This is a guest post by al-Qanaas al-Masri
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Azad Ali, the head of the Civil Service Islamic Society, has called on Muslims to ‘resist’ the government’s counter-terrorism ‘Prevent’ programme.
Ali, who also works at HM Treasury, said that the Prevent programme aimed to ‘hurry people away’ from the Muslim religion and to ‘help non-Muslims increase in their hatred of Muslims’.
Writing on 18 October on the web forum of Easy Talk, a radio programme which he hosts every week, Ali wrote:
Ali posted this statement only a day after ranting on his 17 October Easy Talk programme against the government’s policy of banning foreign extremists from coming to the UK, telling listeners:
‘I think the Home Office made a fantastically stupid, stupendous mistake when they created their list of individuals that they would ban. It was crazy and it was never going to work and they’ve got egg on their face now.’ [55:45]