I would not swap my life for that of the man who was once regarded as the richest and most powerful man in the known world.
One needs to rely upon the good sense of the British people not to vote for theocracy. Accordingly I see no reason at present to ban Hizb ut Tahrir UK.
Mohammed Amin is Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Muslim Forum. He is writing in a personal capacity. Follow Mohammed on Twitter. Britain’s leading anti-Muslim hatred body is modelled on, and assisted by, the Jewish-run Community Security Trust – yet the CST rarely suffers the media assaults faced recently by Tell MAMA. For many decades the British […]
Mohammed Amin is Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Muslim Forum. He is writing in a personal capacity. Follow Mohammed on Twitter. We all like conciseness. The ideal is a short name such as "Higgs boson" that specifies exactly what you mean, and which conveys that precise meaning to everyone who hears the name. However in […]
Mohammed Amin is Vice Chairman of the Conservative Muslim Forum. He is writing in a personal capacity. Follow Mohammed on Twitter. We are a country that rightly values freedom of speech. Accordingly there will be many people who make remarks on public platforms which are far beyond the bounds of acceptability in a pluralistic society […]
Mohammed Amin is Vice Chairman of the Conservative Muslim Forum. He is writing in a personal capacity. Ethnic monitoring means the keeping of ethnicity statistics regarding employees, job applicants, or in certain cases the users of public services. Statistics may also be collected on the basis of religion or other characteristics, but for conciseness I […]
Mohammed Amin is Vice Chairman of the Conservative Muslim Forum. He is writing in a personal capacity. After the furore sparked by the uploading to YouTube of a 14 minute excerpt from the film “The Innocence of Muslims”, there have been many calls around the world for the film to be banned. These are often […]
Mohammed Amin is Vice Chairman of the Conservative Muslim Forum. He is writing in a personal capacity. A few years ago I found myself chatting with a very senior official in HM Revenue and Customs. I mischievously asked him “Would you agree that it is the duty of directors of public companies to ensure that […]
Mohammed Amin is Vice Chairman of the Conservative Muslim Forum. He is writing in a personal capacity. Over a decade ago I had an epiphany. As a partner in PricewaterhouseCoopers, once a year I received a statement informing me how much I had earned in the previous accounting year. (Partners do not know their income […]
Mohammed Amin is Vice Chairman of the Conservative Muslim Forum. He is writing in a personal capacity. Meet Rupert from Ruritania. Rupert was born into a moderately wealthy family of Ruritanian cotton growers but with his business acumen has taken the family cotton business international as well as diversifying into other areas such as commodity […]
Mohammed Amin is Vice Chairman of the Conservative Muslim Forum. He is writing in a personal capacity. As someone who has spent over 30 years helping taxpayers cope with tax law, I find the current debate about tax avoidance rather facile. As Macaulay wrote, “We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in […]
Mohammed Amin is Vice Chairman of the Conservative Muslim Forum. He is writing in a personal capacity. When I wrote “Winning Muslim Votes” for the Tory Reform Group magazine “Reformer”, I asked why: “Muslim business owners and professionals who, if they were white Anglo-Saxon Protestants (WASPs) would be expected to vote Conservative but who actually […]
Mohammed Amin is Vice Chairman of the Conservative Muslim Forum but is writing in a personal capacity. I was inspired to write this piece in response to Martin Parsons’ “Stopping the spread of sharia should be central to British foreign policy.” I share many of Martin Parsons’ concerns about the increase in religious extremism amongst […]
The police and the Crown Prosecution Service should throw the book at anyone within the jurisdiction who has made death threats, either express or implied, against Maajid.