Ahead of Australia's first national conference on Muslim university students, Tanveer Ahmed, a psychiatric registrar and a graduate of the University of Sydney, urges universities to resist politicized Islamist groups seeking special treatment on campus. These groups are very quick to cry racism, he says, and it's now clear that British universities have inadvertently lent support to the growth of home-grown radicalism by giving in to this kind of campus pressure:

Politicised Muslim groups might seek to build their profile by pressuring a university to allow a certain speaker on campus, for example.

Dr Ahmed said another pattern was for these Muslim groups and leftists to ally themselves.

"I remember going to a protest (in Sydney during the recent Hezbollah-Israel conflict in Lebanon) and seeing environmental groups going Allah Akhbar (God is great) in harmony with some Lebanese groups,'' Dr Ahmend said.

"The God is great line wasn't about religion, it was about social protest."

It's a well-known fact that socialists are joining forces with radical Islamists. We see the same thing in Europe. Anyone who dares to speak up against Islamic fascism is labelled a racist by leftist groups. The risk of being stigmatized silences people, and that lays the ground for true racism to flourish in a near future. To hardcore socialists these might be irrelevant fears as class warfare is their main priority, but to liberals who wish to protect universal civil liberties it is.