Whether or not the two events were connected, having raised eyebrows by appointing the deeply inappropriate Sayeeda Warsi as the Tories’ shadow minister for community cohesion (see my post here), David Cameron then went some way towards redeeming himself by challenging Gordon Brown three times at Prime Minister’s Questions yesterday over the government’s refusal to outlaw Hizb ut Tahrir. The papers this morning were full of the fact that Cameron spectacularly wrong-footed Brown who was unable to cope with this question. But it was the substance of what Cameron said which was notable:

The Prime Minister said that we need evidence about Hizb ut-Tahrir. That organisation says that Jews should be killed wherever they are found. What more evidence do we need before we ban that organisation? It is poisoning the minds of young people. Two years ago, the Government said that it should be banned. I ask again: when will this be done?… But there has been a lapse of two years since the Government said that they would ban the organisation. People will find it hard to understand why an organisation that urges people to kill Jews has not been banned.

In the current desperate climate of denial, censorship and appeasement in Britain, this was a bold move indeed. Few are prepared to stand up in public and demand that Hizb ut Tahrir be banned, because few are prepared to acknowledge the lethal contribution it is making towards the recruitment to sedition and violence of so many of our young Muslims, who are intensely vulnerable to its seductive combination of intellectuality and austere religious purpose. Unfortunately, HuT also promulgates hatred of the west, an agenda to conquer it and a virulent and demented prejudice against the Jews. There’s a sample in this 1999 HuT leaflet; while in April 2002 it posted an article on its website entitled

And kill them wherever you find them, and turn them out from where they have turned you out.

in which it described Jews as

cowards, the most severe in their love for life…covered with humiliation and misery forever

and said:

The Jews are a people of slander. They are a treacherous people who violate oaths and covenants. They lie and change words from their right places. They take the rights of people unjustly, and kill the Prophets and the innocent.

Stuff like this is clear evidence of racial hatred and incitement to murder. David Cameron was absolutely right to say that HuT should be banned for promoting such unlawful incitement. The tragedy for Britain is that examples of such moral clarity in the war we can no longer name have now become rarer than the prospect of a Brit winning Wimbledon.