{"id":768,"date":"2006-08-18T08:18:21","date_gmt":"2006-08-18T07:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/ijwp\/mt.php\/2006\/08\/18\/sufi_muslim_council_exposed"},"modified":"2025-10-10T20:25:50","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T19:25:50","slug":"sufi_muslim_council_exposed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2006\/08\/18\/sufi_muslim_council_exposed","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Sufi Muslim Council&#8221; exposed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Sufi Muslim Council Exposed: The 'Neoconservative' Sufi Muslim Council\" href=\"http:\/\/sufimuslimcouncil.blogspot.com\/2006\/08\/neoconservative-sufi-muslim-council.html\">Sufi Muslim Council Exposed: The &#39;Neoconservative&#39; Sufi Muslim Council<\/a><\/p>\n<p>An anonymously written, but lengthy and detailed, article showing the links the so-called Sufi Muslim Council, a body which has been promoted in recent weeks by the likes of Martin Bright as a better representative body for Muslims than the MCB, without that groups Muslim Brotherhood \/ Jama&#39;at links.  Well, guess what &#8230; it seems the SMC prefer the company of neo-cons and apologists for the Uzbek government.  It appears to be another attempt to use &quot;Sufism&quot; as a vehicle for cosying up to powerful people.<\/p>\n<p>Also, here&#39;s <a href=\"http:\/\/brotherdotherightthing.blogspot.com\/\">another blog<\/a> which has a number of uncomfortable facts about the SMC&#39;s friends and leaders, like Azhar Ali who was implicated in one of the postal vote scandals last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sufi Muslim Council Exposed: The &#39;Neoconservative&#39; Sufi Muslim Council An anonymously written, but lengthy and detailed, article showing the links the so-called Sufi Muslim Council, a body which has been promoted in recent weeks&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17bgV-co","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=768"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42314,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768\/revisions\/42314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}