(Middle East Eye) The Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) has distanced itself from the British Muslim Network (BMN) after Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, a former government minister, suggested that the new organisation had the MCB’s support at a launch event on Tuesday.
Addressing remarks made by Warsi in which she praised the organisers of the new network for reaching out to Muslim community organisations, Wajid Akhter, the MCB’s secretary-general, told Middle East Eye that the MCB had not been approached by anyone from the BMN and had not endorsed it.
“It has been brought to our attention that the Muslim Council of Britain has somehow endorsed a new organisation launched this week,” Akhter, who was elected to the MCB leadership last month, told MEE.
