Below is my latest blog for Conservative Home:
In September 2007, Mohammed Atif Siddique was jailed for eight years for various terror offences. The most serious of these charges - possession of an article for a purpose connected to terrorism - was quashed last week. The appeals judge, Lord Osborne, called the original verdict a 'miscarriage of justice', which is inevitably the headline that most of the press ran on. The impression given was that the British state was once again unfairly demonising its Muslim population.
In September 2007, Mohammed Atif Siddique was jailed for eight years for various terror offences. The most serious of these charges - possession of an article for a purpose connected to terrorism - was quashed last week. The appeals judge, Lord Osborne, called the original verdict a 'miscarriage of justice', which is inevitably the headline that most of the press ran on. The impression given was that the British state was once again unfairly demonising its Muslim population.
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