You may like, Raheem Kassam and his politics, or you may loathe him and his politics, but what cannot be denied, is that he is right on the money with his assessment of David Cameron’s counter-extremism speech which the Prime Minister gave earlier today.
Mr Kassam quite rightly criticised the lack of substance in his speech and the Prime Minister’s attempt to deflect negative attention onto the National Union of Students because of their association with questionable Islamic groups. He also doesn’t seem to make much of Cameron’s promises to tackle Islamism and Jihad. Mr Kassam, who has done work with the Student Rights group to highlight the growth of Islamic extremism on university campuses said on Brietbart:
“In 2009, I stood in the room when ‘Cast Iron Dave’ announced that his government would proscribe the extremist organisation Hizb ut Tahrir. After he was elected, we were first told that he could do no such thing because of the European Court of Human Rights. Then we were told it was because he had the Liberal Democrats in government with him. Either way, the Prime Minister drastically failed to pull apart, or even to disrupt, one of the most widespread extremist networks in the country.
So how can we trust that his words in his speech today are anything but a complete farce? What has changed since 2007, when he stood in opposition against Gordon Brown,spewing the same hollow rhetoric?
The truth is we can’t trust him. And while I don’t like him, that actually pains me to say. Because what it means is that our tax payer money will continue to be spent on projects that either have no impact, or indeed go to jihad-friendly groups themselves, while our country becomes no safer.”
Read the rest of Mr Kassam’s excellent article here:
There is very little I can disagree with here. Cameron does indeed spew hollow rhetoric about tackling the problems of Islam, Islamism and Jihad. If he,Cameron, cannot even bring himself to put the safety and security of the nation first by banning Hizb Ut Tahrir, then can we trust Cameron to carry out this latest promise to crack down on Islamism?
I’m with Mr Kassam on this, I don’t think that Cameron can be trusted, not on Europe, not on education or any other domestic issue and he’s certainly not to be trusted on Islamism.
