Bangladeshi newspaper from the 1970’s which first broke the story of Chowdhury Mueen Uddin (Picture via Daily Mail)
A while back Harry’s Place and later this site publicised the story of Chowdhury Mueen Uddin. Uddin had been working for the British National Health Service as director of Muslim Spiritual Care Provision for the state healthcare agency.
Yesterday the Daily Mail carried a story on how Uddin is wanted in Bangladesh for allegedly taking part in the mass murders of independence campaigners during the Bangladesh War of Independence in 1971.
Although the Mail has carried this story very late when compared with the various blogs that have covered this story, it is good to see the mainstream media waking up and seeing just what sort of dodgy people managed to worm their way into the heart of the state.
The Daily Mail said:
“Britain faces an extradition row over an influential Muslim leader wanted in his native Bangladesh to face charges of committing torture and murder.
Chowdhury Mueen Uddin, 63, who was director of Muslim Spiritual Care Provision in the NHS and chairman of the Multi-Faith Group for Healthcare Chaplaincy, is accused of killing 18 independence activists during Bangladesh’s war of independence in 1971.
If found guilty there would be demands he face the death penalty. Britain, which does not have an extradition treaty with Bangladesh, refuses to extradite people who are at risk of execution.”
I wonder how many ordinary people care one bit whether or not a genocidaire leaves this world via a trapdoor or not? Probably not many.
Uddin appears to have a body count of at least 18. The Mail said:
“Bangladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) – which has been set up to try the country’s most notorious war criminals still alive – has announced that it has completed its year-long investigation into Mr Mueen-Uddin. The ICT’s prosecution wing will announce formal charges against him in the next few days, said a senior official at the tribunal.
Sanaul Huq, the Inspector-General of Bangladesh’s national police force, who is co-ordinating the ICT investigation, said his investigators believe that Mr Mueen-Uddin killed dozens of people during the independence war, but they can link him only to 18 murders with evidence and eyewitness testimonies.”
Uddin hasn’t exactly kept his head down since coming to the United Kingdom, the Daily Mail added:
“Over the decades, he became one of Britain’s most influential Muslim leaders, was instrumental in setting up the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB), and is now one of the trustees of the UK’s leading Islamic charity, Muslim Aid.
Mr Mueen-Uddin was one of the chief Islamic leaders who mobilised thousands of British Muslims to protest against the publication of Salman Rushdie’s controversial book, The Satanic Verses, in 1989.
He led a group of Muslim leaders who went to Downing Street to hand a petition against publication of the book to Margaret Thatcher, who was Prime Minister at the time.
Mr Mueen-Uddin has also met Prince Charles, including one occasion when the heir to the throne visited the East London Mosque in 2010.”
It is astonishing that this alleged mass murderer was allowed not only to settle here but also to rise up the way he has. Surely when he started to become prominent in British Islamic politics someone would have asked questions about his background? If he was getting to the stage of respectability that he was meeting the Heir to the Throne then would he not be vetted or at least checked out by MI5? Would not even a counterterrorist check (CTC), that most basic of security checks, show up that Uddin was dodgy?
It is good to see the Uddin story getting mainstream publicity but Uddin’s presence in the United Kingdom, and his seemingly unstoppable rise from fleeing fugitive to hobnobbing with the Prince of Wales, raise many questions like the ones above.
Links
Original story in the Daily Mail
Post from this blog about the Uddin case with a link to the Harry’s Place blog which featured the story.
Sadly. nothing surprises me anymore. These days, we daily rub shoulders with thieves and murderers – so what else is new?
This England is now a benighted land that is already lost I’m afraid – given away in the name of progress by the deluded teachings of left-wing theorists and the most scurrilous of politicians. Even the Windsor mob have lent a hand in bringing her down.
England will never now rise again. The load she carries is far too heavy to shrug off. The lives of so many good men wasted through many wars in the name of a naive multi-cultural dream.
Keep up the good work however… or move to a more promising land. A land where the BBC has no influence. They are your biggest enemy of that I’m absolutely certain. They are trusted you see and trust can be a great weakness.
England nay Britain is not lost. I agree that multiculturalism and post Plowden education has been an utter disaster but the left only control through fear. You would be surprised at the number of people who are beginning to speak up and more people are starting to expose the gross policy mistakes of the left, both the policies themselves, and theri often negative effects. I certainly agree with you to a certain extent that however good HM Queen has been, there are worries about the weak and easily led charachter of the future King Charles III. The more
Thanks for the compliment.
… and how do you imagine that a nation in shackles can break free from the grasp of ‘several generations’ of degree-clutching lefties? They are still there, some with enormous political power now and they’ll fight you tooth and nail.
In a thousand years time they’ll still be claiming how their pet projects need time to work. They’ll never admit that they made the mistakes that destroyed their own country.
England will stand alone very soon – it’s just a matter of time. Forget the UK my friend. Our UK partners feel the need to blame someone else for past folly. They will remain blind to the fact that they also had MPs in power when so many destructive rules and laws were passed in Westminster. Removing themselves from the Union, they think, will allow them the chance to do things properly… next time.
The dramatic changes needed, and that are essential in order to alter things sufficiently to save our plot of land, cannot possibly be brought about in the near future. The famine that’s already on its way, and the subsequent total loss of control by the powers that be, will lead to civil war. Who wins that war is a debate worth having. The people that the government will be telling us (via the vile BBC) are our very worst enemies, are ‘all those vile food horders out there – those who caused the problem in the first place’. The usual guff. The police will be ordered to start searching for ‘horders’ and the public at large will start Looking to find, rob and kill such people should they not be willing to share their food. For those in power it will all become a useful distraction whilst they take to their boats and planes.
When they’re hungry, people become angry. But it will be the shortage of drinkable water that will cause most to perish – especially the young.
However, trust your own intelligence. The country holds just 3 weeks of food supplies, so the experts tell us. However, the government have absolutely no idea how many people live in the UK so how do they know? It could be 5 weeks but might be just 2. Fuel shortage shortage at the filling stations could be what kicks hell off. A truck driver’s strike maybe. A nationwide power failure; or any other act of terrorism brought about by our fellow citizens. Imagine your own local super-market denied supplies for 7 days. The smaller local food stores will be stripped bare in the first 2 days I can promise you.
Sadly, all sounds a bit too grim on this nice sunny morning but that’s how I see things. Oh, I’m prepared for the worst of course and I know only too well that the locals, backed up by plod, might come thumping on my door before many more years have passed. But I woke up before them. They’ll be looking in the wrong place. Every man should look after himself so he can look after his own family. He did it by fighting abroad for centuries but now the battle had been brought to his doorstep.
I hope you agree and wish you well.
John, I’m afraid that I do not agree with your tone of pessimissm because I feel that all is not lost. The country isn’t buggered and bent but our politicians most certainly are.
Yes there is the possiblity of civil strife and such strife is something that should be avoided. Such strife could be averted in part by removing the attitude of appeasement to Islam and the corrosive identity politics which has infected Government since the dying years of the Major administration.
The individual British subject or citizen is not powerless. We can vote, boycott those companies ( eg Cadbury’s for going Halal) and entities that appease (such as this particular community centre which actively promotes Islam on its front page), not co-operate with police ‘thought crime’ enquiries (such as ‘racism’ prosecutions for telling an off colour joke on Twitter) and most of all Tell The Truth about the ideology of Islam. Tell the truth about Islam and its depredations, in pubs, with friends, with family on the streets and online. Most importantly tell the truth to your children, withdrawing them from state school and homeschooling if necessary to get them away from leftist propaganda masqurading as education. The more people know the truth the less the liars and leftist ideologues will prosper.
I do not wish to see individual Muslims hurt, there must be no Pogroms against the innocent who may hate their enslavement as much as a person who is already free hates the slavery of Islam. There are many people born Muslim who see the problems of this ideology just as clearly as us non muslims do. Such people should be seen as allies.
One purpose of this blog is to incite people to change things peacefully by educating themselves about the threat of the ideology of Islam, before the situation deteriorates and violence rather than voting becomes the first tool out of the box.