THE GUARDIAN, WHERE THE LEFT AND ISLAMISM CONVERGE

According to British blogger Melanie Phillips, Dilpazier Aslam isn't the only Guardian employee to be sacked as a result of his membership in Hizb ut Tahrir:

After he was hired, Aslam mentioned his membership of HuT to the executive who had hired him. Astonishing as this may seem, that executive had no idea what kind of organisation HuT was. The executive is now leaving the paper as a result.

Phillips finds it interesting that the views of a member of Hizb ut Tahrir fit right in at the Guardian:

Whatever may or may not have been known about Aslam’s membership of HuT -- and several intriguing questions about this whole affair are still unanswered -- it remains the case that someone subscribing to its wholly unacceptable platform could find a berth at the Guardian which was perfectly comfortable about publishing his views. And that was because they fitted into its own general view of the world. The horror when it discovered that these views emanated from a HuT member was undoubtedly genuine, because they are genuinely horrified by HuT. And what that surely tells us is that the Guardian really doesn’t grasp that its view of the world is as extreme and unacceptable as it is.

The lack of grasp thing isn't unique to the Guardian, it afflicts the whole of the left.