The Guardian reports on a new British government proposal to expand the official definition of extremist:

According to a draft of the strategy, Contest 2 as it is known in Whitehall, people would be considered as extremists if:

• They advocate a caliphate, a pan-Islamic state encompassing many countries.

• They promote Sharia law.

• They believe in jihad, or armed resistance, anywhere in the world. This would include armed resistance by Palestinians against the Israeli military.

• They argue that Islam bans homosexuality and that it is a sin against Allah.

• They fail to condemn the killing of British soldiers in Iraq or Afghanistan..

Protesters say that the new guidelines would brand most Muslims in Britain as extremists, but an interesting parlor game can be made out of figuring out which British non-Muslims would get snared by Contest 2. The British government might be forced to launch an entire Useful Idiot Division. The Archbishop of Canterbury will bite the dust on the second criterion. George Galloway won’t make it past the third bullet point. Ditto Robert Fisk.

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