This is the kind of doublespeak I’ve become familiar with the MCB. In one sentence it suggests the importance of rejecting practices that do not respect Britain’s plural society, yet in the next it passionately defends hard-line interpretations and ideologies of Islam which promote prejudice unacceptable in a liberal secular multicultural society. You cannot have it both ways. You cannot talk about pluralism while defending bigotry because you feel it is wrong to “pass judgment” on such ideological outlooks. Pass judgment we must, especially as Muslims when the name of our faith is used to justify hatred and intolerance, when in the name of our faith, children in our schools are taught to hate and denigrate others. If tackling Islamophobia is such a huge concern for the MCB, as it is, it cannot be blind to seeing how such intolerant ideologies whip up anti-Muslim prejudice and is used by the far Right to justify its assault on Islam. Not only must we pass judgment, we must actively root out such bigoted views which betray Islamic teachings.