I feel my prediction – that nothing will be done about someone who wants to live in the UK while actively, yes actively, seeking the deaths of UK service people – is still true.

However, no such thing is possible. Think about this: Imagine the lawyers already sharpening their quills and smacking their lips at the thought of the pay outs from the European Court of Human Rights. The best that can be hoped for will be a complete end to government contacts at all levels with, and tax payer’s money voted to, these people and the groups they represent. Instead, much greater efforts in areas of public policy which affect everyone regardless of their religious or ethnic background.

With a will it is entirely possible to gather the greatest number around a set of guiding principles and institutions which do not depend for their force on national or religious identity. These can (and do) stretch across all areas everyday life.

Sikander is simply Alec with a scent of garam masala and incense, instead of stale porage and cheap whisky.

ispaulsikandermuslim?

I am large, I contain multitudes.

As in Jacqui Smith?

I know who he is.

Qayyum’s signature of this Declaration should prove problematic for him. I expect that the story will break, at some point.

I’m not sure that is him. He’s only referred to as a daa’eeyah and not as a shaykh on the declaration. Shah Jehan and Abdul Qayyum are popular Bengali names so I suppose so. If so, he’s a very naughy little Bengali man who says one thing in English and another in Sudhobhasa

ispaulsikandermuslim?

As his first name’s Paul, then I doubt it. But why not…are you an Islamophobe or something?