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Call to ban Islamic meeting
A government-funded group has called on police and council bosses to ban a public meeting which is being held in Queens Park on Tuesday night.
The Hizb ut-Tahrir political party has scheduled a public meeting at 7.30pm at Queens Park Community Centre, in Westbourne Road, about a perceived bias by Western governments against Muslims.
The meeting is entitled 'The Campaign To Destroy Islam'.
Hizb ut-Tahrir's website says the group wants to unite all Muslim nations in a unitary Islamic state, or 'caliphate', headed by an elected caliph. This would be established using political methods.
But the Quilliam Foundation, a Government-funded think tank, has described the group as "extremists".
James Brandon, spokesman for the Quilliam Foundation, said: "Hizb ut-Tahrir is one of the more extreme British Islamic groups. The Government has considered banning it in the past.
"It has got a confrontational, aggressive agenda. The agenda is to radicalise Muslims to take over the world."
Mr Brandon said his group had contacted Bedfordshire Police, Bedford Borough Council and Queens Park Community Centre to try to have the meeting cancelled.
Hizb ut-Tahrir's website adds: "In the West, Hizb ut-Tahrir works to cultivate a Muslim community that lives by Islam in thought and deed, adhering to the rules of Islam and preserving a strong Islamic identity.
"The party does not work in the West to change the system of government, but works to project a positive image of Islam to Western society and engages in dialogue with Western thinkers, policy makers and academics."
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