The British government is offering funding to Islamic groups that can “prove” they are tackling extremism.
Massoud Shadjareh of the Islamic Human Rights Commission says “The deliberate confusion surrounding the word extremism is a ploy by the government to use its financial muscle to socially engineer a new brand of Islam”.
Any complaints if the British government socially engineers a new brand of Islam that doesn’t involve terrorism, honour killings, genital mutilation, stoning women to death, hate preachers or spreading Islam by the sword?
The thought of my taxes being given to an alien religious organisation on some vague promise that they’ll tell wannabe terrorists not to blow people up disgusts me but then so do the pathetic attempts of self-appointed muslim “community leaders” to portray muslims as the eternal victims.
It’s the ‘community leaders’ who are the problem. They are all radicalised – the MCB, MPAC etc, and they can’t and don’t represent all muslims, who I think are a diverse lot. It is definitely their totalitarian orthodoxy we’re fighting, but there has to be a secular or western muslim ‘majority’ or potential majority that aren’t getting the airtime, either through fear of reprisal, or because they aren’t deemed newsworthy. We do need to tap into them.