they so anything, even small things – ask any hobbit they will tell you, but it seems they are on the move, and so we shouldn’t complain. A clutch of Muslim groups were going to Downing Street to demand Muslims be left alone.

Groups as well known as ‘The Council of European Jamaats’ (this always reminds me of Patel’s corner shop putting international at the end of their name because it made them feel like they were the new Microsoft’ ) and it gets better - World Federation of KSIMC, World Islamic Mission!

Anyone would have thought the whole Muslim world was going to be mobilised!

Added to these names were groups that had pretty much failed to achieve anything, even in the field they were in. For example, ‘FOSIS’ (read: we won’t do anything for anyone unless it’s a prayer room and Muslim Brotherhood who we are secretly all members of).

So why are we not cheering and wishing them well? After all they are doing something, which is better then nothing.

Well, because we have seen it all before. They hype the little piece of nothing that they actually do for the Ummah as if it was the world’s greatest deed, and then for the next 5 years go to sleep again.

We are sure more then a few people will be upset about this comment piece, but come on, be honest, can you honestly say the majority of these groups bar a few have done anything to help and protect the community in this very difficult time, apart from the odd throwaway comment?

Respect for groups is earned, not given for free and currently most of these groups don’t deserve any. Doing a little walk to Downing Street every five years is simply not enough.

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