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the eastern city of chittagong. now on bbc news, political thinking with nick robinson. hello and welcome to political thinking. the queen has expressed her hope that her platinum jubilee celebrations will focus on what brings us together, on what unites us, not what divides us. my guest on the programme has had to spend much of her career worrying about exactly the opposite, about extremism and how to counter it. she is dame sara khan. herjob now is the government's independent adviser for social cohesion and resilience. before that, she was the country's first counter—extremism c...

on what unites us, not what divides us. my guest on the programme has had to spend much of her career worrying about exactly the opposite, about extremism and how to counter it. she is dame sara khan. herjob now is the government's independent adviser for social cohesion and resilience. before that, she was the country's first counter—extremism commissioner. born and raised in bradford to pakistani parents, she once said, "there is something going horribly wrong with the muslim communities. we need to have an open and honest debate about that." words which won her praise from some,...

If the nearly uniform narrative offered in a spate of recent books about "Islamophobia" is to be believed, Western Muslims, who enjoy freedoms denied to their brethren in most places in the world, are being tyrannized by hateful white Westerners

Now, when there was an independent piece of research done by crest, they show that actually 56% of british muslims had never even heard of prevent, and when there was a neutral explanation of the programme, 80% of muslims would give their support to that programme. it is prevent, this anti—extremism, anti—terrorism programme, that has made you a controversial figure. it took baroness warsi, the former conservative party chair who described you as a creation of and mouthpiece for the home office, as a strong advocate for the government's policy of disengagement. i want to get to the essence...

Policy of disengagement. i want to get to the essence of this. is this really an argument about who speaks up for the muslim community or communities, plural, or is there a fundamental debate about whether there is, in inverted commas, and i do stress in inverted commas, a muslim problem, as was captured in the title of your book, reclaiming muslim identity from extremism? and i think when she made that comment, to be honest ijust found it really bizarre and strange, because she had never actually met me, but she was doing the media tours going round telling me i was this creation of mouthpiec...