Muslim extremist site fakes UK media organization endorsement

The logo was unmistakable. Could it really be true that the most respectable of UK media organizations, including the Society of Editors and Associated Newspapers, owners of the Daily Mail and the Evening Standard, were sponsoring the web site of MPACUK, an extremist Muslim campaign group run by a tiny and wholly unrepresentative group of radical activists? MPACUK, with its well documented track record of publishing anti-semitic propaganda with images taken from neo-Nazi web sites?

The logo is that of the Journalism Diversity Fund, a worthy venture which funds young journalists from ethnic minority and underprivileged backgrounds which are under-represented in the press corps to get onto courses and traineeships which will help them establish careers in journalism.

This morning's MPACUK web site carries their logo under the caption: Adverts/ Please click on our sponsors to show your support.

What would you be putting money into if you sponsor or advertise with MPACUK?

They've run a campaign to "track down", identify and publicize some Sufi Muslims who've subscribed to a government-funded initiative. And it's not to encourage people to support them.

If you want to visit their web site, try running a search from their site engine on the word "zionists" to find a long series of posts recycling every current anti-semitic trope about "zionist" world domination and control of US and UK governments.

So I emailed the Journalism Diversity fund to ask if they were indeed funding MPACUK at any level, whether advertising or funding a trainee from MPACUK or to do an internship with them.

Back came a response within half an hour. It was from the JDF administrator, who wrote:

I have never heard of the website you mentioned.  It looks like this organisation has copied the info from the Journalism Diversity Fund website and pasted it into their own website.

Thank you for bringing this to our attention.

I wonder how long the JDF logo will stay on the MPACUK web site? I've taken a screen shot of the logo up on the site, and I hope to upload it before long.

Comments

[Yamen]

Potsherd and Annie, I feel just the same and woke this morning ceempllod to add:Emily Henochowicz Sings Us to WakeI'm humbled: the brilliant artist who gave you [oh, Palestine] my eye still hopes so passionately for her friends there. She croons a tribute to them and to Palestine, Oh I wish I was with you. She prophesies that it can get better if people open their eyes, open their eyes. She hymns that Because I changed, people can change, others can, too, and I'll be back with you some day, Palestine, and I believe that there will be peace, I believe that you can be free. She shows us in a self-portrait the cost that Israel extracted of her change, of her freshly open eyes, of opening spirit: literally extracting the eye that had lifted its veil. She tints the empty meaning-full opening in red against the sepia pen and ink of a gripping self-portrait. Emily Henochowicz asks of Israel and of us, Don't they SEE? Don't they SEE?, for, Oh, those people are so fine. Oh I miss you. Palestine.

[Neilo]

Max, WJ, Shwartzman, I don't want you guys to get discouraged cause this one didn't get kileld, and can still talk (or sing, or draw) back. Don't let that stop you! You can give her the full Rachel Corrie treatment if you just work yourselves up to it. Why, I bet if you just apply some ziocaine to your wonderful passive-aggressive methods (just remember that poisonous food, and the dinky portions) you should be able to exceed what you did with Ms. Corrie. Jeez, Wonderful Jew, how did you manage to leave out the penultimate line in your screed, the one accusing her of tunnel vision. Oh wait, since you actually didn't say that, let me put it in quotes tunnel vision .