The new anti-extremism tsar was described as an “Oreo” by a senior member of a Muslim advocacy group, a television investigation is to say. The term is seen as racist because it describes a biscuit which is brown on the outside but white inside.
Sara Khan, a Muslim, has been appointed as the head of Theresa May’s Commission for Tackling Extremism.
Channel 4’s Dispatches will broadcast an investigation into Muslim Engagement and Development (Mend), a pressure group which persuaded Jeremy Corbyn last year to launch its anti-Islamophobia event in the Commons.
Ms Khan has led a charity that seeks equality for Muslim women and counters extremism. No sooner had she been appointed to advise Mrs May than Mend demanded her sacking.
The senior member of Mend who described her as an Oreo has accepted that this was wrong. One of Ms Khan allies, Fiyaz Mughal, founder of the Faith Matters group, said of the term: “For me that translates as being racist.” [The Times (£)] Read more
