Islam body to guide UK govt: Is this an attempt to create an Anglo-Saxon version of Islam?
By Rashmee Roshan Lall, TNN
19 July 2008
The new British body, which was publicly endorsed as a good idea whose time has come by communities secretary Hazel Blears, will see Oxford and Cambridge Universities host a group of scholars to lead the debate on key British Muslim issues such as women's rights and responsibilities and loyalty to the host country, Britain. Radical Muslims have rejected the idea as a transparent ploy to create a British state-sponsored Islam that will be seen as a sham by most of Britain's several-million-strong Muslim community.
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