MENDing the "Islamophobia" Narrative in the U.K.? What a Laugh and a Half!

It's that time of year Old Blighty again--the month dedicated to raising "awareness" re "Islamophobia". The organization behind it is called MEND, the acronym for Muslim Engagement and Development. (MEND seems to be the equivalent of CAIR in the U.S., and NCCM, or the entity previously known as CAIR-Can, here in Canada.)

And what, pray tell, does MEND wish to, um, mend? Let's just say that it is bent on hyping the victimhood narrative as a means of diverting the public's attention from the manifold incidents of jihad that continue apace in the UK and elsewhere in the EU.

This despite the fact that

A new Henry Jackson Society report has warned that the public sector organisations and elected officials are partnering with the extremist-linked group Muslim Engagement and Development (Mend). 

Compiling years’ worth of evidence, the report, Mend: “Islamists Masquerading As Civil Libertarians”, demonstrates how Mend meets the government’s own definition of extremism, even while local authorities, police, teachers and MPs have been working with this organisation. Our findings include:

• How Mend meets the government’s own definition of extremism, even while local authorities, police, teachers and MPs have been working with this organisation.

• It reveals how Mend has regularly hosted illiberal, intolerant and extremist Islamist speakers, while also pushing a message that risks being inflammatory and making British Muslims feel further alienated from wider society. Mend and key figures in the organisation have also attacked moderate Muslim groups.

• Mend has openly sought to undermine counter-terrorism legislation and counter-extremism efforts, in addition to having its own links to extremists. Despite this, the group received public funding from Tower Hamlets council to review part of the borough’s counter-radicalisation Prevent programme.

• Several of the organisation’s employees and volunteers, including senior figures, have publicly expressed a range of disturbing views on terrorism and anti-Semitism. This has included expressing support for terrorists overseas, dismissing recent terror attacks in the UK, promoting anti-Semitic conspiracies and even calling on British Mosques to hold prayers for “the Mujahedeen”.

Not that any of this has deterred the UK's current crop of Useful Idiots from making common cause with the MENDniks. Why would it, when both groups despise Israel and are completely in the tank for the victimhood spin, seeing it as the vehicle that will bring them the political power that they and their ilk desire above all else?

Some of the Useful Idiots are on view in this video: