Muslims Boycott Holocaust Remembrance
Charles Johnson
Sat Jan 22, 2005 at 5:10 pm PST • Views: 408
Iqbal Sacranie and the Muslim Council of Britain are getting quite fearless about exhibiting their pro-terrorist, antisemitic agenda; they’re boycotting this week’s commemoration of the liberation of Auschwitz, because it’s not “inclusive” enough.
Sacranie says it doesn’t include the “holocaust” and “genocide” inflicted on Palestinians by Israel: Muslims Boycott Holocaust Remembrance.
BRITISH Muslims are to boycott this week’s commemoration of the liberation of Auschwitz because they claim it is not racially inclusive and does not commemorate the victims of the Palestinian conflict.
Iqbal Sacranie, secretary-general of the Muslim Council of Britain, has written to Charles Clarke, the home secretary, saying the body will not attend the event unless it includes the “holocaust” of the Palestinian intifada.
He said similar events held in other European countries was an “inclusive day” that commemorated deaths in Palestine, Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia, as well as the former Nazi death camps.
“We wrote to the Home Office three or four weeks ago. We said the issue of the Holocaust is not really the concern. But we have now expressed our unwillingness to attend the ceremony because it excludes ongoing genocide and human rights abuses around the world and in the occupied territories of Palestine,” he said.
Home Office officials have told the council, which represents more than 350 Muslim organisations, that they are considering the request. But officials have no plans to broaden the remit of the occasion because they fear it would infuriate the Jewish community.
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