Muslim Council of Britain CONNECTED to controversial Muslim Brotherhood, report shows

From the Express

THE Muslim Council of Britain the country’s largest Islamic organisation, has an “important” connection to the Muslim Brotherhood, a group considered by many Gulf states to be a terrorist organisation, a Government report has revealed

An internal review of the Muslim Brotherhood commissioned by the Prime Minister, while stopping short from calling the group a terrorist organisation, said that it was founded on the premise that “secularisation and westernisation were at the root of all contemporary problems of Arab and Muslim societies.”

Founded in Egypt in 1928, the Muslim Brotherhood had has its goal the “religious reformation of individual Muslims, the progressive moral purification of Muslim societies and their eventual political unification in a Caliphate under Sharia law.” 

Although it is feared to have links to extremism, Prime Minister David Cameron has refused to ban it.

The report also found that over the years the Muslim Council of Britain, an umbrella body which comprises more than 500 Islamic organisations, has established close ties with individuals who are also ardent Muslim Brotherhood supporters.

The review was conducted by a group of senior civil servants, including Sir John Jenkins, who until recently was the UK’s Ambassador to Saudi Arabia. 

At a time when Britain’s Muslim community is under increased pressure to do more to tackle Islamic extremism, the report also found that a number of Brotherhood groups have for years been raising funds in the UK. Some of those funds have allegedly been linked to Hamas, whose military wing was proscribed by Britain as a terrorist organisation in 2001. 

On its website the Muslim Council of Britain hit back at suggestions by the Government that it has any type of connection to terrorist organisations. 

It said: “The Muslim Council of Britain is a British organisation, with affiliates who are constitutionally bound to be registered in the United Kingdom. We have no affiliation to the Muslim Brotherhood or any other foreign organisation.”

The Muslim Council of Britain went on to state that, contrary to what the report says, it resumed relations with the Government in late 2009 and called those who question its legitimacy “bigots”,