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Very odd

Wednesday, 9th April 2008

Some thing very odd has happened. I have just read a piece by Inayat Bunglawala with which I mostly agree.

Given that Bunglawala is, as Harry's Place calls him, unfit for his role - I'd go further than that - this is most odd. Bunglawala holds some pretty repellent views, such as his belief that the BBC and the rest of the media are controlled by Jews:

The chairman of Carlton Communications is Michael Green of the Tribe of Judah. He has joined an elite club whose members include fellow Jews Michael Grade and Alan Yentob...[They are] close friends… so that's what they mean by a 'free media'.

Last year, I pointed out that the Telegraph has reported this about him:

In January 1993, Mr Bunglawala wrote a letter to Private Eye, the satirical magazine, in which he called the blind Sheikh Omar Abdul Rahman "courageous" - just a month before he bombed the World Trade Center in New York. After Rahman's arrest in July that year, Mr Bunglawala said that it was probably only because of his "calling on Muslims to fulfil their duty to Allah and to fight against oppression and oppressors everywhere".
Five months before 9/11, Mr Bunglawala also circulated writings of Osama bin Laden, who he regarded as a "freedom fighter", to hundreds of Muslims in Britain.

So it's an unusual thing, to say the least, for me to agree with him. Writing on CiF about Hassan Butt, a self-proclaimed former jihadi, he says:

Butt has signed a deal with UK publishers who have promised us a book in which he will reveal a "full account of terrorist activities that were undertaken in Pakistan" and how he found himself "planning and funding terrorism for one of al-Qaida's associates" and how he was now coming to terms with the "fact" that he had "spent a decade killing for killing's sake".
Now, of course, I have no idea whether this is just exaggerated nonsense, but clearly if Butt does possess information about terror activities that he claims to have been involved in, then that information should surely be given to the police without delay, especially if he really has turned his back on extremism.

The police should not have to wait for him to write a book so that he can also make a pretty penny out of his past actions at the same time.

Quite.

Mind you, as one of the saner commenters points out:

Inayat.
Who wrote this?

"So on February 14 1989, when the Iranian Islamic leader, Imam Khomeini delivered his fatwa calling for Salman Rushdie's death, I was truly elated."

Yes it was you!

And yes you went on demo's calling for Rushdies death.

Quick Inayat, turn yourself in for Soliciting Murder.

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Lee Jakeman

April 9th, 2008 11:18pm

Inayat Bunglawala has the kind of diseased mind that only a formal education can produce. A healthy mind is always the product of experience gained in the University of Life - a different kind of education altogether. This is why I laugh at people who put their faith in "education" as a kind of cure-all for all our ills. Practically every narrow-minded bigot in Britain today has a university degree, thus showing just what these bits of paper are really worth. What we need is more common sense, something you'll never find in the Muslim Council of Britain.