This secretive agenda must be taken seriously

View Published: 7:00AM GMT twenty-eight February 2010

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Radical Muslims, in their defenceless moments, are unrepentant about what they hold to be their eremite duty: the deputy of secular, passive and magnanimous democracy in Britain by a firm theocracy, in that the nation is governed by Islamic law. Those who have an effort to that idea are usually, and correctly, discharged as a little minority who are unrepresentative of the assuage infancy of British Muslims. But it would be wrong to boot the extremists as insignificant. The justification we tell currently suggests that at slightest one such organization has infiltrated tools of the Labour Party, and has taken over critical aspects of the using of the London precinct of Tower Hamlets.

If the Islamic Forum of Europe (IFE) was open and straightforward about the aims, citizens would be means to have up their own minds about either they longed for to see the members in any form of supervision in Britain. It is piece of any approved complement estimable of the name that those who reside by the order of law are entitled to debate in elections, even if we find their ideology objectionable. But a little members of the IFE denote in in isolation that they have an bulletin that they are not peaceful to share with the electorate. They have additionally demonstrated that they are demure to reside by the procedures that are necessary if elections are to be free and fair. As we inform today, Jim Fitzpatrick, the MP for Tower Hamlets, believes that the celebration has been infiltrated by in advance Muslims only as it was infiltrated in the 1980s by the Militant Tendency. The IFE denies any such campaign. But the denials would be some-more convincing if, in public, the IFE was not presented as simply a "social gratification organisation" committed to "community cohesion" and "tolerance" whilst in private, it shows itself to be committed to replacing democracy by a theocracy formed on Islamic law.

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In what appeared to be a approval of the complaint acted by infiltration by in advance Muslim organisations, Labour has placed the Tower Hamlets bend in "special measures", definition that it could no longer name the own candidates. The Government, however, appears to be in rejection about the hazard that organisations such as the IFE poise to the correct functioning of democracy in Britain. Tony Blair finished up with no illusions about the grade to that nonconformist Islamic organisations could be approaching to be committed to the values of physical democracy. But given Mr Brown came to power, both the Government"s policies and the ministers have altered with bewildering speed. The one consistent has been the sustenance of millions of pounds to organisations such as the IFE, in the goal that this will assistance forestall aroused extremism. There has never been any great justification that this tactic is effective. Indeed, ex-Muslim extremists such as Ed Husain and Maajid Nawaz have forked out that far from abating the energy of the hardliners, it merely encourages and emboldens them.

It is not as well late to forestall the radicals from more advanced further. They are not renouned inside of the Muslim village in Britain, and there is copiousness of justification that in any free and satisfactory election, no deputy from a in advance Muslim organization would win. But the Government has been not often demure to face up to the earnest of the problem. Until it does, the mechanisms of governing body and supervision will sojourn open to corruption by those with their own guileful agendas.