Muslim leader sent funds to Irving

[geek tragedy]

One of Britain's most prominent speakers on Muslim issues is today exposed as a supporter of David Irving, the controversial historian who for years denied the Holocaust took place.

Asghar Bukhari, a founder member of the Muslim Public Affairs Committee (MPAC), which describes itself as Britain's largest Muslim civil rights group, sent money to Irving and urged Islamic websites to ask visitors to make donations to his fighting fund.

Bukhari contacted the discredited historian, sentenced this year to three years in an Austrian prison for Holocaust denial, after reading his website. He headed his mail to Irving with a quotation attributed to the philosopher John Locke: 'All that is needed for evil to triumph is for good people to stand idle.'

In one email Bukhari tells Irving: 'You may feel like you are on your own but rest assured many people are with you in your fight for the Truth.' Bukhari pledges to make a donation of £60 to Irving's fighting fund and says that he has asked 'a few of my colleagues to send some in too'. He also offers to send Irving a book, They Dare to Speak Out, by Paul Findley, a former US Senator, who has attacked his country's close relationship with Israel. Bukhari says Findley 'has suffered like you in trying to expose certain falsehoods perpetrated by the Jews'.

What a shock. Scratch an Islamist, and you'll find a Jew-hater.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1951773,00.html

[Amused Musings]

1. That is, of course, the one thing Islamists and Nazi apologists

can agree on: They hate Jews more than anything. The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem during WWII Mohammad Amin al-Husayni was violently anti-semitic with ties and vocal support for the Third Reich. Along with Stern and Irgun, the Grand Mufti obliterated the moderates. I think he also supported death squads in the Balkans.