Three snippets from this
BBC report on today's rally in Trafalgar Square:
A mass rally by mainstream Muslims demonstrating against controversial cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad as a terrorist is to be staged.
Organiser Anas Altikriti, of the Muslim Association of Britain said he was confident the demonstration would not be taken over by extremists.
Doctor Azam Tamimi, who is the director of the Institute of Islamic Political Thought, is due to speak at the demonstration and said it would be peaceful.
And this, from Labour MP Louise Ellman,
House of Commons, December 2003:
It is time that the spotlight fell on the Muslim Association of Britain, particularly the key figures, such as Azzam Tamimi, Kamal el Helbawy, Anas Al-Tikriti and Mohammed Sawalha. All of them are connected to the terrorist organisation Hamas. The Muslim Association of Britain itself is a branch of the Muslim Brotherhood—an extremist fundamentalist organisation founded in Egypt in 1928, and the spiritual ideologue of all Islamic terror organisations.
Thankfully, the Muslim Association of Britain doesn't speak for the majority of Muslims in this country, but it is troubling that the BBC describes the organization as representing "mainstream Muslims".
