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Comment and Opinion

World Affairs: Extremism in Britain’s House of Lords, By Alan Johnson

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“In 1998, Nazir Ahmed became the first British Muslim to become a life peer in the British upper chamber, the House of Lords. This week, he was suspended by the Labor Party.

According to Pakistan’s Express Tribune newspaper, while Ahmed was in Haripur, Pakistan, he said, ‘If the US can announce a reward of $10 million for the captor of Hafiz Saeed, I can announce a bounty of 10 million pounds on President Obama and his predecessor, George Bush.’ Hafiz Saeed is the founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba, the group suspected of perpetrating the 2008 Mumbai massacre of 166 people.”

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