crackerjack
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like when the govt goes to 'Muslim community leaders' (as if "British Muslims" are some monolithic bloc) and listens to often politically quite extreme dubious scrotes speaking up for groups of people they have no right to do so for, thus feeding into stereotypes of anti-Muslim bigotry among the wider population, so then when a small group of extremists marches shouting about the need to impose sharia law, the Daily Express (as it did about four days ago) can lead with a clearly provocative and patently inaccurate front page headline MUSLIMS DEMAND SHARIA as if we're talking about every Briton of, say, Pakistani heritage demanding sharia law in the UK.
That's a bit of a leap. If there's one Muslim group I'm pretty sure the govt hasn't talked to or sought to legitimise in any way, it's the Al Muhaj/Islam 4 Uk mob. Whatever 'legitimacy' they have is entirely the fault of the media, from Channel 4 and Newsnight right down to the tabloids, which has invited them into the studio and splashed them on the front page simply cos they're reliably entertaining (ie inclined to say and demand utter utter shite).