Author: BNP news team
Publication: British National Party
Date: September 4, 2005
URL: http://www.bnp.org.uk/news_detail.php?newsId=503
Inayat Bunglawala, the 36 year old
media spokesman of the Muslim Council of Britain which claims to speak
for "moderate Muslims" is the son of multi-million pound convicted drug
smuggler.
Bunglawala's father Yusuf, an Indian
immigrant was sentenced to 15 years imprisonment at Knightsbridge Crown
Court in 1989 after he and an accomplice imported 82lb (37kg) of the killer
drug, heroin hidden inside marzipan sweets and rugs. He served just six
years of his sentence before being released on parole in 1995.
The story was covered in today's
(4th) Mail on Sunday and comes at an embarrassing time for the Home Office
which has only recently appointed Bunglawala Jnr as one of seven to a task
force commissioned to combat Islamic extremism amongst Britain's 2 million
Muslims.
Task force convener
Inayat Bunglawala, 36, the media
secretary for the Muslim Council of Britain, is understood to have been
selected as one of seven "conveners" for a Home Office task force with
responsibilities for tackling extremism among young Muslims, despite a
history of anti-Semitic statements.
In January 1993, Mr Bunglawala wrote
a letter to Private Eye, the satirical magazine, in which he called the
blind Sheikh Omar Abdul Rahman "courageous" - just a month before he bombed
the World Trade Center in New York. After Rahman's arrest in July that
year, Mr Bunglawala said that it was probably only because of his "calling
on Muslims to fulfil their duty to Allah and to fight against oppression
and oppressors everywhere".
Five months before 9/11, Mr Bunglawala
also circulated writings of Osama bin Laden, who he regarded as a "freedom
fighter", to hundreds of Muslims in Britain.
