Sir Ibrahim Hooper and Lord Salam Al-Marayati?

by Daniel Pipes
Sun, 12 Jun 2005
updated Mon, 8 Aug 2005

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Well, they live in the wrong country to receive such accolades, and much they must rue it, for their British counterpart, Iqbal Sacranie, was knighted today, in the Queen's Birthday Honours. As secretary general of the Muslim Council of Britain (on which, see Chris Blackburn's analysis, "The Dark Side of the Muslim Council of Britain"), Sacranie has been one of the most important advocates of radical Islam in the United Kingdom – so what could be more appropriate than to reward him with a hoary English title?

	Iqbal Sacranie

The comparison with Hooper is not a stretch, for the MCB and CAIR work together; Beila Rabinowitz of MilitantIslamMonitor.org has even called the MCB "a carbon copy of CAIR."

Among Sacranie's actions: calling for censorship of religious speech, trying to change the plot of the action series 24, boycotting Holocaust Remembrance ceremonies, denying the existence of Islamic terrorists, interpreting the Bush administration's true agenda as the "recolonization and the re-mapping of the Middle East," and accusing Israel of genocide. (June 12, 2005)

Related Topics: Muslims in the United Kingdom

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