The moderate Muslim 'silenced' by the Home Office for fighting Islamist extremism
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🗓️ 6 March 2026
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Labour is too scared of losing Muslim voters to address Islamist extremism.
That’s according to Fiyaz Mughal, the counter-terrorism expert who left the Home Office over concerns it was overlooking radicalisation in the Muslim community for fear of appearing Islamophobic.
A moderate Muslim himself, Fiyaz tells Camilla that failed integration has bred ghettoisation of Muslim communities, and how a formal definition of Islamophobia will be “misused by malign actors to curtail free speech”.
A Home Office spokesman said: “The Government regularly works with external partners and experts to discuss policy ideas, as broad consultation is an important part of responsible policy development.
“The UK has one of the most robust counter-terrorism frameworks in the world with the powers needed for the security services and police to keep us safe.”
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| 0:00.0 | The Telegraph. |
| 0:09.1 | Labor is too scared of losing Muslim voters to address Islamist extremism. |
| 0:15.0 | So says our guest today, a moderate Muslim and leading counter-terrorism expert. |
| 0:19.7 | In this special edition of the Daily Tea, we speak to Fias Mughal about how high immigration bred |
| 0:25.8 | extremism, his decision to leave the Home Office and why an Islamophobia definition is a very |
| 0:31.7 | bad idea. |
| 0:33.5 | Welcome to The Daily Tea with me, Camilla Tominy. |
| 0:46.3 | Music Welcome to The Daily Tea with me, Camilla Tomini. Right, we're going to get into some fawny issues on today's Daily Tea and who better to get into them with than Fires. |
| 0:52.7 | Mughal, who is the founder of Telmama. |
| 0:55.3 | Tell us what Telmama is, Fyaz. |
| 0:57.7 | Yes, it's a national project that's been running for 13 years, |
| 1:00.7 | which supports victims of anti-Muslim hate |
| 1:03.1 | and also monitors and measures, incidences of anti-Muslim hate across the UK. |
| 1:09.2 | With everything going on in Iran, with various political figures, |
| 1:12.6 | and we'll get into this in just a minute, |
| 1:14.6 | appearing to support pro-Iran regime rallies, |
| 1:20.6 | a massive row over whether we should intervene |
| 1:23.6 | and help the US and Israel in this quest or not, |
| 1:26.6 | which is very reminiscent |
| 1:28.5 | of the row that's been ongoing since October the 7th with regard to Gaza. I sit here as a white |
| 1:34.9 | lapsed Catholic, slightly nervous about having these discussions because I think like many people |
| 1:40.6 | in the UK, I am concerned about the rise of Islamic extremism. |
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