UK - Government still consulting with militant Muslim group

The London Times reports.

Official funding for Muslim groups has been switched from the Home Office to Ruth Kelly’s department.

Last week she said that funding would be “rebalanced” to favour groups that opposed extremism and that it was not enough for Muslim groups to remain “on the sidelines or pay lip service to tackling extremism”.

Nice to see the government admit it was paying Muslim groups that supported extremism. Sadly, as this report shows, the government is still consulting with extremeist Muslim groups.

"The day after Trevor Phillips, the chairman of the Commission for Racial Equality, gave a warning that the row over Muslim women wearing the veil could provoke riots, Alan Johnson, the Education Secretary, will meet representatives from the Church of England, the Roman Catholic Church, the Muslim Council of Britain,..."

This despite the governments statement that it was cutting ties to the MCB.

via John