Quote Originally Posted by Splott David View Post
You think he was allowed to get away with everything he was involved in over the last ten years because our security services were sleeping on the job? Or maybe not aware of his existence?

He was an asset.
Nonsense, he was a clever guy who knew the limit of what he could get away with. He was a lawyer and chose his words carefully. Plenty of people would have liked to have seen him banged up years ago, but until he got a bit sloppy lately they couldn't lay a finger on him.

If any people are to be considered complicit in his toxic presence in the uk it has to be the tabloid press, who have been only too happy to print whatever he says as they know their readers want to hate a guy like that, when in reality his followers were so few in number he didn't really represent a large enough part of the Muslim community to justify the exposure he got.
They could instead have given that exposure to a moderate Muslim group, who would have been representative of millions more Muslims, but they always chose not to, as selling newspapers is more important than social cohesion.
Institutionalised racism in the press basically.