Keep quiet about Islamism?

On 11 January I attended a meeting in Luton about organising against the English Defence League mobilisation planned there on 5 February. Details of the counter-mobilisation are yet to be finalised. One young member of the Muslim Youth League reported that large numbers of Luton’s Muslim youth were planning slogans on the lines that Islamic fundamentalism is as bad as EDL extremism. True enough. But the young anti-Islamist Muslim was sharply slapped down by an SWPer who insisted that "we" shouldn’t mention any problems about Islamic fundamentalism.