Trevor Phillips, the commission's chair, launched the attack after Kellysaid that Islamic schools that promoted "isolationism" should be shutdown. Phillips said Kelly's comments were part of a public argument thatwas the "equivalent of shadow boxing".
"All the participants know that their public statements are about onething, but their coded meanings are about another," he said. "What theproponents of this view really want to say is one of two things - one, aperfectly valid view, is that religion should be banned from the publicsphere and practiced only in private if at all, the other, not at allvalid, is that Muslims can't be trusted to run schools."
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