Tooting's MP has reacted furiously to David Cameron's claim yesterday that multiculturalism in Britain has "failed".

In a speech in Germany, the Prime Minister said the Government should no longer tolerate and engage with extremist groups whose members did not believe in crucial western and British values.

But Sadiq Khan, Britain's most prominent muslim MP who represents thousands who follow Islam in Tooting, claimed Mr Cameron was "writing propaganda for the English Defence League".

Mr Khan, Labour's shadow justice secretary, has recently spoken of the need for different groups in his constituency to leave in peace side-by-side, after it was discovered that members of a religious sect - the Ahmadis - were being demonised by Islamic scholars in Tooting.

He told the Wandsworth Guardian in November: "The Sunni Muslims and the Ahmadis is just one example: we have been living, cheek by jowl, very successfully, Hindu Tamils and Buddhist Singhalese, Hindus and Sikhs, you know, Catholics and Anglicans, and it all works really well."

Yesterday, Mr Cameron told the Munich Security Conference: "Let's properly judge these organisations... do they believe in universal human rights - including for women and people of other faiths? Do they believe in equality of all before the law?"

In reponse to Mr Khan's comments, Tory co-chairman Baroness Warsi called for an apology.

She said: "For Sadiq Khan to smear the prime minister as a rightwing extremist is outrageous and irresponsible.

"David Cameron has made it clear that he wants to unite Britain around our common values and he has done so in measured language.

"Extremism and Islam are not the same thing."

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