It was great to hear Hazel Blears talk to a cross-party audience about her ideological opposition to the Islamic radical right at Policy Exchange yesterday.
My real question is why has the left abandoned its old comrades in the fight against racism to rush into the poisoned embrace of the Islamists? The Labour Party, through consituency parties and local councillors should have been a natural bulwark against the rise of the influence of Jamaat-i-Islami and the Muslim Brotherhood in Britain. But instead of listening to its activists and local democratic representatives, the Labour government chose instead to bolster the self-appointed Muslim Council of Britain.
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