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| 2006-09-12 | |||
Britain will face have to deal with up to two million Islamic terrorists unless there is an end to 'demonising' of Muslims, the leader of the most influential Muslim organisation has said.
The warning from the chief of the Muslim Council of Britain - the grouping that Tony Blair's Government has considered the leading voice for Muslims - came amid rising tensions over the increasingly suspicious attitude to Muslims in the rest of society. Dr Bari declared: "Some police officers and sections of the media are demonising Muslims, treating them as if they are all terrorists, and that encourages other people to do the same. If that demonisation continues, then Britain will have to deal with two million Muslim terrorists, 700,000 of them in London. If you attack a whole community, it becomes despondent and aggressive," he added. The message from Dr Bari appeared to be aimed at muting criticism from police officers and broadcasters and newspapers who have questioned widely-held Muslim attitudes and at police officers who have called for greater surveillance of Muslims. It appeared to contain a measure of exaggeration - according to the last national census, there are fewer than 1.6 million Muslims in the country. But by suggesting that a majority of British Muslims may be prepared to support or engage in terrorism the Muslim Council chief may undermine figures who have tried to ward off attacks on Muslims.
In recent weeks a number of senior police officers have called for 'profiling' measures that would pick out Muslims for greater attention in security checks. Metropolitan Police anti-terrorist chief Peter Clarke said last week that thousands of Britism Muslims are now being watched, and last month Met superintendents' spokesman Chief Superintendent Simon Humphrey said it was "wholly unacceptable to portray the Asian community as victims". At the same time a series of highly-publicised surveys have shown that a high proportion of people are reluctant to sit next to a Muslim on public transport or would feel unhappy to have a Muslim neighbour. Dr Bari said in an interview with the Sunday Telegraph that he did not understand why "the whole of our diverse community" is being criticised. "We want to isolate that bad people and put them in the dock," he said. "But we all have to work together to do that: police, politicians, the media and the Muslim community." Security profiling at airports "reinforces a negative stereotype", he added.
Another prominent Islamic figure also said that extremists had been falsely represented as typical of Muslims. But Dr Ghayasuddin Siddiqui of the Muslim Parliament said the responsibility lay on Muslim communities to expose and end the threat. Dr Siddiqui said: "Muslim failure to act robustly against extremist ideology provides ammunition to those who wish to pursue the Neo-con agenda by demonising Muslims and creating an atmosphere of fear and hatred within society." It is up to moderate Muslims to reclaim Islam and for a new generation of young Muslim activists and leaders to emerge who love both their country and their religion." Most mosques have remained immune to change and faith schools need to become more open to the wider society, he added. | |||
| Posted by:lotp |
| #18 Treating all Muslims as if they were terrorists will encourage large numbers to become terrorists Why? Does treating you well makes you treat others the same? |
| Posted by: gromgoru 2006-09-12 19:49 |
| #17 "Time for Blair to rescind the rights of British citizens to own private arsenals, up to and including RPGs." He might as well, OP - the mosques already have them. :-( (And yes, I saw your correction.) |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2006-09-12 18:56 |
| #16 Oops - next to last sentence should read "Time for Blair to rescind the restrictions on British citizens owning private arsenals" PIMF |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2006-09-12 17:53 |
| #15 The vast majority of terrorists are muslim. That's a hard, cold fact. If the majority were Swedes or Botswanans, we would look very closely at all Swedes or Botswanans. Until islam admits the problem is internal to the islamic "faith", and does something to change, we'll watch muslims VERY closely. If that ends up with the rest of the world killing 2M British muslims, so be it. Islam is like lawyers - if they won't police themselves, others will police them, and won't be nice about it. Time for Blair to rescind the rights of British citizens to own private arsenals, up to and including RPGs. That way, the average citizen MAY be as well armed as the islamofascist thugs. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2006-09-12 17:52 |
| #14 Well, the best way to deal with a rabid dog IS to put it down. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2006-09-12 14:15 |
| #13 I think this post deserves the "snarling dog" image. |
| Posted by: mrp 2006-09-12 13:15 |
| #12 Zenster, spot on. |
| Posted by: SOP35/Rat 2006-09-12 12:39 |
| #11 Well, if you even look at them funny (they think) "you're treating them as terrorists." Bunch of whiny sh&it-heads. |
| Posted by: ex-lib 2006-09-12 12:24 |
| #10 "Britain will face have to deal with up to two million Islamic terrorists unless there is There. Fixed it for ya. |
| Posted by: mcsegeek1 2006-09-12 12:18 |
| #9 Treating all Muslims as if they were terrorists will encourage large numbers to become terrorists, Dr Muhammad Abdul Bari said. It's a rather easy transition actually, here are the words which can be uttered in either English, Standard Arabic, or Persian: "Great Britain, I divorce thee, I devorce thee, I devorce thee." There, done. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2006-09-12 09:50 |
| #8 Can you say Massacre de la Saint-Barthélemy in English, Doctor? A couple more boomers and you will. |
| Posted by: Slineting Gleretle7500 2006-09-12 09:29 |
| #7 Dig a 2 million foot long burial trench. |
| Posted by: ed 2006-09-12 07:36 |
| #6 "Treating all Muslims as if they were terrorists will encourage large numbers to become terrorists, Dr Muhammad Abdul Bari said." Well then, that would suggest that people are absolutely right to consider the lot of you potential or even likely terrorists, wouldn't it? Hard to see how it could get any clearer than that. One option Westerners have, is to expel the Muslims who are living amongst them-- every last one-- and quarantine the Islamic world. Wall it off. No contact. You live in your world and we'll live in ours. You leave us alone, and we'll reciprocate. That option sounds extreme right now; but if we really come face to face with millions of fanatical, hateful, destructive internal enemies who start acting on threats like this, that option is going to start looking very attractive, especially if the only alternative is annihilating the Islamic world. Adopt our ways and make up your minds that you're going to get along with us on OUR terms, or you Muslims had best prepare to go home. |
| Posted by: Dave D. 2006-09-12 07:30 |
| #5 Gorb it leaves 58 million. Time for I-slamic immigration to be reversed. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles in Blairistan 2006-09-12 06:27 |
| #4 Islamic and terrorist are two words that do not go together Much like "water" and "wet" or "space" and "big". |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2006-09-12 05:29 |
| #3 Treating all Muslims as if they were terrorists will encourage large numbers to become terrorists, Dr Muhammad Abdul Bari said. Pulling a pin of a grenade will cause it to explode, if it's the leverless type as these "moderate" bullies. So lob it back into Paki and other utopias. |
| Posted by: Duh! 2006-09-12 03:31 |
| #2 That leave >18M Britons to kick their asses out into the channel, now doesn't it? |
| Posted by: gorb 2006-09-12 02:16 |
| #1 Treating all Muslims as if they were terrorists will encourage large numbers to become terrorists, Dr Muhammad Abdul Bari said. Well then, we'd best take this expert's advice, shan't we? If some two million British Muslims represent a substantial risk of becoming terrorists, then we'd best deport the entire lot of them. Isn't it time for governments to listen rather closely when Muslim leaders make threats of civil unrest and potential terrorist activity? Who would know better than these well-connected individuals? Take them at their word. Believe what they say and tell these rotters to sod off at the earliest opportunity. Oh wait. Is the Muslim community at large protesting this improper characterization of their intentions by one of their putative leaders? Let's listen: [crickets] F&ck them and the horse they rode in on. Next flight out it is. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2006-09-12 00:43 |