Mick Hartley

From the Telegraph – Lisa Nandy accused of prioritising Islam over other religions. 

The Culture Secretary is facing criticism after she appointed the boss of a Muslim charity as an adviser to a new civil society project but no one from Christian, Jewish or other specific faiths.

Lisa Nandy has made Fadi Itani, the chief executive of the Muslim Charities Forum (MCF), a member of the steering committee of her Civil Society Covenant.

The 15-strong Civil Society Covenant aims to boost social cohesion with the help of “volunteers, charities, faith organisations” and others.

Ms Nandy has described the committee as “a new chapter in the relationship between this Government and the remarkable civil society organisations that form the backbone of our communities”. She describes such organisations as “the eyes, ears and voice of the people”.

Yet the MCF is the only faith-specific group to be represented on its advisory group. The only other religious organisation is Faith Action, which represents all faiths.

It gets better.

In 2015 the MCF was stripped of £138,000 of government funding after a Telegraph investigation reported alleged links to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood….

The group was founded in 2008 by Dr Hany El-Banna, who was awarded an OBE in 2004 and remains a trustee of MCF.

In 2020 he posted a video on X of a lecture he gave in which he described the Yazidi people – thousands of whom were massacred by Islamic State terrorists – as “devil worshippers”.

Massacred and raped – used as sex slaves.

The appeasing of Islam by the left does not have a good history.