Moderate Muslims failing to combat extremism, says Islamic Foundation

Telegraph
December 8, 2008

http://www.islamist-watch.org/1161/moderate-muslims-failing-to-combat-extremism-says

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Moderate Muslims have failed to do enough to combat the rise of extremism, a leading Islamic commentator has said.

Dilwar Hussain, head of the policy research centre at the Islamic Foundation, said Muslims did not challenge sufficiently strongly so-called "preachers of hate".

"Much could be said about Britain's foreign policy mistakes in stoking injustice, leading to anger and frustration," he said in a report published by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR).

"But to blame only such foreign affairs for terrorism is not nearly enough.

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