is the description the BBC uses for the Muslim Public Affairs Committee. In a post for the influential left-wing site Harry’s Place, “david t” says:
Secondly, it is wrong to describe MPACUK as a “civil liberties group”. It is, rather, an extreme Islamist organisation which republishes material not only from other extreme Islamist organisations, but also from US and UK neo-Nazi websites.
Read and note his first point as well.
UPDATE: The BBC obviously read the post and have substantially edited the piece concerned.
ANOTHER UPDATE: For some reason you get the original, unedited version if you go here but the re-edited version if you go here. (Hat tip: Little Bulldogs.)
More important is the fact that the National Union of Students placed a “no platform” order on MPAC. The BBC has obviously decided that they should be given a platform to spread their hate.
I cannot believe that the BBC was so unaware of the true nature of the MPAC that they described it as a “civil liberties group”. I don’t have a £3bn+ budget and thousands of staff, yet I knew. Can they truly be so ignorant? It’s incredible.
“More important is the fact that the National Union of Students placed a “no platform” order on MPAC. ”
and the NUS is exactly a foaming-at-the-mouth BNP organisation,is it?
indeed it is incredible that the BBC would describe them as a “civil liberties group”. have they ever visited the MPAC website?
typo: and the NUS isnt…
Sorry to dissapoint you all. The BBC hasn’t edited out the references to MPACUK nor to the IHRC. It is still there in the original article:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/5410472.stm?ls
By the way, do you all know about the IHRC chairman and Hezbollah:
http://littlebulldogs.blogspot.com/2006/10/more-on-straw-and-bbc.html
Who we talkng about ? These moderates ?
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=22775_MPACUK-_58_Years_of_Occupation&only
Not wishing to defend the BBC but if republishing offensive material is all the New Labour squad can use to prove MPACUK isn’t a ‘civil liberties group’ they have lost the argument.
A much better argument is showing that they are a pro Islamist pressure group as LGF has.
Also getting a ‘no platform’ order from the NUS is (or at least was) a badge of honour.
How about MPACUK calling for the destruction of the State of Israel? Is that Islamo-fascist enough?
Check here:
http://littlebulldogs.blogspot.com/2006/09/mpacuk-implicitly-calls-for.html
Here is the agenda for a typical MPA FCUK”civil liberties” meeting.
http://forum.mpacuk.org/calendar.php?do=getinfo&e=290&day=2006-10-31&c=1
Actually the MPAC could be argued to be a “civil liberties” group – they want, after all, to curtail certain civil liberties we hold sacrosant – free speech, equality under a secular law, etc. Perhaps that’s what the BBC meant (laughs).
Jack Straw’s comments are still the main headline on the BBC site. Meanwhile, a coach crash which injured 26 people, nine seriously, is buried in a regional section.
No-one can say that the BBC is just stoking this one up until the Outrageometer hits 150. Oh no. Then, having successfully incited thousands more crazies to burn flags, embassies and people they can write lots of sympathetic articles about Muslim “anger”.
Massoud Shadjareh Agent of Iran’s terror Police
Massoud Shadjareh, chairman of the so called “Islamic Human Rights Commission” is a longstanding agent of the Iranian secret police VEVAK.
http://www.fas.org/irp/world/iran/vevak/index.html
He is also a member of the hard line circle of Khamenei inspired agents. In addition to be a opinion writer for the Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/terrorism/story/0,12780,1183417,00.html
and leading pro-Radical Islam and Anti-Israeli demonstartions
http://www.inminds.co.uk/durban-conference.html
he is also a well known anti-Semite
http://www.inminds.co.uk/qudsday2003.html
Shadjareh’s main responsibity is to keep tabs on the Iranian emigre opposition communities and report on their activities.
For a useful list of who is who in UKs Radical Islam community see here
http://www.tau.ac.il/Anti-Semitism/asw2004/uk.htm
i really dont understand the BBC with regards to what Jack Straw said – i mean, its not exactly earth shattering stuff is it? it deserved probably a brief mention, but no more.
that coach crash (as pointed out above) was a far more important incident today to the people of Britain.
the other would be those Windsor “riots” – which was effectively buried by the bbc website (in spite of it being reported on newsnight last night )