Veil teacher was obeying a fatwa

THE Muslim teacher who insisted on wearing a veil in class has been following a fatwa issued personally to her by a Islamic cleric belonging to a hardline sect.Aishah Azmi found herself in the middle of a national row about integration when she took her school to an employment tribunal after it suspended her for refusing to remove the veil in class.

Azmi, 24, has maintained that her decision to wear the veil was driven entirely by her personal beliefs, rather than the advice or instruction of a third party. But this weekend it emerged that she refused to take the veil off at school after receiving a fatwa, or religious ruling, from Mufti Yusuf Sacha, a Muslim cleric in West Yorkshire. Her legal team revealed that the advice Sacha issued to Azmi ruled that it was obligatory for women to wear the niqab (face-veil) in the presence of men who were not their blood relatives.Sacha is one of several hundred Islamic clerics in Britain with the status of mufti, entitling him to issue fatwas based on Islamic law. Although Muslims are expected to follow fatwas, they are not obliged to do so, particularly if they live in a non-Muslim state.Nick Whittingham, manager at the Kirklees law centre, which defended Azmi, said she went to seek Sacha’s advice before starting a job as classroom assistant at Headfield Church of England junior school in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, in September 2005. Whittingham said that Azmi, who had been wearing the niqab since the age of 15, asked Sacha whether women had a choice whether or not to wear the niqab. She was told it was obligatory, Whittingham said.Azmi, who was employed as a bilingual support worker helping British Pakistani children learn English, was told to remove the veil because pupils found it difficult to understand her as they could not see her lips move.In November 2005 the school sent her home on sick leave on the grounds that the strain of the dispute was causing her stress and depression. When Azmi returned to the school in February, she insisted on wearing the veil, prompting the school to suspend her on full pay.During Azmi’s employment tribunal, Sacha was asked to give a written statement. He set out his reasons for insisting that the niqab was obligatory for women.Whittingham said: "I know she went to Sacha for advice before starting the job. And at the tribunal Sacha also set out the religious position, which was accepted by both sides. It said that she is required to wear it in the presence of men who are not her blood relatives, or whom she can potentially marry."The tribunal ruled that Kirklees council — which runs the school — was within its rights to suspend her from work. But Azmi was awarded £1,100 on the grounds of victimisation.Her legal team is planning to lodge an appeal against the tribunal decision, and is considering taking the case to the European Court of Justice.This weekend Azmi declined to answer questions at her home in Dewsbury. Sacha, who lives in nearby Batley, also refused to comment on the extent of the influence he had on Azmi.Sacha follows the teachings of the Tablighi Jamaat, a hardline Muslim group, elements of which are suspected by western intelligence agencies of having links with terrorism. The majority of Tablighis are, however, regarded as moderate.A colleague of Sacha, who did not want to be named, said that the cleric teaches at the Tablighi mosque in Dewsbury, which has become the organisation’s European headquarters.Mohammad Sidique Khan and Shehzad Tanweer, two of the London bombers, are said to have been regular worshippers there.Sacha’s ruling on the veil is disputed. Mufti Abdul Kadir Barkatullah, who is affiliated to the Muslim Council of Britain, said: "I am 100% sure that wearing the niqab is not obligatory on Muslim women — it is a matter of choice. It’s more about habit than religion. The Tablighis observe the niqab very strictly."

Banned extremists regroup

TWO Muslim extremist groups banned after last year’s July 7 bombings have re-formed under a new name, writes Abul Taher.Al Ghurabaa and the Saved Sect, splinter groups of the disbanded Al-Muhajiroun, now operate as Followers of Ahlus Sunnah wal Jamaah.
The group runs most of its activities through an internet forum, where one of the main contributors is Anjem Choudhury, the former British head of Al-Muhajiroun, who uses the pseudonym Abou Luqman. He often gives his mobile phone numbers to other members. New users are allowed onto the website only if they are introduced by a member. A reporter who infiltrated the site found calls for violent holy war, declarations that the Queen is an enemy and recordings from Osama Bin Laden; Ayman al-Zawahiri, his deputy; and terrorists from Iraq. It also contains dozens of voice recordings by Omar Bakri Mohammed, founder of Al-Muhajiroun, who was barred from returning to Britain after going to Lebanon on holiday last year. Bakri’s teachings are widely discussed in the forum.
Scotland Yard declined to comment.

Hook son's job on Tube

THE terrorist son of hook-handed Abu Hamza has been working on London’s Tube, The Sun can reveal.
Mohammed Kamel Mostafa, 25 — a convicted fanatic who has glorified suicide attacks like the 7/7 slaughter — was rumbled by Underground workmates when they saw his picture in The Sun.
They went straight to bosses, who told Mohammed Kamel Mostafa, 25, to sling his hook.
But last night fury erupted over the security shambles that led to the convicted terrorist being granted astonishing access to London’s Tube network.
Mostafa was given a pass to do labouring jobs. The lank-haired extremist worked in restricted areas near stations classified in the Underground’s "top area" — the zone most likely to be attacked by bombers.
A spokesman said: "It seems this person was granted a permit because he has no criminal convictions in the UK and has a right to work in this country. The question of whether the checks were tight enough is a matter for the Government to address."
John Taylor, who lost 24-year-old daughter Carrie in the Aldgate blast on 7/7, said he was "shocked and stunned" by the fiasco.
The dad, a security manager of Billericay, Essex, added: "This man is a convicted terrorist — and he has been allowed access to some of the most sensitive parts of the Tube."
Labour MP Andrew Dismore said: "It beggars belief. It wasn’t like he was nicked for shoplifting — it was terror offences in Yemen. You’d think the Underground would be particularly sensitive to terrorism."


Mayor Ken Livingstone has defended the employment of the son of jailed Islamic cleric Abu Hamza on London Underground.

Ken's U-turn over Hamza's son

TEENAGER HURT IN GANG ATTACK

A Teenager is being treated in hospital for broken ribs and a punctured lung after he was attacked by a gang of Somalians in Bristol.Seventeen-year-old Andrew Webber, of Brislington, was walking back from the Avonmeads leisure park with friends on Tuesday night when he was surrounded by more than 20 men

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Radical preacher launches appeal

Radical preacher Abu Hamza al-Masri was found guilty because a fair trial was "impossible", a court has heard.
His lawyers told the Appeal Court his trial was prejudiced by "unique" global events and a media hate-campaign.
Abu Hamza, jailed for seven years in February, is appealing against his conviction for soliciting to murder and inciting racial hatred.
During the trial, prosecutors said Abu Hamza used a north London mosque to recruit people into Islamist extremism.
The Egyptian-born cleric, who is being held at Belmarsh high-security prison, was jailed after being found guilty of 11 out of 15 charges.
The charges related to what prosecutors said were a series of inflammatory speeches and recordings he made as a preacher at Finsbury Park mosque and other locations.

ABU HAMZA VERDICTS, FEB 2006
Guilty of 6 charges of soliciting to murder
Guilty of 3 charges related to "stirring up racial hatred"
Guilty of 1 charge of owning recordings related to "stirring up racial hatred"
Guilty of 1 charge of possessing "terrorist encyclopaedia"
Not guilty of 3 charges of soliciting to murder
Not guilty of 1 charge related to "stirring up racial hatred"

Edward Fitzgerald QC, representing 48-year-old Abu Hamza, told the Court of Appeal it had been "unfair and oppressive" to launch a prosecution in 2004 over speeches made between 1997 and 2000.
Police had taken no action at the time, even though officers had taken away the recordings for analysis.
The prosecution came amid a "relentless campaign of adverse media publicity condemning him as a preacher of hate and inciter of violence", said Mr Fitzgerald, some of it driven by the public battle led by the Home Secretary to strip Abu Hamza of his citizenship.
This campaign, argued Mr Fitzgerald, combined with the unique events of the 9/11 attacks and subsequent 7 July 2005 London bombings had prejudiced the trial.
"Inadmissible evidence relating to his alleged involvement in actual crimes of terrorism was relentlessly highlighted and referred to in public," said Mr Fitzgerald.
"Because of the delay in prosecuting the appellant, the atmosphere had been poisoned against him in a way that would not have happened had he been subjected to a timely prosecution."
Meetings with MI5
During his month-long trial, Abu Hamza told the Old Bailey the speeches he was being prosecuted over had been well known to the authorities, including MI5.
Special Branch officers had seized the tapes from his home and he had held a series of discussions with the authorities about his views and intentions.
The preacher said he had left those meetings believing he would not face prosecution, partly because police officers returned his recordings and other documents.
However, prosecutors successfully argued he had used Finsbury Park mosque as a secure base from which he could act as a recruitment sergeant for global terrorism.
Extradition battle
They said he was preaching racial-hatred against Jews and other non-Muslims and had owned a multi-volume "terrorism manual" known as the Encyclopaedia of Afghan Jihad. This encyclopaedia, said Abu Hamza, was one of the documents that police gave back to him.
The two-day appeal is being heard by the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Phillips, sitting with Mr Justice Penry-Davey and Mr Justice Pitchford, at London's Court of Appeal.
Abu Hamza also faces a continuing battle against extradition to the United States to face allegations of trying to establish a terrorist training camp.
The extradition attempt has been postponed until the outcome of the appeal, which continues on Tuesday.

Radical cleric 'had fair trial'

Father and teenage daughter arrested for beating her boyfriend to death

A Muslim girl of 13 and her father have been arrested on suspicion of murdering her boyfriend. Sumon Miah, 21, was beaten to death with a table leg when he went to visit the youngster at her home.

All four members of the girl's family were in police custody over his death.
Neighbours said that the schoolgirl's parents had been 'deeply unhappy' their daughter had started a relationship with a man eight years her senior.
A family friend said: "You can imagine how upset the girl's mother and father were to know that their daughter was seeing a man of 21.
"Although the relationship was in its very early stages, they wanted it to stop as soon as possible."

On the day of the murder, the girl's family made several calls to the police - telling 999 staff of their anger that Mr Miah was planning to visit their home in Walthamstow, East London.
But by the time police arrived, Mr Miah, from Bow, East London, was on the brink of death after suffering severe head injuries.
He later died in Whipps Cross hospital and Scotland Yard detectives have now arrested the 13-year-old's entire family.
While the youngster and her father have been quizzed over the murder, her brother, also 13, and 41-year-old mother have been held over allegations that they conspired to pervert the course of justice.

The girl is also being questioned over conspiring to pervert the course of justice.
The Muslim family, who are originally from Bangladesh, called police about their concerns over Mr Miah on October 8.
But officer failed to respond to a series of calls.
They arrived just after 11am and found Mr Miah slumped on the floor in a pool of blood after being beaten with the table leg.
Scotland Yard has now voluntarily referred the case to the Independent Police Complaints Commission.

An IPCC spokeswoman said: "We are managing an investigation into the way in which the Metropolitan Police Service handled telephone calls made to them by the family of a 13-year-old girl, around the time of an incident which led to the subsequent death of a 21-year-old man."
The girl's family made a number of calls to the police regarding an address on October 8.
"When police arrived at the scene they discovered the man, identified as Sumon Miah, suffering from serious head injuries.

The MPS voluntarily referred the issue of the telephone calls to the IPCC. The IPCC will manage an investigation, conducted by the MPS, into whether they had followed correct procedure when dealing with the family's telephone calls."

Flag-burning could become crime

Police chiefs are urging the government to make flag-burning a new criminal offence, as part of a drive to crack down on Islamic extremists and others preaching violence and religious hate, the BBC has learned.

what the police want banned


Flag-burning law plan criticised

Murder 'may have racial motive'

A man who died after being hit by a car in Greater Manchester may have been the victim of a racial incident, police have said.
David Lees, of Heathbank Road, Blackley, died in hospital after being found collapsed on Middleton Road in Prestwich at 0100 BST on Saturday.
The 23-year-old's death followed a disturbance believed to have involved white and Asian men.
A police spokesman said neither of the groups were from the Prestwich area.
However, they are investigating whether race "was an element" in the events leading to Mr Lees' death.
About 20 people were seen arguing on the forecourt of a BP garage prior to the killing.
Mr Lees, who was white, had been among people involved in a row with a group of Asian youths.
The spokesman said: "We are treating this as a racial incident, but the murder was not racially motivated."
Supt Mark Robinson of Greater Manchester Police added: "He (Mr Lees) was run down and killed by a vehicle.
"That vehicle fled the scene and we are treating it as a murder inquiry.
"It seems like a disturbance or a low-level disorder has escalated out of all proportion."
Friends and family of the victim have left flowers and tributes at the scene, which was sealed off until mid-morning while investigations were being carried out.

Muslim Council of Britain leader backs Aussie imam in "women are like uncovered meat" row

An indication that, unfortunately, Sheikh al-Hilali's views are not all that uncommon. "Briton backs imam in 'uncovered meat' row," by Bernard Lagan in the TimesOnline,
ONE of Britain’s most senior Muslims has defended as "a great scholar" the Australian imam who likened scantily clad women to uncovered meat that draws predators.
Abduljalil Sajid, a senior figure in the Muslim Council of Britain, offered support for Sheikh Taj Din al-Hilali’s views, saying that "loose women like prostitutes" encouraged men to be immoral. Dr Sajid, visiting Australia, said that Sheikh al-Hilali was attacking immodesty and loose dress, or "standing in the streets, inviting men to do these bad acts".
Although the Australian cleric did not use the word prostitute, but appeared to be attacking women wearing revealing clothes, Dr Sajid said that the sermon had been taken out of context. Referring to the thrust of the Sheikh’s argument, he said: "So what is wrong in it? Who will object to that?" Dr Sajid, who is on a speaking tour, met the controversial Sheikh at his Sydney mosque yesterday.
Sheikh al-Hilali bowed yesterday to pressure and agreed not to preach for three months. But he defied those pressing for him to quit as the leading Muslim cleric in Australia.
After meeting him yesterday, Dr Sajid said: "As far as I am concerned he is a great scholar and he has a great knowledge of Islamic jurisprudence." Dr Sajid added that he believed that the inflammatory excerpts from a speech, given last month, had been quoted out of context. "I respect his views. His intentions are noble in order to make morality and modesty part of our overall society," the British cleric said.
Imagine my surprise: Muslim cleric linked with terror groups.

BBC Supports Rape-Excusing Aussie Imam

The BBC’s doublespeak coverage of the rape-supporting Australian Mufti, from Nick Bryant in Sydney, has to be seen to be believed: Australia’s Muslims fear backlash.


why are muslims always the victims ?

ok i found this message on a bbc message board.

Added: Friday, 27 October, 2006, 10:34 GMT 11:34 UK
I agree with the sheikhs comments 100%- the thing is that in the west (by the way i am a westerner) women dress dirty and inappropriately and in a recent survey not long ago people in Britain said that women who dressed like that were as much as fault as those who committed the crime as they encouraged or drew attention to men. He has neither insulted women nor men, but simply told the truth- and yes we know the truth hurts when you can’t accept the facts.
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BBC 'guilty' of ignoring public opinion says senior executive

A senior BBC executive has admitted the politically correct views of the corporation are at odds with most of its viewers.


BBC mounts court fight to keep 'critical' report secret

We are biased, admit the stars of BBC News.


The BBC's commitment to bias is no laughing matter

Government bottles it on religious schools.

Plans to force new faith schools in England to select more pupils from other religions are to be scrapped, Education Secretary Alan Johnson says.

Son makes Hook book demand

THE terrorist son of hook-handed Abu Hamza is demanding cash to betray his evil father.
Greedy Mohammed Kamel Mostafa — convicted of plotting to blow up British and US targets in Yemen — approached The Sun to reveal he is planning a book on the Muslim cleric.
And for £60,000 he promised to reveal all Hamza’s secrets.
In an undercover operation, we secretly filmed Mostafa as he told one of our reporters what he knew. He even detailed his own role in a council house scam masterminded by his father.
Hamza, the former imam at London’s notorious Finsbury Park mosque, was jailed for seven years in February for soliciting murder and inciting race hate.
The US is also seeking the 48-year-old’s extradition. Proving his son is a chip off the old block, greasy-haired Mostafa was flanked by his "manager" as he tried to extract as much money as possible from The Sun for spilling the beans. His manager said: "It’s juicy man, when we get the money, you get the details."
We never had any intention of putting a penny in the hands of a convicted terrorist. But we played along to discover how far he was willing to betray his family for cash.
Mostafa, 25, claimed Hamza made him sign papers to get a council house in 2002 — then let out the property illegally to rake in cash from rent.
Mostafa, of Wembley, North London, claims he only found out about the scam when his demented dad threw him out. The revelation comes weeks after The Sun revealed Hamza bought a four-bedroom semi for £220,000 in cash while in jail — despite having his assets frozen.
The breach was only discovered in an investigation into the finances of his family, many of whom live in a £600,000 five- bedroom council home in Shepherds Bush, West London.
But The Sun cannot detail Mostafa’s other chilling revelations of Hamza’s violence, intimidation and fraud for legal reasons. And although he claimed he could produce evidence to back his claims, The Sun never saw any.
But speaking at two secretly-recorded meetings at a Hammersmith café, Mostafa said he was willing to sign an affidavit swearing his stories were true.
His manager, who called himself Joseph, bragged Mostafa would rake in a fortune. He also said he would make money by launching a rap career. Mostafa, dubbed MC Hamza, has already glamorised suicide bombers and Jihad in songs.
He was one of ten Muslims captured and accused of going on terror training camps in Yemen.
The group of eight Britons and two Algerians were caught when a routine search of their car revealed explosives.
Mostafa admitted forming "an armed gang to carry out a collective criminal programme".
He told a Yemeni court he had been inspired by his father’s anti-British rants. Judge Gamal Omar accepted the prosecution claim the men had travelled to Yemen to plan a bombing campaign. Mostafa was jailed for three years.
A Legal Services Commission spokeswoman said: "Our investigation into Abu Hamza’s finances are ongoing. We would be very interested in any information uncovered by The Sun

Terror cases run out of courtroom and judges

COURTS cannot cope with the large number of terrorist cases coming to trial, the senior prosecutor in charge of counter-terrorism has told The Times.

Islamic Terrorists Are Using Universities

The Guardian (via the Jerusalem Post) is reporting that British university personnel have been asked to watch out for suspicious activity among Muslim students—and that the British government is convinced an Islamic terror network is being established within UK universities

The usual suspects are seething and whining.
Senior university personnel throughout Britain have been asked to spy on Muslim or Asian students who are suspected of being involved in terrorist activities, the British newspaper The Guardian reported Monday morning.
According to the report, police are enlisting university professors to help locate potential suspects who might be supporting terror. From now on, professors and other senior staff will be asked to look out for suspicious activity on the part of their Muslim and Asian students.
"It sounds to me to be potentially the widest infringement of the rights of Muslim students that there ever has been in this country. It is clearly targeting Muslim students and treating them to a higher level of suspicion and scrutiny. It sounds like you’re guilty until you’re proven innocent," Wakkas Khan, president of the Federation of Student Islamic Societies, told The Guardian.
The article also reported that the British government is convinced that a Muslim terrorist network is currently being established within university campuses. see also

Killing gays is OK, says Muslim Imam

Manchester's leading Imam has confirmed that he thinks the execution of sexually active gay men is justified, reports Outrage.

Mr. Arshad Misbahi, who is based at the Manchester Central Mosque, confirmed his views in a conversation to Dr John Casson, a local psychotherapist.Dr Casson said: "I asked him if the execution of gay Muslims in Iran and Iraq was an acceptable punishment in Sharia law, or the result of culture, not religion. He told me that in a true Islamic state, such punishments were part of Islam: if the person had had a trial, at which four witnesses testified that they had seen the actual homosexual acts.""I asked him what would be the British Muslim view? He repeated that in an Islamic state these punishments were justified. They might result in the deaths of thousands but if this deterred millions from having sex, and spreading disease, then it was worthwhile to protect the wider community.""I checked again that this was not a matter of tradition, culture or local prejudice. 'No,' he said, 'It is part of the central tenets of Islam: that sex outside marriage is forbidden; this is stated in the Koran and the prophet had stated that these punishments were due to such behaviours.'"Gay and human rights campaigner, Peter Tatchell said: "It is disturbing that some British imams are endorsing the execution of gay and lesbian Muslims."Imam Arshad Misbahi's homophobic attitudes give comfort and succour to queer-bashers. They encourage conflict and disharmony between Manchester's large gay and Muslim communities."Muslim and gay people know the pain of prejudice and discrimination. We should be working together to challenge homophobia and Islamophobia. I hope liberal Muslims will speak out in defence of the human rights of lesbians and gay men," said Tatchell.Adnan Ali, founder of the British branch of Al-Fatiha, an organisation for gay and lesbian Muslims was unimpressed with Misbahi’s rant, and told GAY.com:"I completely disagree with Arshad Misbahi's view about execution of actively lesbian and gay people. A person with such an obsession about execution of human beings is not even entitled to be addressed as Imam. Islam is a very tolerant religion and celebrates the human diversity in its core message. "The holy book Qur'an does not mention anywhere about the execution or killing of human beings on the basis of their sexuality. What surprises is this obsession of the Islamic clerics to killing and execution. Why? What about dialogue? Discussion? "When people like Arshad Misbahi agree to have a dialogue and discussion on the issues surrounding homosexuality, then they would be entitled to earn the title of an Imam..."Arshad Misbahi's comparison of same sex relation to adultery is nothing but ignorant and utterly irresponsible rhetoric, manifesting the wrong teachings of Islam. The media should be very cautious of how they look into this message, and not take it for granted as the general view of the Muslim community all over".

and muslims play the victim, and the bbc lap it up.

on the same day in australia

Omar Bakri's £13k is seized

THE son of mad mullah Omar Bakri was yesterday caught leaving Britain with £13,500 for his dad.
Abdul Rahman Fostok was found with a cash-stuffed brown envelope marked "Daddy" as he prepared to board a plane to Beirut, where Bakri fled to from London.
Special Branch cops held the money with powers from the 2000 Anti-Terrorism Act before letting Fostok, 23, fly from Heathrow.
Officers believe the sum was meant for Bakri, 47, who quit Britain last year after The Sun campaigned to have him expelled.
Cops can take cash if they suspect it will be used in terror-related activity.
The Home Office will tomorrow ask for a formal High Court seizure order.

A police source said: "We’re sure this money was intended for Bakri. We will now be looking at where it came from."
A Scotland Yard spokesman said last night: "We can confirm a quantity of cash was seized by counter-terrorism officers.
"A 23-year-old man carrying the money was questioned and later allowed to continue his journey."
Dad-of-six Bakri, who praised the 9/11 murderers, lived off taxpayers for more than 20 years.
Despite living in exile, the cleric has a luxury flat — and sources close to him claim he is STILL scrounging off the state.
One pal said: "He doesn’t work. It has been obvious he has been using his family to help fund his lavish lifestyle."

Now a Sun investigation can reveal Bakri, 48, told supporters to hand over money to his son as much as four months ago. In an internet exchange in June, Bakri was asked by a would-be follower how he could donate money to help back his brand of Islamic extremism.
Bakri replied: "It depends why you want to send the funds. Is it for the needy people or the Mujahideen or for other reasons?"
When the follower told him it was to help fund the Mujahideen — holy warriors — Bakri told him: "If you want to help the good work you can pass (funds) via Western Union or via the bank account.
"Pass them directly to my son Abdul Rahman — he is living in London. He keeps (a) low profile."
Bakri then passed on a mobile number for his son and invited the follower to "call him directly".
Bakri’s web chat was on a site called Paltalk, a US-based forum where users can meet online.
Benefits scrounger Bakri quit Britain last year after The Sun campaigned to have him booted out.

City schools 'should ban veils'

Bradford City Council is drawing up guidelines stating that pupils and staff should not wear veils in lessons.
It said veils could cause problems with communication, identifying pupils and health and safety. However, the final decision would lie with the school.
Last week teaching assistant Aishah Azmi lost a case for discrimination and harassment after being suspended for refusing to remove her veil in lessons.
But an employment tribunal decided the 23-year-old, who worked at a school run by Bradford's neighbouring authority Kirklees Council, had been victimised.
Bradford City Council leader Kris Hopkins said: "Veils in schools, for staff and pupils, has never been an issue in Bradford.
"We feel the debate over veils is distracting from the real issues in education, that is raising educational attainment across the district for all children."
'Obey rules'
Dr Abdul Bary Mailk, president of the Bradford and Leeds Ahmadiyya Muslim Association, said wearing the full face veil, or niqab, was not an obligation under Islam.
He said: "If there are rules at work which say you must not wear a veil at work then I think it's the duty of every Muslim that they should obey those rules. If they don't like it they should not join that organisation."
He said Muslim girls needed to take off their veils in certain lessons, such as those held in laboratories, for health and safety reasons and they were regularly asked to do so in Muslim countries.
But Dr Malik said he thought the veil debate had blown out of proportion, as women who wore the niqab formed less than half a percent of the population.

MUSLIMS SHOULD SAY SORRY FOR 9/11 & 7/7

CARDINAL Keith O'Brien has said that Muslims should apologise for the 9/11 and 7/7 terrorist attacks.
Heclaimed that people in this country should not have to "live in fear of attack" from Muslims.
The leading Catholic said: "There have been no apologies for the shooting of a nun in Somalia, let alone for 9/11 or the London bombings.
"I would like to see some reciprocal moves from the Islamic side. We shouldn't have to live in fear of attacks from Muslims."
But his remarks have sparked outrage.

great story.

page 3 girl wears burka for a day.

Three on trial for abduction and race murder of Scots schoolboy

THREE men went on trial yesterday accused of the racially aggravated abduction and murder of a Glasgow schoolboy.
The case opened with jurors being warned they would be shown disturbing photographs of the semi-naked body of Kriss Donald, 15, who was allegedly set on fire at a riverside path.
Imran Shahid, 29, Mohammed Faisal Mushtaq, 27, and Zeeshan Shahid, 29, all deny the murder charge, and the trial at the High Court in Edinburgh is expected to last up to eight weeks.
The indictment alleges that the three accused were acting with two others, Daanish Zahid and Zahid Mohammed, on 15 March, 2004, when they seized Kriss at Kenmure Street, Pollokshields, Glasgow, and repeatedly punched and kicked him on the head and body and forced him into a car.
A screwdriver, a knife and a hammer were presented at him, it is alleged, and the knife was repeatedly twisted against his body, while a pretence was made that the abductors also had a gun.
According to the charge, Kriss was driven to Strathclyde Park, Motherwell, and then the three men, with Daanish Zahid, took him to areas of Dundee before returning to Glasgow and to an area at the Clyde walkway.
There, he was removed from the car and held by the arms, repeatedly struck on the body with a knife or knives and set on fire, and murdered.
The prosecution states that it will be proved that the offence was racially aggravated.
Imran Shahid has incriminated others in a special defence, which was read to the jury.
Early evidence set the scene for the six men and nine women of the jury.
The advocate-depute, Mark Stewart, QC, issued a warning before images of the crime scene were distributed to the jurors. "The photographs may be of a disturbing nature," he said.
William Galloway, a police scene of crime examiner, explained that the shots showed burn marks to a log, and a body.
He agreed that the top half of the body was naked and scarred, and there were only remnants of clothing to the midriff, and of footwear on the right foot. The body lay in a hollow which was wet and muddy.
The court heard that video footage had also been taken of the scene. It was played to the jury, but a screen serving the public benches was switched off. The footage showed tyre marks in the mud.
The trial will continue tomorrow.

"Arrest Jack Straw"

Jihad Watch News Editor Marisol Seibold has sent me this photo from Ynet News. Note the fury and intrasingence. These women are not interested in the community harmony or mature debate for which Jack Straw called. They are only interested in his surrender to their principles.

researchers cancel investigation of jihad groups, for fear of jihad groups

You just can't parody this sort of thing. "Research councils halt Islamist project," by Debbie Andalo in The Guardian, with thanks to LGF:

Research councils today confirmed they have put on hold their involvement in a government-backed project that aimed to identify the growth of Islamist groups around the world.
The decision by the Economics and Social Research Council and the Arts and Humanities Research Council followed accusations by academics that they would be putting the lives of British researchers at risk in Muslim countries.
In a joint statement this afternoon, the two councils said "a section of our academic community" had raised concerns about the research, which they "have to take seriously".
A spokeswoman said: "We are consulting further with the community, that has already been consulted with, to make sure that their concerns have been heard.
"We hope that the study can be relaunched with a more open call."
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) has funded the £1.3m project, called Combating terrorism by countering radicalisation. Academics were told to focus on countries that had been identified by MI5....

Jawdropper of the Hour

Fear disguised as "sensitivity:" Police to avoid Ramadan arrests.

Police in Manchester have been told not to arrest Muslims wanted on warrants at prayer times during Ramadan.
Greater Manchester Police confirmed it had asked detectives not to make planned arrests during those periods for reasons of religious sensitivity.
The advice was emailed out to officers working in Moss Side, Hulme, Whalley Range, Rusholme, Fallowfield, Ardwick, Longsight, Gorton and Levenshulme.
Police said it was not a blanket ban, just a "request for sensitivity".
The email stressed the order did not apply to on-the-spot arrests, only the execution of arrest warrants.

Iran's chilling threat to Britain

"Mahmoud Ahmadinejad also said Europe and other supporters of Israel "may get hurt" after calling its leaders terrorist criminals"

Acid thug scars hero for life

PC Richard Holliday, 27, was on patrol with PC Redouane Haddouch, 41, when they spotted Amir Abdul-Latif who was wanted for breaching parole.
As they moved in to arrest him, the 21-year-old produced a ketchup bottle of pure sulphuric acid from his coat and squirted it over both officers.
The thug was this week jailed for the attack in Earlsfield, South West London.
PC Holliday — scarred for life — said: "I can recall every second just as it happened, frame by frame . . . like a horror movie.
"I felt the pain erupt. The first few seconds were like the worst sun burn you could ever imagine, then it felt like boiling water was being poured over me. The pain was unrelenting. I could feel the acid eating into my face. My skin was bubbling up. Luckily I had my glasses on which kept the acid out of my eyes."
PC Holliday and PC Haddouch, 41, sank to the floor in agony after triggering their panic buttons.
In a cruel twist, their distress call was picked up by PC Holliday’s fiancée, Louise Caddy, 27, a WPC who is based at the same station.
PC Holliday added: "All she could hear was me screaming. It was horrific for her."
Abdul-Latif was caught four days later and charged with two counts of GBH.
The thug had been released from jail several months earlier, halfway through a three-and-a-half year stretch for robbery and beating up two shop-keepers. He was caged for a minimum of seven years at Kingston Crown Court on Thursday and will walk free only when he is no longer deemed a danger to the public.
PC Haddouch is back on full duties, but PC Holliday, who has had plastic surgery, can work only nights to avoid sunlight hurting his face.

Fury over veil rebel legal aid

VEIL row teaching assistant Aishah Azmi is having her legal battle paid for by the SAME council she is fighting against.
Furious town hall bosses have learned they will help to fund the estimated £250,000 to take her appeal to Europe.
The law centre backing her was given a £100,000 grant from Kirklees Council last year. It has since received further awards.
Council leader Robert Light, a Tory, said: "We are effectively picking up the bill for both sides."

Muslim teacher in veil row's link to 7/7 bomber

No one thought to ask what she thought of other elements of Islam while they were awarding her a thousand pounds for her hurt feelings.

By Sam Greenhill and Laura Clark in the Daily Mail,

The Muslim teacher suspended for refusing to work without her veil is connected to a hardline mosque where the ringleader of the July 7 bombers worshipped, it has emerged.
The family of classroom assistant Aishah Azmi, 24, plays a key role at the fundamentalist Markazi mosque in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire - which was attended by suicide bomber Mohammed Sidique Khan.
Until recently, Miss Azmi's father was joint headmaster of the secondary school attached to the building.
The family are known to worship there and may have encountered Khan before his terrorist act.
However, there is no suggestion that Miss Azmi or anyone in her family have any connection with terrorism.

Of course. But has anyone asked her what she thinks about jihad? Or about the imperative to replace British law with Sharia law?

Veil case teacher costs us £250,000

A MUSLIM teaching assistant lost her fight to wear a veil in class yesterday. But she vowed to take her case to the European Court, landing the taxpayer with a £250,000 bill.Defiant Aishah Azmi refused to accept an employment tribunal’s decision that she was not harassed or discriminated against on religious grounds for wearing the controversial niqab.
Flanked by her lawyers after the ruling was announced, 24-year-old Mrs Azmi said she would exhaust the legal process in Britain before heading to the European Court to press her case.Her threat came after she was awarded £1,100 for "injury to feelings" by the tribunal which accepted her claim that she had been victimised. Mrs Azmi had been employed at the school since September last year as a bilingual support worker, but she was suspended in February by education bosses who said children needed to see her face to understand what she was saying.Specialist employment lawyers warned last night that the classroom rebel’s vow to go to Brussels would mean a taxpayer-funded bonanza for lawyers while the case took years to rumble through the legal system.Mrs Azmi, who is suspended on full pay from her £15,000-a-year job at Headfield Church of England Junior School in Dewsbury, West Yorks, will benefit from having her lawyers paid through legal aid.Earlier this year, her lawyers battled with counsel for her employer, Kirklees Council, in a five-day hearing. The total costs for legal bills so far could top £50,000.The next stage will be to take the argument to the employment appeals tribunal, where costs will be repeated and possibly increased. The stakes will be raised massively if Mrs Azmi, originally from Cardiff, fails to gain a decision at the appeals tribunal, when her lawyers will seek leave to take her case to the Court of Appeal.The lengthy hearings and appeals that would follow could easily cost £50,000, a bill that would be matched if she were to be granted permission to go to the House of Lords.Only when that remedy has been exhausted will she then take her case to Brussels, where the European Court of Justice will ensure another big pay day for a regiment of lawyers."If she goes all the way to the European Court then the total costs in this case could be very large, it would not be unreasonable to say £250,000," said employment lawyer Clive Howard.Another legal expert added: "It’s not unusual in these types of cases to find something to hang on a victimisation claim. It just opens the door to take a case like this even further."Yesterday’s award of £1,100 by the Leeds tribunal was made because of victimisation in the way her case was handled by education chiefs.Last night it emerged that senior staff at the school, backed by Kirklees Council, had monitored the negative impact of Mrs Azmi wearing a veil before suspending her. Her legal team last night warned Prime Minister Tony Blair to "keep his mouth shut" as they revealed they had applied for legal aid. Because the test case has already been confirmed as being "in the wider public interest" by legal aid chiefs Mrs Azmi’s lawyer Nick Whittingham said: "It is virtually certain that we will get it."The teaching assistant must now lodge her appeal while continuing to claim her salary despite having no intention of returning to school unless she can wear the veil in class. The case sparked immediate controversy and attracted comments from Mr Blair, who backed her suspension. He said the wearing of a veil was a "mark of separation" and made some "outside the community feel uncomfortable". Race Minister Phil Woolas demanded that Mrs Azmi be sacked, accusing her of "denying the right of children to a full education". That brought condemnation from Mrs Azmi and support from her lawyer Mr Whittingham, who said: "I support her view that ministers and the Prime Minister should not be commenting on matters like this."I hope ministers can learn from this and maybe kept their mouths shut in future and stick to broader issues and not focus on individual cases to the detriment of justice."During a press conference, in which only her eyes were visible, Mrs Azmi said: "Muslim women who wear the veil are not aliens, and politicians need to recognise that what they say can have a very dangerous impact on the lives of the minorities they treat as outcasts."Integration requires people like me to be in the workplace so that people can see that we are not to be feared or mistrusted. Sadly the intervention of ministers in my case, against the ministerial code, makes me fearful of the consequences for Muslim women in this country who want to work."I will continue to uphold my religious beliefs and urge Muslims to engage in dialogue with the wider community despite the attacks that are being made upon them."Kirklees Council’s cabinet member for education Jim Dodds, who last week vowed Mrs Azmi would not be allowed to return to school in the veil even if they lost the tribunal, said: "As an employer Kirklees Council actively promotes and encourages equality and diversity and respects the wishes of employees to express their religious and cultural beliefs."The education of the children is of paramount importance and it is disappointing that the school was unable to reach a compromise with Mrs Azmi in this case. However, the tribunal has agreed that the action taken was correct."Labour MP Shahid Malik, who represents Mrs Azmi’s home town of Dewsbury, said the ruling was "quite clearly a victory for common sense".He told BBC Radio 4’s PM programme: "One of the things that makes this country the greatest place in the world to live is that you can wear a veil, a miniskirt, an afro haircut and it’s fine. But her rights are subordinate to the rights of children and their need for the best possible education they can get."He urged her to drop her appeal.The tribunal dismissed Mrs Azmi's claims that the school directly discriminated against her on the grounds of her religious belief, indirectly discriminated against her by applying a practice that put her at a disadvantage due to her religious belief or that she was subjected to harassment due to her beliefs.The tribunal also found that the Kirklees Council had failed to comply with grievance procedures and awarded a 10 per cent increase on the £1,000 sum for injury to feelings.
MP tells veil woman 'let it go'

BBC mounts court fight to keep 'critical' report secret

The BBC has spent thousands of pounds of licence payers' money trying to block the release of a report which is believed to be highly critical of its Middle East coverage.
The corporation is mounting a landmark High Court action to prevent the release of The Balen Report under the Freedom of Information Act, despite the fact that BBC reporters often use the Act to pursue their journalism.
The action will increase suspicions that the report, which is believed to run to 20,000 words, includes evidence of anti-Israeli bias in news programming.
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The court case will have far reaching implications for the future working of the Act and the BBC. If the corporation loses, it will have to release thousands of pages of other documents that have been held back.
Like all public bodies, the BBC is obliged to release information about itself under the Act. However, along with Channel 4, Britain's other public service broadcaster, it is allowed to hold back material that deals with the production of its art, entertainment and journalism.
The High Court action is the latest stage of a lengthy and expensive battle by Steven Sugar, a lawyer, to get access to the document, which was compiled by Malcolm Balen, a senior editorial adviser, in 2004.
Richard Thomas, the Information Commissioner, who is responsible for the workings of the Act, agreed with the BBC that the document, which examines hundreds of hours of its radio and television broadcasts, could be held back. However, Mr Sugar appealed and, after a two-day hearing at which the BBC was represented by two barristers, the Information Tribunal found in his favour.
Mr Sugar said: "This is a serious report about a serious issue and has been compiled with public money. I lodged the request because I was concerned that the BBC's reporting of the second intifada was seriously unbalanced against Israel, but I think there are other issues at stake now in the light of the BBC's reaction."
The BBC's coverage of the Middle East has been frequently condemned for a perceived anti-Israeli bias.
In 2004, for example, Barbara Plett, a Middle East correspondent, was criticised for revealing in an episode of Radio 4's From Our Own Correspondent that she had been moved to tears by the plight of the dying Yasser Arafat. MPs said it proved that the corporation was incapable of presenting a balanced account of issues in the Middle East.
Figures released by the Information Commissioner's Office show that there have been 105 complaints about the BBC's attitude to the Act since it came into force in January 2005. Only four of these have been dismissed and the rest are being examined. The BBC has lodged at least 25 complaints about the way other organisations have dealt with its requests.
The BBC declined to say how much it was spending on the High Court action. "We will be appealing the decision of the Information Tribunal," a spokesman said. "This case has wider implications relating to the way the Act applies to public broadcasters."

'No discrimination' in veil row

A Muslim classroom assistant suspended by a school for wearing a veil in lessons has lost her claim of religious discrimination at a tribunal.
Aishah Azmi, 23, was asked to remove the veil after the school in Dewsbury, W Yorks, said pupils found it hard to understand her.
The tribunal dismissed her claims of religious discrimination and harassment on religious grounds.
But Kirklees Council was ordered to pay her £1,100 for victimising her.
Ms Azmi's legal team said she would be appealing against the decision to dismiss her religious discrimination claims.
In a statement she criticised ministers who had intervened in the case and said it made her "fearful of the consequences for Muslim women in this country who want to work".
She said: "However, I am pleased that the tribunal have recognised the victimising way in which the school and the local education authority have handled this matter and the distress that has caused me."
'Mark of separation'
The case attracted comments from Prime Minister Tony Blair, who backed Kirklees Council for suspending Ms Azmi.
Mr Blair said the wearing of a full face veil was a "mark of separation" and made some "outside the community feel uncomfortable".
The government's race minister Phil Woolas demanded Ms Azmi to be sacked, accusing her of "denying the right of children to a full education".
Ms Azmi said: "Muslim women who wear the veils are not aliens, and politicians need to recognise that what they say can have a very dangerous impact on the lives of the minorities they treat as outcasts.
"I will continue to uphold my religious beliefs and urge Muslims to engage in dialogue with the wider community, despite the attacks that are being made upon them."
Headfield Church of England Junior School, which has 546 pupils, suspended Ms Azmi because it said pupils found it hard to understand her during lessons.
Kirklees Council said the decision was taken after a monitoring period in which the impact of wearing the veil on the teaching and learning was studied.
It said: "In this case the school and local authority had to balance the rights of the children to receive the best quality education possible and Mrs Azmi's desire to express her cultural beliefs by wearing a veil in class.
"The education of the children is of paramount importance and it is disappointing that the school was unable to reach a compromise with Mrs Azmi in this case."

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The employment tribunal's main findings

VEIL DEMO BY DAD IN BALACLAVA

A MAN collecting signatures backing Jack Straw's criticism of Muslim veils was arrested - because he was wearing a balaclava.
James Scott, 40, wore the black headpiece to demonstrate veils were a barrier to communication.
But he refused to remove it when asked by two women police officers.
The landscape gardener claimed he had 200 signatures backing the ex-Foreign Secretary's request for Muslims to remove veils when talking to him.
Mr Scott said: "I was angry at people criticising Jack Straw. I think he's right. It is nothing to do with race or religion."
The dad-of-one started his protest in an Ipswich shopping centre and continued on the street after being asked to leave.
He said: "Some people said they wouldn't talk to me dressed like that, which was my point."
Suffolk Police said the balaclava had upset members of the public.
Mr Scott, from Lowestoft, was freed after being questioned.

Brit Convicted for Anti-Extremist Banner

British police refuse to arrest and charge Muslim demonstrators who call for violence and murder, but a British man who hung a sign on his fence calling for the death of Muslim extremists has been convicted of "causing distress."
And his neighbors filed the complaint because they were afraid of the Religion of Peace™.

A protest in London against the publication of a cartoon depicting the prophet Mohammed as a terrorist incensed an Aberporth man, who painted an anti-Muslim slogan on a white sheet and draped it over his garden fence.
The words in bold red paint stated: "Kill all Muslims who threaten us and our way of life. Enoch Powell was right."
Father of two Gary John Mathewson, who was arrested for displaying the banner, told a court: "This won’t stop until there is a Muslim president in the White House."
And referring to MP Jack Straw questioning whether Muslim women should wear face veils he asked: "Are you going to arrest him?"
When prosecutor Maggie Hughes pointed out that the banner did not mention extremists Mathewson said: "That’s what I meant by those who threaten us and our way of life.’"
Adding that during the protest in London a Muslim was dressed as a suicide bomber he asked: "Why was he not arrested?"
One of his neighbours, a retired Army officer with 23 years service, told the court he reported the matter to the police because he feared a visit from Muslim extremists. ...
Finding Mathewson guilty presiding magistrate Anne Rees said she and her colleagues felt the words on the banner were likely to cause someone distress, and they did not find it as reasonable. The defendant was given a conditional discharge for two years and ordered to pay £150 costs.

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UK 'number one al-Qaeda target'

Al-Qaeda has become more organised and sophisticated and has made Britain its top target, counter-terrorism officials have told the BBC.
Security sources say the situation has never been so grim, said BBC home affairs correspondent Margaret Gilmore.
They believe the network is now operating a cell structure in the UK - like the IRA did - and sees the 7 July bomb attacks "as just the beginning".
Each cell has a leader, a quartermaster dealing with weapons, and volunteers.
According to our correspondent, each cell works on separate, different plots, with masterminds controlling several different cells.
Those involved in the cells were often aware they were being followed and so were meeting in public spaces.
In addition, training is taking place in the UK and Pakistan.

They set up groups a bit like Boy Scouts or Boys' Brigade... totally legitimate
BBC home affairs correspondent Margaret Gilmore
It was thought that five years ago al-Qaeda was a number of "loosely-connected organisations" with common aims, but it is now more organised, she said.
Security officials are concerned the group is targeting universities and the community, and are "less worried" about mosques, she added.
The network is targeting men in their late teens and early 20s, according to our correspondent.
"They set up groups a bit like Boy Scouts or Boys' Brigade... totally legitimate.
"Those who are particularly interested they start giving religious indoctrination.
"Then those who are very interested they start introducing to political teachings, anti-Western rhetoric.
Bonding sessions
"And those who are still interested they then start giving technical training.
"They also start sending them on bonding sessions to things like white-water rafting.
"You end up with a small team of people - the cell is prepared.
"A lot of this is happening outside London," our correspondent added.
Joint regional offices of MI5 intelligence gatherers and anti-terrorist police officers have been set up in Manchester, Birmingham and Sheffield.
BBC security correspondent Gordon Corera said the view was Britain was particularly vulnerable because "it may be easier for al-Qaeda to strike the UK than other targets".
He said these views were "based on activity they are actually seeing. Plots they're disrupting, trials which might be coming up soon".
"There is hard evidence behind it, rather than just theories," said our correspondent.
"That's based partly on what they are seeing, in terms of the types of activity, and partly based on the coincidence, that al-Qaeda's leadership is based in the tribal areas of Pakistan where there are links to the UK and flows of people going back and forwards.
"It makes it easier to make the UK a target than the other countries it might wish to target."
The network also appeared to be better organised, he continued.
"The leadership of al-Qaeda does appear to have been re-grouping and to be more coherent and organised than had been thought in recent years.
"The view is it clearly was an organised group before 9/11, but the campaign in Afghanistan disrupted that leadership very heavily.

It is no longer about looking for a needle in a haystack Crispin Black Security analyst
"But in recent years, particularly in the tribal areas between Pakistan and Afghanistan, the al-Qaeda leadership has been able to re-group and re-organise itself.
"In doing so it's able to open up channels of communication, contact, recruitment and planning around the world, and operate those in a more coherent fashion than maybe we were seeing three years' ago."
However, intelligence analyst Crispin Black said another attack in the UK "was not inevitable", citing the UK's "considerable successes against the IRA".
"We still have that expertise and training present within our military forces and intelligence," he said.
"It is no longer about looking for a needle in a haystack. We have some pretty good clues and information on where we should be looking."
A Home Office spokeswoman referred to a recent speech by Home Secretary John Reid in which he referred to the now "seamless threat" of radicalisation.
This was a challenge they expected to "last a generation", she said.
Why the security services fear the UK is now a primary target

Blair's concerns over face veils

Tony Blair has said the wearing of full face veils by Muslim women is a "mark of separation" and made some "outside the community feel uncomfortable".


The prime minister also backed Kirklees Council, which suspended classroom assistant Aishah Azmi for refusing to remove her full face veil at school.
But his intervention was criticised by Ms Azmi's lawyer, as the employment tribunal has yet to give a verdict.
He has threatened proceedings against Mr Blair if there is no retraction.
In his monthly press conference, Mr Blair said there was a need for a wider debate about community integration while allowing people to develop their "distinctive identity".
Mr Blair told reporters at his first news conference since MPs returned from their long summer break that a debate was needed on how the Muslim community integrates with British society.
"Difficult though these issues are, I think they have to be raised and confronted and dealt with," he said.
"And then, there's a second issue, which is about Islam itself and how Islam comes to terms with - and is comfortable with - the modern world."
Community balance
The debate was already going on in "every village, town and city" in the UK, as people sought a balance between "preserving a distinctive identity and integration."
When asked at the news conference if a Muslim woman wearing a veil could make a contribution to society, he replied: "That's a very difficult question.
"It is a mark of separation and that is why it makes other people from outside the community feel uncomfortable.
"No-one wants to say that people don't have the right to do it. That is to take it too far. But I think we need to confront this issue about how we integrate people properly into our society."
He also said he "fully supported" the way the authority dealt with Aishah Azmi at Headfield Church of England Junior School, in Dewsbury, by suspending her.
But her lawyer, Mr Whittingham, said his comments had "specifically and directly" interfered with the employment tribunal - which had yet to make a decision, which would inevitably be appealed against by the losing side.
He said Mr Blair's interference was a breach of the ministerial code, which requires ministers to uphold the administration of justice.
"We require the Prime Minister immediately to issue a qualification or a retraction," he wrote.
"If comments are not qualified or withdrawn then Mrs Azmi will consider bringing a complaint under the ministerial code and bringing injunction proceedings against the prime minister".
Full face veils became a matter of political debate two weeks ago when Jack Straw said he asked women to remove them, when they visited his office.
Government minister Phil Woolas has also angered some Muslim groups by calling for 23-year-old Ms Azmi to be sacked.
But her MP, Labour's Shahid Malik said ministers had been right to give their views and it had resulted in helpful debate.

Terror suspect on the run

A suspected terrorist has escaped the authorities after being placed on a control order, in the latest embarrassment to hit the Home Office.
It was understood the man, who has not been named, escaped from a mental health unit and has been on the run for two weeks.
The British citizen was believed to have climbed through a window to evade staff at the London unit.
Control orders act as a loose form of house arrest, usually placing suspects under a curfew and requiring them to report regularly to police. The man now on the run will have been suspected of playing a role in international terrorism, possibly linked to al-Qaida groups.
It was thought he was handed his control order on April 5.
His admission to the mental health unit is understood to have been a more recent development and would not normally have been part of the control order conditions.
A Home Office spokeswoman said: "Any breach of security will be investigated on a case-by-case basis. We do not discuss individual cases."
Control orders were brought in at the beginning of last year as a replacement for indefinite detention without trial or charge.
The Home Office does not reveal the identities of people on control orders. The Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesman, Nick Clegg, said: "Since control orders were the government's flagship anti-terrorism measure, this is a huge embarrassment for them.
"As we have always made clear, the danger of control orders is that they short-circuit due process and keep suspects in a state of limbo. Our aim must be to get suspects into court and, where they are guilty, convicted.
"This should act as a spur for the government to develop more robust ways to get suspects into court in the first place, such as using intercept evidence."

Escaped suspect is bomb expert
'Terrorists' on run for weeks

July 7 attacks could happen again, warns banned group's spokesman

A leading figure in a militant Islamic group banned by the Government yesterday warned of further attacks like the July 7 bombings in London last year.
Anjem Choudary said Al-Ghurabaa (AG) was a purely ''political organisation'' campaigning against British foreign policy. Along with a group called the Saved Sect, it was proscribed under new laws against glorifying terrorism. Both are off-shoots of Al Muhajiroun, the organisation founded by Omar Bakri Mohamed, the exiled extremist now in Lebanon.
Mr Choudary, who describes himself as a spokesman for AG, accused the Home Office of militarising Muslims and driving them underground. "If it reaches a situation when the life and the wealth of the people is violated then what happened on 7/7 could very well reoccur,'' he said. "People like us are trying to prevent another 7/7, but it seems to me the Government are fuelling more of a frenzy within the Muslim community. Ultimately they are fermenting more of the same of what took place on 7/7. There is no evidence to suggest we are anything other than an ideological and political movement.''
It will be a criminal offence for a person to belong to or encourage support for the two banned groups, to arrange meetings in their support or to wear clothes or carry articles in public indicating support or membership. Their financial assets can be frozen or seized.

Al-Muhajiroun was wound up two years ago but spawned the two banned groups whose members were involved in protests earlier this year against the publication of cartoons of Mohammed in a Danish newspaper. They brandished placards with slogans including "butcher those who mock Islam", "massacre those who insult Islam" and "behead the one who insults the Prophet".
Six people were later arrested and charged with offences including soliciting to murder, inciting racial hatred, disorderly behaviour and organising a procession without notifying police.
The Home Office said that AG "courts publicity and makes deliberately provocative and controversial statements expressing extremist views''.
The Saved Sect website "disseminates extremist material which it is considered falls within section 21 of the Terrorism Act 2006''. It added: ''It is believed that SS and AG websites are working in tandem to disseminate an Islamist message under the umbrella of Ahl Us-Sunnah Wal-Jammaa'ah, described as a sect within Islam.''
However, this umbrella group has not been proscribed.
The Government has also added two foreign extremist groups, the Baluchistan Liberation Army and Teyrebaz Azadiye Kurdistan, to the list of banned organisations.

Bomb detector plan for Games

Explosives detectors may have to be fitted at many of London's sports venues, in Underground trains and in bus depots to minimise the terrorist threat when the capital hosts the Olympics in 2012, according to the Games' chief security adviser.
The plan is likely to cost hundreds of millions of pounds, but Peter Ryan, who was head of security at the Sydney Olympics and was a chief adviser to the Athens Games, said the changing nature of terrorism means the capital will have to look at new ways of minimising risks to the public.
'What we've seen is the rise of the lone bomber, the suicide bomber, the willingness of someone to sacrifice themselves,' said Ryan, who will tomorrow tell the Intelligent Transport Systems Conference in London that it is important to start testing technology that could screen hundreds of people per minute.
Such devices are already used in airports and high-risk facilities such as prisons, courtrooms and embassies. BAA, the company that runs many of Britain's airports, has also tested a new air sampling system that can detect the presence of explosives at Heathrow.
But Sandra Bell, the director of homeland security at the Royal United Services Institute think-tank, said that she was sceptical about claims that the new technology would not cause big delays, and said that, with each explosives detector costing about £1.5m, installing devices across London could prove too expensive.

Blitz on 'Islamic danger zones'

A MAP of Britain’s extremist "hotspots" where young Muslims are brainwashed by fanatics is to be created by the Government.
Schools, universities and mosques that are breeding grounds for potential terrorists will be targeted and threatening groups broken up.
Communities Secretary Ruth Kelly will reveal the campaign today. She will tell 20 council bosses and police chiefs to fight Muslim extremists head on.
She will warn: "In parts of Britain the new extremism is the biggest security issue facing local communities.
"The world has changed since September 11 and 7/7. The Government has to respond to that and we appeal to local authorities to do the same.
"We need to work closer in partnership with police and communities to face down this threat."

Protesters target Straw's surgery

Protesters demonstrated outside Commons Leader Jack Straw's advice surgery in Blackburn, Lancashire, on Saturday following his comments on Muslim veils.
About 60 people congregated at the town's Bangor Street Community Centre.
An earlier event scheduled was abandoned when police said they were unable to manage the more than 500 demonstrators anticipated.
Mr Straw sparked a row when he revealed he asks women wearing veils to his surgery to show their noses and mouths.
The former home secretary did not speak to the protesters as he arrived and later left the building.
Protesters' chants
As Mr Straw was outside his office, the small group of protesters, including several women wearing veils, chanted: "The veil is freedom. The veil is liberation. The veil is choice."
Mr Straw said: "I'm still surprised about the reaction to what I said but I welcome the debate it has provoked.
"Yesterday four ladies wearing veils visited me and they said 'You're absolutely right to ask the question for the veil to be removed'.
"Some gentlemen who came this morning also told me to 'Stick to your guns'."
At a press conference held in Blackburn Town Hall on Friday, Mr Straw said he stuck by his comments and had held two meetings with local councillors and representatives of the Lancashire Council of Mosques.
He also denied suggestions that his comments had fuelled divisions between Muslim and non-Muslim communities.
Mr Straw said: "I stand by my remarks and see no reason to apologise for them. This is a free and democratic country.
"But I am wholly opposed to any suggestion that the law should be changed, nor have I disputed the right for a Muslim woman to wear the hijab."

Islamic Terrorist Cross Dressers

In addition to keeping women in their place, the burqa has another handy purpose: Suspect in terror hunt used veil to evade arrest.

A MALE suspect in a major anti-terrorist investigation in Britain escaped capture by allegedly disguising himself as a Muslim woman dressed in a burka, The Times can reveal.
The man, who was wanted in connection with serious terrorist offences, evaded arrest for several days as police searched for him across the country.
The fact that a fugitive remained at large after disguising himself in an Islamic dress which covered his face will further fuel the debate sparked by Jack Straw, Leader of the House of Commons, about the wearing of the veil.
Details of the man’s true identity were circulated to ports and airports to try to prevent him leaving the country. He was eventually caught and is now one of more than 90 suspects in British prisons awaiting trial on terror charges. The suspect’s name and the detail of the offences he is accused of cannot be revealed because of the danger of prejudicing his forthcoming trial.
It is the first time that a male suspect has allegedly disguised himself as a Muslim woman in Britain. However, the tactic has been used frequently by Islamist fighters — including suicide bombers — in Iraq and Afghanistan. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the former leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, often dressed in a burka to evade American forces hunting him.

Muslims' anger as London Olympics clash with Ramadan

The 2012 London Olympics have been plunged into controversy by the discovery that the Games will clash with Ramadan, the most holy month in the Islamic calendar.
The clash will put Muslim athletes at a disadvantage as they will be expected to fast from sunrise to sunset for the entire duration of the Games.
In 2012, Ramadan will take place from July 21 to August 20, while the Olympics run from July 27 to August 12.
An anticipated 3,000 Muslim competitors are expected to be affected.
About a quarter of the 11,099 athletes who took part in the 2004 Athens Olympics came from countries with predominantly Muslim populations.
Because the Muslim calendar is based on a lunar cycle, the ninth month of Ramadan - which runs from the appearance of one new crescent moon to the next - gets earlier by around 11 days each year.
The clash will be a huge embarrassment for Lord Coe, Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell, and London Mayor Ken Livingstone, who have been keen to ensure the Games involve all Britain's ethnic communities.
Massoud Shadjareh, chairman of the London-based Islamic Human Rights Commission, said: "They would not have organised this at Christmas. It is equally stupid to organise it at Ramadan.
"It shows a complete lack of awareness and sensitivity.
"This is going to disadvantage the athletes and alienate the Asian communities by saying they don't matter.
"It's not only going to affect the participants it's going to affect all the people who want to watch the Games.
"They won't want to travel during Ramadan and they won't want to watch sport. It's a spiritual time."
Shaykh Ibrahim Mogra, an imam on the Muslim Council of Great Britain, said: "I'm sure the athletes will seek advice from their scholars.
"They are obviously going to be at a disadvantage because other competitors will be drinking and keeping up their energy levels.
"But they are athletes and I am sure they will train their bodies to cope with this.
"A Muslim might feel it would have been nice to avoid this month but life doesn't stop for Muslims during Ramadan even though they are fasting.
"The best thing for a Muslim is to continue his or her life as normal. This is the real test."
The British Olympic Association is now planning a meeting with the organisers of London 2012 to discuss how the timing will affect UK Muslim athletes.
And Muslim countries such as Turkey are calling for the date to be changed.
Togay Bayalti, president of the National Olympic Committee of Turkey, said: "This will be difficult for Muslim athletes.
"They don't have to observe Ramadan if they are doing sport and travelling but they will have to decide whether it is important to them.
"It would be nice for the friendship of the Games if they had chosen a different date."
The International Olympics Committee insisted the Games take place some time between July 15 to August 31, giving more than a week either side of Ramadan.
IOC spokeswoman Giselle Davies said: "We give a window to the five bid cities. The host city selects the dates within that window.
"The Games bring together virtually every religion and creed. How to deal with religious clashes is up to the athletes."
Joanna Manning Cooper, spokeswoman for London 2012, said: "We did know about it when we submitted our bid and we have always believed we could find ways to accommodate it.
"We had lots of things to consider when we submitted our dates, including the fact that transport will be less crowded in the summer holiday.
"We also need 70,000 volunteers and this is the best time to find them.
"We are working with the Muslim Council of Great Britain to find ways to accommodate Ramadan during the London Games."
but on 25 November 2004The Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) has pledged its support for London's bid to host the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games in 2012.iqbal sacranie has also joined the London 2012 team as a Bid Ambassador.


Islamic Human Rights Commission chairman Massoud Shadjareh, by the way, in addition to his job of badgering Brits who criticize Islam, is also an open supporter of Hizballah.

Christian BA employee suspended for wearing cross necklace

A Christian woman has been banned by British Airways for wearing a small cross necklace to work - while muslims and sikhs are allowed to wear headscarves and turbans.
Heathrow check-in worker Nadia Eweida was sent home after refusing to remove the crucifix which breached BA's dress code.
Her treatment by BA - which styles itself as the "world's favourite airline" - brought condemnation both from Christian groups and members of other faiths last night.
BA's chief executive Willie Walsh has upheld the action against Miss Eweida for failing to comply with "uniform regulations" despite himself coming under fire recently for failing to wear a tie.
Miss Eweida, who has an unblemished record during seven years at BA, is suing her employer for religious discrimination after being suspended from work without pay for two weeks.
She said her treatment was all the more extraordinary as she and fellow employees had just undergone "diversity training" - including receiving advice from pressure group Stonewall on how to treat gays and lesbians in the workplace.
The airline's uniform code states that staff must not wear visible jewellery or other 'adornments' while on duty without permission from management.
It makes exceptions for Muslim and Sikh minorities by allowing them to wear hijabs and turbans.
Under rules drawn up by BA's 'diversity team' and 'uniform committee', Sikh employees can even wear the traditional iron bangle - even though this would usually be classed as jewellery - while Muslim workers are also allowed prayer breaks during work time.
But Miss Eweida, 55, from Twickenham, insisted her cross, which is smaller than a ten pence piece, was not jewellery but an expression of her deep Christian faith.
She questioned why she was being forced to hide her religion when BA's Muslim and Sikh workers could express theirs.
Miss Eweida said last night: "I will not hide my belief in the Lord Jesus. British Airways permits Muslims to wear a headscarf, Sikhs to wear a turban and other faiths religious apparel.
"Only Christians are forbidden to express their faith. I am a loyal and conscientious employee of British Airways, but I stand up for the rights of all citizens."
Her case comes at a time of intense debate over the rights of individuals to express their belief - following Jack Straw's call for Muslim women to remove their veils.
Earlier this month it emerged BBC governors had agonised over whether newsreader Fiona Bruce should wear a small cross on a chain around her neck while on air in case it might cause offence by suggesting a religious affiliation.
Miss Eweida, a Coptic Christian whose father is Egyptian and mother English, was ordered to remove her cross or hide it beneath a company cravat by a duty manager at Heathrow's Terminal 4 last month.
She then sought permission from management to wear the chain - but was turned down.
When Miss Eweida, who is unmarried, refused to remove the necklace she was offered the choice of suspension with pay or unpaid leave, pending a disciplinary hearing.
Following a meeting with her managers on 22 September 2006, Customer Service Manager Caroline Girling told Miss Eweida in a letter: "You have been sent home because you have failed to comply with a reasonable request.
"You were asked to cover up or remove your cross and chain which you refused to do.
"British Airways uniform standards stipulate that adornments of any kind are not to be worn with the uniform."
In a letter to Miss Eweida's MP, Vince Cable, last week, BA chief executive Willie Walsh insisted his employee had not yet been disciplined but said she was off work for failing to comply with "uniform regulations".
He added: "We have previously made changes to our uniform policy to accommodate requests, after a detailed evaluation process including Health and Safety assessment to incorporate the wearing of Sikh bangles."
But Miss Eweida said: "BA refuses to recognise the wearing of a cross as a manifestation of the Christian faith, but rather defines it as a piece of decorative jewellery.
"I would like to say how disappointed I am in this decision and the lack of respect shown by BA towards the Christian faith.
"I have been badly treated. I am a loyal and hardworking employee and for seeking similar rights to other employees, I have been treated harshly by British Airways management.
"British Airway can be great again, but it needs to treat Chrstians fairly. I am not ashamed of my faith."
Miss Eweida is suing BA under the Employment Equality (Religion or Belief) Regulations 2003.
Her case is being supported by her union, the TGWU, and she has hired Paul Diamond, a barrister specialising in religious affairs and an adviser for the Keep Sunday Special campaign, to represent her at her employment tribunal.
And a petition of support has been signed by more than 200 fellow workers.
BA is already at the centre of a criminal investigation into alleged price-fixing - which has led to the resignations of two executives.
The airline has come under fire in the past for its adherence to political correctness.
A decade ago it attempted to ditch its traditional Union Flag tailfin in favour of an ethnic design - which provoked the anger of Baroness Thatcher.
Mr Cable, MP for Twickenham and Liberal Democrat deputy leader said: "It is absolutely mind boggling that Britain's flag-carrying airline could treat its employees in such a disgraceful and petty manner.
"Nadia is a devout Christian who was displaying her faith, but in a modest and totally unprovocative manner.
"It is absolutely right that other religious minorities be allowed exemption from the dress code, but why can't a Christian be treated in the same way?"
Dr Patrick Sookhdeo, international director of the Christian charity the Barnabas Fund, said: "Discrimination against Christians is commonplace in Muslim-majority contexts, such as Egypt where Nadia's family roots are. "Now we see the same thing increasingly happening within the UK.
"Her Sikh and Muslim colleagues at BA can show their faith publicly in what they wear, but Nadia and other Christians cannot. All we are asking for is a level playing field for all faiths."
Andrea Williams of the Lawyers' Christian Fellowship said: "The forces of political correctness are such that an individual needs to be very determined to protect their rights."

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Al-Qaeda issues threat to Britain

THE al-Qaeda terrorist who was this week charged with treason by the US has issued a chilling video threat to Britain.
Adam Gadahn, also known as 'Azzam the American' vowed in a video message that raids by British terror cops would do nothing to "prevent the Muslims from exacting revenge on behalf of their persecuted brothers and sisters".
Gadahn is so feared in the US, the FBI has placed him on its Most Wanted Terrorists List and offered a $1million reward for information leading to his arrest.
FBI agents warn that Gadahn should be considered armed and dangerous.
The 28-year-old is originally from California, but is thought to be in hiding in Pakistan.
Last month, days before the fifth anniversary of the 9/11 World Trade Centre attacks, Gadahn appeared in a video with al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden's second in command, Ayman al-Zawahiri and was seen taunting the US about the tragedy.
And he callously praised the hijackers behind the attacks as "dedicated, strong-willed, highly motivated individuals with a burning concern for Islam and Muslims".
In the video, Gadahn says: "What I am saying is that when we bomb their cities and civilians, like they bomb ours, or destroy their infrastructure and means of transportation, like they destroy ours, or kidnap their non-combatants, like they kidnap ours, no sane Muslims should shed tears for them.
"And they should blame no one but themselves, because they are the ones who started this dirty war and they the ones who will end it, by ending the aggression against Islam and Muslims, by pulling out of our region, and by keeping their hands out of our affairs.
"And until and unless they do that, neither Forest Gate-style police raids, nor Belmarsh, or Guantanamo prison cells, nor the mosques and Imams advisory councils will be able to prevent the Muslims from exacting revenge on behalf of their persecuted brothers and sisters."
Neil Doyle, al-Qaeda expert and author of Terror Base UK, said: "Azzam regularly refers to the UK and that suggests that he is in contact with operatives and supporters in this country.
"The US move could backfire, as naming him as a traitor will only enhance his status within the network.
"There's been much speculation over his exact role, but it's become clear that he's at least playing a leading role in al-Qaeda propaganda efforts.
"It looks like he is in line for further promotion, as he's now becoming known as the voice of al-Qaeda." see video here

Muslim pharmacist refuses to give morning after pill 'on religious grounds'

Worried mum Jo-Ann Thomas was left stunned when Muslim pharmacist refused her a morning after pill on religious grounds.
Jo-Ann, aged 37, a school lollipop lady, went to her local chemist but when she asked for the pill she was told she would have to speak to the pharmacist.
She was told she would be quizzed by the pharmacist - described by staff as a "deeply religious Muslim" who would ask her a few questions.
But after waiting for several minutes another assistant told Jo-Ann her: "Sorry I can't give you the pill, why don't you go to your GP."
When she asked repeatedly she was told the chemist stocked the drug but the pharmacist had refused to sell it to her.
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Mum of two Jo-Ann from Thurcroft, Rotherhamm said: "I asked why I couldn't have the pill and the assistant went bright red and after a pause said ' I can't tell you'."
I said: "I want to know why and she said 'don't say anything to anyone - it's because of his religion'."
I just stared at her with my mouth open.
"I asked for the pill because you have to take it within 72 hours and this was now 36 hours. I don't want to increase my family and this was an accident so I needed to take the pill. In the end I had to go to the doctor's surgery."
"I was angry because he is a dispensing chemist and it is his job to dispense drugs. If he can't do that on religious grounds then perhaps he should not be in the profession."
The row flared up when Jo-Ann called at her local branch of Lloyd's Pharmacy in Green Arbour Road, Thurcroft.
She said: "This is a perfectly legal drug but there is a man introducing his own laws. It cannot be right that he can pick and choose the drugs he sells."
"I am a 37-year-old woman and not a daft girl who does not know what she is doing. And the chemist has no right to tell me whether I can or can't take the pill. It's my choice not his. It his his religion not mine."
"How many young girls has he turned away who need the pill? If they are his views why didn't he come and face me and tell me. The chemist staff were trying to cover up for him and were embarrassed."
The pharmacists and staff at the pharmacy refused to comment but Dr John Radford, Rotherham's Director of Public Health said: "Pharmacists do have the right to use their discretion in selling over the counter drugs. These drugs will be stocked by the pharmacy to be supplied when a prescription is written by a doctor."
"Any pharmacy refusing to sell a drug has a duty to provide the customer with information as to where they can obtain it including over the counter at an alternative pharmacy or via their GP or practice nurse on prescription."
A spokesman for Lloyd's which operates 1,300 pharmacies across the country said : "We would like to take this opportunity to apologise to the customer."
"However, a pharmacist's personal decision to refuse to supply the morning after pill is an issue for the community pharmacy as a whole."
"The code of ethics put in place by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain allows pharmacists via a conscience clause the right to refuse."
"The code states that if supplying the morning after pill is contrary to a pharmacist's personal religious or moral beliefs they are entirely within their rights not to supply it."
A member of staff at the pharmacy said: "The regular pharmacist is on holiday for two weeks and we have been told not to comment. I cannot say if we would sell the morning after pill over the counter today."