Islamists, leftists, and the BBC all agree: it’s time to appease Al Qaeda.

And Inayat Bunglawala, media secretary of the radical front group known as the Muslim Council of Britain, is right there to second the motion: Time to start talking. (Hat tip: Moonbat Media.)

The comments from Guardian readers to Bunglawala are a real hoot.

MITNAGEDET
Comment No. 200556
September 4 18:02

Bunglawala - you are a fine one to criticise American hypocrisy, given that you are an admirer of Bin Laden. I’ll bet that, being an admirer of Bin Laden, you are more of an expert on him than Taylor.

“….it must surely be right to re-examine whether US/UK policies in the Middle East are fair and are helping or hindering us in the struggle against the spread of extremist ideas…”

I’m with Lacanian on this one. I, too, have grievances against this government and against the American government, but I don’t threaten either with violence unless they change their foreign policy to suit me. You, on the other hand, are distinctly two-faced about this:

(Taken from telegraph.co.uk, 21/8/05)

“….In January 1993, Mr Bunglawala wrote a letter to Private Eye, the satirical magazine, in which he called the blind Sheikh Omar Abdul Rahman ‘courageous’ - just a month before he bombed the World Trade Center in New York. After Rahman’s arrest in July that year, Mr Bunglawala said that it was probably only because of his ‘calling on Muslims to fulfil their duty to Allah and to fight against oppression and oppressors everywhere’.

“Five months before 9/11, Mr Bunglawala also circulated writings of Osama bin Laden, who he regarded as a ‘freedom fighter’, to hundreds of Muslims in Britain…”

People’s opinions change, as you are so fond of excusing, but I doubt that yours have much, nor will they.

I will believe that you are an ethical and honest man when you denounce suicide terror unequivocally, wherever it occurs, no matter who perpetrates it and for whatever reason, in Iraq, Afghanistan, Europe and Israel. Until you do so you and the MCB are complicit in the untimely deaths of Muslims and others alike. You should be ashamed to publish here.