“BBC pays £45,000 in damages to the leader of Muslim Council of Britain”.

[Ibtisam]

The BBC today paid the Secretary General of the Muslim Council of Britain £45,000 damages over comments made by on Question Time by the former Daily Telegraph editor Charles Moore. Dr Muhammad Abdul Bari had brought libel proceedings in London's high court over a broadcast in March, when Moore claimed on Question Time that the leadership of the Muslim Council of Britain condoned the kidnapping and killing of British soldiers.

 

Bari's solicitor-advocate, Adam Tudor, told Mr Justice Eady that a member of the public had asked the panel about controversial protests that month by a group of Muslim men against a regiment of British troops parading in Luton on their return from Iraq.

 

In reply, a panellist suggested that despite having been asked many times to condemn the kidnapping and killing of British soldiers, Bari had failed to do so and thereby implicitly condoned such acts.

 

The panellist further suggested Bari believed the kidnapping and killing of British soldiers to be a good and Islamic thing.

 

Mr Tudor said that, although Dr Bari was not actually mentioned by name, the "leadership" of the MCB was referred to, by implication referring to him in his capacity as leader and chief spokesman of the MCB.

 

Mr Tudor said the BBC accepted that these allegations were untrue – in fact, in 2007, Dr Bari said publicly that the killing of British troops in Iraq was unacceptable.

 

Robert Brosgill, solicitor for the BBC, which has agreed to pay Dr Bari damages – and which he will donate to charity – and his legal costs, apologised unreservedly.

 

The Guardian

[SayidSomal]

LOL@Dr Bari!

 

that moore guy is an Azz (donkey) the more he speaks the more he sounds like one - i watched that programme and one he was on it - he only brays (make donkey sound) when he hears the word muslim.

 

 

[Ibtisam]

I clicked on the link and not what I was expecting! LOL