Muslim Public Affairs Committee

The Muslim Public Affairs Committee (MPACUK) claims to be "the UK's Leading Muslim civil liberties group, empowering Muslims to focus on non-violent Jihad and political activism." 

MPACUK states that it is a non-profit organisation but is not a registered charity. However, the organisation does not disclose where its financial support comes from. 

The organisation does not list its current office bearers on its website nor does it appears to have a fixed address. It is believed that the group, is run by four activists, Asghar Bukhari, his brother Zulfikar Bukhari, Tassadiq Rehman, and Madassar Ahmed, who operate from their homes. 

Asghar Bukhari was named in the British House of Commons in 2001 in connection with a campaign against Mike Gapes, a British Member of Parliament (MP) who was a member of the Labour Friends of Israel

According to The Observer newspaper (November 19, 2006), Asghar Bukhari offered financial and moral support in 2000 to David Irving, the British historian, jailed in Austria for Holocaust denial. Bukhari told The Observer: "I wrote letters to anyone who was tough against the Israelis — David Irving, Paul Findley, the PLO. I don't feel I have done anything wrong, to be honest. At the time I was of the belief he [Irving] was anti-Zionist, being smeared for nothing more than being anti-Zionist. The pro-Israeli lobby often accused people of anti-Semitism and smear tactics against groups and individuals is well known. I condemn anti-Semitism as strongly as I condemn Zionism (in my opinion they are both racist ideologies). I also believe that anyone who denies the Holocaust is wrong (I don't think they should be put behind bars for it though)." .

Irving had since the 1980s established a reputation dismissing any role the Nazi’s had with the holocaust.

In 2004, the National Union of Students (NUS) Executive and in particular 'Luciana Berger, the co-convenor of NUS’s Anti-Racism and Anti-Fascism campaign and a leading member of the Union of Jewish Students took 'steps to ban' three muslim organisations from campus in 2004, because of they were allegedly "anti-Semitic, and homophobic". In December 2005 the organisation had a meeting cancelled by the University of Westminster on the grounds of contravention of its 'very firm policies on religious belief and tolerance'. 


 * Ahmed Younis - National Director (Washington, US) (2004-07)

Contact Details
Web: http://www.mpacuk.org/