Inayat Bunglawala in death threat controversy
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.
LGF credit this article, which they call a "paranoid rant", for confirming that the threat did indeed come from the place where Mr Bunglawala works:
MPACUK – Masajid and ISOCs Silent As Zionists Move In On Inayat Bunglawala!
As ever, we see MPACUK rushing to accuse mosques and Islamic organisations of doing nothing to help Muslims – in this case, the Muslim in question is a public figure who is suspected of sending an offensive email. Someone has been suspended over the email, and we now know that it wasn't Inayat Bunglawala. The description of MPACUK's article by Charles Johnson at LGF as a "paranoid rant", however, was accurate.
The Zionist machine as organised and well funded as it is, tracked it back to the work place of Inayat. Now the central nervous system of the Zionist machine sent an alert around the world. Thinking they had him trapped, they launched a world wide campaign to have him sacked.
In reality, anyone can trace the IP address of someone who sent an email or replied to a web form. Any decent web application will tell the administrator the poster's IP address – including Movable Type and WordPress. This is how Muslim bloggers were able to work out, about two years ago when we all used Haloscan, that a well-known nuisance commenter was posting under various names as well as his usual, and was able to rebut suggestions that a number of Islamophobic commenters were the same person. Have MPACUK looked to see if their content management system offers the same capability? If it was worth its salt it could.
Today we can reveal that Inayat Bunglawala the pro Palestinian Media spokesperson for the MCB was targeted by Zionists around the world last Thursday (25.05.06) in an all out campaign to have him sacked from his job. This is how quickly they can mobilise given even the slightest scent of blood. Someone from the same workplace sent an offensive email to a Zionist Blog. The Zionist machine as organised and well funded as it is, tracked it back to the work place of Inayat.
In fact, the campaign came entirely from LGF and was picked up by sympathetic blogs, as blog campaigns always are. And it started at LGF because LGF received the threatening email. The sole author of the LGF blog did what any sensible person would do, and traced the IP address, and read the comment thread which developed after the Da Vinci Code article was published to discover that the article may well have come from Reuters in England and not Sweden. It's the sort of amateur detective work of which anyone is capable.
Of course, the business of pro-Israeli letter-writing campaigns which ensue whenever those involved detect that a news agency has not been sufficiently biased in their favour are well-known (one thinks of the "tears for Arafat" controversy a couple of years ago); there are known to be various websites and mailing lists dedicated to this. However, it doesn't, to paraphrase Public Enemy, "take a nation of millions", merely a few hundred people with access to computers, to produce a mass emailing campaign.
This piece by MPACUK shows all the weaknesses of this organisation – its obsession with Palestine to the almost total exclusion of anything else (the subject of the vast majority of the articles currently linked off the front page), to the extent where they think it takes a huge Zionist conspiracy to do something any web manager can do with a couple of clicks of the mouse, and the continual throwing of mud at the Muslim community, in this case for not alerting the Muslim community to "the attack against one of our spokesmen and a defender of Palestine" – an honour he seems to have earned solely by refusing to attend the Holocaust Memorial Day event. Do they think that Muslims check the blogs and news for reports on Inayat Bunglawala every morning, noon and night? Or that we even read Little Green Footballs, a blog notorious for its conveyor belt of Islamophobic propaganda? We Muslims simply have better things to do with our time.
