Nearly every week MPACUK is now starting to receive news that
Mosques across the United Kingdom are starting to open their doors to the wider
community. Which is alhamdulillah amazing. Finally our Mosques are trying
to eradicate the misconceptions about Islam and starting to lead our community
out of the depths of Islamophobia and ignorance. There is still a lot to do and
we make a promise that we will support the your innovative and creative ideas of
helping the Muslim and None Muslim Community.
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Tony Blair's conference with "Uncle Tom" Muslim 'leaders' has come
under fire for inviting those who followed the government line on
issues relating to Neo-Con inspired Foreign Policy. The war-mongering Prime Minster will also use the platform to announce
an increase in funding to promote a Government Approved Islam which conforms to
the Neo-Con led Foreign Policy. Lord Ahmed, Labour member of the House of Lords and Britain's first
Muslim peer, publicly criticised the conference of international
Islamic leaders which will receive a speech by Tony Blair , Gordon Brown and David Cameron today.
Israeli groups are planning to launch a counter-boycott of Britain in
response to a series of boycotts proposed by British unions and
associations. The counter-measures include an email campaign to
convince North Americans to boycott British goods and services and a
threat by union workers to refuse to unload British exports to Israel.
Israel last night executed two more
Palestinian school children and injured a third. It is reported that the
Palestinian children were trying to find scraps of metal, probably to feed their family members. Israel has become renowned
for executing Palestinian children with the worlds best military equipment in the
entire Middle East. There has been no condemnation from the Pro-War Israeli Lobbies which include BICOM, Labour Friends of Israel,
Conservative Friends of Israel, Lib Dem friends of Israel.
The largest union in the United
Kingdom, UNISON, will vote on a proposal to boycott Israeli products at
their annual meeting in June. The union, with 1.4 million members,
represents public servants in the United Kingdom. If
the union adopts the proposal to boycott Israeli goods and services, it
will be the largest union in the world to have adopted the boycott. The proposal follows a vote on Wednesday by the UK’s largest union of academics to boycott Israeli academic institutions.
Yesterday I wrote a piece entitled "Israel's House of Horrors" about the openly murderous statements of Israeli cabinet ministers. Just when I thought it couldn't get worse, I read a news article on the website of The Jerusalem Post that Israel's former Sephardic Chief Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu -- one of the most senior theocrats in the Jewish State "ruled that there was absolutely no moral prohibition against the indiscriminate killing of civilians during a potential massive military offensive on Gaza aimed at stopping the rocket launchings" ("Eliyahu advocates carpet bombing Gaza," The Jerusalem Post, 30 May, 2007).
In a move seen as utterly hypocritical, members of the right wing pro-Israeli lobby which includes Labour MP Denis MacShane, Liberal Democrat MP Chris Huhne and Former Conservative party leader Iain Duncan Smith, condemned their fellow countrymen for taking a moral and ethical stand against the racist state of Israel. Yes, the same racist state which has killed two British peace activists and one British camera man over the years was boycotted by British Academics yesterday.
Britain's university lecturers and academics are threatening to revolt
against the government's controversial plans for a 'witch hunt' against
Muslim students. The University and College Union (UCU), the largest trade union and
professional association for higher education staff, is asking its
120,000 members to refuse to spy on Muslims at its inaugural congress
in Bournemouth, southern England on Wednesday.
MPACUK ran a vigorous, persistent campaign for over two months when a correspondent from the BBC falsely described Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. Alhamdollillah, after much perseverance through effective media lobbying (aka media Jihad), and after MPACUK escalated the matter to the Editorial Complaints Unit, a thorough investigation went underway by the ECU and the BBC have finally accepted their error and will publish a public acknowledgement of it on their website – Jerusalem is NOT the capital of Israel and it should never be described as such again!
Essentially Weinberg has turned down two out of two invites to come to this
country (in effect a boycott) to speak in an academic capacity because of a "a
widespread anti-Israel and anti-semitic current in British opinion". Pro-IsraeliWhat has particularly angered him is the idea of an academic and a consumer
boycott of Israel. By replying with his own Boycott of UK he amazingly
criticises the National Union of Journalists for a "desire to pander to the
growing Muslim minority in Britain".
One of the leading Islamic calligraphers Khalil al-Zahawi was shot dead yesterday outside his home in the New Baghdad District. Al-Zahawi (May God have mercy upon his soul) was highly regarded in the Ummah for his classical Arabic script. If we are to look back into our History books, which unfortunately our Masjids do not tend teach, it can be seen that Baghdad had played an important role in the emergence of the Islamic Golden age.
In another sign of British people’s displeasure at the racist state of Israel's brutal occupation and mass culling of innocent Palestinian women and children, a number of high profile architects which include Will Alsop, Terry Farrell, Richard MacCormac, Rick Mather and Ted Cullinan have had the moral and ethical decency to stand up and to be counted on to do whatever they can to stop the apartheid state, which has ignored international, moral and ethical law within the Jewish faith.
It looks as if David Cameron is singing from the same pages from the Pro-War-Israeli Lobby. The fundamentalist Conservative Friends of Israel is keeping the military option open against Iran. Nevertheless being the same Pro-War Lobby that lobbies British MP's to support the illegal military attack on Iraq, which happens to only benefit the racist state of Israel.
Abdullah al-Faisal, who influenced one of the July 7 bombers, has been deported from Britain. The Home Secretary, John Reid, welcomed the removal of the Jamaican convert to Islam, who was placed on a flight to Kingston just after midday yesterday. Mr Reid said Mr Al-Faisal would be excluded from the UK.The Government's official account of the 2005 London bombings said the cleric had a strong influence on Germaine Lindsay, who blew up a Tube train at King's Cross, killing 26 people.
As predicted in the last issue of The Muslim News Mohammad Asghar, 62, entered the record books becoming the first ethnic minority and Muslim member in the Welsh Assembly’s eight year history. Asghar successfully won a regional seat in South Wales East for the Welsh nationalist party Plaid Cymru (PC) on May 3. Asghar was previously the first Muslim Councillor to be elected in Wales, but narrowly failed to win an Assembly seat at the last regional list elections in 2003. Speaking to The Muslim News a very happy Asghar said, “I’m very excited. I will be serving with my heart and soul for the ethnic minorities which are an integral part of the United Kingdom and Wales.”
Israeli troops killed more than 650 Palestinians last year - half of them unarmed civilians including some 120 children - a threefold increase from 2005, a leading human rights group said Wednesday. In its annual 2007 global report, Amnesty International also criticized Israel for deepening the poverty in Palestinian territories by withholding customs duties and widening a network of blockades and other travel restrictions. The group accused soldiers and settlers of committing ``serious human rights abuses, including unlawful killings, against Palestinians, mostly with impunity.'' No such killings were documented in the report.
In one of the fiercest attacks
on Lord Levy from any political party yet,
Richard Spring, a Conservative
spokesman on foreign affairs blasted Lord Levy for bringing “embarrassment for
this country in the Arab world and in Israel”. He went further to state that,
“We have some of the most skilled and distinguished diplomats in the world and
they have been humiliated and sidelined by Lord Levy's antics in the Middle
East.”