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| Britain: Fury over Home Secretary’s warning to Muslims | |
| 2003-10-31 | |
| One of Labour’s incongruously outspokenly non-PC minister’s suggests the government are getting a clue as regards Britain’s not-so-subtle Islamist fifth column. David Blunkett provoked renewed indignation from the Muslim community last night when he warned that extremist imams were increasing the terrorism threat by preying upon impressionable youngsters. "We have to understand what is happening in a world where young men and women can be enjoined by their religious leaders to take their own lives and others as suicide bombers," he said. Despite being blind, Blunkett’s got clearer vision than almost anyone else in the Labour Party. The Home Secretary said the involvement of two British Muslims in a suicide attack in Israel this year demonstrated that "we are not completely untouched". Apart from the two in Israel, in recent years Britain has supplied Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, who masterminded the kidnap and murder of Daniel Pearl, an American journalist, in Pakistan. Originally from east London, he attended a British public school before dropping out of the LSE. Richard Reid, born in London, tried to carry out a suicide attack on a Paris to Miami flight in December 2001 but was overpowered by passengers. There are seven British Muslims held by the Americans in Guantanamo Bay after being captured in Afghanistan. Earlier this year, Anjem Choudary, the British leader of Al-Muhajiroun, an Islamist group with a base in London, said Muslims had an obligation to support their fellow believers in jihad. Mr Blunkett said tension between religion and nationality was a worrying trend. Second-generation British Muslims were more likely than their parents to feel a need to choose between feeling British and their faith. However Inayat Bunglawala, spokesman for the Muslim Council, said: "We are quite dismayed to see him, yet again, singling out the British Muslim community for denigration. Hey, why doncha ease the dismay by stopping being the only community that contains an actual threat to the rest of us? "His remarks about Muslim youth, while they are sure to gain him plaudits amongst the far Right, are off the mark and show him to be poorly briefed. In comparison with their parents’ generation, Muslim youths today are far more confident in their identity and better integrated into our country’s life." True, in general, but the fact remains - the vast majority of would-be terrorists come from the Muslim community. That can’t be ignored either. "They are also more willing to speak out against policies they disagree with. We should be encouraging them with strategies geared towards inclusiveness and not engaging in a crude post-September 11 version of ’Paki-bashing’." In his speech at York University, Mr Blunkett also emphasised the importance of ensuring that Muslim imams preaching in British mosques should speak English. "It is crucial that those who have this key role in shaping the world view of our young people should be in a position to help them to relate to the world in which they live rather than turning them away from it. There is a real risk that, instead of religion helping to build civic society and a sense of belonging among those who might otherwise become alienated, religion could actually increase that alienation." Ministers of religion, including Muslim imams, are allowed permit-free employment in Britain. Earlier this year, a think-tank said religious leaders who preached hatred of Western values should be barred from British mosques. The Civitas organisation called for an immediate reform of immigration rules "to prevent a further influx of Islamist ideologues". An imam quota would be a good start.
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| Posted by:Bulldog |
| #8 Is that the play where the writer had both the jews and muslims get a pre-screening and both came away pissed? |
| Posted by: Jarhead 2003-10-31 2:24:47 PM |
| #7 I'm not sure how big the Arab community around here is. There's a sizable "cultural center" -- mosque -- and undoubtedly a few smaller "storefront" mosques. The local Muslims -- along with a few supporters from out of town, Columbus I believe -- managed to shut down a locally written play that wasn't kind enough to the memory of a Palestinian suicide bomber. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2003-10-31 1:15:00 PM |
| #6 Robert, no sh#t?, I didn't know Cinci had that many arabs. My older bro lives in Dayton area -he never mentioned that. We had some Paleos living across the street from me back home, actually nice folks but you guessed it - they ran a liquor store. |
| Posted by: Jarhead 2003-10-31 12:40:41 PM |
| #5 Jarhead -- read this story: http://www.channelcincinnati.com/news/2527321/detail.html Twenty-three people, mostly Palestinians, running 10 "convenience" stores selling stolen goods. They shipped $37 million to the Middle East. Now, the judge presiding over the case appears to have blocked the charges related to terrorism, but, seriously, we've seen crime rings like this before that funneled the money directly to terrorist groups. It's not just the Detroit area. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2003-10-31 11:23:14 AM |
| #4 I'm originally from Detroit. The Chaldeans ran most of the party stores/groceries and the Muslim Arabs had the gas station monopoly going. Not sure how they got the whole gig started (little before my time). I had many dealings w/both. I got along w/the Chaldeans real well, one of my good friends is Chaldean. However, the Muslims take a different look at business w/a Christian, they're not held to any sort of ethics due to their teachings. I will say that the inner-city Blacks I knew couldn't stand the Arabs either. It wouldn't surprise me if they find more dirty money going to terror charities from the Detroit Muslim community. |
| Posted by: Jarhead 2003-10-31 10:23:51 AM |
| #3 ...the Tories are too deep in disarray to gain by focussing in on this critical area... Not for long! The Tories have just ditched the disappointinly ineffectual Iain Duncan-Smith, and look set to install Michael Howard as their new leader, virtually unanimously. I'm quite excited about this - a united Tory party will really give Labour a run for their money, and Howard's got the killer instinct, experience and the "somthing of the night about him" (to quote Ann Widdecombe) needed to take British politics somewhere it hasn't been for far too long. PS And don't anyone tell Mahathir, but Michael Howard's Jewish, and so is his likely number 2, Oliver Letwin. Britain: doing her bit to further the Jewish global conspiracy! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAA! |
| Posted by: Bulldog 2003-10-31 9:09:37 AM |
| #2 nice thing about the radical muslim community is that, unlike say animal liberation front or ELF, they are more easily identifiable and should the populace ever rise up against them, their ass is grass. They'll try and breed their way to majority status, but welfare should be revoked for that and ship their ass home. My patience is running really low |
| Posted by: Frank G 2003-10-31 9:08:36 AM |
| #1 My understanding of how Muslim operate in Western countries is that they are told by their religious leaders not to assimilate into society: do nothing, not even eat the same food as the indigents. And when you add to that the viciousness of Brit radical Muslims, you have a well founded concern for security against terrorism. Fortunatly for Labour, the Tories are too deep in disarray to gain by focussing in on this critical area; but I guess it is no matter since some elements of the government understand what is going on with the ingrained hostility towards western values Mulsims hold. Anyway, I am the face of pure evil. I say if Muslims don't want to participate in the life of a nation, they should be deported. After all: They have every human right a citizen has, except the right to be here. |
| Posted by: badanov 2003-10-31 8:54:04 AM |