The Ramadhan Foundation today attacks David Cameron on his statement on the current situation in the UK.  He has offended 95% of the Muslim community by using words such as “Islamist extremist and Muslim terrorism”.

You can not hold the whole Muslim faith system, over one million Muslims in the UK responsible for the actions of a small minority.  Mr Cameron and his team need to be very careful in the terminology that is used when describing this menace.

In his statement he asked for firm leadership from moderate Muslim leaders, well he must be aware there are organisations like the Ramadhan Foundation that are leading the campaign to tackle terrorism and also encourage institutional reform in the Muslim community.  We require the politicians to support our campaign  and really be open minded in their dealing with our community.

David Cameron supported the illegal war in Iraq and his views on British foreign policy being fair is far from the truth, Sir Michael Jay, Permanent Secretary at the Foreign Office said in a leaked report before the 2003 Iraq war that if the UK went into an illegal war in Iraq Britain would be at an increased risk of terrorism, this is what we said at the time and are still saying.

Mr Muhammad Umar, Chairman of the Foundation adds:

“David Cameron doesn’t see that the double standards that are applied in UK foreign policy is a contributing factor in encouraging terrorism.

When we see over 1000 innocent people killed in Lebanon and he and his party have failed to condemn Israeli aggression, how can Muslims have confidence in his statements.

I am afraid that it looks like David Cameron is the same as Blair, he has disappointed the Muslim community and he will be reminded of this in the next election”

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