MCB; Inayat Bunglawala

MCB Inayat Bunglawala bin laden hamas

Inayat Bunglawala, 36, the media secretary for the Muslim Council of Britain, is understood to have been selected as one of seven "conveners" for a Home Office task force with responsibilities for tackling extremism among young Muslims, despite a history of anti-Semitic statements.

In January 1993, Mr Bunglawala wrote a letter to Private Eye, the satirical magazine, in which he called the blind Sheikh Omar Abdul Rahman "courageous" - just a month before he bombed the World Trade Center in New York. After Rahman's arrest in July that year, Mr Bunglawala said that it was probably only because of his "calling on Muslims to fulfil their duty to Allah and to fight against oppression and oppressors everywhere".

Five months before 9/11, Mr Bunglawala also circulated writings of Osama bin Laden, who he regarded as a "freedom fighter", to hundreds of Muslims in Britain.

The Muslim Council of Britain was one of several organisations invited to a meeting held by Tony Blair after the London bombings. The Prime Minister said afterwards that he would set up a task force to tackle extremism "head on".

Mr Bunglawala's job at the Home Office will be to help to organise a programme to tackle radicalism and extremism among young Muslims.

News of his appointment comes 10 days after he wrote to Mark Thompson, the BBC Director General, accusing a forthcoming BBC1 Panorama programme of possessing "a pro-Israeli agenda".

Although the programme had yet to be completed, Mr Bunglawala said that the BBC had allowed itself to be used by "highly placed supporters of Israel in the British media to make capital out of the July 7 atrocities in London".

The programme, A Question of Leadership, which will air tonight at 10.20pm, seeks to discover whether British Muslim leaders can tackle the extremism in their midst.

It features an interview with Sir Iqbal Sacranie, the secretary general of the Muslim Council of Britain, who says members of the Palestinian terrorist organisation Hamas are "freedom fighters".

Sir Iqbal compares Hamas suicide bombers to Nelson Mandela and Mahatma Ghandi.

He says: "Those who fight oppression, those who fight occupation, cannot be termed as terrorist, they are freedom fighters, in the same way as Nelson Mandela fought against their apartheid, in the same way as Gandhi and many others fought the British rule in India."

Sir Iqbal also refers to the founder and spiritual leader of Hamas, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, as "the renowned Islamic scholar".

Sir Iqbal attended a memorial service at the Central Mosque in London for Sheikh Yassin after he was killed in an Israeli air strike last year.

The programme also shows a leading Saudi cleric, an honoured guest of the East London Mosque, claiming that Islam is "the best testament to how different communities can live together", while back in his pulpit in Mecca, he has referred to Jews as "monkeys and pigs" and also as "the rats of the world". Christians are "cross worshippers" and Hindus "idol worshippers".

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[victor190779]

Ladies and gentlemen: Taquiya in practice.

[londoniran]

and what the fuck are the west doing in muslim countries-getting a suntan?

[boliusb]

Do you have the MCB Panorama program?

[flyingrabits]

He is a fuck minded and support darwin theory what a fool think human evolved from ape

[GuysSeriously]

Yeah attacking muslim is fine but attacking non muslims is fine

FUCK ISLAM FUCK MCB

go back to your native countries

[dubyamoney]

That's a bit strong, I think he made a pretty good defence of his position. You need to get  your dads big fat cock outta your arse. Gay fuckwit cunt!!! PS also get the Rabbi's fat hairy cock outta ur mouth you disgusting fucker!!!!

[UFCextra]

lol my friend says Omar Abdel Rahman : " you kidding me he's blind and he's the bad guy like it's a Batman movie "

[thissar]

Hamas does suicide bombings, killing civilians. How can you call them legitimate? Man this is scary. This guy is born and raised in the West and he defends Hamas and associates with the Muslim Brotherhood. I hope British Inteligence monitors the Muslim community in Britain closely. I think all western nations must adopt internal security measures like Israel to prevent more Fort hood type shootings.