Osama Saeed has reprinted an article from yesterday's Sunday Express (via PhobeWatch) which trots out a number of tired canards regarding the Muslim community's response to terrorism, claiming that Labour are getting tired of our community (read: they cannot buy off with hate laws our opposition to their bombing of Muslim countries) because our so-called community leaders have failed to show leadership to our community. The Express quoted an anonymous "Home Office source" as follows:
"This idea of community leadership is a complete nonsense. The Muslim Council of Britain purports to represent the Muslim community but what have they actually done to show leadership since 9/11? on all the major issues – on the 7/7 terror attacks, on the cartoon row they have hid behind the Home Office.
"It is now taken as read by the Government that these self-appointed groups really don't have any power or influence over the Muslim populations. They got what they wanted from the Government but there was no real delivery in return. Now it is clear that they can't deliver."
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