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Revision as of 10:54, 19 March 2007
 | It has been suggested that Annual Islamophobia Awards be merged into this article. (Discuss) Proposed since November 2006. |
The Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC) is a non-profit organization that campaigns against what it sees as violations of the human rights of Muslims. The group is based in London and was established in 1997. Since a BBC documentary broadcast on July 15, 2004 exposed very strong anti-Islamic opinions within the far-right British National Party, the IHRC has campaigned for the prohibition of that party.[1]
The IHRC has organised joint statements with various Islamic groups about British terror legislation, on many occasions, and collaborated with prominent civil liberties lawyers like Gareth Peirce and Louise Christian.[2] The IHRC has been criticized as a front for radical Islamists by the Stephen Roth Institute, an organization studying anti-Semitism based in the University of Tel Aviv.[3] The commission organizes the annual Al-Quds Day demonstration in London, initiated by Ayatollah Khomeini.[4] It opposes the banning of the Islamist Hizb-ut-Tahrir party and feels that the adoption of sharia law is a legitimate religious idea.[2]
During the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict, British Newspapers reported IHRC Chair Massoud Shadjareh to have asked "his followers" and "British Muslims" to provide financial assistance to Hezbollah, and having called for the occupation of Israel and "regime change" by Hezbollah on self-defence grounds. He was also reported wrapped in a Hezbollah flag at a rally in Trafalgar Square in 2005.[5][6][7] In response, the IHRC denied having advocated terrorism in a press release.[8] Shadjareh defended having worn the Hezbollah flag as "neither uncommon nor controversial among human rights activists.".[5] Besides, the IHRC pointed to pictures of Rabbis behaving likewise.[8] On August 3, 2006, the IHRC asked for judicial review of its allegations of the British government’s assistance with military shipments to Israel,[9] which was eventually denied.[10]
In response to July 2006 The Mail and The Sun article IHRC published a press release on 24 July 2006(http://www.ihrc.org.uk/show.php?id=1964) stating the reports "libellous" and "malicious" attacks to IHRC and in particular its chair, Massoud Shadjareh. IHRC complained that they were not given right to defend themselves against the accusation that were stated in these articles. As regards both articles, IHRC’s complaints involve the false portrayal of a briefing aimed primarily at press and policymakers that appears on their website as a ‘call’, ‘comments’ and an ‘outburst’ from Mr. Shadjareh to ‘his followers’ and ‘British Muslims’ to provide financial assistance to Hizbullah, and called on Hizbullah to occupy Israel and undertake ‘regime change’. In actual fact the briefing entitled, ‘The Blame Game: International Law and the Current Crisis in the Middle East’ which can be found at: http://www.ihrc.org.uk/show.php?id=1954 discusses the position of Lebanon and nation states in the current Middle East crisis and positions of nation states regarding Israeli failure to comply within resolutions on Palestine.
Both articles in the Mail on Sunday and The Sun suggested that Mr. Shadjareh and IHRC advocated terrorism and was set in the context of so-called concerns by security services in the UK at the possibility of terror attacks on Jewish, Israeli and British targets. It was maliciously implied that IHRC and Mr. Shadjareh were somehow connected to that threat. Neither Mr. Shadjareh or IHRC have advocated or supported terrorism and work with people across communities to oppose Israeli human rights violations, including in the current context, war crimes. IHRC has called for an immediate cease fire and called on the British government to be evenhanded in its dealings in the current crisis. This call was supported by a number of MPs, activists, academics and civil society organisations in a statement printed in the Times last Saturday, a day before the first of the libellous articles appeared in the Mail on Sunday.
See also
- Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam
- Annual Islamophobia Awards -- A satirical 'awards ceremony' overseen by the IHRC.
External links
Notes
- ^ BNP Fascists Must be Banned, IHRC press release, July 15 2004
- ^ a b United to protect our rights, IHRC appeal, September 8, 2005
- ^ Antisemitism And Racism, 2005 United Kingdom Report, Stephen Roth Institute
- ^ IHRC's Al Quds Poster 2005
- ^ a b Fanatic's cash aid call by Harry Macadam, The Sun August 24, 2006
- ^ Hezbollah cells await Iran’s orders, by Melanie Phillips, The Spectator
- ^ MI5 fears Hezbollah terror attacks in Britain by Jason Lewis, The Mail on Sunday July 22, 2006
- ^ a b Statement regarding libellous articles in The Mail on Sunday and The Sun, IHRC, 25 August, 2006
- ^ IHRC Commences Legal Proceedings against British Government over Military Shipments to Israel, press release, IHRC, August 3, 2006
- ^ Leave denied to judicially review British government’s assistance with military shipments to Israel, press release, IHRC, August 23, 2006
10. http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=15138 Front Page Magazine: A Front For Jihad