Lord Ahmed loves bringing extremists to Parliament.
For once he has been cut off at the pass.
The controversial peer Lord Ahmed has cancelled plans to host members of an extreme right-wing group at the House of Lords this week.
Lord Ahmed, currently suspended from the Labour Party for allegedly offering a “bounty” for the assassination of US President Obama, was due to chair a meeting at the Lords on restoring diplomatic relations with Iran.
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According to anti-fascist campaigners Searchlight, the event organiser was Ministry of Peace founder Dr James Thring, an anti-Zionist activist who has been vocally supported by former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke.A regular guest on Press TV and a supporter of former Libyan leader Colonel Gadaffi, he has previously described Israel, on the website Jailing Opinions, as “an illegal, criminal, psychopathic, belligerent, apartheid entity.”
Others invited included Alexander Baron, a member of the extremist New Right, who runs a website aimed at “exposing Zionist… misinformation on the Holocaust”, which he believes has been “greatly exaggerated”, and Aharon Cohen, from the anti-Zionist, strictly Orthodox Neturei Karta, who attended a meeting of the New Right last week.
Naturally the plea is ignorance:
Lord Ahmed insisted that the arranged meeting had been an error, and that he had only learned about the background of the participants after the JC contacted the Labour Party. “I was asked by James from the Ministry of Peace to talk about a possible attack on Iran and I had agreed to host the meeting, but was not involved with its organisation. When I found out that these people were involved and invited, I cancelled it.
“I have no intention of supporting anyone who is a Holocaust denier, who is anti-Jewish or anti-religion. I have no time for them, I would not invite anyone who would cause harm to Jews.”
Tee hee.
Lord Ahmed with Ibtisam Elahi Zaheer. He gave the Pakistani fundamentalist a tour of the House of Lords. Zaheer says Israeli women should be taken as sex slaves by jihadis.
Lord Ahmed with Ibrahim Hewitt, the chairman of Interpal, at a parliamentary reception.
Lord Ahmed hosts Al Qaeda and Taliban PR man Moazzam Begg and conspiracy nuts Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed and Annie Machon.
Lord Ahmed with Jenny Tonge and Raed Salah. Lord Ahmed originally booked the room in Parliament where anti-Israel politicians planned to meet with Raed Salah.
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