BBC NEWS | UK | Muslim group avoids Holocaust Day

The Muslim Council of Britain, the country's main Muslim organisation, has decided to maintain its boycott of Holocaust Memorial Day. The MCB's policy is not to take part in the UK's commemorations of the mass murder of Jews because it does not mention non-Jewish victims of genocide. (...) Its leaders argue that crimes against other peoples should also be marked. The council says it does denounce the Holocaust as what it calls "monstrous cruelty" but rejects the charge that bracketing it with other atrocities diminishes Jewish suffering. The barbarism of killings in Vietnam, Rwanda, Bosnia and Chechnya should also be marked, it says.