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The submission I co-authored for the Conservative Muslim Forum (CMF) generated more responses:

National Review Online

Melanie Phillips

ConservativeHome.com

And, the comments on LGF are very worrying.

Last Thursday I went to a singing class(!!!). It was an office team-building day, actually.

Thoroughly enjoyable! I am now Googling for the next X-Factor audition…

Some of the practice songs were:

Wade in the water (my personal favourite. We did the acapella!)


Cockels and Mussels (traditional Irish folk song)

Water come a me eye (great song! but pity that I couldn’t find the full and proper video)

Moon river (difficult one… need long breath)

I wrote back in July that I met with Ustaz Abdul Hadi Awang. He was in London at that time partly to demand apology from the Daily Mirror over a libelous report that they published.

Daily Mirror published an apology back in August.

But, even better, I am happy to note that the case has been settled last week, with a positive result for the PAS President. Not many media reported the success, but a brief one can be found here. The sum? Undisclosed lah…

I co-authored a Conservative Muslim Forum (CMF) submission to the Shadow Cabinet recently. The report can be downloaded here.

Yesterday, the submission received press coverage. Under the title “Muslim Tories: ‘Iran has right to nuclear arms’”, the Daily Telegraph reported our submission. This can be accessed here.

The report quoted us as saying:

The group calls on the party to be more sympathetic towards Iran. It says: “Given Iran’s position in the Middle East, facing a nuclear-armed Israel, Iran appears to have legitimate reasons for seeking nuclear weapons for defensive purposes.”

That is only half of what we said. The full paragraph of our statement on this issue actually reads:

Given Iran’s position in the Middle East, facing a nuclear armed Israel, Iran appears to have legitimate reasons for seeking nuclear weapons for defensive purposes. However, an incoming Conservative administration should continue to oppose Iran’s nuclear weapon ambitions, and our primary goal should be assisting in the strengthening of Iranian state institutions to avoid any risk of the transfer of nuclear technology to non state actors. (emphasis added)

Yes, the report did state that we oppose Iran’s nuclear weapon ambitions. But the title of the report gives the wrong impression.