Muslim Association of Britain Director Calls October 7 “a Lie”

Anas Al-Tikri­ti, a Mus­lim Asso­ci­a­tion of Britain (MAB) direc­tor and its for­mer pres­i­dent, has called the Octo­ber 7 attack by Hamas on Israeli civil­ians a “lie.” On 30 April 2025, The Tele­graph report­ed that Anas Altikri­ti, a key fig­ure in the MAB, had dis­put­ed the events of Octo­ber 7, 2023, in Israel, describ­ing them as false­hoods and defend­ing the tak­ing of hostages as part of “resis­tance.” The arti­cle begins:

The Mus­lim Asso­ci­a­tion of Britain (MAB) has always denied being an extrem­ist organ­i­sa­tion, yet there can be lit­tle dis­pute as to the extrem­ist views of its most “sig­nif­i­cant” direc­tor. Anas Altikri­ti, who was pres­i­dent of the MAB from 2004 to 2005, has described the mass slaugh­ter and rape of Israeli cit­i­zens on Oct 7 2023 as “a lie” and called the tak­ing of hostages “a very impor­tant part” of any “act of resis­tance”. The MAB has tried to dis­tance itself from Mr Altikri­ti, say­ing he “does not speak for, nor rep­re­sent the views of the MAB”. Yet Com­pa­nies House lists Mr Altikri­ti as not only a cur­rent direc­tor of the MAB, but also the only direc­tor des­ig­nat­ed as a “per­son with sig­nif­i­cant con­trol” of the organ­i­sa­tion. The MAB was found­ed by Muham­mad Kath­em Sawal­ha, the for­mer Hamas chief, and was one of the groups that organ­ised a pro-Pales­tine march in Lon­don on Armistice Day, a month after the Oct 7 massacre.

Read more: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/04/30/muslim-association-or-britain-director-called-october-7-lie/

Key Points

• Mus­lim Asso­ci­a­tion of Britain (MAB) direc­tor and for­mer pres­i­dent Anas Altikri­ti called the Octo­ber 7, 2023, mas­sacre in Israel “a lie.”

• He also described hostage-tak­ing as “a very impor­tant part” of resis­tance actions.

• The MAB stat­ed that Altikri­ti does not rep­re­sent its views, despite his offi­cial sta­tus as director.

• The MAB was found­ed by a for­mer Hamas chief and helped orga­nize pro-Pales­tine march­es in Lon­don after Octo­ber 7.

The Muslim Brotherhood’s Support for Violence: Palestine as a Rallying Cry

The Mus­lim Asso­ci­a­tion of Britain (MAB) had for many years been the most active orga­ni­za­tion in the UK Mus­lim Broth­er­hood. Past analy­sis by the GIOR has revealed a com­plex web of sup­port and advo­ca­cy link­ing the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood to Hamas –its Pales­tin­ian chap­ter – and sup­port for vio­lence against Jews. As doc­u­ment­ed in an inter­view with a Turk­ish pro-Mus­lim Broth­er­hood TV chan­nel, Pales­tin­ian schol­ar Mraweh Nas­sar open­ly called for the anni­hi­la­tion of all Jews in Pales­tine, stat­ing that human­i­ty would only thrive once the Jew­ish nation was destroyed and specif­i­cal­ly tar­get­ing every Jew in Pales­tine, regard­less of age or gen­der. Nas­sar, who serves as Sec­re­tary-Gen­er­al of the Jerusalem Com­mit­tee of the Inter­na­tion­al Union of Mus­lim Schol­ars (IUMS), a body led by Glob­al Mus­lim Broth­er­hood fig­ures, has repeat­ed­ly used reli­gious plat­forms to incite vio­lence and jus­ti­fy jihad against Jews. The IUMS has fur­ther pub­lished ser­mons laud­ing “hero­ic jihad oper­a­tions” by Pales­tin­ian fight­ers and urg­ing Mus­lims world­wide to sup­port vio­lence against Israel finan­cial­ly and phys­i­cal­ly. These activ­i­ties demon­strate a pat­tern of ide­o­log­i­cal and oper­a­tional align­ment between the Glob­al Mus­lim Broth­er­hood and Hamas, with Broth­er­hood-affil­i­at­ed schol­ars and insti­tu­tions not only legit­imiz­ing but active­ly pro­mot­ing vio­lence as a reli­gious duty. This explic­it incite­ment and sup­port are cor­rob­o­rat­ed by exter­nal research, which details how the Brotherhood’s transna­tion­al net­works pro­vide both ide­o­log­i­cal and mate­r­i­al back­ing to Hamas, rein­forc­ing a nar­ra­tive of resis­tance that blurs the line between advo­ca­cy and direct endorse­ment of ter­ror­ist acts.

Exter­nal References:

• Fat­wa of the Com­mit­tee for Ijti­had and Fat­wa at the Inter­na­tion­al Union of Mus­lim Schol­ars regard­ing “The Ongo­ing Aggres­sion on Gaza and the Sus­pen­sion of the Ceasefire”
• Fat­wa By Inter­na­tion­al Union Of Mus­lim Schol­ars (IUMS), Based In And Fund­ed By Qatar, Declares ‘Armed Jihad’ Against Israel Oblig­a­tory For All Muslims
• Hamas: The Pales­tin­ian Mus­lim Brotherhood

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