THE RAMADHAN FOUNDATION TODAY CALLS ON THE UK PRIME MINISTER TO DO THE HONOURABLE THING AND RESIGN

Published: 05/09/2006 19:30

Today the Ramadhan Foundation joins the vast majority of the British people in calling for Tony Blair to resign as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.  The Government cannot afford to have this uncertainty to cloud over all Government activity.

Tony Blair was elected in 1997 after 18 years of Conservative government, we were promised responsible Government and an ethnical foreign policy – what we go in reality was double standards in foreign policy, one rule for the west and another for the Muslim and third world countries.  The Foundation rightly supported the Government on its attempts to crack down on institutional racism by highlighting the Race Equality Scheme published in 2003.  This placed a legal obligation on the public sector to outline how they intended to eliminate this from their organisations, we welcome the Government recognising that the Government has failed to live up to the Race Relations Amendment Act 2000 and that more activity needs to be done.

Tony Blair was responsible for taking the UK into an illegal and unjustified war in Iraq, over 100.000 innocent people many of them children were murdered.  We were told about Weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, these failed to appear and even today Tony Blair fails to accept the reality that there were no WMDs because Saddam Hussein did not have none.

And in 2006 Tony Blair give the Hitler like state of Israel free rein in destroying and killings in Lebanon.  He stood and watched over 1000 people being killed of which a third were children, a million displaced, buildings and basic infrastructure destroyed to the point of no return.  He refused not only to condemn Israel’s action but also refused to call for an immediate ceasefire.  The blood of these innocent people rest ultimately with the Prime Minister and his cronies.

Mr Muhammad Umar, Chairman of the Foundation comments:

“The Prime Minster does not command the support firstly of the British people as only 36% of the population voted for him, his party, Loyal MPs and Cabinet Ministers are anxious for him to resign.  In light of his deplorable actions in the Lebanon war resignation should be the only option, he must be held accountable for the liars about Iraq and Afghanistan.

We urge the Prime Minster to resign within the coming months and hope his successor will do more to create an environment where dialogue between communities can be restored.  Diversity must be valued and celebrated “