{"id":35413,"date":"2013-03-14T12:02:07","date_gmt":"2013-03-14T10:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=35413"},"modified":"2013-03-14T12:02:07","modified_gmt":"2013-03-14T10:02:07","slug":"arab-lord-ahmed-is-suspended-by-labour-party-uk-news-35413","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/arab-lord-ahmed-is-suspended-by-labour-party-uk-news-35413\/","title":{"rendered":"Arab Lord Ahmed Is Suspended By Labour Party \/ UK News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Labour peer Lord Ahmed has been suspended by the party as it launched an investigation into claims he blamed a Jewish conspiracy for his jail term.<\/h1>\n

The Muslim peer was jailed for 12 weeks for dangerous driving in 2009 after sending and receiving text messages minutes before he was involved in a fatal crash.<\/p>\n

He has now allegedly blamed the sentence on pressure placed on the courts by Jews “who own newspapers and TV channels”.<\/p>\n

The Muslim peer is said to have told an Urdu-language broadcast in Pakistan that the judge who jailed him was appointed to the High Court after helping a “Jewish colleague” of Tony Blair during an important case.<\/p>\n

Labour suspended him after the remarks were published in The Times and has launched an investigation.<\/p>\n

A party spokesman said: “The Labour Party deplores and does not tolerate any form of anti-Semitism.”<\/p>\n

Born in Kashmir but raised in Rotherham, Lord Ahmed joined the Labour Party at 18 and was made a life peer in 1998.<\/p>\n

However, his political career has been dogged by a series of controversies.<\/p>\n

In 2007 he hit the headlines when he criticised the awarding of a knighthood to Salman Rushdie.<\/p>\n

And in 2008, he had to publicly deny rumours he planned to defect to the Conservative Party, alleging the speculation was being spread by a Labour minister who was a “sad loser”.<\/p>\n

He was also suspended by the party last year for allegedly offering a \u00a310m bounty for the capture of US president Barack Obama – which he denied.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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