Guardian fires Islamic radical (one of em anyway)

As part of its diversity program, the leftwing Guardian hired Dilpazier Aslam as a trainee. As it turned out, he was a member of Hibz ut-Tahrir. The Guardian was forced to acknowledge, that group is

(quoting a Home Office briefing notes) "radical, but to date non-violent Islamist group."

The [Home Office] note says of the organisation that it is "an independent political party that is active in many countries across the world. HT's activities centre on intellectual reasoning, logic arguments and political lobbying. The party adheres to the Islamic sharia law in all aspects of its work."

The note adds: "It probably has a few hundred members in the UK. Its ultimate aim is the establishment of an Islamic state (Caliphate), according to HT via non-violent means. It holds anti-semitic, anti-western and homophobic views. [bolding mine]

Different countries and organisations take varying views of the Hizb ut-Tahrir. It is banned in Russia, Germany and Holland. In this country the National Union of Students has barred Hizb ut-Tahrir from its unions, claiming the group is "responsible for supporting terrorism and publishing material that incites racial hatred".

The Guardian left it to a their news blog site to announce he had been terminated. They did not acknowledge in the notice of his termination that it was bloggers who discovered and reported the terrorist wannabe. The only acknowledgement is an unsigned staff article that appeared raving about how Aslam was "targeted by Rightwing bloggers from the U.S."

Ed Driscoll here.
More background here.