One of the two candidates vying to lead the Muslim Council for Britain has praised Iran and the other has said mixed gender New Year celebrations were “un-Islamic”. Dr Muhammad Adrees and Dr Mohammed Wajid Akhter will face their first hustings ­on Tuesday in the race to become secretary-general of the group, which claims to be the largest democratic voice of British Muslims. However, a report by Policy Exchange, the think tank, has uncovered “deeply disturbing” remarks by the pair, according to a former Muslim MP. In comments from 2022, Akhter called being a Muslim an “act of revolutionary defiance … at odds with the prevailing culture” and advocated that British Muslims identify primarily as Muslim rather than as British. “Most people teach their children

Source: The Times January 06, 2025 21:36 UTC