HARDtalk:
Ziauddin Sardar
On
BBC News 24's HARDtalk tonight (Friday 14 February 2003) Sarah Montague
interviews Ziauddin Sardar, Muslim writer and academic.
The
British Prime Minister Tony Blair may be standing shoulder to shoulder
with US President George Bush on the need for military action against
Iraq, but he's failing to convince Britain's large Muslim population.
Polls
show that moderate Muslims have grave concerns about an attack on
Iraq, and there are fears that extremist groups around the world
will use any military action to further their own aims.
Ziauddin
Sardar is an academic who says moderate Muslims need to speak out
against fanatics who seek to distort Islam. Sarah Montague asks
him about his fears in the event of an attack on Iraq, and whether
it could provoke violent reactions in the Muslim world.
Notes
to Editors
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