.... The panel was scarcely an improvement. The only representative Muslim figure was Salma Yaqoob. Alongside her we had right-wing journalist Ann Leslie, who took the opportunity to refer to veiled women as wearing "bin bags", Quilliam's Maajid Nawaz and Taj Hargey of MECO.
If the BBC had set out to find two of the least representative and most widely despised individuals within the British Muslim community they couldn't have come up with anyone much better than Nawaz and Hargey, with the possible exception of Anjem Choudary. [Islamophobia Watch] Read more
