An extremist who said he supported the killing of British soldiers has been appointed a director of a controversial Muslim pressure group with influence at Westminster…..Azad Ali, head of community development and engagement at Muslim Engagement and Development (Mend), said the Westminster Bridge attack last month was ‘not terrorism’.

According to RT, MEND is a lobby group which, campaigns against “Islamophobia,” a term that has been effectively marketed globally by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation to silence critics of Islam. RT noted that MEND “lobbies MPs, the police, councils, teachers, and related groups on anti-Muslim prejudice.”

The Telegraph reported in April 2015 that MEND has “built links” with both the Tory and Labour parties, but that it was “a front group for Muslim extremists which wants to let British Muslims fight in Syria,” and that it “has boasted that it is ‘negotiating with the Tory and Labour leadership’ to secure some of its demands.”

Authorities in Britain and elsewhere should distance themselves from the word “Islamophobia” and disengage from any Muslim group with known jihadist ties. The pervasive phobia about being called “racist,” “Islamophobic” and “intolerant” is a chief stealth weapon of Islamic supremacists who are attempting to advance the Sharia in the West.

It is no surprise that the “Islamist” Azad Ali was appointed a director with MEND. In fact, it should have been expected.

“Islamist who claimed killing British soldiers was ‘justified’ becomes director of a controversial Muslim pressure group with influence over Westminster”, by Martin Robinson, Daily Mail, April 10, 2017: