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1. 1. 348e0e5c06cd0b91e404de18ed0d21b4.ru.wikimiki.org

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   Published on: 10/4/2005   Last Visited: 3/12/2008

   Following the 7 July 2005 London bombings, The Guardian published an article on its comment pages by Dilpazier Aslam (see [http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,152732
   3,00.html We rock the boat]), a 27-year-old British Muslim journalism trainee from Yorkshire. Aslam was a member of Hizb ut-Tahrir, an Islamist group, and had published a number of articles on their website. According to the paper, it did not know that Aslam was a member of Hizb ut-Tahrir when he applied to become a trainee, though several staff members were informed of this once he started at the paper (see [http://media.guardian.co.uk/site/story/0,14173,15
   34494,00.html Background: the Guardian and Dilpazier Aslam]). The Home Office has claimed the group's "ultimate aim is the establishment of an Islamic state (Caliphate), according to Hizb ut-Tahrir via non-violent means". The Guardian asked Aslam to resign his membership of the group, and , when he did not do so , terminated his employment (see [http://media.guardian.co.uk/presspublishing/story
   /0,,1534480,00.html Dilpazier Aslam leaves Guardian] registration req'd).
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   - Dilpazier Aslam

2. 2. Harry's Place: Media Archives

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   Published on: 12/1/2004   Last Visited: 1/29/2006

   Guardian has just recovered from its troubles over Dilpazier Aslam, the Islamic radical and trainee reporter who wrote of the London bombings: "We rock the boat: today's Muslims aren't prepared to ignore injustice."
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   You can learn all about Hizb'ut Tahrir from reading the Guardian's background briefing which it issued follow the sacking of Dilpazier Aslam.
   
   The Guardian employed Aslam and allowed him to use its pages to promote the views of the racist, totalitarian and theocratic political party to which he belongs in part because it was "previously unaware" of the nature of the material which Hizb'ut Tahrir propagates.
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   The failure of much of the media properly to consider Hizb'ut Tahrir's nature explains in part why Aslam's "colleagues and some senior editors" knew that he was a member of the party, but did not realise that this meant that he was a fascist.
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   The Aslam Affair seems to have drawn to its close, with the departure of both Albert Scardino and Dilpazier Aslam.
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   1. Did the Guardian editor or editors who commissioned the various Aslam pieces know that Aslam was a member of Hizb'ut Tahrir?
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   It was made clear that Aslam was not dismissed merely because he was a member of Hizb'ut Tahrir. Aslam was shown clearly racist propaganda published and distributed by his party and I understand that he refused to repudiate or even acknowledge its obvious racism. Accordingly, Aslam was quite properly sacked because he would not leave an organisation that embraces a racist ideology, and not because he had failed to declare his membership of it.
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   Aslam was brought into the Guardian under a "diversity programme".
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   For all the hysteria about Aslam on some of the more rabid blogs, the issue raised some important questions about the nature of the relationship between the liberal-left and Islamism, which were seriously made.
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   Dilpazier Aslam was appointed by the executive editor Albert Scardino under a scheme to bring under-represented ethnic groups into the paper.
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   I'm told that it was Scardino who suggested to Milne that Aslam write a comment piece.
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   Yesterday the Guardian's NUJ chapel held a special meeting to discuss the Aslam case, at which Aslam was present. Part of his defence was his surprise at the outrage to which his article had been subject.
   
   He said that Milne had worked closely with him on it, and had even himself suggested certain phrases.
   
   He was asked pointed questions about the anti-semitism of Hizb'ut Tahrir, to which he did not give satisfactory answers.
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   The dismissal of Dilpazier Aslam, the Hizb'ut Tahrir journalist, who was sacked by the Guardian after Scott Burgess' investigation uncovered his advocacy of extreme racist views on the website Khilafah.com, has been covered in yesterday's Times online, and the New Statesman.
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   1. Did the Guardian editor or editors who commissioned the various Aslam pieces know that Aslam was a member of Hizb'ut Tahrir?
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   Or they knew full well what Hizb stands for, but saw Aslam as a source of a good story the Guardian wouldn't otherwise get.
   
   Or, alternatively, the editors who commissioned Aslam's pieces took the view that political groups like Hizb should be given a mainstream platform because they are bit part players in a larger struggle for or against ... whatever it is they think is going on.
   
   I know what Aslam thinks, because he has honestly and openly published his views, outside the pages of the Guardian.
   
   But it is what his case tells you about the Guardian that interests me more.
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   Dilpazier Aslam has been shown the door.
   
   On Monday July 18 Aslam was advised that the Guardian considered that Hizb ut-Tahrir had promoted violence and anti-semitic material on its website and that membership of the organisation was not compatible with being a Guardian trainee.
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   On Wednesday blogger Scott Burgess at the Daily Ablution wondered why a liberal newspaper would employ Dilpazier Aslam as a journalist.
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   Aslam's publicly stated views on the path to peace in the middle east, for example, are - how shall we say - a trifle "sassy" if not downright illiberal:
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   Apparently, Mr. Aslam is, or was until very recently, a member of Hizb Ut Tahrir - an organisation which, according to the BBC, "promotes racism and anti-Semitic hatred, calls suicide bombers martyrs, and urges Muslims to kill Jewish people."
   
   He wondered:
   
   Whether Mr. Aslam will remain employed by the Guardian now that you are aware of his affiliations.
   
   He has yet to receive a reply.
   
   Guardian rival, the Independent has now stepped into the row.
   
   The Guardian newspaper is refusing to sack one of its staff reporters despite confirming that he is a member of one of Britain's most extreme Islamist groups.
   
   Dilpazier Aslam, who has been allowed to report on the London bombings from Leeds and was also given space to write a column in last Wednesday's edition of The Guardian, is a member of Hizb ut-Tahrir, a radical world organisation which seeks to form a global Islamic state regulated by sharia law.
   
   ......Late on Friday The Guardian released a statement to The Independent on Sunday saying: "Dilpazier Aslam is a member of Hizb ut-Tahrir, an organisation which is legal in this country.

3. 3. Daily Press Review/Atlantic-Pacific Alliance

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   Published on: 7/18/2005   Last Visited: 7/24/2006

   By Wednesday, less than a week after the July 7 bombings in London that cla= imed 55 lives, the Guardian apparently had no second thoughts about publishing an article by Dilpazier Aslam, one of its trainee journalists. In it, Mr. Aslam argued that the British have no right to be shocked by the attacks since th= at would, "suggest that the bombings happened through no responsibility of our own."
   
   He was referring to Iraq of course. Before joining the Guardian, Mr. Aslam, who calls himself "a Yorkshire lad, born and bred," had been working = for the London-based Web site Khilafa.com. There he coauthored an article telli= ng Muslims why they should excel in sciences: "We will have to run an Isl= amic state which must lead the world, economically, militarily and politically."