Rooting Out Racists



The Times published an interesting feature the other day on Maajid Nawaz, founder of Qulliam, a counter-terrorism think tank which appears to have the ear of government these days.

 A key point made by Nawaz is that Islamist extremists should be treated in the same way as the racists and vile bullies from the BNP or English Defence League:

 "Don’t ban them, he says, just shrink their platform by ostracising their affiliates. Treat them like racists. Why is it you can’t be a member of BNP and be a police officer, but you can still be a schoolteacher if you’re a member of the Muslim Brotherhood?"

 Exactly right if you ask me and you can read the full interview with Maajid Nawaz by following this link which is, however, behind newspaper's 'paywall.

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/life/article4539185.ece

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