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Inappropriate: "From this morning's Today programme (06.30-ish), here's BBC political correspondent Norman Smith commenting on the Tories' claims that government money has gone to schools run by Hizb Ut-Tahrir activists:

'It does seem to me to raise questions, too, about judgement and tone. Judgement as to whether it is appropriate to make such very serious allegations in this way, and although the Tories say that if they hadn't raised it in this way the issue wouldn't have been dealt with and the government wouldn't have acted, I'm sure there will also be people who will argue that well, actually, perhaps it's better to make such sensitive claims in private through the usual channels.'

So here we have a BBC journalist wondering if it's even appropriate to discuss openly the 'sensitive' issue of Islamic fundamentalism.

The families of the dead at Fort Hood know where that sort of thinking can lead.

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