I read the comments on one of the MPACUK articles and a comment was posted about the American Muslim institution CAIR, how well they are doing, and undoubtedly they are doing well in comparison to their peers in the US and in the UK and the West. But them doing well has two fundamental flaws.

The first flaw is that CAIR, through their hard work, become an abrogationist's ready-made excuse, the people who do nothing and will never do anything but yet point at the excellent work CAIR do and then say, “Look at them, it isn’t all bad.” And then they go back to their natural instincts and do nothing, meanwhile leaving the work, the problems and the pressure on CAIR.

The abrogationist in my view is the worst kind of Muslim, because they have had the insight to know how bad it is for Muslims, they have had the wisdom to know that there are political Muslim organisations out there who defend their rights, yet sit on their hands and do nothing but congratulate CAIR from a distance, or use them to prove a moot point.

CAIR and other political groups, like MPACUK, MCB, BMF etc have certain characteristics, and those characteristics are that while they do the work, most Muslims don’t. They see the media interviews, the pickets, the election campaigning and they rest at night safe in the knowledge that they are protected and if not ‘represented’ at all times, at least some of the time. And so Muslims who are educated enough to know about competent Muslim organisations do nothing to help, but sit on the sidelines, ready to use the work of others to justify their lack of work. Contemptible but not unpredictable, it is always the way of Muslims looking at someone else to solve their problems, represent them, protect them, give them self respect and to blame when things don’t work out.

The problem with CAIR is, and the same problem can be said of the MCB and most other Muslim organisations, is that while they are the best organisations they remain weak because the community they draw their strength from are disengaged with either the demonisation of Islam, or in finding a solution to the problems Muslims face. That then leaves the problems of finding a small group of capable Muslims within a very apolitical community. By maintaining their position they become like a doomed little Dutch boy, placing a finger in a hole in a huge dam. The solution is simple but not easy, the job of Muslim organisations is not to produce short-term respites to long-term problems but to fundamentally change the ummah they draw their strength from. Take the Jewish Zionist lobby for one, they are the dam, they draw on senior Jewish Rabbies, politicians, think tanks, industrialists, financiers, scholars, mums, dads, and kids. An admirably politicised community and that community then strengthen pro-Israeli Groups like AIPAC to carry out their anti-Arab lobbying. In America however we have CAIR, outgunned and on the defensive and without tangible support they need from their community.

In the UK, I spoke to a Muslim brother who I asked to help us during the now postponed general election. I was amazingly told that he was doing other “Important” things and that MPACUK are the ones who are good at elections. Incidentally he said “MPAC are doing great things, let them carry on”. Incidentally he knew I was in MPACUK and that it was MPACUK who needed and were asking him for help. Abrogationst.

MPACUK have taken on a different approach, we have no doubt that most Muslim politicians are terrified of the Zionist connection, the Muslim community is pacified or afraid into submission, so MPACUK take the position, let the dam break. If Muslims say they care let them show it, if Muslims want to change their situation let them change it, if Muslims don’t want our foreign policy to blow holes into kids in far off lands let them change it.

Because of the efforts that excellent and hard-working institutions do, results in the continual status quo, the ‘other’ institutions, Mosques, who have the real ability to improve and lead the ummah are content to let Muslims be demonised. They are content to let petty local rivalry destroy any real sense of unity and while every other community uses its religious and political institutions to filter people into Government, ours teaches us a cowardly insular belief system that means groups like MPACUK are left standing alone. So if the dam breaks, it’s the curse the ummah deserve. But if enough people see the problem they will be forced to act, and it is only that action that can stop the devastation, not lone dedicated groups and individuals.

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