British politicians are belatedly waking up to the danger posed by radical Islamist preachers and community leaders advocating jihad and the formation of an undemocratic sharia-style state, the Telegraph contends. But Islamist-sympathizing civil servants are undermining efforts to deal effectively with the threat because of brilliantly misguided ideas about reaching out -- as if Islamists were just another lobby group like environmentalists or tax-averse business councils that can be mollified through some kind of compromise.

There can be no compromise with lunatics intent on dismantling the democratic state from within.

There are, in Whitehall, a number of senior officials and paid ministerial advisers who are sympathisers of Islamism. One of them, Mohammed Abdul Aziz, is an honorary trustee of one of Britain's most important Islamist-controlled institutions, the East London Mosque...

There is no suggestion that these officials are themselves revolutionaries, or that they support violence or terrorism. They believe that reaching out to non-violent Islamists reduces the security threat, and promotes broader community cohesion. This belief is fundamentally naïve and wrong.

At least 19 convicted British terrorists have links with al-Muhajiroun. Zakir Naik has said that "every Muslim should be a terrorist". The East London Mosque, though publicly condemning

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