Why We Should Ban the Muslim Council of Britain
The Muslim Council of Britain has instructed news outlets to not call Jihadi John a terrorist, and said 'Terror attacks cannot and should not be described as unqualified acts of ‘jihad’'.
A new report by Policy Exchange shows how the Muslim Council of Britain have laundered Islamism through their ostensibly neutral front organisation, the Centre for Media Monitoring.
The Centre for Media Monitoring has instructed newspapers and broadcasters to not call Jihadi John a terrorist, not describe Hamas as Islamists, and said 'Terror attacks cannot and should not be described as unqualified acts of ‘jihad’ given they breach the rules of ‘jihad’.’
It defines Islamism as ‘an example of a neutral understanding of the term may be a ‘peaceful democratic, constitutional, and moderate political activism based on Muslim ideology’. It recommends the avoidance of the term as a descriptor altogether”, and tells journalists "not to use ‘Islamic extremism’ in news output as it is not a neutral term, but one that makes a direct link between Islam the religion and the ideology of extremism ... it implies that the Muslimness of the individual is relevant.'
The Centre for Media Monitoring’s founder and lead strategist is Miqdaad Versi, who is also a Muslim Council of Britain spokesman, and attended the Labour Muslim Network’s official Iftar in March 2025.
The Centre for Media Monitoring’s Amanda Morris previously for the Islamist activist group MEND as its National Head of Women’s Engagement and Chair of MEND’s Cardiff working group. In 2020, Morris said she “wished there were” a law against mocking Islam. Morris also referred to Charlie Hebdo’s cartoons of Muhammad, saying, “I don’t think that’s just purely criticism. I think that could be considered incitement.”
Despite this soft-pedalling of Islamism, the Centre for Media Monitoring has held meetings with ITN, STV, News UK (The Times, The Sun, The Sunday Times), C4, ITN, Sky, LBC, STV, The Guardian, The Mail, and the Mirror, and delivered masterclasses at Middlesex, City, Leeds Trinity and Goldsmith’s University to define what constitutes “fair, accurate and responsible reporting of Muslims and Islam” and to help “change the narrative” about both.
As the report states:
In June 2025, the BBC’s director of news content, Richard Burgess, spoke at a CfMM meeting in Parliament, alongside two Labour MPs, at which the group launched a report attacking the BBC’s coverage of Israel-Gaza. The CfMM report complained that the BBC calls the Gaza Ministry of Health, source of Palestinian casualty figures, “Hamas-run” (which it is) and claimed that “sympathetic articles [sic] with emotive, humanising or personal stories of Palestinians appeared only twice as often as those for Israelis”. According to CfMM, Burgess praised the report as “thorough”. The former Today presenter, Mishal Husain, appeared to promote the report on her X feed, saying that “some of the examples in [the report] deserve to be looked at closely and carefully”.
The Centre for Media Monitoring has also run multiple focus groups and workshops for the BBC since 2019. Which might explain the BBC being reluctant to call Hamas terrorists, referring to Muslim converts as “reverts”, and allowing the son of the Hamas minister for agriculture to narrate a documentary on Gaza.
The Centre for Media Monitoring has boasted about being “instrumental in developing Ipso’s guidance on the reporting of Muslims and Islam”.
This would explain why Ipso didn’t dismiss the MCB’s spurious complaint against then-Home Secretary Suella Braverman’s 2023 article in the Mail, which said “the perpetrators are groups of men, almost all British-Pakistani, who hold cultural attitudes completely incompatible with British values.” She was condemned by Ella Cockbain, Nick Lowles of HOPE Not Hate, and Sayeeda Warsi.
The MCB brought a complaint via the Centre for Media Monitoring against Braverman to the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO). The Mail caved and issued a correction, despite IPSO not upholding CfMM’s complaint, nor requesting the Mail apologise as CfMM wanted.
Braverman is now seeking an apology from IPSO on behalf of grooming gang victims, after the Casey audit proved the Home Office paper cited by the MCB, Cockbain, and others had distorted data to present a false conclusion about the ethnicity of perpetrators.
The Centre for Media Monitoring sources its funding from the Muslim Council of Britain’s Charitable Trust — which receives subsidies from the taxpayer via the Department for Work and Pensions.
In 2009, a government report found that 80 per cent of British-trained imams were Deobandi, and affiliated with the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB). It also alleges that the the MCB was created and dominated by the Islamist group Jamaat-e-Islami and was a “focus of controversy for its linkages to Islamist movements”.
In 2001, before 9/11, the MCB opposed a UK government ban on 21 terror organisations, including al-Qaeda, declaring that armed struggle was a way for some people to “claim their rights”. In 2010, the MCB opposed a ban on Anjem Choudary’s alMuhajiroun, linked to a majority of terror attacks committed in Britain (with the 2017 London Bridge attack committed by one of their members).
In 2015, a British government report said that “for some years the Muslim Brotherhood … played an important role in establishing and then running the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB).”
As the Policy Exchange report finds, the CfMM advises journalists and press outlets that the ‘Muslim Brotherhood should not be conflated with extremism or terrorism’ because ‘Many modern Muslim movements and organisations around the world may find inspiration in the teachings of [Brotherhood founder] Hassan al-Banna, especially with its emphasis on the directive of moderation, peace, coexistence and social reform.’
In 2009, the MCB were subject to a ban on engagement with Whitehall when its Deputy Director-General, Dr Daud Abdullah, signed the Istanbul Declaration, calling to “carry on with the jihad and resistance against the occupier until the liberation of all Palestine”, and stating “the sending of foreign warships into Muslim waters, claiming to control the borders and prevent the smuggling of arms to Gaza, [is] a declaration of war, [which] must be rejected and fought by all means and ways.” This was interpreted as calling for attacks on the British Royal Navy — a claim the MCB denied.
Under Abdullah, the MCB led a six-year boycott of Holocaust Memorial Day.
Former MCB Deputy Secretary-General, Mohammed Kozbar is the Chairman of the infamous Finsbury Park Mosque, and vice president of the Muslim Association of Britain. Kozbar previously served on the Crown Prosecution Service’s (CPS) hate crime “scrutiny panel”, the Metropolitan Police’s London Muslim Communities Forum, and met with London Mayor Sadiq Khan.
Kozbar was removed from his positions after he praised Hamas’s founder as “the master of the martyrs of the resistance”, and supported the now-proscribed Jihadist group Hizb ut-Tahrir.
They recently celebrated the appointment of Sir Mufti Hamid Patel as Interim Chair of Ofsted, and previously demanded Muslim girls wear the hijab in school and not be taught music, dance, and art.
New Secretary-General, Wajid Akhter had advised British Muslims to identify primarily as Muslim, and raise a generation of “Saladin after Saladin after Saladin until you don’t know what to do with them.” In his inaugural speech, Akhter said the Muslim “community [is] misrepresented as having a propensity to grooming.”
His electoral rival, Muhammad Adrees was involved in the iconoclastic campaign against the showing of the film The Lady of Heaven in British cinemas, and praised the Ayatollah Khomeini and “the Iranian Revolution, when the great leader led the nation to its destiny.”
Both were involved in the Muslim Vote organisation, alongside Jalaluddin Patel, the former leader of Hizb ut-Tahrir.
Qari Asim, imam at Leeds Mosque and trustee of HOPE Not Hate, also supported the The Lady in Heaven protests, for which he was removed as deputy chair of Michael Gove’s Islamophobia working group.
Asim is now a member of Angela Rayner’s Islamophobia/Anti-Muslim Hatred Definition Working Group.
HOPE Not Hate provided the polling for the original All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on British Muslims’ report, Islamophobia Defined — which the MCB supported.
The report states that conversations about the grooming gangs scandal are
“aimed at (and can achieve) harm to individual Muslims, and is not rooted in any meaningful theological debate but rather in a racist attempt to ‘other’ Muslims in general, associating them with the crime our society sees as most abhorrent of all. This strategy has been actively pursued by far right groups including the BNP and EDL but has also been indulged – especially, as our previous research has shown, in relation to ‘grooming gangs’ – by mainstream politicians of all of our main political parties.”
The report authors also say that,
“We also found that age-old stereotypes and tropes about Islam, such sexual profligacy and paedophilia or Islam and violence, and their modern-day iteration in the ‘Asian grooming gangs’ or ‘Bin Laden’ labels re-emerge in discourses and dispositions which heighten vulnerability of Muslims to hate crimes[.]”
Conservative MP Nick Timothy now warns that the Islamophobia/Anti-Muslim Hatred Definition Working Group is conducting a consultation, and the MCB are telling their members to reply en masse to distort the results.
Why are they still allowed charitable status? Why are they funded by the Department for Work and Pensions?
We don't have to tolerate this. If the Muslim Council of Britain consistently run interference for Islamic terrorists, then they should be proscribed too.
Ban Islam. That's the only way if Western societies are to survive. That is what happened at the gates of Vienna centuries ago.
The MCB is just part of that and is spearheading the caliphate mission.
Muslims tell us what they want and non believers have no say. Just listen to them - they are at least in this being honest and open.
Long winded articles discussing this are really not necessary. Points proven by common sense and sound reasoning hits the Islamic brick wall and bounces off.
And the useful idiots in Parliament, positions of authority and influence and the blue haired freaks on our streets fully back this.
In democratic countries the practices of Islam is contrary to public safety and morals and the rights and freedoms of others.
I will keep saying this. Look at Article 9 (2) of the Human Rights Act 1998.
It shows the reasoning behind controlling radical religions which was identified as necessary at the outset of the ECHR 75 years ago.
The ECHR has become a dirty word through distortion of it's original concepts.
Use the tool of Human Rights against Islam and the Left.
Spare your breath on long winded expositions.
It seems ridiculous that there should even be groups that represent Islam. These people have come to Britain. They left behind their countries and their particular interpretations of a medieval religion which allows no redemption, tolerance or forgiveness and is violent at its heart. If they wish to remain then enclaves should be broken up and the all they believed should be left behind. It is not up to the English, Scots, Welsh or Irish to conform to the immigrant’s desire’s. In fact it the opposite.