
Mohammed Amin: The Government should talk to the Muslim Council of Britain – though talking doesn’t necessarily mean agreeing
Government dialogue with an organisation doesn’t mean Ministers rewarding it. Rather, it means engaging with it.
Government dialogue with an organisation doesn’t mean Ministers rewarding it. Rather, it means engaging with it.
A handful of ordinary members may let the rest of us down, but I have seen no sign that our Party systemically encourages anti-Muslim hatred.
We doubt that such institutional bias exists. But we would say that, wouldn’t we? Fortunately, Sayeeda Warsi has hit on a solution.
Polling suggests real concern among them about extremism. But one wouldn’t think so from the coverage of her appointment.
Nor should we indulge the murderer’s view of himself as being motivated by ideology. He was evil, and his final act was to spit in the face of God.
The state is indirectly attacking an individual who has received death threats rather than take action against those threatening him.
We need to find advocates whose authority and Islamic orthodoxy the extremists respect. Such people exist, but they are not liberal Imams or nominally Christian politicians.
None of the bodies I served on would ever dream of having a governor who held neo-Nazi views. We should be just as intolerant in this context.