Muslim Public Affairs Committee

A British telecommunications company has terminated its cooperation with Israel's MobileMax due to the country's attacks on Gaza. FreedomCall said in an email: As a result of the Israeli government action in the last few days we will no longer be in a position to consider doing business with yourself or any other Israeli company. Israel's MobileMax said in a statement: We received an email from the British company informing us that it is severing all ties with us and any other Israeli company following Israel's strike in Gaza, said CEO Raanan Cohen.

What else will Israel do to suppress our freedoms... Brothers, sisters friends, Assalamu Alaykum, Israels ground invasion of the Gaza strip has started. As Israel continues its' brutality, let us continue our support for the Palestinian people and pressure on our government ad media. 1. Call for Sanctions on Israel: Sing the petition online: http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http...l-Sanctions%2F 2. Galloway taken off air! George Galloway's popular radio show which goes out every Friday and Saturday from 10pm has been cancelled without warning tonight - and without a full explanation to his vast army of listeners.

I’ve already been called Kuffar by a HT brother for this, but Allah has already created this ever-worsening Hell-on-Earth for us Muslims, and it’s entirely our fault! The problem is that we lost Islam’s first pillar. Right now, what is Islam to us? Laa-ilaha-illallah is…well…out the window isn’t it. We say it once, believe that is enough and move on. C21st Islam, like a decrepit and derelict building, is an incomplete 4-pillar religion, a set of ignorant rituals…Salah, Sawm, Zakah, a pilgrimage to Makkah if you can make it, aka Hajj…more salah, more fasting, more bashing your head on a prayer mat 5 times a day, more voluntary starvation and right now, more zakah, zakah, zakah!

A human rights lawyer has successfully lobbied the EU President to issue an apology and clarification (http://www.anonym.to/?http://www.eu2009.cz/en/news-and-documents/news/en---omluva--4697/) after he described Israel's barbaric attacks as defensive . MPACUK congratulate and applaud the outstanding human rights lawyer Daniel Machover on his successful efforts. His tireless work against Israel's oppression demonstrates once again that it is people like him - and not the genocidal Zionist regime - who represent the true ethical heritage of Jewish 'People of the Book'

Israel’s violation of the cease-fire predictably resulted in retaliation from militants in Gaza who fired rockets into Israel in response. The increased barrage of rocket fire at the end of December is being used as justification for the continued Israeli bombardment, but is a direct response to the Israeli attacks, notes Jeremy Hammond.

A dedicated brother has held MPACUK to account for not doing enough or working effectively in what we do, to defend the innocent Palestinians against Israel's brutal attack. When will other muslim groups also thank and welcome honest sincere feedback, without making cheap excuses or rebutting the allegations or pretending it will all blow away? It is only through reviving the Islamic principle of Accountability that we can improve.

The small brick building in a Liverpool terrace is falling apart, it even needs a new roof, but this ramshackle structure at 8 Brougham Terrace, West Derby Street, was Britain's first mosque. The Grade II listed building has not been used as a place of worship for at least a century but the historical site is to be rebuilt and restored by the Abdullah Quilliam Society, a private organisation that says the whole project will cost £3m.

Five years ago, the Bush administration lied about weapons of mass destruction to dupe us into supporting an illegal, immoral invasion of Iraq. A few days ago, Israel trotted out only an infinitesimally more credible excuse -- the Hamas rockets case -- as justification for its own murderous shock and awe in Gaza, a long-planned campaign perniciously aimed at ousting a “regime” that came to power via popular, democratic vote.

It is with a sad heart that MPACUK announce that Israeli ground troops are entering Gaza. Despite days of air strikes by the Israeli Destructive Force, it seems not enough Palestinians have died. Take action now! See the 5 Simple things you can do to help the Palestinians (content/view/5201/103/).

March to Stop Gaza Massacre Assemble 12:30pm Embankment, WC2 Nearest tube: Embankment. Called by Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Stop the War Coalition, British Muslim Initiative, CND and many other organisations. Come and talk to MPACUK about being active in defending the Muslims.

Israel's continuing massive military strikes on Gaza are an outrage that the international community must not allow to continue (Reports, 30 December). Palestinian rocket attacks that traumatise the lives of communities in southern Israel are also utterly unacceptable. Both sides must cease fire. Israel's actions are disproportionate and counterproductive to achieving either security for the people of Israel or peace in the Middle East. Physicians for Human Rights (Israel) have warned that targeting of civilians and of medical facilities is a breach of international humanitarian law. The targets chosen by the Israeli military include also clearly civilian installations.

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At one time I used to believe that Israel was a Schizophrenic state, claiming everyone was out to get them. They keep telling the world that they are defending themselves. They tell us they are ensuring the security of their people. Well it’s about time they dropped the facade.

To portray this as a conflict between equals requires some imagination When you read the statements from Israeli and US politicians, and try to match them with the pictures of devastation, there seems to be only one explanation. They must have one of those conditions, called something like Visual Carnage Responsibility Back To Front Upside Down Massacre Disorder . For example, Condoleezza Rice, having observed that more than 300 Gazans were dead, said: We are deeply concerned about the escalating violence. We strongly condemn the attacks on Israel and hold Hamas responsible.

ALL BRUMMIES WHO ARE OUTRAGED AT THE ONGOING ISRAELI MASSACRE OF THE BESEIGED GAZAN'S, YOU HAVE TO ATTEND THIS EVENT! The horrific bombings of impoverished Gaza has killed 400 of innocent Muslim brothers, sisters and children. We must no longer stand for this atrocity committed by the Zionist terrorist state that is Israel!

Emergency demonstration in Manchester Saturday 3rd Jan Assemble: 12 noon All Saints Park Oxford Road/Cavendish Road Manchester March through city centre to Albert Square

What can you do to help? Date: Saturday 3rd January Venue: Chorlton Library, Manchester Rd, Chorlton cum Hardy, Manchester, M21 9PN Time: 15:00 - 18:00

With the murderous assault on Gaza in its fourth day (http://www.mpacuk.org/content/view/5199/102/), every Muslim on the planet has come out in defence of the dying Palestinians and blasting Israel. Latest among such critics is Ed Hussain who put out this press release (http://www.quilliamfoundation.org/index.php/component/content/article/374) from the Quilliam Foundation and soon after a piece on the Guardian’s Comment is Free (http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/dec/30/israelandthepalestinians-middleeast). Naturally the Zionist movement is up in arms.

Here is a simple, stone cold fact. You cannot read or hear the truth about what is happening in Gaza from any corporate media in the United Kingdom. The only thing you will find there are regurgitations of Israeli spin, which are themselves only regurgitations of the kind of spin that militarists have put on their own depredations -- for centuries now. Up and down the media and political establishments, you will find nothing but bleatings about Israel being forced to launch its vicious blunderbuss attacks against heavily populated Gaza because of the recent spate of Hamas bombings since the end of a six-month ceasefire.

I don’t care what anyone says – our Muslim Leaders and groups are pathetic. Every single time these poor Palestinians are massacred these stupid Muslim groups do the same stupid things as they always do - nothing.