We shouldn’t abandon the label “extremist” for extremists
To mount an effective challenge to the casual bigotry of the dinner-table as well as the EDL and al-Muhajiroun, Baroness Warsi needs to explain who an extremist is.
To mount an effective challenge to the casual bigotry of the dinner-table as well as the EDL and al-Muhajiroun, Baroness Warsi needs to explain who an extremist is.
Islamist terrorism predates the EDL by many years. Osama bin Laden published his justification for the indiscriminate killing of Americans and Jews everywhere in February 1998 and the ‘secret apparatus’ of the Muslim Brotherhood is believed to have assassinated Mahmoud an-Nukrashi Pasha, then prime minister of Egypt, as long ago as 1948.
A proper response to 7/7 must be to bring the alienated and angry young men of Britain, whether seduced by Al Qaeda, the BNP or football hooliganism, into society. Only then can we have social cohesion and only this is true counter-terrorism.
Ayesha Tammy Haq, one of the Pakistan’s leading lawyers, has said that services are key to preventing the public falling prey to fundamentalism.
Last Saturday hundreds of Muslim civic and community leaders joined together during a public meeting in Birmingham to discuss the growing spate of unchallenged hatred and bigotry flourishing against British Muslims in our country. It took place on the sametest
Rod Liddle’s description of “Somali Muslim savages” has been criticised by leading UK Muslims, as has his insinuation that the Left do not criticise extremism.
Islamic extremist Anjem Choudary has compared British soldiers to Nazis. He has been condemned by moderate Muslims for his reprehensible remarks.
Terrorist sympathiser Sayful Islam defends his cowardly attack on Baroness Warsi. His organisation, Islam4UK, is a front for al-Muhajiroun – Omar Bakri’s group.