Muslim Cop Excused From Protecting Israeli Embassy

THE decision to excuse a Muslim cop from guarding the Israeli Embassy was last night branded "the beginning of the end for British policing".
PC Alexander Omar Basha told chiefs he was unable to carry out duties at the London embassy — a top terror target — due to moral grounds after Israeli bombings in Lebanon.
Top brass granted his request last week, but Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair last night ordered an immediate inquiry after our story broke. He said: "Having learned of this issue I have asked for an urgent review of the situation and a full report."
Critics slammed the decision. Ex-Met Flying Squad commander John O’Connor said: "This is the beginning of the end for British policing.
"If they can allow this, surely they’ll have to accept a Jewish officer not wanting to work at an Islamic national embassy? Will Catholic cops be let off working at Protestant churches? Where will it end? "This decision is going to allow officers to act in a discriminating and racist way."
Mr O’Connor added: "When you join the police, you do so to provide a service to the public. If you cannot perform those duties, you leave.
"The Metropolitan Police are setting a precedent they will come to bitterly regret. Top brass granted his wish as they were probably frightened of being accused of racism. But what they’ve done is an insult to the Jewish community."
Another angry policeman said: "This decision beggars belief. It goes against everything the police should stand for — providing a service to the public no matter who they are."
PC Basha, attached to the Met’s Diplomatic Protection Group, asked for special dispensation not to work at the embassy in Kensington Palace Gardens, Central London. The officer, in his late 20s, has taken part in recent anti-war protests.
The Israeli Embassy was attacked in 1994 by Palestinian fanatics with a 50lbs car bomb, injuring 19 and causing millions of pounds’ damage.
But one senior source said: "PC Basha objected to the posting on moral grounds — because of the Israeli bombing of Lebanon and the resulting civilian casualties of fellow Muslims."
ANOTHER Muslim removed from the DPG after his security clearance was rejected is trying to sue the Met. Vetting revealed PC Amjad Farooq had a close acquaintance with alleged links to an extremist Islamic group.

BRITAIN’S first black cop last night blasted the decision to excuse a Muslim gun officer from guarding the Israeli Embassy — and said: "The police cannot choose who they’ll serve."

Embassy row Pc married by radical cleric

Bakri rage over cop wedding

HATE preacher Omar Bakri Mohammed — who officiated at the wedding of the Muslim PC excused from guarding the Israeli embassy — would not have done so if he had known he was a cop.
He insisted no one told him that Alexander Omar-Basha, then 21, was a policeman before his marriage to wife Dania, 17, at Wood Green, North London, four years ago.
The Sun was the first to reveal that diplomatic gun cop Omar-Basha had been excused from guarding the Embassy during Israeli bombing of the Lebanon.
Bakri who fled Britain to live in Lebanon, said: "How dare this man be in the British police and claim to be a Muslim? If I’d known I’d never have married them. I have since told Alex that his type of job is forbidden in Islam, but he isn’t interested."

PC Omar-Basha met Bakri through his own father-in-law Dr Abdul Majid el-Katme — a moderate Muslim activist who is a brother-in-law of the cleric.
Bakri vowed to "tear up" the wedding certificate if he got a chance. And he added: "My advice to Alex and all Muslims in the police is to leave their jobs.
"It is clear from the Koran it is forbidden to join non-Muslim forces whether that is as a policeman, soldier or MP."