'Radical left has empowered Islamists to come out openly', women's rights campaigner claims

Ayaan’s book, Infidel, details her escape from a strict Somali Muslim upbringing and details her asylum application process.

Now, she has highlighted sympathy to The Muslim Brotherhood, which she described as "the most sophisticated, organised and resourced Islamist group in the world."

She told The Telegraph: "The first cohort of immigrants who came are much more assimilated than later generations.

"So the people who were born here, are the ones who are least assimilated because they are the ones who are most exposed to the radicalisation that is happening within these mosques and within these Islamic Centres.

"And over time they started to apply for licences for Muslim schools and so on.

"The radical Left and the radical Islamists, have formed this alliance that has emboldened and empowered the Islamists to come out openly."

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The Muslim Brotherhood is not banned in the UK or proscribed as a terrorist organisation.

However, former Justice Secretary Michael Gove last August identified British organisation the Muslim Association of Britain (MAB) as a potential extremist body.

Gove described MAB as one of several "divisive forces" within Muslim communities and caused "real harm to them" because of their "Islamist orientation and views."

A MAB spokesman told The Telegraph: "The Muslim Association of Britain is a British organisation operating entirely within the British Isles, with no presence elsewhere. It is not an affiliate of the Muslim Brotherhood nor a member."

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Meanwhile, former Prime Minister Liz Truss accused the four Muslim independent MPs of being "Islamist MPs" and suggested Islamism was connected to "climate change extremism."

She told The Peter McCormack Show: "We know that there is an ideology of Islamism which has become more powerful in British politics...We know that there is an ideology of Islamism which has become more powerful in British politics."

Shockat Adam, the MP for Leicester South hit back at the former PM, telling Middle East Eye that "divisive rhetoric is not going to define who we are and who I am."

While Adam dismissed Truss as "irrelevant", he said that: "We all have to work together and labels are not helpful."