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Britain
Muslims: We live in fear
2003-12-05
A senior Muslim leader today warned that police raids across the country were creating a climate of fear among Muslim communities.
"Oh, hold me, Fatimah! I'm so frightened!"
Dr Mohammed Naseem, chairman of Birmingham's Central Mosque, said Muslims supported the arrest of terrorists but not harassment of innocent people. "We support what the police are doing, but not how they are doing it," said Dr Naseem.
"I mean, they're only going after Islamists. Have they arrested any Norwegians? No! Have they arrested any Samoans? No! Only us! They're pickin' on us, that's what it is!"
"When I first came to this country in the 1950s, the police were renowned for their politeness and behaviour, but now they bang down doors and raid the homes of innocent people without proper evidence. It is appalling and ruining strong relationships that have been formed between different ethnic groups. Muslims are not against taking action against terrorists as long as there is evidence. But some of these latest arrests have not discovered any proof of terrorist activity and that is what we are worried about.
"'Course, we're even more worried about the ones that have discovered proof..."
"Someone in the police has not been doing their homework properly and it results in a feeling of harassment and fear among innocent, hard-working Muslim families. That cannot be good for Britain, but only work towards us becoming a totalitarian state where people are afraid to air their views."
Kind of like what you'd have under a caliphate, huh?
Posted by:Fred Pruitt

#10  Hiryu-
Washington lead sniper Johnny Muhammad might be a Nation of Islam guy. If so, he thinks he's a Muslim but most of the other turbans wouldn't. The reports of his links to al-Furqua sound like speculation.

Mohammad may have been working on Lee Malvo to take up a Koran, but so far the kid sounds like a dumbass following a father figure around and agreeing that it would be good to shoot random people. If there was evidence he had become a Muslim, I expect the Washington Times would have found out by now.
Posted by: OminousWhatever   2003-12-5 2:49:09 PM  

#9  BH, it's just the leaders and smart ones who act like that. Which is a minority among Muslims.
Posted by: Charles   2003-12-5 12:51:58 PM  

#8  They remind me of that little Egyptian dude in The Mummy. When they are numerous they're all, "We are strong! We will crush you! The rivers will run with your blood!" and then when you get the upper hand on them, it's "Please, don't keel poor little Abu. I must care for my forty-two children. Pleeeease?" Dishonorable, backstabbing f*cks.
Posted by: BH   2003-12-5 11:27:40 AM  

#7  Can't we just split the difference and arrest norwegian muslims? I just want us all to get along...
Posted by: flash91   2003-12-5 10:52:51 AM  

#6  It's terrible of the British to force these oppressed people to continue living in Britain.
Posted by: Matt   2003-12-5 10:48:21 AM  

#5  The Washington snipers are Muslims too.
Posted by: Hiryu   2003-12-5 10:36:55 AM  

#4  Dude, you guys are all wrong. It's the Irish. It's always us damn Irish. The Muslims are just our patsies, yeah, that's the ticket. (I should be careful, some muslim blogger will probably pick that one up and try to use it.)
Posted by: Jarhead   2003-12-5 9:29:46 AM  

#3  "creating a climate of fear among Muslim communities"
Proof that Kyoto deserved support! Evil Americans!

Whining. Later, seething. Facts don't matter, of course: this is victimology 101, tugging at the heart-strings and invoking a knee-jerk guilt response. Really - this is first rate stuff. Topnotch reporting and suckerism. Jolly well done.

I give it a "poor poor Mooslims" Rating of 7.5
[golf clap]
Posted by: .touristers   2003-12-5 8:55:31 AM  

#2  They're scared? GOOD!
Posted by: Ben   2003-12-5 3:50:23 AM  

#1  Lemme see,
***The people that crashed those jetliners into the Pentagon and World Trade Center were all Muslims, Check.
***Reid, the whacko that tried to blow up a jet with a shoe bomb, was a recent Muslim convert, Check.
***The car boomers that hit Turkey's synagogues, the British bank and consulate, were all Muslims, Check.
***The people that blew the hole in the USS Cole, attacked the US Embassies in Kenya and Uganda, and set off a bomb at an Israeli resort in Kenya were all Muslims, Check.
***Most of the boomers in Israel, including two that turned out to be British citizens, were Muslims, Check.
***Chechens that held hostages in Moscow, and who have set numerous mines and booby-traps for Russians from Moscow to Chechnya are all Muslims, Check.

Hmmm. Not a Noreweigan in the lot. No reason to look for Norweigans. Lots of Muslims, so of course, SMART people would be looking for future boomers to be Muslims. Until the Muslim community repudiates the goals, activities, and methods of these boomers, they can expect to be under close scrutiny.
Posted by: Old Patriot   2003-12-5 12:51:04 AM  

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