[Anglican Mainstream] 29 May 2008--A report into the first riots in Bradford in 1995 warned that there were ‘politicized Muslim activists’ in Britain bent on using disaffected youth for sinister ends – and that policy-makers were burying their heads in the sand about it.
That report by the Bradford Commission – a body comprised of city leaders including a Muslim trade unionist Mohammed Taj - warned of extremists bent on the seizure of temporal power, urging the destruction of secular society. It all seemed rather far-fetched, and was mostly ignored. But that was seven years before 7/7. Ten years later, far from just a cult of silence about the true nature of radicalism, there’s now a culture of institutionalized denial. West Midlands police with no less a body than the Crown Prosecution Service have had to apologise to Hardcash Productions, the makers of the Dispatches film ‘Undercover Mosque’, for libeling them with accusations of ‘fakery’ and inciting religious hatred. Their exposure of hate preachers at Green Lane Mosque and other Birmingham Islamic centres, rather than being praised as a service to the community, was reported to the broadcast watchdog Ofcom by the police.
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