Terror monster: Blitz UK

AN al-Qaeda chief has ordered more attacks on Britain ahead of the anniversary of 9/11.
The recorded plea by jailed Abu Musab al-Suri has been issued on the web by his henchmen.
The call, which experts say is on 20 al-Qaeda-linked sites, urges: "Let our sleeping cells wake, the war is at its apex. The enemy is about to collapse.
"We warn Britain: respect Muslim scholars in general or jihad people in particular. Doing anything to harm them and your country will pay a high price."
The former al-Qaeda No 2 also ordered terror cells across Europe to "awaken" and "move fast".
He recorded the rant with instructions it be released if he was captured.
Suri, once of Neasden, North London, was caught in Pakistan last year and is thought to be held by the US at a secret jail.
He is said to have lead al-Qaeda’s post-9/11 "secret gang", behind groups such as the 7/7 bombers.
Terror expert Neil Doyle said: "Al-Qaeda have decided it’s gloves-off as far as the UK is concerned."

prophet of doom web site

Bomber Reid 'not mad'

SHOE bomber Richard Reid, who tried to blow up a passenger jet mid-flight, has insisted: "I am not crazy."

The British misfit, now serving three life sentences in the US, also told a lawyer: "I knew exactly what I was doing.
"I knew that my cause was just and righteous."
Reid, 31, was overpowered as he tried to light a fuse to set off explosives in his trainers on a flight from Paris to Miami in 2001.

He maintains: "It was the will of Allah that I did not succeed."
His comments were revealed as the investigation continued into the alleged bottle bomb plot to blow up nine airliners heading from Britain to the US.
Reid said his motive for trying to murder 198 people was America’s foreign policy, which led to the deaths of thousands of Muslims in places such as Afghanistan.

Without a hint of remorse he said: "What do you expect people to do?"
He added unconvincingly: "Of course I would have been sad to have those people die."
His only real concern was for his English-born mum Lesley
Reid, serving 110 years, said: "I do feel sorry for my mum having to see me here.
"I had not wanted to see her, to protect her from this, but I’ll see her if she travels to see me."
Reid’s mum and Jamaican dad, both non-Muslims, split up when he was two.
He converted to Islam after being in Feltham Young Offenders’ Institution for street muggings.
The would-be bomber was heavily influenced by hook-handed preacher of hate Abu Hamza and Sheikh Abdullah al-Faisal. Both are behind bars for soliciting murder.

The shoe bomb plot involved a second man who lost his nerve before boarding his plane. Sajiid Badat from Gloucester was later jailed.

tell them what you think s.hughes@the-sun.co.uk

"Quake Money" Used for UK Plot

Pakistan’s Daily Times ( a paper that’s been known to publish jihadi screeds) reports that an Islamic "charity" organization transferred "a huge amount" of money to the UK terror plotters—and called it "earthquake relief:" ‘Quake money’ used to finance UK plane bombing plot.
KARACHI: A UK-based Islamic charity organisation remitted a huge amount of money to three individuals in three different bank accounts in Mirpur, Azad Kashmir, in December last year with the sole purpose of helping its recipients and their organisations carry out the aircraft bombing plan in the UK, insider sources told Daily Times yesterday.
An investigation carried out by Daily Times showed that Muslim Charity of UK remitted not so long ago a huge amount of money under the head of "earthquake relief" to the accounts of three individuals in three different banks — Saudi Pak Bank, Standard Chartered and Habib Bank Ltd. One of these banks is UK based and has its presence in Azad Kashmir because of a huge number of British citizens of Kashmir origin in UK. The money was transferred from UK to banks in Azad Kashmir through Barclays Plc..
Two of the recipients of the transaction are British citizens of Kashmir origin while the third is an Islamabad-based builder, also of Kashmir origin. They were arrested in the last two weeks at three different places in the country. One of them was arrested in Karachi, the "builder" was arrested in Islamabad while the place of the arrest of the third suspect is still not known. There are no available details about these three suspects with regard to their links with organisations such as Al Qaeda or Lashkar-e-Taiba or both.

Questions About the Work of Islamic Charities in Britain

If a Muslim cannot fight in jihad himself, Islamic law stipulates that he must aid in the jihad in some way if a Muslim land is attacked. Hence many do so through monetary donations, which, as we have seen in recent years, are often funneled through Islamic charities.
From the New York Times,
LONDON, Aug. 23 — Once again, with another alleged terror plot that has a possible connection to a charity, the question is being asked here, with more urgency: To what extent do Muslim charities — on the surface noble and selfless — mask movements and money for terrorists and extremist groups?
The question has a long history, here and in the United States, but no precise answer. A quick bottom line, though, seems to be this:
Charitable groups, experts agree, continue to play a role in the financing and operations surrounding terrorist groups and plots. But with more scrutiny since the Sept. 11 attacks — demonization, the charities say — the role of charities seems to be changing: diminishing somewhat but also growing more subtle and harder to detect.
"Anyone who has bothered to study terrorist financing at the most shallow level knows the role that charities have played since 1985," said Evan F. Kohlmann, an American expert on terrorism who acts as a consultant to American and British prosecutors. "Even if charities aren’t playing a primary role, it is almost certain that they are playing a secondary role."

two more examples. 1 2

53% "Threatened By Islam"

In Britain, if you can believe it, many feel threatened by Islam.

Mass murder attacks by Muslim groups using the Koran as justification, successful and otherwise, proliferating almost daily, might tend to produce that result. I’m just sayin’.
Most people in the UK feel threatened by Islam, a poll has revealed, after the Government launched a bid to tackle inter-faith tensions.
The YouGov survey for the Daily Telegraph found 53% were concerned about the impact of the religion - not just fundamentalist elements - up 21% from 2001.
There had also been a near doubling of the number agreeing that "a large proportion of British Muslims feel no sense of loyalty to this country and are prepared to condone or even carry out acts of terrorism".
A total of 18% backed the statement - compared with just one in 10 in the wake of the terrorist bombings in London last July.
And there was a seven point slump - to 16% - in those believing "practically all British Muslims are peaceful, law-abiding citizens who deplore terrorist acts as much as anyone else.

so over 1/2 the population of this country are scared of islam and this goverment does nothing.

UK Muslim Group Suing Government

The Islamic Human Rights Commission (aka the legal wing of the global jihad) is suing the British government for allowing the US to use UK airports for shipments of military hardware to Israel: Muslim group sues UK over arms flights.
The Government will face claims in the High Court today that it is guilty of "aiding and abetting" breaches of international law by allowing US arms flights to Israel to use UK airports.
The Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC) is seeking permission to bring proceedings against the Civil Aviation Authority, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Des Brown, the Defence Secretary. The IHRC accuses the Government of involvement in "grave and serious violations" of international humanitarian law and crimes against the Geneva Conventions.
The Daily Telegraph revealed last month that a number of aircraft thought to be carrying military hardware, including "bunker buster" bombs, have refuelled at UK locations during the Lebanon conflict. ...
The US air force leases a total three bases in Britain - Mildenhall and Lakenheath in Suffolk, and RAF Fairford, Glos - for refuelling purposes.
The IHRC says it is bringing the case "following many complaints that we have received from British citizens whose family members are in Lebanon and facing grave danger as well as acts of terror".

UK cleared of aiding bomb flights

Britain's Big Problem

A surprisingly frank piece from the New York Times on the disturbing prevalence of violent jihadist rhetoric in Britain: British Law Against Glorifying Terrorism Has Not Silenced Calls to Kill for Islam.
From his home on the northwest edge of this city, Muhamad al-Massari runs a Web site that celebrates the violent death of British and American soldiers. It is visited by tens of thousands of people every day, he said.
Mr. Massari maintains the Arabic-language site, tajdeed.org.uk, in the face of a strict new law aimed at curtailing violent speech and publishing. Just last week, the Council of Holy Warriors, a group affiliated with Al Qaeda, posted a declaration on the site praising a suicide bombing in Iraq that killed or wounded 55 people.
"If you kill our civilians, we kill your civilians," Mr. Massari declared during an interview.
Mr. Massari’s Web site, and his public remarks, appear to violate of the Antiterrorism Act of 2006, which makes it a crime to glorify or encourage political violence. Inciting violence has long been illegal here but the new rules, drawn up after the London subway and bus bombings in July 2005, are intended to be much tougher.
The law’s underlying assumption is that speeches and publications by Britain’s more extreme Islamists may play a role in leading disgruntled young men toward violence. In addition to banning speech that encourages terrorism, the new law also criminalizes reckless speech that may have the same effect.
Yet despite the antiglorification law, and an array of other measures approved since last summer’s bombings, Islamist leaders like Mr. Massari persist, some of them declaring it the duty of British Muslims to kill in the name of Islam.
Some British leaders are beginning to publicly question why such clerics are allowed to continue.

British Jihadis Charged

Britain has charged eleven people in the Islamic terror plot to blow up airplanes on their way to the US.

Eight have been charged with conspiracy to murder and preparing acts of terrorism. Two have been charged with failing to disclose information and a 17-year-old with possessing articles useful to a person preparing acts of terrorism. One woman has been freed without charge and eleven people remained in custody, the Crown Prosecution Service said.
The Met’s Deputy Assistant Commissioner Peter Clarke told journalists that bomb making equipment, including chemicals and electrical components, had been found during the investigation into the alleged plot.
He added that a number of video recordings known as "martyrdom videos" had also been recovered.

Ahmed Abdullah Ali, Tanvir Hussain, Umar Islam, Arafat Waheed Khan, Assad Ali Sarwar, Adam Khatib, Ibrahim Savant and Waheed Aman are all charged with conspiracy to murder and with preparing acts of terrorism under section five of the Terrorism Act 2006.

Hatefest in Manchester

In Manchester, thousands of UK Muslims will attend ExpoIslamia, a convention whose stated goal is to "present Islam to Muslims and non-Muslims in its clearest and most original form."
A featured speaker at the convention will be the infamous Azzam Tamimi, whose raving and shrieking about jihad was captured on video, and who openly advocates suicide-bombing "
"Whilst a few espouse a ‘Clash of Civilizations,’ the vast majority who believe in the innate goodness of humanity need to raise their voice," the organizers say on their website.
Among the guest speakers are several imams, Muslim community activists and leaders of national Muslim organizations.
Mohammed Abdul Bari, Muslim Council of Britain secretary general, was one of the "moderate" signers of an open letter to Prime Minister Tony Blair last week that linked the thwarted terror plot to blow up airplanes over the Atlantic with British foreign policy positions in the Mideast.
A second speaker is Yvonne Ridley, a former British journalist who converted to Islam 30 months after being captured by the Taliban in Afghanistan. She also sits on the national council of Respect, a UK political party, and stood as a Respect candidate in the last general election.
"[Respect] is a Zionist-free party," she declared at a meeting earlier this year. "If there was any Zionism in the Respect Party, they would be hunted down and kicked out. We have no time for Zionists."
She criticized government support "towards that disgusting little watchdog of America that is festering in the Middle East" and promised that a Respect victory would mean the raising of the Palestinian flag in the UK.
Zakir Naik, 40, an Indian doctor, is also scheduled to address ExpoIslamia. Naik, a frequent lecturer, has reportedly declared that it is blasphemous for Muslims to wish Christians a Merry Christmas because doing so acknowledges Jesus as a son of God.

At the ExpoIslamia convention in Manchester billed as “A Call to Humanity,” featured speaker Azzam Tamimi expressed support for Hizballah and Hamas, and extolled the virtues of death: Firebrand Islamic academic: ‘dying for your beliefs is just’.

Cleric who urged jihad to be freed from prison

Soon he will be free to resume his jihad. From The Observer,

anti-terrorist squad, said the case had 'nothing to do with freedom of speech', as el-Faisal claimed, 'but everything to do with racial hatred'.

An Islamic cleric who influenced at least one of the 7 July bombers and whose videos may have been seen by several of the terror suspects arrested earlier this month, is to be freed from prison in weeks.
Sheikh Abdullah el-Faisal encouraged Muslims to attend training camps so they could wage jihad on the West. He was jailed in February 2003 for nine years, reduced to seven on appeal, after being convicted of soliciting murder and inciting racial hatred. Hundreds of Muslims attended his lectures in mosques across Britain, including Birmingham, London and Dewsbury in West Yorkshire.
His trial heard recordings of el-Faisal, Jamaican by birth but living in Stratford, east London, praising Osama bin Laden. 'You have to learn how to shoot and fly planes and drive tanks,' el-Faisal told those who attended his lectures. 'Jews,' el-Faisal said, 'should be killed... as by Hitler.'
He encouraged the use of chemical weapons to 'exterminate non-believers', and exhorted Muslim women to buy toy guns for their children to train them for jihad. He also suggested that nuclear power stations could be fuelled with bodies of Hindus, slaughtered for their 'oppression' of Muslims in Kashmir.
Videos of his lectures have been found circulating in Muslim circles in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, where police are concentrating inquiries into this month's alleged bomb plot involving airliners.
El-Faisal is eligible for parole having served more than half his sentence. The Home Office confirmed he had been served with a notice of deportation to Jamaica, signalling that he will be released in weeks - bar a successful appeal against the decision.
The prospect of a man described in court as a 'fanatic and an extremist' being freed has troubled Muslim leaders who fear he will continue to disseminate his views in Britain. 'Once he's deported to Jamaica, what restrictions will there be to prevent him spreading his message of hate over the internet,' asked Andrew Dismore MP.

LOOSE: 16 British bombers

ANTI-TERROR cops are trying to track down 16 potential suicide bombers believed to be on the loose in Britain.
The men were part of a group of 24 British Muslims who went to an al-Qaeda training camp on the Pakistan and Afghanistan border before returning home.
Undercover investigative reporter Mazher Mahmood followed the terror trail to Pakistan.
Read his chilling story in full here
Police fear they could be deployed by al-Qaeda bosses at any time and a team of six British counter-terrorism officers have flown to Pakistan, where they are working with local intelligence agencies.
Details of the men emerged during the interrogation of seven suspects— three of them British—arrested in Pakistan in connection with the foiled plot to allegedly blow up aircraft with liquid explosives.
A Pakistan intelligence officer said: "Of the 24 who trained at the al-Qaeda camp, 16 are missing. What is making it difficult to track them down is that they all used fake names while they were here.
"But we will do whatever we can to help find these men."

Iraqi man 'filmed terror targets'

An Iraqi man filmed video footage of potential targets for a terrorist attack on London, a court was told.
Big Ben, the Houses of Parliament and the London Eye were among the sights on tapes made by Rauf Mohammed, Woolwich Crown Court heard.

UK cabbie 'supported insurgents'

A Home Office investigation had concluded a London minicab driver was "actively engaged" in the support of the Iraqi insurgency, a court was told.
Woolwich Crown Court was told Rauf Mohammed took part in "anti-coalition activity" on a visit to Iraq in 2004.

Mutiny on Flight 613

Passengers refuse to allow holiday jet to take off until two Asian men are thrown off plane

British holidaymakers staged an unprecedented mutiny - refusing to allow their flight to take off until two men they feared were terrorists were forcibly removed.
The extraordinary scenes happened after some of the 150 passengers on a Malaga-Manchester flight overheard two men of Asian appearance apparently talking Arabic. Passengers told cabin crew they feared for their safety and demanded police action. Some stormed off the Monarch Airlines Airbus A320 minutes before it was due to leave the Costa del Sol at 3am. Others waiting for Flight ZB 613 in the departure lounge refused to board it. ...
The trouble in Malaga flared last Wednesday as two British citizens in their 20s waited in the departure lounge to board the pre-dawn flight and were heard talking what passengers took to be Arabic. Worries spread after a female passenger said she had heard something that alarmed her.
Passengers noticed that, despite the heat, the pair were wearing leather jackets and thick jumpers and were regularly checking their watches.
Initially, six passengers refused to board the flight. On board the aircraft, word reached one family. To the astonishment of cabin crew, they stood up and walked off, followed quickly by others. ...
College lecturer Jo Schofield, her husband Heath and daughters Emily, 15, and Isabel, 12, were caught up in the passenger mutiny.
Mrs Schofield, 38, said: "The plane was not yet full and it became apparent that people were refusing to board. In the gate waiting area, people had been talking about these two, who looked really suspicious with their heavy clothing, scruffy, rough, appearance and long hair.
"Some of the older children, who had seen the terror alert on television, were starting to mutter things like, ‘Those two look like they’re bombers.’ Then a family stood up and walked off the aircraft. They were joined by others, about eight in all. We learned later that six or seven people had refused to get on the plane.
"There was no fuss or panic. People just calmly and quietly got off the plane. There were no racist taunts or any remarks directed at the men. It was an eerie scene, very quiet. The children were starting to ask what was going on. We tried to play it down." ..
Websites used by pilots and cabin crew were yesterday reporting further incidents. In one, two British women with young children on another flight from Spain complained about flying with a bearded Muslim even though he had been security-checked twice before boarding.

Patrick Mercer, the Tory Homeland Security spokesman, said last night: "This is a victory for terrorists. These people on the flight have been terrorised into behaving irrationally. For those unfortunate two men to be victimised because of the colour of their skin is just nonsense."

Haven’t authorities told us over and over to be vigilant and trust our instincts in these situations? Yet now we have a UK Homeland Security spokesperson denigrating British citizens for doing exactly that.
I suppose it’s one view to say the passengers were behaving irrationally. But you could also look at it as evidence that people are beginning to distrust their governments’ ability to protect them, because of the politically correct touchy-feely multiculturalism they can see all around.
Passengers explain pair's removal

"She said she had heard them saying it was the last 30 minutes of their lives," said Mr Wearden.

Muslims explain pairs removal

Mates Sohail Ashraf and Khurram Zeb, both 22, say they were just on a boozy trip to Spain.

we all know muslim are forbiden to drink . so who is lying here,

A PAIR OF STUDENTS ON A BOZZY DAY TRIP TO MALAGA, I DONT BUY THIS ONE BIT. DO YOU?

Interview with a jihadist preacher

Watch this CNN video of an interview with a jihadist cleric, a convert to Islam, in Britain. Note that the voiceovers, without presenting any evidence, tell us that his views would be repugnant to the vast majority of Muslims, and say that he "tries" to justify violence by invoking the Qur'an -- with the clear implication, again without any evidence, that the Qur'an doesn't actually teach what Abu Abdullah says it teaches. Whoever put this video together is dogmatically convinced that Islam is a religion of peace, and no amount of evidence to the contrary is going to change his mind.
Why does this matter? Because it's false. And false analysis cannot lead to correct policy. The West's misapprehensions about Islam have led it to a number of blunders already. No doubt there will be many more.
Anyway, note also Abu Abdullah's complete identification with Muslims as "my people," despite his so obvious Englishness. His Islam has entirely effaced his ties to his family, his country, and his heritage

Terror police find 'martyr tapes'

Police investigating an alleged plot to bring down airliners have found several martyrdom videos in the course of their searches, the BBC has learned.
According to unofficial police sources, the recordings were discovered on laptop computers.
Scotland Yard has refused to comment on what officers are finding.
Police are currently questioning 23 people and are continuing to search woodland at High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire and 14 addresses.
The Metropolitan Police, which is leading the inquiry, has said it has already completed searches of 36 business and residential sites.
A total of 20 vehicles have also been searched as part of the investigation.
The alert began on 10 August after raids in London, High Wycombe and Birmingham.
A district judge has granted anti-terror officers an extra seven days to question 21 of the 23 people being held, and an extra five days to question two.
Under the 2006 Terrorism Act the maximum period someone suspected of terrorist activity can be held without charge is 28 days, subject to regular court approval.




Police investigating an alleged bomb plot targeting UK to US flights have been given extra time to question 23 of the suspects.

UK Radical Front Group Gets Blogger Fired

The UK’s Muslim Public Affairs Committee saw nothing wrong when a Reuters employee sent a death threat to Little Green Footballs in May. In fact, MPACUK invented a bizarre conspiracy plot to justify it, calling LGF (quite flatteringly, I thought) "the most powerful enemies Muslims have faced in a thousand years:" MPACUK - Masajid and ISOCs Silent As Zionists Move In On Inayat Bunglawala!
But when British blogger Inigo Wilson wrote some satirical comments critical of Islamic terrorism, MPACUK launched a successful drive to have him fired from his job with British mobile phone company Orange: MPACUK - SUCCESS: Orange Suspends Islamophobe!
Alhamdulillah a vigorous campaign by Muslim activists on the MPACUK Forum has resulted in a high-profile success. Mobile phone company Orange has suspended its Community Affairs Manager and launched an investigation following a flood of complaints from customers outraged at comments he made about Muslims and Palestinians on a Conservative Party Members Blog.
Inigo Wilson, Community Affairs Manager at Orange, sparked the controversy with his ‘satirical’ attempt to redefine words, including:
"Islamophobic - anyone who objects to having their transport blown up on the way to work.
"Palestinians - archetype ‘victims’ no matter how many teenagers they murder in bars and fast food outlets. Never responsible for anything they do – or done in their name - because of ‘root causes’ or ‘legitimate grievances’."
We wonder whether he would have considered it appropriate to publish such ‘humorous’ definitions of ‘racism’ or ‘Jews’? Probably not. But if the Muslim community follow the example of those active Muslims taking part in this campaign then Islamophobia will become just as socially unacceptable as other forms of prejudice.
We welcome the fact that Orange has now taken their customers’ complaints seriously enough to investigate the matter and urge them to make it clear that Islamophobia and anti-Arab racism can’t be tolerated in the company.
Mash’Allah the empowered young Muslims on the MPACUK Forum have proved that when Muslims put the effort into simple, democratic campaigning it is Islamophobes who are on the back foot.

Police Find Bombmaking Equipment

The Times of London reports that a suitcase full of bomb equipment has been found by police investigating the airplane bombing plot.

A SUITCASE filled with bomb-making material has been found by police teams investigating the alleged plot to blow up aircraft over the Atlantic.
The suitcase, containing chemicals and other equipment for a home-made bomb, was found in woods in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, close to addresses at which suspects were arrested last week.


bbc report
A police source said that the suitcase contained everything that would be needed to make an explosive device. This could include materials for creating an explosive, methods of concealment and a simple way of detonating the bomb. After police made arrests last week, Whitehall sources said it was feared that the explosives were to have been hidden in plastic drinks bottles and ignited using the current from an MP3 player. Details of the find have been kept secret by Scotland Yard and the suitcase is now being examined by forensic scientists and explosives experts.
A news blackout has surrounded the aftermath of the arrests last week while detectives question 23 suspects at two London police stations. The discovery was made by specialist search units, which have been scouring King’s Wood for nearly a week in search of evidence of the conspiracy. The searches are expected to continue for up to six weeks.
Police sources told The Times that the plot by Islamic extremists would have involved a version of triacetone triperoxide (TATP), which was used for the 7/7 bombings that killed 52 passengers on the London transport system last year. The plot is thought to have involved taking several liquids or a gel form of explosive on board flights with other material and then assembling a bomb in the aircraft lavatories.


The enemy within

Suspect met Osama envoy

THE bomb plot suspect dubbed Mr Talibrum met an al-Qaeda chief in Pakistan shortly before his arrest, officials claim.
Rashid Rauf, 25, from Birmingham, had talks with one of Osama bin Laden’s agents in Afghanistan, say Pakistani security sources.
Detained terror suspects last night said al-Qaeda top leaders — No2 Ayman al-Zawahri — approved the plot.
Rauf is one of 17 people held in Pakistan over the bottle-bomb jet plot.
A source said: "The plot had the support of an al-Qaeda figure in Afghanistan."
Rauf was seized on August 9 — two days before cops swooped on 23 suspects in Britain.
Computer gear and false passports were allegedly found at his home in Bhawalpur, east Pakistan.
Rauf is said to have organised suicide-bomber training. Yesterday it emerged he has links with outlawed Pakistani group Jaish-e-Mohammed and is related by marriage to its leader.
Rauf is wanted for questioning over the murder of his uncle in Birmingham in 2002.
Pakistan authorities are also hunting a British Muslim of Afghan origin, an Eritrean and a Pakistani over the plot.
In Britain 23 people are being held. Security chiefs expect to charge a "substantial number with serious offences".

Allison Pearson wrestles with her Islamophobic inclinations

Allison Pearson writes: "Several opinion polls have measured Muslim anger with Britain. No survey has yet recorded the rest of British society's anger and distress with Muslims. Yet you only have to start a conversation on the subject to unleash a flood of feeling. 'I never thought I'd say this, but...' People who don't consider themselves racist are wondering how to deal with these new and dismaying thoughts."
This is "a tragedy for the UK, which has done so much to accommodate its immigrant groups. Too much, probably. We failed to spell out the cultural norms we expect everyone to respect, with horrendous consequences. That letter from Muslim MPs warning the Government to change its policy on the Middle East because it was 'inflaming extremists' was a bloody cheek, quite frankly.
"Millions of Britons are angry with Tony Blair over Iraq. But he is our democratically elected leader and the foreign policy of this country is not going to be decided in a mosque in Waltham Forest. As for the suggestion by Dr Syed Aziz Pasha that Britain should introduce Islamic laws on family affairs, which apply only to Muslims, well, words fail me. Where would the concessions end? All women to cover their heads? Jews thrown into the sea? Burqa King? The Moral Maze presented by Michael Burqa?"
Daily Mail, 16 August 2006

ARE YOU ISLAMOPHOBIC - TAKE THE TEST

My thanks to Islamophobia Inspector For this

islamophobia inspector said...I regret to inform you that this weblog and some of its comments have been identified as potentially Islamophobic. Under European Union Directive DCLXVI it is compulsory for all contributors to take the following Islamophia test immediately:

YOU MAY BE AN ISLAMOPHOBE IF...

(1) You refer to the midwinter holiday as 'Christmas'.
(2) You save loose change in a p***y-bank.
(3) You allow your children to read unexpurgated versions of Winnie the Pooh.
(4) You doubt whether it's politically correct to stone rape victims.
(5) You believe that the earth is round.
(6) You think there's something weird about a 50 year old man marrying a six year old girl.
(7) Your children have Barbie dolls or Teddy Bears
(8) You object to being a second class citizen in your own country.
(9) You fail to celebrate cultural diversity when your daughter is gang-raped for not wearing a headscarf.
(10) You think government policy should be determined by your elected representatives rather than a howling mob.
(11) You object to your taxes being used to support people who are plotting to kill you.
(12) You aren't convinced that 'Jihad' means 'Inner Spiritual Struggle'.
(13) You don't understand why the Jews must be exterminated.
(14) You allow your children to play with LEGO.
(15) You aren't married to at least one of your cousins.

(16) You sometimes have doubts about BBC reporting.
(17) You occasionally wonder what's inside those walking tents.
(18) You realise that taqiyya is not a Mexican beverage.
(19) You believe moderate Muslims ride unicorns.
(20) You don't appreciate the multicultural need for Methodist grandmothers to be body-cavity searched before boarding aircraft.
(21) You claim to understand the words "Slay the unbelievers wherever you find them", even though you don't speak Arabic.
(22) You object to taxpayers' money being spent for terrorists to hold a festival to commemorate the anniversary of their massacres.
(23) You have reservations about 'faith schools' where the kids will be taught that you and your family are najis (excrement), at public expense.
(24) You don't understand why flying your country's flag has become a hate-crime.
(25) You don't appreciate why it is so insensitive and offensive for the police to prevent oppressed minorities venting their frustration by mass murder.

EVALUATING YOUR SCORE
0 to 25 you are a Dhimmi

1 to 5 you are a Najis Kaffir

6 to 10 you are an Islamophobe

11 to 15 you are a Thought Criminal

16 to 20 you are an Enemy of Allah

21 to 25 you are a Zionist Crusader offspring of pigs and monkeys.

Fatwas are automatically awarded for all scores above 5Fatwas will be posted in plain brown paper envelopes in laminated or embossed styles, generously sprinkled with ricin, anthrax, sarin or cobalt-60

Europe faces 'very real threat'

UK Home Secretary John Reid has said Europe faced a "persistent and very real" threat from terrorism, after a meeting with EU counterparts in London.
But he said the presence of five other interior ministers and top EU officials symbolised Europe's determination to stand together and defend their values.
Finland, holder of the EU presidency, congratulated the UK on pre-empting an apparent plot to bomb US-bound planes.
Twenty-four people are now in custody in the UK over the alleged plot.
Mr Reid said the European Union needed to develop its counter-terror policies in response to the evolving threat.
He said the talks had discussed practical measures in four areas:
Tackling liquid explosives
Co-ordination of transport security
Exchange of intelligence
The nature of European Islam
The world was faced by a form of "intolerant and violent totalitarianism", he added, which was subverting a religion, Islam, whose very name stood for peace.
Justice Commissioner Franco Frattini said he would be presenting concrete proposals on detection of liquid explosives to a forthcoming meeting of all EU interior ministers in Finland.
He also called for a crackdown on internet sites used to incite terrorism.
Veto move
The 7 July bombings in London last year pushed counter-terrorism up the EU agenda, and helped former Home Secretary Charles Clarke clinch a deal to force companies to retain telephone and e-mail data for use in investigations.

We came to the conclusion that a united Europe will win the battle with the terrorists Finnish Interior Minister Kari Rajamaeki
The European Commission is currently trying to persuade governments to give up their veto powers in the area of criminal justice, arguing that it will help the anti-terrorism effort.
The London meeting was attended by Finnish Interior Minister Kari Rajamaeki, whose country holds the EU presidency, and ministers from France, Germany, Portugal and Slovenia, which hold the presidency in 2007 and 2008.
"That is important because the threat is an enduring threat and will require therefore an enduring response," Mr Reid said.
Europe was up against people who were abusing its open society and its freedoms and adapting the latest technology to their "evil intent", he said.
Mr Rajamaeki said the UK had the "solidarity and support" of the whole European Union.
He added: "We came to the conclusion that a united Europe will win the battle with the terrorists."
A meeting of European aviation security and counter-terrorism experts which was due to have been held later in the week has been postponed.
The UK security threat level was raised to "critical" last week amid fears of the plot. On Monday it was downgraded to "severe", meaning an attack is now considered highly likely but not imminent.

Suspect at hate mosque

ONE of the bomb-plot suspects made a weekly trip to the mosque where caged Islamic preacher Abdullah el-Faisal delivered his hateful sermons, it was revealed last night.
Car salesman Shazad Khuram Ali, 27, would travel from High Wycombe, Bucks, to the East London Mosque in Whitechapel every Sunday.
Cleric el-Faisal, who had close links to hook-handed Abu Hamza, would tell British Muslims it was their duty to kill non-believers. He was jailed in February 2003 for nine years — reduced to seven on appeal — for inciting murder and stirring race hatred.
Abid Zaman, a close pal of Ali and a former driver of Hamza, said: "He’d be there most Sundays. It must be a 100-mile round trip.
"I last saw him three months ago in High Wycombe when he gave me a lift home. He didn’t give any indication he was caught up in terrorism."
Zaman, 33, grew up with Ali in High Wycombe and lives just a street away from another suspect — Don Stewart-Whyte, 21, the white Christian who converted to Islam.
And Zaman is a family friend of cabbie Waseem Kayani, 29 — another of those being held by police investigating a plot to blow up transatlantic jets.
Zaman said: "Waseem became very religious after going to Pakistan a year ago to find a wife.
"In his early school days he had a reputation as a bit of a hard nut.
"But he was a good man and I don’t believe he is a bomber.
"He would take my brother, who is autistic, to school in his taxi.
"A few months ago my mum saw him and he had grown a beard. She even said what a nice man he was and why I couldn’t be more like him."
Zaman spent a year as Abu Hamza’s volunteer driver after meeting him during el-Faisal’s Old Bailey trial.
He said: "It was an honour." Hamza was jailed for seven years this year for soliciting murder and inciting racial hatred

UK Muslims Demand Special Rights and Sharia Law

Radical Islamic front groups in Britain have an overabundance of shameless audacity. Following the exposure of an Islamic terror plot to blow up a dozen airliners, Muslim leaders are now demanding special holidays and shari’a law: Muslims call for special bank holidays.
Muslim leaders summoned to talks with the Government on tackling extremism in their midst called for public holidays to mark their religious festivals.
The Whitehall meeting was set up in response to last week’s airline bomb plot discovery.
Communities Secretary Ruth Kelly had prepared an uncompromising message on the need to tackle dangerous radicalism.
But, in what she admitted were ‘sharp’ exchanges, some senior Muslim figures turned the tables yesterday and made a series of demands which also included the introduction of Sharia law for family matters.
Dr Syed Aziz Pasha, secretary general of the Union of Muslim Organisations of the UK and Ireland, said: ‘We told her if you give us religious rights, we will be in a better position to convince young people that they are being treated equally along with other citizens.’
An interesting viewpoint: only by receiving special treatment and instituting a medieval religious legal code can they be treated "equally."
so what is sheria law
the Sharia, mandates for non-Muslims, primarily Jews and Christians. Dhimmis, "protected people," are free to practice their religion in a Sharia regime, but are made subject to a number of humiliating regulations designed to enforce the Qur'an's command that they "feel themselves subdued" (Sura 9:29). This denial of equality of rights and dignity remains part of the Sharia, and, as such, is part of the law that global jihadists are laboring to impose everywhere, ultimately on the entire human race.

Why Sharia Law must be Opposed

Examples of Shariah Law

Muslims face extra checks in new travel crackdown

Stop the presses! A Western government actually deals with the real threat! From the TimesOnline,

THE Government is discussing with airport operators plans to introduce a screening system that allows security staff to focus on those passengers who pose the greatest risk.
The passenger-profiling technique involves selecting people who are behaving suspiciously, have an unusual travel pattern or, most controversially, have a certain ethnic or religious background

Welsh muslims say aircraft bomb plot 'a fake'

YOUNG Welsh Muslims have accused the Government of master-minding this week's plot to blow up transatlantic jets mid-air to justify Tony Blair's war on terror.
Some followers of Islam have claimed the arrest of more than 20 people on suspicion of scheming to kill thousands of passengers travelling to America using liquid explosives is designed to bolster the Prime Minister's flagging credibility over the Iraq and Lebanon-Israel crises.
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more crazyness

A five-year-old girl’s passport application was rejected because her photograph showed her bare shoulders.
Hannah Edwards’s mother, Jane, was told that the exposed skin might be considered offensive in a Muslim country.
The photograph was taken at a photo-booth at a local post office for a family trip to the south of France. Because of the way the camera was set up, the picture came out showing Hannah’s shoulders.
The family had it signed and presented it at a post office with the completed form but were told that it would not be accepted by the Passport Office. A woman behind the counter informed them that she was aware of at least two other cases where applications had been rejected because a person’s shoulders were not covered.
Mrs Edwards, a Sheffield GP, said: “I was incensed. I went back home and checked the form. Nowhere did it say anything about covering up shoulders. If it had, I would have done so, but it all seems so unnecessary.
“This is quite ridiculous, I followed the instructions on the passport form to the letter and it was still rejected. It is just officialdom pandering to political correctness.”
Passport photograph of girl’s bare shoulders rejected ‘as it may offend’.

Terror raid pair's feast

THE brothers at the centre of the Forest Gate terror raid and their family scoffed £1,300 of food in 24 hours — at taxpayers’ expense.
Their hotel bill came to more than £50,000 — including £800 in a day on phone calls — as they finally moved back to their East London home.
Shaven-headed Mohammed Abdul Kahar, 23, and Abul Koyair, 21, were arrested on June 2 by anti-terror police looking for a chemical device.
Kahar was shot in the shoulder during the raid in their family home on Lansdowne Road.
The brothers were released without charge, after spending a week in custody, when no device was found.
Since then the pair and their family have been put up in swanky hotels by the Metropolitan Police as the house was stripped.
They initially stayed at the Holiday Inn in Bloomsbury, central London, but after complaining they were transferred to the five-star Crowne Plaza Hotel next to Buckingham Palace, where they ran up huge bills while gorging themselves.
But Scotland Yard top brass refused to sign for any more expenditure
One source said: "How can any family eat £1,300 of food in a day?
"They decided enough was enough and refused to sign for anything more. It is not as if the family are short of a few bob."
Cops found £38,000 in CASH hidden in a suitcase in the house. Another £2,000 was buried in the garden.
The family say the money came from renting out a property and they did not put it in a bank — because Islam forbids them doing so.
Kahar is expected to seek up to £500,000 in compensation after being shot in the raid. He has since been charged over paedophile images found on a computer at the address.
The brothers and family left the hotel at 8am on Saturday when they were driven away in two hired people carriers.

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Face Up to Your Problem, Muslims Told

More evidence that John Bull may have finally been pushed a bit too far: Face up to your problem, Muslims told.
LONDON’S most influential former police chief has rounded on Britain’s Muslims, blaming them for the terrorist networks in the country.
"When will the Muslim community in this country accept an absolute, undeniable, total truth: that Islamic terrorism is their problem?" wrote John Stevens, former commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, in a Sunday newspaper.
In an inflammatory opinion column, he called on Muslims to "stop the denial, endless fudging and constant wailing that somehow it is everyone else’s problem and, if Islamic terrorism exists at all, they are somehow the main victims".
Lord Stevens, whose continuing responsibilities in Britain include the inquiry into Princess Diana’s death, also defended "racial profiling" at airports and other security hotspots, saying resources were being wasted on searching everybody out of a sense of fairness or delicacy.
"I’m a white, 62-year-old, suit-wearing ex-cop - I fly often, but do I really fit the profile of a suicide bomber?" Lord Stevens, who was commissioner of the Metropolitan Police until last year, wrote in the News of the World.
Allahpundit’s also following this brewing backlash in Britain: Backlash: Al-Guardian(!) tells British Muslims to get it together.
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Here’s Lord Stevens’ op-ed: If You’re a Muslim, It’s Your Problem.

Reid on terror threat

Home Secretary John Reid has revealed that "at least four major plots" have been thwarted since the 7 July attacks in London last year.
Mr Reid also said the government believes the first al-Qaeda plot in the UK was in 2000 in Birmingham, preceding the war in Iraq and the 9/11 attacks.
He told the BBC's News 24 Sunday show that current security measures at UK airports would be "time limited".
Police are holding 23 people over an alleged plot to blow up several planes.
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strange story.

OK, Ace tells us that one of the plotters was a security guard with an all-access pass.
He also tells us that another, Don Stewart-Whyte is the son of a former conservative party official.
We've got more important news.
Don Stewart-Whyte is Heather Stewart-Whyte's brother.
Who? You know. Victoria's Secret model, Heather Stewart-Whyte.

MCB's Bunglawala: Do As We Say, And Nobody Gets Hurt

Inayat Bunglawala, assistant secretary-general of the Muslim Council of Britain and the public relations person for jihad in the UK, issues veiled threats against Britain like a Mafia extortionist: It’s undeniable: British foreign policy is endangering all of us.
This should not be misinterpreted as an apologia for terrorism. It cannot be said enough that there can never be any justification for the deliberate killing of civilians. HOWEVER, the Government needs to acknowledge that extremist groups have taken advantage of Britain’s role in the wars against Afghanistan and Iraq and Washington’s longstanding blind support for Israel as an opportunity to recruit more Muslims into their ranks.
Poll after poll has shown that large majorities in the Muslim world believe that British and American foreign policy is hostile towards them and that the West regards the spilling of Muslim blood as being of little importance.
Are such views really a caricature of the truth? By refusing to support calls for an immediate ceasefire in the Israel-Lebanon conflict, Tony Blair appeared to be giving a nod and a wink to the Israelis that they had more time to accomplish their military goals.
There may be ministers who genuinely believe that the price to be paid for our policies overseas is worth it — but they should not insult the public’s intelligence by saying that they have had no impact on the terror threat that Britain is facing. The presumption now must be that al-Qaeda-inspired groups will keep on targeting Britain.

'Well, change your foreign policy or we'll blow you up'".

Muslim plea over foreign policy British Muslim groups have written to the prime minister calling for "urgent" changes to UK foreign policy.
In an open letter they say British policy is putting civilians at increased risk in the UK and abroad.
The letter, signed by three Muslim MPs, three peers and 38 groups, also points to the "debacle" of Iraq and the UK's stance over the Middle East crisis.
Downing Street said Tony Blair "stands ready" to meet Muslim representatives when he returns to the UK.

Whether we like it or not such a sense of injustice plays into the hands of extremists Sadiq Khan, MP
The letter urges the prime minister to redouble his efforts to tackle terror and extremism, and change foreign policy to show the UK values the lives of civilians.
MP Sadiq Khan, who signed the letter, said British foreign policy was seen by many as unfair and unjust.
"Whether we like it or not such a sense of injustice plays into the hands of extremists," he said.
"As moderates we will do all we can to fight extremism. We hope the government will join us in this, not just by changing the rules on hand luggage, but by showing itself as an advocate for justice in the world."
Muslim Council of Britain secretary general Mohammed Abdul Bari said civilians in the UK, the Middle East and the rest of the world should "all enjoy protection".
The letter was also signed by MPs Shahid Malik (Dewsbury) and Mohammed Sarwar (Glasgow Central), and peers Lord Patel of Blackburn, Lord Ahmed of Rotherham and Baroness Uddin.
Desire for democracy
A Downing Street spokesman responded to the letter by saying: "We should always remember that the terrorism affecting the West today has blighted Muslim countries for several decades.
"It certainly pre-dated our decision to support democracy in Afghanistan and Iraq and of course the September 11 attacks.
"Our foreign policy is focused on supporting the people of those countries in their desire to live in a democracy just as we enjoy in the UK."
He also stressed that "nobody could have worked harder" than Tony Blair to achieve a cessation of hostilities in the Middle East.
Other signatories include the Muslim Association of Britain, British Muslim Forum and the lobby group, the Muslim Parliament of Great Britain.
'Double standards'
Liberal Democrats deputy leader Vince Cable agreed there were links with foreign policy but voiced concerns about the message being conveyed by Muslim leaders.
He said he was worried that, although the letter was "expressed in very moderate terms", there was "a danger it might give some comfort to the kind of people who say: 'Well, change your foreign policy or we'll blow you up'".
Lord Ahmed, who denied this suggestion, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "What we are wanting to do is to be united in condemning attacks on civilians wherever they are."
By way of example, he said the government's stance on Lebanon was seen to involve "double standards" that suggested "we care for some civilians in this part of the world but that we don't care for the civilians elsewhere".

Minister criticises Muslim letter

Suspect Filmed Martyrdom Video

The UK terror plot was apparently close enough to its launch date that one of the suspects had already filmed his "martyrdom" video: British police find martyrdom video.
BRITISH police claim to have found a "martyrdom video" in which one of the 24 British Muslims arrested over an alleged plot to destroy up to a dozen passenger aircraft sets out his reasons for joining the planned suicide attack.
British officials said the damning evidence had been found in the home of one of the suspects, who include a 23-year-old biochemistry student and a Heathrow security guard with an all-areas access pass.
The guard was in his airport uniform when he was arrested and led away in handcuffs.
The suspects are mostly of Pakistani origin but two are white converts to Islam. Abdul Waheed, 21, changed his name from Don Stewart-Whyte six months ago after growing up as the son of a Conservative Party official. Neighbours said Waheed, whose father died when he was 14, had abandoned a life of drugs and alcohol when he became a Muslim, and was working as a salesman at an electrical store.
Another convert, 25-year-old Oliver Savant of east London, had changed his first name to Ibrahim.
Each of the converts grew a beard, shaved his head, began wearing white robes and married an Arabic or south Asian Muslim woman.
Waheed, of High Wycombe, west of London, and Savant were arrested on Wednesday night as hundreds of police swooped to head off what they allege would have been a deadlier attack than the 9/11 World Trade Centre disaster. Most of the suspects were described by neighbours as devout Muslims.

Muslims criticise naming of plot suspects

Yet another attempt to deflect attention away from jihad terror and onto anti-terror efforts. Muslim groups in Britain, including the jihadist Hizb-ut-Tahrir, are doing their best to portray yesterday's arrests as the unwarranted vilification of the Muslim community. It's a campaign of deceit designed to shore up the falsehood that the religion of the plotters is incidental, despite the fact that it is almost certainly their primary motivation. From the Hizballah News Agency, aka Reuters,
LONDON (Reuters) - Muslims criticised the government on Friday for publishing the names of 19 men who police sources say are under arrest for allegedly plotting to blow up passenger planes bound for the United States.
The government instructed the Bank of England to publish the names on its Web site on Thursday, just hours after police arrested 24 people in connection with the suspected plot.
Police have not named the 24 but a police source confirmed they include the 19 named by the central bank. Although the bank did not give the addresses of the 19, it listed their dates of birth and the areas where they live.
The bank's action is unusual. Normally, authorities do not publish the names of suspects until they have been formally charged and identified by the police.
But the government defended the move, saying it was essential to ensure the assets of the 19 were frozen.
"The Treasury has informed us that this is a normal procedure," Home Secretary John Reid told a news conference.
"When people's assets are frozen, the names are published, and this, the Treasury tells us, is part of the obligation of ensuring that people cannot deal with such individuals in the transfer of assets."
Some Muslim groups said the move was unnecessary and could hamper the suspects' chance of a fair trial if they are eventually charged in connection with the plot.
The Federation of Student Islamic Societies (FOSIS), an umbrella group representing Muslim students, said it was "extremely disappointed" by the government's action.
"It is important to wait until a thorough investigation has taken place before pointing fingers and drawing conclusions," FOSIS spokesman Wakkas Khan said in a statement.
"It is important to maintain the legal principles we hold dear, namely the concept of innocent until proven guilty."
The government said that in publishing the names, it was not inferring guilt.
Police are still questioning the 24 suspects and can hold them for up to 28 days before either charging or releasing them.
Hizb ut-Tahrir, a radical Islamist party which the government says it plans to ban, said it too was dismayed by the publication of the names.
"It concerns us that there is already talk in the media about the ethnic identity of the suspects, and that suspects are presumed guilty before any due process," said Imran Waheed, spokesman for the British branch of the party.
"We urge caution before jumping to conclusions."
Many Muslims accuse the police of unfairly targeting their community in their crackdown on terrorism.
Since 2000, police have arrested over 700 people -- many of them Muslims -- under tough anti-terrorism laws, but have brought only a handful to court. The vast majority have been released without charge.
These are the names of 19 suspects reportedly being held by the police after the foiled plot and whose assets the Treasury has sought to have frozen.
Umir Hussain, 24, London E14 Muhammed Usman Saddique, 24, London E17 Waheed Zaman, 22, London E17 Assan Abdullah Khan, 22, London E17 Waseem Kayani, 28, High Wycombe Waheed Arafat Khan, 24, London E17 Cossor Ali, 24, London E17 Tayib Rauf, 21, Birmingham Ibrahim Savant, 26, London E17 Osman Adam Khatib, 20, London E17 Shamin Mohammed Uddin, 36, Stoke Newington Amin Asmin Tariq, 23, London E17 Shazad Khuram Ali, 27, High Wycombe Tanvir Hussain, 24, London E10 Umar Islam, 28, (born Brian Young) High Wycombe Assad Sarwar, 25, High Wycombe Abdullah Ali, 26, London E17 Abdul Muneem Patel, 17, London E5 Nabeel Hussain, 21, Waltham Forest

UK Terror Suspect Knew George Galloway

One of the UK terror plot suspects met with malevolent British MP George Galloway "many times:" Suspect ‘met Galloway’.
TERROR suspect Waheed Zaman met controversial MP George Galloway many times, his sister said last night.
Safeena, 24, said of her 23-year-old brother: "He saw it as his duty to stand up for his community and that’s what led him to know George Galloway. He has a lot of respect for him and has met him many times."
A spokesman for MP Galloway, above, said: "Waheed Zaman is not a name that George is familiar with. He is not known to him on a personal level."

Computers seized in terror probe

Heathrow Airport employee with all-area access pass among suspected jihadists arrested

Suspects 'converted to Islam'

Baby bottle 'used as bomb'

littlejohn tells it like it is..

If they hate us so much, why don't they leave?

Major Terror Plot Foiled in UK

Police say they have disrupted a major plot to blow up planes in mid-flight with explosive devices smuggled aboard as hand luggage.
Sky News has been told the plan was to blow up around a dozen planes over UK and US cities. Police are said to have arrested 20 people in London - the culmination of a major covert counter-terrorist operation lasting several months.
Passengers trying to board international flights from the UK are not being allowed to carry on hand luggage.
The Home Office’s level of security - indicating public risk - has been raised from ‘severe’ to ‘critical’.
Sky News’ Crime Correspondent Martin Brunt said he understood the threat was imminent and those arrested were mainly young, British-born Asian men.
He said the alleged plan involved people boarding flights and detonating explosives on planes over UK and US cities.
The swoop followed a pre-planned intelligence led operation by the Met’s anti-terrorist branch and security service.
A police statement said: "This is a major operation which inevitably will be lengthy and complex. We will provide further information as soon as possible."

Plane Terror Plot Disrupted.

British Dhimmitude Watch

As they launched raids on the alleged Islamic terrorists plotting to blow up a dozen airplanes with explosives hidden in baggage, British authorities reached out to the Muslim Council of Britain and other radical Islamic front groups to make sure the police would be sufficiently sensitive to the needs of the Muslim community: Muslim leaders informed, but wary, of anti-terror raid.
Muslim community leaders were contacted by the police and Government officials early this morning as the first statements were released to the press.
Khurshid Ahmed, leader of the British Muslim Forum was rung by a chief superintendent from the Metropolitan Police and a senior official from the Department for Communities and Local Government just before 7am to be told the arrests had taken place.
The police also contacted Dr Muhammed Abdul Bari, General Secretary of the Muslim Council of Britain, at 6.54am. He was told that a number of arrests had taken place "for the public’s safety" but given few details.
Mr Ahmed said that he felt the operation had been handled well but he warned that if the police failed to find any evidence to incriminate the people concerned then relations between the government and the Muslim community would deteriorate further.
"I was woken up by the police who said there was a threat to blow up a plane and that a number of arrests had been made," he said. "Since then I have been in contact with people from the Home Office and the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) to find out what has been happening."
Mr Ahmed said he had spent the morning contacting local authorities, police authorities and Muslim community groups to ensure there was no "backlash" when further information was released about the identity of those arrested. He had already spoken to leaders in Bradford, London and the Midlands.
A reminder: one quarter of British Muslims believe the 7/7 bombings in London were justified.

Reid's terror warning

HOME Secretary John Reid today warned Britain is facing a new breed of terrorist who aims to destroy the country’s values and has access to "means of mass destruction".
Addressing the think tank Demos, he said the country was facing its "most sustained period of serious threat" since the end of the Second World War.
He added:"Individuals who can network courtesy of new technology and access modern chemical, biological and other means of mass destruction, are an enemy we have never had to face before.
He said the terrorists have an "unconstrained capability" as well as "unconstrained intent" and are seeking to create a society which would deny all of the basic individual rights which we now take for granted.
And he said despite foiling four plots since the July bombings last year, national security was put at risk by an inability to adapt the country’s institutions.
He said: "While I am confident the security services and police will guarantee100per cent effort and 100per cent dedication, they cannot guarantee 100per cent success.
"Our common security will only be assured by a common effort from all sections of society."
The Home Secretary also told the audience that since the end of the Cold War globalisation had brought mass migration "on a hitherto unprecedented scale", which brought the possibility of insecurity into the heart of our communities.
The Shadow Home Secretary David Davis said:" They should now answer our calls to establish a dedicated UK border police force to secure our borders and to appoint a dedicated minister for counter-terrorism."

Raid pair 'in death taunt'

THE two brothers at the centre of the Forest Gate terror probe have been accused of screaming at soldiers: "We hope you DIE in Iraq."
And the pair pretended to machine-gun guardsmen outside their barracks near Buckingham Palace, it is alleged.
Sickened squaddies also claimed that the pair then SPAT.
Mohammed Abul Kahar, 23 and brother Abul Koyair, 20, are now being investigated over the claims — with CCTV footage from the area being checked.
Last night a Met Police spokeswoman said: "We are investigating an allegation of harassment outside Wellington Barracks at 10pm on August 1.
"There have been no arrests made so far."
The alleged rant comes as British casualties mount in Iraq — where 115 of Our Boys have died. The three Welsh Guardsmen were on duty at Wellington Barracks, London, when the insults were hurled.
One Whitehall source said of the brothers: "The guardsmen knew exactly who they were because they pass by very often. There have been various incidents in the past but never this bad. The soldiers showed great restraint — and just showed them the steely eye."
The brothers, who wear traditional Muslim dress, are staying at taxpayers’ expense at the luxury £260-a-night Crowne Plaza Hotel.
Scotland Yard has already spent more than £30,000 of public money on their hotel bills and living expenses since armed police stormed their East London home on June 2.
Kahar was shot in a scuffle with anti-terror officers looking for a chemical device, which was never found.
Cops agreed to place the family in luxury accommodation while their house is being repaired.
Kahar is being investigated over suspicion of possessing child porn after suspect images were allegedly found on a computer seized in the raid.
Neither the family or their lawyers were available for comment last night.

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What Muslims Want

Channel 4 Monday 7 August, 8pm

presenter Jon Snow tackles one of the most difficult and controversial questions facing our country today: to what extent do Muslims in Britain pose a threat to this country and its values? There is a growing fear that the 1.6 million Muslims in Britain are rejecting the majority liberal, tolerant beliefs in this country for a radicalised version of Islam in which violence can be justified. Dispatches has conducted the most comprehensive and rigorous survey to date of Muslim opinion in Britain, with startling results.

what muslims want the video.

RAID BROTHER ARRESTED OVER CHILD PORN

The terror suspect shot in the Forest Gate police raid has been arrested over child porn allegedly downloaded onto his family's home computer. Cops spent several hours on Thursday quizzing Mohammed Abdul Kahar, 23, over the images which came to light as detectives searched his home for a cyanide bomb. He "strenuously denies" the allegations and was released on police bail to return at a later date. News of the dramatic twist in the investigation - which was revealed exclusively in the News of the World - came minutes after cops were completely CLEARED in a report into his shooting. The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) confirmed that Abdul Kahar was blasted in the shoulder as he tried to grab the gun in a struggle on the stairs. This account - first revealed by the News of the World hours after the raid on June 2 - clashes sharply with the version given by Abdul Kahar, 23, and his brother Abul Koyair, 20, a week later. The mail worker claimed he was kicked, slapped and dragged down the narrow stairway by his feet before being arrested by armed police. He claimed cops did not identify themselves before opening fire, insisted there was no struggle and said that he thought the police were armed robbers when they burst into the house at 4am. Today's IPCC report has cleared the firearms officer of deliberately pulling the trigger of his Heckler and Koch MP5 carbine. It means that the officer - identified only as 'B6' - will not face any disciplinary action or criminal charges. It said: "B6 states that he and the two figures [Kahar and Koyair] came into contact and this caused him to lose his balance and come into contact with the wall. B6 says he was aware of a pulling at his right arm. "He states that he feared that the person(s) were trying to take his weapon, and that he feared for his life." The report said that the difference between the police and brothers' accounts was due to the sudden and shocking nature of the raid. It says that the officer's bulky chemical protection suit and face-mask may have muffled his cries of 'Police'. It also suggested that the officer may not have known he had squeezed the gun's trigger because he was wearing two pairs of gloves. It said: "This must have been a very frightening situation, which would also have been very shocking. The incident also happened very quickly, and these factors are likely to have a bearing on his [Kahar's] recollection of events." The alleged discovery of child porn came out of the blue as forensic officers scoured every inch of the house for evidence of the suspected bomb following an MI5 tip-off. Abdul Kahar attended a London police station by appointment and was arrested after specialists at Scotland Yard's Child Abuse Investigation Command SCD5 examined the images. He was being held in custody as the probe continued. The terror raid - codenamed Volga - involved close to 250 officers. No bomb was ever found and the two brothers were released without charge after being questioned for a week. Met Commissioner Sir Ian Blair then admitted that his force had got it "wrong" because they did not find what they were looking for. But he insisted the operation was justified and revealed that the intelligence of the bomb had come from a "credible sensitive source". The house was stripped from top to bottom in the search for evidence and the family have since been staying in swish London hotels - with taxpayers' footing the £30,000-a-month bill. Some family members are now staying at another four-star hotel, close to Buckingham Palace, where rooms start at £123 a night. In the conclusion to today's report, IPCC chief Deborah Glass wrote: "I am satisfied there is no evidence of intent or recklessness on the part of the firearms officer and that no offence was committed in the firing of the weapon. "There is no evidence to support the speculative reporting that the weapon was fired by one of the brothers, or that it was a deliberate act by the police officer." Ms Glass added: "We are continuing our investigation into the complaints made by the families subject to the raid. "The complaints include allegations of assault, unlawful arrest and detention. We will also look at the lawfulness of the police operation. These investigations are at an early stage." Solicitors acting for Kahar issued a statement condemning the IPCC report and demanding a more thorough investigation. They said that Kahar "strenuously denies" the new allegations against him and added: "It is extraordinary that the IPCC found that there are no grounds for a prosecution under health and safety legislation. "If a trained officer enters a home, with the safety catch off and discharges his weapon and shoots a man without knowing he has, then other people in the vicinity,were clearly exposed to an unreasonable risk." Met Assistant Commissioner Tarique Ghaffur said: "We have always maintained that there were two sides to this story."