Over the past month, there has been a dispute going on between Hazel Blears, who has been on the right side of the debate over Islamism, and the Muslim Council of Britain. Blears has had the government break off contact with the MCB because of Daud Abdullah, its deputy secretary general, signing the Istanbul declaration.
The dispute has now moved to a new level with Daud Abdullah threatening legal action against Blears as Secretary of State. Blear’s department is not backing down, it has released this statement:
“We have received correspondence from Dr Daud Abdullah’s solicitors.
“We have been in dialogue with the MCB since the 6 March seeking clarification of the actions taken by Dr Abdullah in relation to the serious issues raised by the articles in the Istanbul Declaration. We are concerned with those articles which appear to call for violence and Dr Abdullah’s repeated unwillingness to distance himself from those articles specifically.
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