So, does the chairman of the Conservative Party, Baroness Warsi, agree with David Cameron’s statement that British Muslims should do more to weed out extremists from their midst (and therefore with the direct implication that they are not doing enough at the moment)? And does she agree that multiculturalism is a failed experiment and that Islam is a bit of a problem because of its attitudes towards personal freedom, equality between the sexes and so on? It’s hard to imagine that she does as this was precisely the sort of attack on Muslims which she castigated in her confused and bizarre speech a few weeks back in Leicester. The Prime Minister goes rather further than I did in a speech which riled Warsi because someone had entitled it “Islamophobia – count me in” (she hadn’t bothered to actually read, or hear, the content).
And I wonder what Muslim organisation Cameron was talking about when he said that his government would not fund share a platform with organisations which “though non-violent are certainly in some cases part of the problem.” Interesting stuff.
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