Thanks to Glyn Harries for this long, informative post. Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin, the defacto leader of the East London Mosque and the Islamic Forum of Europe, the fascist Jamaat e Islami wing in the UK, has finally been found guilty of war crimes for killing pro-Bangladesh indepedance academics in 1971. He fled to the UK to escape justice and no doubt will escape justice by staying in the UK now. It has long been known that Mueen-Uddin and the group that control the ELM/IFE/London Muslim Centre, were associated with the Bangaldesh fascist group Jamaat e Islami, and that many were accused of war crimes, as part of the mass murder and rapes of tens of thousands of Bengali socialists, women academics, nationalists and anyone who supported independance, in the Al Badr death squads, indeed Gita Sahgal produced a Dispatches documentary shown on C4 in 1995 showing plainly their guilt. But when Respect was set up in Tower Hamlets in 2004 and especially in George Galloways election camapign of 2005, the SWP/Respect turned not to local socialists of Bangladeshi heritage like Ansar Ahmed Ullah, those who had been active in the housing struggles of the 1970s, nor those who had fought the Nazis and racists in the 7ts and 8ts, but to the East London Mosque which, following the Scarman report of 1981, the election of Labour in 1997, much Saudi funding and being seen a key element of Labours Prevent Extremism startegy following 9/11, was growing rapidly. As we know GG was elected, but as has happened in Bradford in recent weeks, the unholy coalition soon collapsed, as castle built on sand always do. This episode is perhaps the most wrong of any the UK Left has done since the CPGB and Czechoslovakia 68; not the idea of working with those of muslim heritage, of course, but working with these specific individuals and organisations. Tragic. Yasmin Rehman, Asad Rehman, Yasmin Alam, Max Dunbar, Faisal Gazi, Khushi Kabir, Mallika Dutt, Rashmi Varma,
Posted on: Sun, 03 Nov 2013 11:31:43 +0000
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