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David T today posted an alert at Harry's Place about an article at MPACUK calling on Muslims to expose 8 so-called Sufis who did the "research" on which the recent Policy Exchange report relied. Those involved were unable to comment for the Newsnight expose, which showed that some (but not all) of the receipts were not genuine, because they were on a religious retreat in Mauritania. MPACUK's tone is typically harsh:

You would have to be sitting in a darkened room repeating the name of Allah since 7/7 to be unaware that the new front against Muslims by the Government is being led by Sufi cults.

It's an old Russian trick, they used Sufi sects to pacify the Mujahadeen who were fighting for their freedom from occupation. These Sufi cults taught them to forget the world and be content sitting in darkened rooms repeating the name of Allah over and over and over again. The British used it in India too, creating groups who focused on every minor ritual and repeated the words 'no politics' over and over and over again...anyone guess who they are? ...

However as we have been reporting on this website, Newsnight uncovered that these Sufi researchers had in fact forged the receipts to prove the case.

These Sufi researchers then fled the country to Mauritania for what the Zio-Con think tank called 'religious purification'!

MPAC now wants to find out exactly who these Sufis are, who are working for the Zio-Con think tank. There were 8 Sufis who worked for them, and all apparently have gone abroad to hide while the storm is raging. They worked, according to Policy Exchange for over a year on the project, so some Muslim out there must have come into contact with them.

Who are they, what are their backgrounds ... MPACUK will dig deeper and expose every last detail of the Sufis who tried to destroy their own community.

MPACUK - MPACUK & HT Discuss Indonesia Caliphate Conference

This is a Google Video of a recent discussion on BBC News 24 between Zulfi Bukhari of MPACUK and Nazreen Nawaz of Hizb-ut-Tahreer, regarding the recent HT-organised conference in Indonesia. The discussion is about whether Islam is or isn't compatible with democracy; Dr Nawaz responds by raising the issue of whether democracy is really the only way of attaining accountable governance. Zulfi Bukhari says that HT have always been anti-western and anti-democratic, and favour a caliph elected for life.

(I should add that bringing democracy to the Muslim world faces a significant problem that nobody seems to address, preferring to accuse anyone who doesn't support doing so at gunpoint of thinking Arabs, or other Muslims, are undeserving or incapable of democracy, and are thus racist. Western democracy routinely empowers minorities, meaning political minorities - either by transforming the largest minority of votes - and sometimes not even that - into a majority of seats in the legislature, or by empowering minor parties to form coalitions with major ones in order to dominate the legislature. We have learned to live with this in the West; it can't be assumed that other peoples, Muslim or otherwise, would want to.)

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I had been eagerly anticipating Channel 4's Dispatches programme Women Only Jihad, which follows a group of female activists from the Muslim Public Affairs Committee as they fight to get admission to various mosques. One of these is in Ilford, Essex, and the other in Blackburn, Lancashire. The issue of women's access to mosques is a major issue throughout the Muslim communities in both the UK and USA; Sara Umm Zaid has written about it many times, including about one incident (also here) where she and some friends were physically barred from entering by some rather unfriendly men. More recently, given the disgusting conditions of some women's areas in mosques (Safiyyah Ally has an entry on one in Saudi Arabia, but the same situation is to be found in the West too), some women, including UZ, have changed their position to support women praying in the main prayer area behind a curtain. In a number of mosques, however, there simply is no facility and women are simply not allowed entry, which is something the girls from MPACUK were seeking to remedy. (More: Osama Saeed.)

Little Green Footballs alleges that they received a death threat from a machine owned by Reuters last Friday. The threat came after someone posted a link to a LGF article in response to an article by the Muslim Council of Britain's media secretary Inayat Bunglawala, who himself works at Reuters, at Comment is Free about the Da Vinci Code. LGF obviously suspected Inayat Bunglawala as the author, although given that Reuters is a big organisation, it could have been an awful lot of people and it now turns out that it wasn't Inayat Bunglawala.