03 August 2010

Tory MPs say Home Office officials who disagree with Zakir Naik ban should quit

The Daily Telegraph disclosed in June that Theresa May, the Home Secretary, had barred Zakir Naik, a 44-year-old Indian television preacher who once claimed that “every Muslim should be a terrorist”, from a lecture tour in the UK.

It emerged at the weekend that Sabin Khan, an adviser in the Home Office’s Office of Security and Counter Terrorism (OSCT), had been suspended after allegedly criticising Mrs May in private. It was also alleged that Miss Khan had said she and Charles Farr, the office’s director-general, were “gutted and mortified” by the ban. [telegraph.co.uk] Read more