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* Voice of “Moderate Islam” in Britain Arrested for Stabbing…
Government adviser on Islamic terror arrested after man is stabbed at his home
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Inayat Bunglawala is waiting to find out whether he will face charges over an alleged stabbing
A Muslim who advised the Government following the July 7 London bombings has been arrested after an alleged stabbing.
Inayat Bunglawala, 39, was held on suspicion of attacking another man at his £300,000 home.
Mr Bunglawala, who also briefed former Security Minister Tony McNulty on the threat posed by Islamic radicals in the UK, was arrested two weeks before Christmas last year.
The identity of the alleged victim is unknown and it is not clear what circumstances led to the alleged attack in the early hours of December 13 last year.
Mr Bunglawala has been released on bail while the Crown Prosecution Service considers bringing charges.
Mr Bunglawala is one of the most prominent members of the Muslim Council of Britain, an organisation which advises the Government on extremism and counter-terrorism.
After the July 7 London bombings in 2005, he was one of seven Muslims appointed to a Home Office taskforce tackling radicalisation in the UK.
Last week, Mr Bunglawala was featured on the BBC and in many newspapers as the moderate ‘voice’ of British Islam after the Luton anti-war demonstrations.
Critics claim his arrest will once again focus attention on the MCB.
In his final years as Prime Minister, Tony Blair came to distrust the organisation amid claims it was linked to Islamic extremism. But the MCB has enjoyed a renaissance under Gordon Brown and briefed Counter-Terrorism Minister Bill Rammell on community tensions last week. MCB representatives also advised Foreign Secretary David Miliband during last year’s Israel-Gaza War.
Conservative MP Patrick Mercer, who worked as a security adviser to Mr Brown, said of the alleged incident: ‘This calls into question the Government’s vetting of its Islamic advisers.’
Mr Bunglawala has previously worked as a civil servant at Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs but now runs an Islamic website.
His wife, Tahmina Saleem, works for Redbridge Council in East London. They have several children. According to the Land Registry’s records, Mr Bunglawala bought his large Luton townhouse for £300,000 in August 2007.
Many in the Islamic community have been concerned at his behaviour. Mr Bunglawala – the MCB assistant general secretary and Press spokesman – lodged a complaint with the BBC after its website described firebrand cleric Abu Qatada as an ‘extremist’.
Dubbed Al Qaeda’s ‘Ambassador in Europe’, Abu Qatada gave religious authority to extremist groups in the UK and abroad, including the men behind the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Centre.
Last night, a BBC News source said: ‘We were right to call Abu Qatada an extremist and we would be happy to do so again.’
Complaint: Muslim cleric Abu Qatada, who Inayat Bunglawala said should not have been called an extremist
In 2005, following his appointment to the Home Office, it was revealed that Mr Bunglawala had previously accused the BBC’s management of ‘Zionism’ due to the presence in the Corporation of several prominent Jews, including Michael Grade and Alan Yentob.
Five months before the 9/11 attacks, Mr Bunglawala circulated writings of Osama Bin Laden, whom he regarded as a ‘freedom fighter’, to hundreds of Muslims in Britain.
When this came to light in 2005, Mr Bunglawala said he did not hold those views any longer.
Last night, Mr Bunglawala refused to discuss the alleged stabbing as it was a ‘police matter’.
His lawyers, the £400-an-hour celebrity firm Carter-Ruck, said that he ‘vigorously denies having committed any criminal act whatsoever in relation to this incident’.
A spokesman for Bedfordshire Police confirmed the arrest of Mr Bunglawala but refused to comment further.
A Crown Prosecution Service spokesman refused to comment on the case.
Last night, the Muslim Council of Britain also refused to comment.
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Damn you are quick! I just knew that this would cheer you up!!! Notice though that this happened a few weeks before Christmas. Why hasn’t this been reported until now??
“this happened a few weeks before Christmas.” Really? Have you got a link? That seems to be the even bigger story!
Also if you get a chance, check out this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vj366tlRlxk&feature=PlayList&p=9228F309C8F9AE62&index=0&playnext=1
For once a decent documentary from the BBC covering the extreme side of (true) islam, and as a bonus, Bunglawala is in there proclaiming that Ayatollah Khomeini was a hero to him, simply for declaring the fatwa against Salman Rushdie, which should be brought up everytime Bungla claims he represents this mythical “moderate islam”. Pure TV gold!
The bit about him being arrested before Christmas is in the article, but this is the first
I knew of it. No mention in his “Guardian” profile, where he seems to still be commenting
freely … guardian.co.uk/profile/inayatbunglawala
What trick will his lawyers come up with, if he is charged?
“I didn’t know the knife was loaded”, or will he develop a “history of mental illness”?
Article of this incident before Christmas is on Little Green Footballs.
Can any one locate more information of whom was stabbed etc.
It was probably his boyfriend…a lovers spat. Islam is riddled with hypocrisy…you can almost guarantee that whatever they are preaching about out loud , they are doing behind closed doors.
How about another story about all the porn being watched in Britains mosques.
Mullah L: Perhaps his mother was frightened by a kufr when she was pregnant with him.
Worth a try…