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Tuesday 30 October 2007

Inayat Bunglawala and Star Wars music - That's a title I could never have predicted I would ever write

Channel 4 News tonight had a report on King Abdullah's visit and a little piece about the report on Islamic extremism in UK Mosques and bookshops. There was also a Jon Snow interview with Dean Godson, Research Director of the Policy Exchange who produced the report and Inayat Bunglawala, assistant secretary-general of the Muslim Council of Britain. You can watch the video here




Read more about the Policy Exchange report here on the Telegraph website or the whole report here on their own website.


In case you are unsure the "tune" the band played to greet the arrival of King Abdullah was the "The Imperial March/Darth Vader's Theme". As Wikipedia says "The theme...represents the totalitarian Galactic Empire as a whole, and Darth Vader specifically. More than other Star Wars themes, the March has attained an iconic status in the Western consciousness as a general "evil theme", and as such is used to portray power at public events". An accidental choice of music or something more subversive, you decide...

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