Well, I’ve no doubt some do need to speak out more forcefully, and actively to resist the encroachment of extremism in their places of worship. Yet numerous British Muslims already strongly condemn Islamist violence. The Muslim Council of Britain, for example, called the murder of Lee Rigby “truly a barbaric act” (for this, they are dismissed by Choudary as “paid-up lackeys of the government”). Dr Taj Hargey, the imam of the Oxford Islamic Congregation, has persistently spoken out against “Muslim McCarthyism” in Britain, including any idea that the veil is a religious necessity for women. In October, a number of prominent anti-extremist British Muslims – the journalist and film-maker Mohammed Ansar, the researcher Usama Hasan and the imam and broadcaster Ajmal Masroor – and their families were offered police protection after they were named and criticised in a video made by al-Shabaab, the group that carried out the Nairobi mall massacre.