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| Are UK Muslims living in police state? |
| 2007-02-11 |
| HAS Britain become a police state for Muslims? No, nowhere near. Just ask anyone who has lived in a real police state. Ask any mother whose son was taken in the middle of the night and disappeared without a trace. Ask any political prisoner who has been interrogated and tortured just for questioning the status quo. Ask any ordinary citizen who happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time and found himself in jail for years on end without trial, without any recourse to justice. That is living in a police state, not what is happening to Muslims in Britain today. And yet it cannot be denied that Muslims today find themselves stuck between a rock and a hard place. The knee-jerk reactions of British Muslims to last week's arrests in Birmingham show just how embattled many Muslims now feel. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #5 I absolutely believe that any "overreaction" by British Police is driven by their well-founded fear coupled with the fact that before islamic terrorism there was no similar threat to society. |
| Posted by: PlanetDan 2007-02-11 14:27 |
| #4 Are other Englishmen (e.g. the Oxford student who offended Islam and faces his college's "disciplinary court") live in the police state? |
| Posted by: gromgoru 2007-02-11 13:15 |
| #3 "Are UK Muslims living in police state?" Sadly, no. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2007-02-11 11:19 |
| #2 Are UK Muslims living in police state? the sense of insecurity and threat among Muslims in Britain. Hummmmm... lemme think about it for one second... |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2007-02-11 10:30 |
| #1 The fact that he was shot seven times in the head while being restrained only serving to add to both the tragedy of his death and the sense of insecurity and threat among Muslims in Britain. Somewhere the world's smallest violin is playing for me. |
| Posted by: Excalibur 2007-02-11 09:19 |