Not everyone is pleased to see Boris win. Muslims 4 Ken have been strangely silent.  The Muslim Public Affairs Committee, on the other hand, has plenty to say. Muslims, it seems, are the problem:

Boris Johnson called Islam “the problem” and has now been elected Mayor of London. Islam is not the problem. Boris Johnson is not the problem. Our Muslim leaders ARE the problem.

With nearly 1 million Muslim Londoners our leaders should have mobilised the Muslim vote to stop the rise to power of a Zionist Islamophobe. But they stood back and watched as Ken Livingstone, the most pro-Palestinian and pro-Muslim elected politician we’ve ever had, was hounded from power.

"Hounded from power"? This was a free and fair election. The people have spoken.

The Zionists and Islamophobes who hated him for sticking up for Muslims were not passive like our Muslim leaders.  

Under-funded volunteers can’t save the Ummah alone

MPACUK is under-funded and we rely on volunteers giving up their weekends and evenings to defend the Ummah. Yet our London branch distributed 60,000 leaflets, got hundreds of posters up in Muslim shops and used new technology to spread the message online, in the media and even in text alerts.

MPACUK wrote to every mosque in London about the election explaining what they could do to educate and mobilise voters. A few outstanding mosques explained the importance of voting in their Khutbahs and held talks and workshops about the elections. A few organized voter registration drives. Most mosques still did nothing.

Every mosque can reach thousands in their community. And many Muslim organizations MPACUK contacted also refused to take part in the campaign. Among the most prominent we put in calls to British Muslim Forum and local ISB branches – but they weren’t interested in doing the work.

Our Muslim leaders should have stopped this Zionist Islamophobe, but they refused to lift a finger.

Our Leaders have done nothing to stem the tide of hate.

The fact that so many of our fellow citizens have voted for a candidate who has openly spread hate against Islam should ring alarm bells! Our mosques could reach out to our non-Muslim neighbours and dispel the Islamophobic myths spread in the media and by the BNP. There are over 2000 mosques in the UK – if every mosque held regular Open Days it would go a long way toward stopping the rising tide of Islamophobia. Ignorance leads to fear – but surely it’s not too hard to just invite people in for a cup of tea and a chat with ordinary Muslims?

The Missing Islamic Obligation: Accountability

Abu Bakr, upon acceptance of the Khilafaat, gave a speech in which he called upon the Muslim community:

“So if I do the right thing, then help me and if I do wrong, then put me straight. Truthfulness is a sacred trust and lying is a betrayal.”

Will you hold your mosque committee accountable for failing to lift a finger to stop a racist Islamophobe becoming Mayor of London? Will you demand they now hold a voter registration drive? Will you demand they educate our community about the importance of empowering ourselves through voting and politics? Or will you allow them to leave it to the thugs outside the mosque who are hood-winking our youth to think it’s haram to vote?

How can we recite Qur'an everyday and yet not lift a finger to stop the rise to power of a man who said that Islamophobia is the natural reaction to our beloved Qur'an?

"And the Messenger will say (on the Day of Judgement), "O my Lord, indeed my people have taken this Qur'an as a thing abandoned"
(Surah 25: 30)

We must now redouble our efforts to empower the Muslim community!

Three words that I would ban: "diversity", "empower" and "community". That said, I suspect that, for a Muslim, "empowerment" means something other than fulfilling one's potential, as it does for the psychobabblers.