This last week has seen the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) come under fire from a number of directions. First, the BBC announced that on Sunday 21 August 2005, their flagship current-affair… Read More

Few people may have realised that the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) has a charitable foundation attached to it. The Muslim Council of Britain Charitable Foundation (charity number 1084651)… Read More

We have seen before how the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) and its spokespersons are often at best confused and, at worst, disingenuous, when it comes to the activities of certain radical M… Read More

Iqbal Sacranie, Secretary-General of the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB), is a fascinating bundle of contradictions. On the one hand, the recently knighted Sir Iqbal likes to present himself… Read More

The Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) has found itself in hot water of late over its campaign to have Holocaust Memorial Day scrapped and replaced with an event that is, in the words of Iqbal… Read More

The BBC’s Panorama programme on Sunday 21 August 2005 investigated the Muslim Council of Britain’s (MCB) claims to be moderate and found them wanting. To say that the MCB was cro… Read More

Among its many roles, the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) acts as an umbrella body for a wide range of other Muslim organisations, seeking by the weight of numbers to present a more powerful… Read More

Whilst the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) likes to present itself as the representative body of mainstream, British Muslims, when one begins to probe amongst the 400 or so Muslim organisati… Read More

On 5 August 2005, Prime Minister Tony Blair announced his intention to ban a number of Islamist groups, amongst them Hizb ut-Tahrir (henceforth HT). The Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) waste… Read More

Those whose arguments are weak or who cannot support their position with evidence frequently resort to logical fallacies, methods of argumentation that are inherently fallacious. Among the m… Read More

Why write MCB Watch?The Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) claim to be the major representative voice of "moderate", "mainstream" Islam in the UK. They have a high profile in the media and have… Read More

One of the issues brought into sharp focus by the London bombing of 7/7 is that there is a problem with radical Islam in Britain. Scattered amongst the overwhelming law-abiding and peaceful… Read More

The Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) was founded in 1997 and since then has grown to be the largest and arguably the most influential Muslim lobby group in the UK. Representing some 300 affil… Read More