The Muslim Association of Britain's website is presently advertising the upcoming conference 'Minorities in the Media – A United Solution', a high-profile event dedicated to improving minority representation in the British media.
It is unclear why MAB (the British branch of the right-wing Muslim Brotherhood movement) is promoting a conference featuring left-wing speakers such as Jeremy Dear, from the National Union of Journalists, and Zohra Moosa, a Muslim feminist. However MAB's attention will surely be focused on the only panel dealing solely and specifically with Muslims issues.
Entitled 'Following the 9/11 and 7/7attacks, how does the media represent Muslims?', this panel features only three speakers.
One of these is Seyyed Ferjani, a long-standing MAB member.
The second is Mohammed Abdul Bari, the head of the Muslim Council of Britain, an Islamist group which works closely with MAB.
The third is Mohammed Ali, the CEO of the Islam Channel, a conservative, Saudi-backed channel which has frequently breached Ofcom's broadcasting guidelines.
Ali is also apparently the subject an arrest warrant issued by Interpol for charges relating to counterfeiting, "crimes involving the use of weapons/explosives" and terrorism.
In other words, the panel dedicated to discussing issues affecting British Muslims is to be entirely dominated by Islamists - to the exclusion of other Muslim voices.
One can understand why MAB might be pleased by this state of affairs - but it is hard to imagine how this situation benefits the conference's guests or, indeed, how it benefits Britain's Muslims as a whole.
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"to the exclusion of other Muslim voices."
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Never mind other Muslim voices for a minute, what about members of other minorities? Ever noticed how part of the Islamist agenda is to muscle out and marginalise non Muslim minorities, and then usurp the relatively benign agenda rhetoric of 'minority representation' and hijack it with their own agenda?
They couldn't care less for anyone other than themselves.
Posted by Sally | May 21, 2008 3:41 AM
Posted on May 21, 2008 03:41