A British parliamentarian was suspended Thursday from the Labor Party after allegedly blaming a Jewish conspiracy for his imprisonment for dangerous driving.
In a television interview broadcast last month on Pakistan television, Nazir Ahmed, of Kashmiri origin, blaimed Jewish news media owners for his imprisonment.
In 2009, he pleaded guilty to dangerous driving and was sentenced to 12 weeks in prison with police presenting evidence he sent long text messages before a fatal crash.
"There's no place for anti-Semitism in the Labor Party, and frankly anybody who makes those kinds of comments cannot be either a Labor lord or a Labor member of Parliament," Labor Party Ed Milliband, who is Jewish, said.
Broadcast in Pakistan last April, the interview only became public in Britain when The Times of London published it on its website this week.
Last year, Ahmed was at the center of parliamentary controversy when reports claimed he offered a £10 million bounty for the capture of Barack Obama, comments which he later denied.
Ahmed, the first Muslim peer from Britain's Labour party, had reportedly made the comments to express his solidarity with chief of Laskhar-e-Tayyiba, Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, upon whom the United States placed a $10 million bounty last month.
Ahmed reportedly said Obama had "challenged the dignity of the Muslim Ummah (community)."
When the reports surfaced, Ahmed was suspended from parliament.
Denying the reports, Ahmed said he had only told the meeting that Bush and former Prime Minister Tony Blair should be prosecuted for war crimes.
"I never said those words," the Jerusalem Post quoted him as saying.
"I did not offer a bounty. I said that there have been war crimes committed in Iraq and Afghanistan and those people who have got strong allegations against them – Bush and Blair have been involved in illegal wars and should be brought to justice. I do not think there's anything wrong with that," he said, adding that he was equally concerned that anyone suspected of terrorism should face justice as well.
15 Mar, 2013
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Source: http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/2013/03/15/British-peer-Lord-Ahmed-suspended-over-alleged-Jewish-conspiracy-remarks.html
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