Mukhtar Master

Mukhtar Master has a BSc (Hons) in Business Information Technology and has worked in Local Government as a manager for over 20 years. He has been active for many years in the local political scene and also the anti-war movement in the UK.
23 Articles

The slander of ‘Deobandi Islām’

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Suspicion is forbidden in Islām, however the irony is that under the Government’s Prevent, counter terrorism strategy, all Muslims are themselves under suspicion.  Not even little four year old children at nursery are exempt, as demonstrated by the recent 'cooker bomb' incident, which was deemed as a sign of obvious radicalisation. It beggars belief that individuals can even qualify as a Nursery Nurse if they honestly believe that a four year old can develop this type of complex thinking and reasoning in between doses of Teletubbies and Peppa Pig. However, even more worrying have been the recent national press articles

Preston Community vs. EDL: They Came, They Ate, Islam Conquered

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They Came, They Ate, Islam Conquered - One Preston, One Community Saturday the 20th February 2016 will be a date that will live in the minds of those who participated, for a very long time.  Many aspects of the day were so special, so unique and so unprecedented that mere words fail to do justice to the scale and magnitude of the experience. I have been inundated with text, calls and messages from those who were fortunate enough to have been part of this special day and historic event. Saturday 20th February was the day chosen by the EDL to

The Theory of “Radicalisation”

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The Theory of Evolution Radicalisation There are rumblings, feelings of disquiet and downright rebellion within the British Muslim community at present. ‘What?’ – I hear you ask, could ever be the matter with a community which rarely gets ruffled or seldom exercise their democratic right to protest.  In fact, not since the Rushdie affair in the eighties, have we seen the levels of disquiet that we are currently seeing at the moment.  The source of all the agitation, social media chatter and endless community meetings is the government's Prevent Strategy. Also Read: I was wrong; the government’s definition of ‘Extremism’ is genius The government's counter

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