Councillor Who said Islamic State Doesn't Exist Given Anti-Terror Role

A few years ago this sort of news would have shocked me but now it's just par for the course. This is along the lines of Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Syria being elected to United Nations positions on women etc. 

'Birmingham council has appointed a controversial Muslim Labour member who has previously claimed that Islamic State does not exist and has dismissed Islamist attacks to a committee tasked with protecting children from radicalisation and terrorism.

Safia Akhtar Noor was suspended and then forced to resign as a school governor at Yew Tree Community School in Birmingham after several posts on her Facebook questioned if the terror group was an invention after the Westminster Bridge attack.

On the day of the attack in March last year, she wrote: "Can people stop fighting on Facebook? Sadly people died in Westminster today but people die every day in Syria, Palestine, Africa, Rohingya, Kashmir. Need I carry on?!! Grow up and stop pointing fingers!"

Five days later she claimed in another message: "So someone got stabbed after the attack last week as a result of media and government claiming that SO CALLED ISIS HAD CLAIMED RESPONSIBILITY."

She added: "There is no ISIS and there is no proof."

Despite this, the law student was able to stand as a Labour candidate in May's local elections in the Small Heath ward – which has a majority Muslim population – and won with more than 3,000 votes.

Now, she has been appointed to the Children's Social Care Overview and Scrutiny Committee of the Labour-controlled council.

The body looks over initiatives to prevent radicalisation and extremism and has given guidance on the Prevent strategy, intended to stop people being drawn into terrorism.'

There's lot more here at Breitbart 

http://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/06/21/birmingham-muslim-labour-councillor-islamic-state-anti-terror-role/ but obviously not on the BBC.