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Facing down extremism

By Nina Teggarty, Ginny Sandringham

Updated on 25 September 2008

Muslims are continually told to confront extremists. More4 News reports on what happened when one man tried to do precisely that.

For almost a decade now, in Muslim halls, mosques and homes, the debates and at times the confrontations between Islamists and so-called moderates have been taking place - sometimes with passion.

Rarely do these take place in the public domain. But More 4 News went to one meeting in east London where a youth worker, incensed at the growth of what he saw as an extreme new organisation, decided to confront them. Is this right, or responsible?

Nina Teggarty reports.

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