The leader of the radical Islamic front group calling itself the Muslim Council of Britain, Muhammad Abdul Bari, has issued another series of veiled threats, Nazi comparisons, and whining complaints: ‘UK will become Nazi Germany’ if it’s not careful when tackling terrorism, says Muslim leader.

As for “integration,” he thinks it should be a “two-way process”—in other words, Britain should continue surrendering, or risk becoming Nazi Germany. It’s such insanely overblown rhetoric that it’s hard to believe anyone takes it seriously.

The UK must be careful how it tackles terrorism and treats Islamic culture if it is to avoid recreating a society reminiscent of Nazi Germany, the head of the Muslim Council of Britain has warned.

Muhammad Abdul Bari, in an interview with the Daily Telegraph, criticised the Government for fuelling tensions in the Muslim community rather than dissipating them.

He told the paper: “There is a disproportionate amount of discussion surrounding us. The air is thick with suspicion and unease. It is not good for the Muslim community, it is not good for society.”

The Muslim leader added: “Every society has to be really careful so that situation does not lead us to a time when people’s minds can be poisoned as they were in the 1930s. If your community is perceived in a very negative manner and poll after poll says that we are alienated then Muslims begin to feel very vulnerable. We are seen as creating problems, not as bringing anything, and that is not good for society.”

The Government’s foreign policy and particularly the Iraq war, which he described as a “disaster”, had been used by criminals as a weapon to encourage young people into extremism, he said.

Dr Bari also criticised the head of MI5, Jonathan Evans, for painting a bleak picture of the terrorist threat the night before the Queen’s Speech this week. He said: “I don’t think it was a good thing to share information in this way, I think it is creating a scare in the community and wider society. It probably helps some people who try to recruit the young to terrorism.”

The leader believes integration should be a two-way process and that the emphasis should be on the positive aspects of Muslim culture instead of the threat of al Qaida.

Muslim principles - including stricter attitudes to drinking, sex, marriage, abortion and dress - could improve the country as a whole and add more morality, he argues.

Readers of the Telegraph are commenting on Abdul Bari’s latest emission, and let’s just say it didn’t go over very well: Should integration work both ways?

How can a devout Muslim live in a secular society like ours, and why should they wish to?
Why have Muslims come here, and what is their goal?
Tomorrow is Rememberance Sunday!
Did all those thousands of our young men and women die in vain, for this pathetic multicultural morass of a country?
Oh, the shame of it!
Posted by j.b.windmill on November 10, 2007 12:51 PM

Most definitely not. Having spent eight years working in Saudi Arabia, I am repelled by everything Islamic. Ours is a Christian country, and as I know some Muslims hate everything about our western culture, other than the free hand-outs, I wonder what on earth they are doing here.
Posted by Kenneth Clarke on November 10, 2007 12:47 PM

It works both ways, Mr Bari… Negativity towards westerners and their way of life also causes tension. We are proud of and have fought to the death for our freedoms and way of life for centuries; so much so that we now go out of our way to tollerate, respect and befriend the freedoms of others who choose to live here. Yet all I seem to hear from people in your position is that everyone in Britain and the West should adopt your ideology without tollerance or intergration on your behalf. I’m sure you do not speak for the majority of Muslims in this country as such blinkered comments stem from sheer arrogance and will only serve to widen the divide between the intergration of Muslims and non-Muslims alike.
Posted by Jimi Shadow on November 10, 2007 12:46 PM

We can all learn about Islamic values by observing what happens in Islamic states. Wouldn’t we do rather better by reviving our traditional Christian values?
Posted by Jo Green on November 10, 2007 12:42 PM

A typical diatribe. I defy Dr Bari to find a christian church preaching hatred of muslims to vulnerable youths, for `poisoned minds` check back rooms in some mosques! To come to a FREE country and try to restrict that freedom is precisely why muslims are failing to integrate. If you dont like it why are you here?
Posted by martin Frew on November 10, 2007 12:40 PM

The idea that we should start adopting islamic ideas is typical of this religion. It is intolerant of everyone who feels differently and seems to be utterly invasive and interfering in other people lives. Why on earth then are so many muslims coming to this country if they are so much “better” in their view than anyone else?

What utter hypocrisy!!
Posted by Erik Rees on November 10, 2007 12:32 PM

And one lone multiculturalist plaintively wails:

Reading the posts thus far, it is apparent that so far no-one has cottoned on to the fact that the principles that Mr Bari is putting forward are SHARED Tenets - of both faiths - and exclusive to neither.

Has British religious education been such a total failure? I hope that the Archbishop of Canterbury is reading these posts this morning.
Posted by Sue on November 10, 2007 12:32 PM

For more on Mohamed Abdul Bari: LGF search: “abdul bari”.