"Abukhalil, who has regularly written for Al Jazeera, said that the Ricu study "shows the ignorance of Western government and their media standards".
"Arabs and Muslims are treated like a monolith with no distinctions and delineations permitted to categorise them," he said.
"Just as the colonial powers treated them as a lump of people, they are still seen that way."
Rime Allaf, an associate fellow at Chatham House, the UK-based institute for debate on international affairs, agrees: "Having claimed to be fighting a 'war on terror' for several years, the British government is expected at the very least to know its enemy; if not, it should pretend to know the subject about which it has been preaching ad nausea," she said.
"Designating Angry Arab as a leading Islamist site full of incitement to would-be jihadists would have been laughable had the subject not been one of life and death for so many of Britain's targets in this one-sided war," Allaf said.
Al Jazeera attempted to contact Contest, but was told media requests would be responded to within 20 days."
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