Britain - Guardian Reporter hardline Islamist

With the majority of MPs losing faith in the BBC, Britains media takes another hit with the revelation that a Guardian reporter is "a member of one of Britain's most extreme Islamist groups."

And the Guardian refuses to sack him!

Congratulations to the Independent for giving credit to blogger Scott Burgess for breaking the story.

Dilpazier Aslam, who has been allowed to report on the London bombings from Leeds and was also given space to write a column in last Wednesday's edition of The Guardian, is a member of Hizb ut-Tahrir, a radical world organisation which seeks to form a global Islamic state regulated by sharia law.

It is understood that staff at The Guardian were unaware that Mr Aslam was a member of Hizb ut-Tahrir until allegations surfaced on "The Daily Ablution", a blog run by Scott Burgess. Speculation is mounting that it may have been a sting by Hizb ut-Tahrir to infiltrate the mainstream media.

Late on Friday The Guardian released a statement to The Independent on Sunday saying: "Dilpazier Aslam is a member of Hizb ut-Tahrir, an organisation which is legal in this country. We are keeping the matter under review." The paper refused to comment further.

Who is specualting that this was a sting by Hizb ut-Tahrir? The Guardian? If that's the case they need to hire Scott.

Just Google Hizb ut-Tahrir and see why they are banned in many countries.

In 2001 Mr Aslam wrote in the group's in-house journal, Khilafah, that: "The establishment of Khilafah [an Islamic state] is our only solution, to fight fire with fire, the state of Israel versus the Khilafah State".

Which is the real reason the Guardian hired him; they have a history of this sort of thing.

In 1994 Richard Gott, a veteran Guardian journalist, resigned as literary editor after he was unmasked as a former KGB spy.

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