Original sentence: But Husain was not a terrorist and his account is dated and misleading.Husain provides no new answers and no fresh information.I have to ask why, when his experiences are firmly based in the 1990s, this book is being published now and is being greeted with an adulation that is both embarrassing and unwarranted.In a critical article, Riazat Butt of the Guardian writes, "He is happy to reinforce stereotypes and justifies this by saying he knows what inspires terrorists - the likely inference being that his book is an educational tool.The activities of Hizb ut-Tahrir and their ilk have been well documented already.The groups he mentions, and their modus operandi, are more fluid and sophisticated now
Edited sentence: How Mohammed became Ed.Writing on the BBC World Have Your Say blog, a BBC World Service listener, writes that, "Ed Husain was a very peripheral character within the Hizb ut-Tahir organisation - his association with them is some fifteen years ago - one must question why he has decided to come out with this book now, when the British PM talked of banning them - I sense a large degree of opportunism on his part