The Great Debate UK
Coalition government alarms British Muslims
-Javaid Rehman is a professor of law at Brunel University. The opinions expressed are his own.-
For British Muslims, the new coalition government of the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats represents an alliance of strange and awkward bedfellows.
Muslim communities – historically supportive of the Labour party – are sceptical of the claims of Prime Minster David Cameron, to protect the interests of ethnic and religious minorities.
Admittedly, there was considerable disillusionment of the Labour government under former Prime Minister Tony Blair: British Muslims strongly disapproved of Blair’s decision to side with U.S. President George W. Bush in the so-called ‘war on terror’.
