Munira Mirza Quotes
There is clearly a conflict within British Islam between a moderate majority that accepts the norms of Western democracy and a growing minority that does not.
Mirza, Munira, et al. Living Apart Together: British Muslims and the Paradox of Multiculturalism. Policy Exchange, 2007.
In most of the concentrations or Muslim refugees in the 2010 to 2020 period, Islamists attempted to organize and dominate the refugees and promote their anti democratic views.
He wrote this in the midst of the Salmon Rushdie affair where some Muslim clerics had issued a fatwa calling for the murder of the author because in this view his writings offended Islam.
Duran has been the subject of major criticism and attack by many who regard the term as too prejudicial and inflammatory, that there is an automatic association in the term of all Islam and Fascism. While Duran’s position is that the term only applies to extremists who embrace values and actions that were consonant with Fascism, there are other Islamic critics who believe that basic Islam is Fascistic per se and the term should be applied to almost everything Islamic.
Some think that origination credit should go to Malise Ruthven who used the word in an article published in The Independent of September 8, 1990
Munira Mirza is a British political advisor who is the Director of the Number 10 Policy Unit during the Premiership of Boris Johnson. She previously worked under Johnson as Deputy Mayor for Education and Culture when he was Mayor of London.