08 February 2010

UK Government and MCB Restore Relations

On January 15th 2010 the UK government announced that it was restoring ties with the Muslim Council of Britain – the UK’s largest Islamic umbrella organization.

The UK government had suspended all contact with the MCB some ten months earlier in March 2009 after the MCB’s Deputy Secretary-General; Daud Abdullah, had signed the Istanbul Declaration in solidarity with the occupied Palestinian nation following the criminal Israeli bombardment and invasion of Gaza. [IslamOnline.net] Read more