The Guardian, Britain's leading left-wing newspaper, has—naturally!—a policy of "diversity" in hiring newsroom staff

National Review, August 8, 2005

The Guardian, Britain's leading left-wing newspaper, has--naturally!--a policy of "diversity" in hiring newsroom staff. One of their recent "diversity" hires was a bright 22-year-old named Dilpazier Aslam, a British-born person of the Muslim persuasion. A few days after the London bombings, Aslam wrote a nasty little column taking a moral-equivalence line on the attacks, with many indignant references to Fallujah and the weeping mothers of Iraq.

Young British Muslims, Aslam exulted, are much more willing to rock the boat (a euphemism, presumably, for "blow up the bus") than their cowed, compromising elders. A few days later we learned from an Internet blogger--and the Guardian confirmed--that Aslam belongs to Hizb ut-Tahrir ("Party of Liberation"), a jihadist faction seeking to establish a world Islamic state under sharia law. Hizb ut-Tahrir is illegal in several European countries, but not in Britain. The Guardian is refusing to fire Aslam, apparently because it is unwilling to take even the smallest step back from its treasured "diversity," even when this diversity embraces ideologues who dream of a world as un-diverse as it could possibly be, and who see nothing wrong with terrorism as a means to advance their cause.