In light of the UK Government’s current drive to implement laws that gives them the power to ban peaceful [Islamic] organisations, shut down mosques who host ‘extremist speakers’ and put ‘Extremism Disruption Orders’ that ban individuals from appearing in public, or publishing anything on the internet or in print – merely if they are deemed to be ‘against British Values’ we must consider the objectives of the UK government. The following video of a 22min presentation I gave at a CAGE event last year, ironically just 10 days before the UK government unveiled its new set of measures – has become much more pertinent:

Categories: LECTURES, North America & Muslim communities in the West, UK. Europe