(Middle East Eye) The High Court in London has ruled that a tweet sent by the author and commentator Ed Husain had defamed a senior leader of the Muslim Council of Britain.
Husain, also known as Mohammed Mahbub Husain, founded the defunct Quilliam Foundation and advised former British Prime Minister Tony Blair for several years.
In November 2020, Husain posted a tweet that claimed Miqdaad Versi, a Muslim Council of Britain spokesperson who leads the council’s media monitoring unit, was “pro-Hamas and pro-Iran.”
The tweet Husain sent appeared as a “quote tweet” in November 2020, which included a screenshot of a tweet posted by Versi, who criticised Conservative journalist Fraser Nelson over the way his magazine, the Spectator, covered Muslims and Islam.
