Islamist groups and white racist parties fall into the same category - they both want to give preferential treatment to some people and discriminate against others. The Islamist group the Muslim Association of Britain (MAB) is calling on its followers to vote for Ken Livingstone and other named Labour and Lib-Dem London assembly candidates, who they see as sympathetic to their cause.
The MAB are anti-Semitic, with key leaders having strong links to the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas, which aims at the total annihilation of Israel. The current MAB president Muhammad Sawalha was previously a member of the military structure of Hamas, where he is reported to have organised and facilitated terrorist activities before coming to the UK in 1990.
The MAB was set up in 1997 by Kamal al-Helbawy, the London based spokesman for the Muslim Brotherhood along with other Islamists including Azzam Tamimi. Tamimi who acts as an adviser to the Hamas leadership also happens to be the leader of the Muslims4Ken campaign, which Ken Livingstone has been working closely with for the last year...
Boris was absolutely right to say he didn't want the BNP vote - we would expect nothing less of him. HOWEVER, we have yet to hear Ken Livingstone or other Labour/Lib-Dem London assembly candidates say they don't want the Islamist votes...
