ABSTRACT
The British media portrays the Muslim groups as dangerous and uncompromising, making it worthy of proscription. David Cameron, the leader of the Conservative Party, added his voice to the growing body demanding to ban HT, prompting greater scrutiny of its subversive activities and extremist ideology. Despite the many shortcomings of the terrorism legislation, it does offer legal insight into the relationship between radical speech and violence. The courts have upheld convictions even for remote tendencies to violence as proper grounds for punishing mere speech. Universities became the central battleground between Jewish students and HT. It was necessary for HT to contest the continuing claims of their alleged anti-Semitism. The Tottenham Ayatollah' was a documentary about a year in the life of Omar Bakri. When Bakri discovered the nature of the programme, he immediately contacted the press to lodge a complaint about the content of the broadcast.
