Tuesday, June 5, 2007

Blair announces plan to tighten scrutiny of university courses in Islamic studies

By Andrew Grice, Political Editor
Published: 05 June 2007

Tony Blair insisted that the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan should not be viewed as anti-Muslim yesterday as he appealed to the "true voice of Islam" to make itself heard.

The Prime Minister announced that more imams would be trained in British universities in an attempt to combat extremism and unveiled a £1m programme to reform Islamic studies after a government-ordered inquiry by the leading scholar Dr Ataullah Siddiqui found that they focused too narrowly on the Middle East and failed to reflect the reality of modern life in multicultural Britain. continue...

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