On Tuesday, the Mosques and Imams National Advisory Board (MINAB), a new government-backed body set up to counter extremist teachings in British mosques, published its draft constitution.
A close look at the document - distributed by email by Said Ferjani, the head of Policy & Public Relations at the Muslim Association of Britain - reveals that the composition and set-up of the new body means that MINAB is likely to do little or nothing to tackle extremism.
For a start, the group was founded by four groups; The Al-Khoei Foundation, The British Muslim Forum, The Muslim Association of Britain and The Muslim Council of Britain.
The Al-Khoei Foundation is a Shia movement and the British Muslim Forum represents Sufi groups primarily in northern England. The Muslim Association of Britain, a Sunni group, is however an offshoot of the extremist Muslim Brotherhood while the Muslim Council of Britain is largely run by followers of Jamaat-e-Islami, the Muslim Brotherhood's South Asian equivalent.
The result of this arrangement is that ordinary British Sunni Muslims are represented only by two radical and highly conservative Sunni groups.
These are not groups which are committed to tackling extremism.
For example, the Muslim Association of Britain has previously been put in charge of reforming the Finsbury Park Mosque, formerly run by Abu Hamza. However within months, preachers there were advocating violent jihad in Somalia while Hizb ut-Tahrir activists were freely able to use the premises to distribute leaflets and recruit new members.
Similarly, senior members of the Muslim Council of Britain have boycotted Holocaust Memorial Day, attacked homosexual practices and attempted to block government attempts to tackle issues like Forced Marriage.
The draft constitution of MINAB further reveals how the group is unlikely to be able to reform mosques.
Article 6, for example, sets out how MINAB's general council will provide "strategic direction" and "promote the aims and objectives of the MINAB".
Unfortunately, Article 5b of the constitution specifies that every "Mosque or Islamic Centre which provides basic services shall appoint one delegate to the General Council".
Given that almost one third of British mosques are believed to controlled by the extremist Deobandi sect alone, while many others are are Saudi-funded or run by offshoots of highly conservative groups like the Muslim Brotherhood and Tablighi Jamaat, this arrangement will simply entrench extremists rather than tackle them.
Other articles raise similar concerns that the group's commitment to tackling extremism will be less than whole-hearted.
Article 7b, for example, suggests that all the group's members should conform to conservative Islamic values and that the group should aim not to serve Britons as a whole but rather to serve only "Muslim Community in the United Kingdom".
It states that "all delegates to the General Council meetings shall conduct themselves in Islamic manner and shall in their actions be solely motivated to serve the Muslim community in the United Kingdom in matters within the domain of the MINAB."
In the light of these developments, it is hard to see how MINAB will do anything other than give new authority and increased influence to the many hardline groups which already control many hundreds of mosques and Islamic centres around the UK.