I can, with endeavour, find Bangladeshi communities in the East End, Saudi communities just off the Edgware Road, Pakistani communities in Bradford and Indian communities in Leicester, plus huddles of Afghans and niches of Iraqis, all of them with mosques and imams but none of them part of a wider “community” in the sense the secretary-general claims. The thought that, after a heavy night of jawboning with Charles Clarke, Islam UK can issue a fatwa against suicide bombing and see it observed is simple foolishness. (Why not bring peace to Baghdad, its surrounding towns and petrol tankers, with one instant fatwa?)

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