That’s the headline to a report in the Daily Mail. The adviser with the supposed terrorist links is none other than Tariq Ramadan, Professor of Contemporary Islamic Studies at Oxford University, who the Mail’s reporter Martin Beckford indignantly informs his readers “is one of 14 members of the Foreign Office’s Advisory Group on Freedom of Religion or Belief, chaired by Tory peer Baroness Warsi”.
Any informed commentator would have told the Mail that Professor Ramadan is the epitome of a liberal and progressive interpretation of Islam, and has no organisational or even ideological links to the Muslim Brotherhood, never mind to terrorism. So, instead, Beckford turned to Douglas Murray, associate director of the Henry Jackson Society, who provided him with a predictably ignorant and scaremongering quote: “David Cameron should be deeply embarrassed by this. Tariq Ramadan is extremely loyal to his father and grandfather and he does not, by any means, speak out against the Muslim Brotherhood.”
“The Mayor and Our Money”, the Panorama documentary on Lutfur Rahman’s administration in Tower Hamlets that was broadcast this evening (being carefully timed to damage Lutfur’s reputation in the run-up to the mayoral election in May) failed to pin any charges of financial or political corruption on Lutfur, despite advance publicity suggesting otherwise. What we got instead was unsubstantiated smears and innuendo. This was much as expected, given that the reporter was John Ware, whose shoddy journalistic methods have previously been exposed by media analysts.
The Spectator devotes the cover of this week’s issue to promoting a Muslim. Unlikely, you might think, until you find out that the Muslim in question is Irshad Manji, much admired by 
