DAR AL HARB - U.K.: THE IGNORANT CLERGY

The bishop and the Islamist: a cautionary tale
British foreign policy does not create terrorists
by David Aaronovitch

I am a fan of modern British bishops, having never yet met one who I didn’t like. They tend to be good company, especially Tom Butler, the Bishop of Southwark, who has (thank the Lord) survived a controversy involving a drinks party, someone else’s car and a collision with the pavement. Like Tom they all do good works uncomplainingly, and their job is a difficult one.

It is therefore possible, I suppose, that between public appearances and supervising diocesan affairs they don’t get much time for reading. Certainly the evidence of the past week suggests that no one at the Church of England has found the three or four hours necessary to complete a new book called The Islamist by Ed Husain. So, I hope their Right Revs will allow me to present them with this summary.

Husain is now in his early thirties, and was brought up in East London to religious but not doctrinaire parents. His book describes his youthful journey into Islamism – an ideology that sees Islam as being as much a total political force as a religious one – and back.

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