MPACUK yesterday put “Women’s power” centre stage, after seven years of fighting the mafia that run our mosques.

For nothing more then leafleting outside a mosque asking for their rights to pray and have  a say in the House of Allah, the committees have had their goons attack the sisters, throw eggs at them, call them names like “bitches” and even threatened to kill them.

With our own eyes we have seen the sisters cry, and then summon up the courage to fight again. May Allah bless them in this Jihad. 

This is the real state we Muslim are denying about ourselves. This is the evil that we have allowed to control our Mosques, the cancer that we refuse to treat.

Some amongst the community predictably took the easy “apologists” route out. They became apologists for the evil that MPAC are trying to tackle. Never themselves active in lifting a finger to give a woman her rightful place in the house of Allah, they attack MPAC for “its methods”.

By our methods they mean a simple leaflet outside a mosque? Or perhaps that we raised or voices to loud when we saw our sisters being attacked by a mob and then blamed by the Mosque Leaders for the attack. Only when pressed do they mutter a little “of course the mosque was wrong to do what it did” however as soon as this admission leaves their lips they again attack the sisters for “rocking the boat”. Their own guilt is the real driving force for these slanders; they are in truth shamed by their own inaction.

These apologists are the typical pacified Muslims who have never put their own necks on the line against a mafia like committee, for fear of being outcast by the community, family or even worse physically attacked. No, they want to keep their respect, their liberty, and condemn those who do sacrifice for some noble ideal so that others may get some liberty and perhaps some respect.

What right have these cowards got to talk of MPAC’s noble sisters when even the men of their family have not lifted a finger o protect the House of Allah from falling into the hands of evil men.

To  these Muslim men who now stand so tall saying “it has made our community look bad”, we reply “no your inaction, your cowardice, and your inability to stand up to thugs has made our community look bad, you allowed the evil and then blame us for treating it!”

We ask these brothers and sisters who are so quick to now condemn MPAC on behalf of the community, where were they the last 7 years when the MPAC sisters fought against our politicians and those who vilify us in the Media? When these same MPAC sisters spent their wealth and worked late into the night to defend the hijab and then Iraq, and Palestine and recently the niqab, where were they when these sisters stuck their necks out, giving their own money to rent a room to meet, or print a leaflet, while these same big mouth Muslims kept their money sealed in their pockets. Now they shout and comment at the top of their lungs as if they were defenders of the ummah!

Did these mealy mouth Muslims who condemn the actions of the mosques and then spend three times as long attacking MPAC, ever once think how scary it was for those sisters to have a hundred men surround them, push them, shove them and assault them? Did they ever think how heart breaking it was to know that these men were tasked by Allah to be their protectors not their oppressors!

Those who would condemn MPAC’ campaign for a REAL mosque that REALLY cares for our community, and allows ALL OF US to partake in giving something back, we say “Go back to the rocks from which you crawled, we stand united and we will not stop in bringing justice to the people who are oppressed and that includes the oppression we ourselves allow and unbelievable justify.

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