TONY BLAIR should ban the BNP and other parties of the far Right if he wants young British Muslims to accept his proposed crackdown on preachers of hate, a young Muslim leader said yesterday.

Mohammed Shafiq, project manager of the Ramadhan Foundation, was speaking at the first Muslim Unity Convention, in Manchester, called to address key issues facing young Muslims in Britain. He reacted angrily to the Prime Minister’s anti-terrorist proposals, which include outlawing the non-violent political group Hizb ut-Tahrir. Led in Britain for ten years by the notorious Omar Bakri Mohammed, it extols the establishment of a caliphate by non-violent means.

Mr Shafiq, whose Rochdale-based foundation represents 3,000 young Muslims, said widespread bans would serve only to push groups such as Hizb ut-Tahrir underground.

Nationalist Alliance comments:- There should therefore also be a call for a crackdown on any Muslim only based political grouping! For sheer effrontery Mr.Shafiq takes the biscuit!