The MCB dismisses this definition of mainstream values as nothing more than ‘arbitrary measures on who is, and who isn’t an extremist’ defined by ‘neoconservative think-tanks’.
In the very same statement, MCB Secretary General Farooq Murad is quoted as saying that we live in a period in which ‘Muslims in the Middle East resoundingly endorse the universal values of human rights, democracy and the rule of law’.
So, which is it, then? Are human rights, democracy and the rule of law universal values, and therefore also mainstream British values – as the new Prevent strategy states – or are they in fact ‘arbitrary’ notions dreamed up by shadowy neoconservative think-tanks? [Harry’s Place] Read more
