MCB's leader is Dr Muhammad Abdul Bari, a special needs teacher who can easily relate to his pupils--he acts like a child. The Muslims are right, British society is wrong.
It is Britain, not the Muslims who make up a small percentage of the country, who should adapt and change, Bari reasons.
However, in just the past week, a twenty three year-old Muslim woman was convicted of violating a new anti-terror law, she wrote poems about beheading non-Muslims, and according to the Guardian, she had files on her computer labeled "The Mujaheddin Poisoner's Handbook, Encyclopaedia Jihad, How to Win in Hand-to-Hand Combat, and How to Make Bombs."
Meanwhile, the head of the British equivalent of the FBI said in a speech that 2,000 British residents are terrorism supporters--up from 400 last year--and this group poses a threat to the nation.
Bari was interviewed by London's Telegraph newspaper, and although he carefully chose his words, he made some frightening comments.
First, Bari denies that "Islamic terrorism" exists, saying:
Terrorists are terrorists, they may use religion but we shouldn't say Muslim terrorists, it stigmatises the whole community. We never called the IRA Catholic terrorists.
The Irish Republican Army to my knowledge never used a Biblical verse to justify their bombings. Belfast priests weren't issuing a Catholic version of a fatwa to justify killing Protestant infidels.
On Salman Rushdie, who Bari thinks should have not been knighted:
He caused a huge amount of distress and discordance with his book, it should have been pulped.
Uh, Dr. Bari, if you and your community doesn't like a book, don't read it. Is anyone--any where--forcing Muslims to read The Satanic Verses?
Just how many Muslims have read it--cover to cover?Recently it was reported that many British mosques are selling books that spew hate.
Not my problem, says man-child Bari:
The bookshops are independent businesses. We can't just go in and tell them what to sell … I will see what books they keep, if they have one book which looks like it is inciting hatred, do they have counter books on the same shelf?
What if the bookshop wanted to sell the Bible? Or The Satanic Verses?
As I've heard before from Muslims, suicide bombing is prohibited by Islam.
However....
Criminal people have used that as a weapon to encourage young people, those who don't have any anchor in themselves, [to become suicide bombers]. Iraq has been a disaster, the country has been destroyed for no reason, that had an impact on the Muslim psyche.
There is always a "But..."
Bari thinks arranged marriages, which he prefers to call "assisted marriages," can benefit Britain.
Marriage should not be forced on people but parents can be a catalyst … Young people are emotional, they want idealism. Older people have gone through all sorts of things and become a bit more experienced. A child will always want to eat chocolate but if he does then he will become fat. He needs to be given things that are good for him too.
Uh, no. For starters, many of the Muslim arranged marriages in the West involve first cousins, and are often utilized by imams to get more Muslims in the country.
Stoning as a punishment: What does Dr. Bari think?
It depends what sort of stoning and what circumstances. When our prophet talked about stoning for adultery he said there should be four [witnesses] - in realistic terms that's impossible. It's a metaphor for disapproval.
What about stoning for other crimes? Let me repeat Bari's words, "It depends what sort of stoning and what circumstances." And what if the four witnesses are lying?
There is room for moderate Islam in Britain, but Bari, and the Muslim Council of Britain, are not moderates.
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