And the requests for money from the MCB are a glimpse into how radical Muslims use Western guilt and PC multiculturalism to portray themselves as eternal victims—victims whose rage may erupt into violence at any moment unless they get what they’re demanding.
Letters between the home office and a high-profile muslim group reveal that the government has given at least £150,000 to it. The muslim council of Britain (MCB), led at the time by Sir Iqbal Sacranie, received the grant after asking the government for £500,000, according to correspondence disclosed under the freedom of information act (FOIA).
The financial relationship between the group and the home office is bound to raise questions – especially among muslims – about the MCB’s independence from the government. However, correspondence between Sacranie and a home office minister shows that he has been critical of the government. [No kidding. —ed.]
Ministers have seen the MCB, which in June 2006 elected Dr Muhammad Abdul Bari to replace Sacranie as secretary general, as the organisation through which to reach out to Britain’s muslim population in the wake of the September 11 attacks in America and the bombings in London last July. However, some British muslims complain that the MCB does not speak for them.
In February last year, a policy advisor at the home office’s ‘cohesion and faith’s unit’ (CFU) sent a letter to the MCB’s treasurer Dr Akber Mohamedali offering the group a grant of £148,160 for the financial year ending the following March.
The money was to fund five projects that the MCB had proposed: MCB leadership development programme; MCB leadership mentoring programme; MCB direct, a web portal for information on islam and muslims; British citizenship programme; and British muslim equality pr
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