Policing Islam for its own good

David Hayes (London, oD): This post on CiF by Ziauddin Sardar about the Quilliam Foundation after its recent launch is a classic cultural police operation, characteristic of a figure indulged by many as a source of authority and moderation. The barely concealed subtext is a desperate campaign - of which this is only the latest instalment - for political control of the dominant British Muslim narrative (and of territorial rights of access to the British liberal establishment).