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When I became an MP in 1994, I found in the almost entirely Kashmiri Muslim community of my South Yorkshire constituency a raging anger over foreign-policy issues and an ever-growing sense of religious identity trumping any other. The fury was over the appeasement policies of the Tories toward the Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic. Sir Malcolm Rifkind - then the Tory foreign secretary - refused to lift a finger over the genocidal massacre of European Muslims at Srebrenica.
The prevailing culture, however, was to deal with religious leaders and see the problem as one of finding friendly theologians from Cairo or Muslim ideologues from Geneva - rather than allow real political space for British citizens of the Muslim faith, women as much as men.See the full content of this document
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Persuading Britain's Muslims Will Be No Easy Task
My heart sank as I read that ministers would fan out across the UK to try to persuade leaders of the Muslim communities (not "community" in the singular, please) of the justness of the government...
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