Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Younger Muslims 'more political'

Young Muslims are much more likely than their parents to be attracted to political forms of Islam, a think-tank survey has suggested.
Support for Sharia law, Islamic schools and wearing the veil is much stronger among younger generation Muslims, a poll for the Policy Exchange found.
The report's lead author, Munira Mirza, blamed government policy for a growing split between Muslims and non-Muslims.
Ministers should engage with Muslims as citizens, Ms Mirza said.
'Differences emphasised'
Policy Exchange discovered that while the majority of Muslims feel they have as much, if not more, in common with non-Muslims in Britain than with Muslims abroad, the figure dropped from 71% of over-55s to 62% among 16-24 year-olds.
Meanwhile, the percentage who said they would prefer to send their children to Islamic state schools increased from 19% for over-55 year olds to 37% of 16-24 year olds.
And, the number who said they would prefer to live under Sharia law than British law increased from 17% of over-55s to 37% of 16-24 year-olds.
Ms Mirza said the results suggested government policy was to blame for "sharpening divisions between Muslims and non-Muslims".
She said: "The emergence of a strong Muslim identity in Britain is, in part, a result of multicultural policies implemented since the 1980s, which have emphasised difference at the expense of shared national identity and divided people along ethnic, religious and cultural lines.
'Widespread concerns about Islamophobia'
"Islamist groups have gained influence at local and national level by playing the politics of identity and demanding for Muslims the 'right to be different'."
Ms Mirza said the government should stop emphasising differences and engage with Muslims as citizens.
However, despite widespread concerns about Islamophobia, 84% of Muslims believed they had been treated fairly in British society, the survey also found.
Twenty-eight per cent believed that authorities in Britain had gone "over the top" in trying not to offend Muslims.
A spokesman for the Department For Communities and Local Government said: "....From a period of near-uniform consensus on multiculturalism, we now face questions about how different groups can live side by side, respecting differences, whilst working together to develop a shared sense of belonging and purpose."
The Commission on Integration and Cohesion report is expected later this year.

Islam youths are 'rejecting UK'

MORE than 100,000 young UK Muslims hold extremist or anti-British beliefs, a shock report suggests today.
Tens of thousands think Muslims who switch religions should be punished by death.
More than a third want Taliban-style Sharia law, which regards women rape victims as guilty and says adulterers should be killed by stoning.
And more than one in ten of the 16 to 24-year-olds polled "admire" Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda and other terror groups.
The survey was carried out last month for centre-right think tank Policy Exchange.
census figures show there are about 320,000 British Muslims in the age group polled — suggesting 100,000 are rejecting British values and culture.


The poll found three-quarters think women should cover their whole face with a veil. Four out of ten plan to send their kids to Islamic-only schools.
The Policy Exchange report says: "There is a growing religiosity amongst the younger generation of Muslims.

"They feel they have less in common with non-Muslims and show a stronger preference for Islamic schools and Sharia law."
Security chiefs have warned ministers that Britain is almost certainly facing another terror strike by home-grown fanatics.
The poll reveals only six per cent of youngsters believe the Muslim Council of Britain represents their views.
That is a huge blow to Tony Blair who believes the body can play an important part in improving community relations.


the daily mail has a better report

Tuesday, January 30, 2007

IMAM 'MARRIED A DEAF MUTE FOR UK PASSPORT'

A FOREIGN- BORN Islamic preacher is accused today of marrying a London woman with the mental age of seven in order to live in the UK.
The bride's family, which is planning to sue the imam for abandoning his wife, has criticised the Home Office for its failure to deport the cleric.Mohammed Anhar Ali, who is from a village in Bangladesh, was granted indefinite leave to remain after the arranged marriage. A legal dossier on the case reveals attempts by the bride's local MP Jim Fitzpatrick, and even her social worker, to get the imam thrown out. Mr Ali,36, had an arranged marriage in Bangladesh with Bilqis Begum,28, from Poplar, east London. She is deaf and mute, has been diagnosed with schizophrenia and has severe learning disabilities.Mr Ali disappeared in September 2004, having secured indefinite leave to remain the previous year. Now Ms Begum's father Muhammed Abdul Matin is trying to sue Mr Ali, thought to be living in St Albans, while also attempting to have him deported. Mr Matin,53, said: "He has used my disabled child to enter the UK."I want ot see him sent back to Bangladesh. We want justice. He is not a holy man. What he has done to my family and my child has ruined everything." Ms Begum's parents had hoped the imam, who was highly regarded in Bangladesh for his ability to recite the whole of the Koran, would provide their daughter with the care she needed.But Mr Alis' friends defended him. Rukshana Begum,30, said Mr Ali had not been told of all his wife's problems-only that she was deaf. She added he was granted leave to remain in 2003 but did not leave his wife until a year later.

Cartoon protester was 'cheerleader'


And they don't mean he shouted "Yea, team." From The Guardian,

A British Muslim chanted "7/7 on its way" and "Europe you will pay with your blood" at a demonstration over cartoons of the prophet Mohammed, a court has heard.
Abdul Saleem, 31, was the "cheerleader" of hundreds of protesters who gathered to protest over the publication in a number of European countries, the Old Bailey heard. David Perry QC, prosecuting, said the cartoons which were first published in Denmark had sparked demonstrations across the continent and in the Middle East.
A large number of Muslims believe their religion forbids "any pictorial depiction or representation" of the prophet, a jury was told. Mr Perry said Saleem had been captured on film chanting slogans, which also included "bin Laden on his way" for the crowd to respond.
"There is the defendant addressing the crowd denouncing democracy, making it clear that European countries will pay for what they have done, even the United Kingdom where the cartoons were not even published.
"He made it clear that Europeans had to pay, that blood would be spilled, and that this was necessary. He made reference to the suicide bombings in London and he encouraged the crowd to chant the words that he himself used."

MPACUK: "Bin Laden Gave Angry Young Muslims a Blueprint"

The UK’s Sky News recently aired this charming propaganda piece by the Muslim Public Affairs Committee (MPACUK), ostensibly arguing for Muslim involvement in democracy.
But MPACUK’s goal, as Asghar Bukhari explicitly says in a jaw dropper of an introduction, is outlined in a blueprint given to "angry young Muslims" by Osama bin Laden, when he launched the mass murder attacks of September 11. TheyMadeItUp.


Asghar Bukhari: Over two million Muslims in Britain, many of us are very, very angry. And [some] of us are [ready] to do something about it.
It’s often been a violent foreign reaction to British foreign policy. It’s just never reached the shores of Britain.
9/11 changed all that. Bin Laden gave angry young Muslims a blueprint to bring about that change.
[Cut to scene of burning World Trade Center.]
By flying planes into the Twin Towers, bin Laden was sending a message: that while most Muslim leaders had [failed] to challenge foreign policy, he had not.
Yet, there is another way. Involvement in a democratic process could give us an ethical foreign policy far more effectively than violence ever could.
Bin Laden’s blueprint, however, ends up in the complete abolition of democracy, in favor of shari’a law. If involvement in the democratic process is intended to achieve the destruction of that process, is it correct to call that "democracy at work?"
And what kind of "ethical foreign policy" is Bukhari talking about, if the model for that policy is Osama bin Laden?

UK Prison Toilets Now Shari'a-Compliant

Some British Muslim prison inmates will now be able to Just Poop™ while facing Mecca.
Toilets in one London prison are getting a face-lift — or rather, a change in direction — to accommodate Muslim inmates who can’t use them while facing Mecca, a British newspaper reported.
Government officials ackowledged using tax dollars for the changes to the facilities, but maintained that moving the toilets was part of "on-going refurbishment," according to an article in The Sun.
Islamic code prohibits Muslims from facing or turning their backs on the direction of prayer when they use the bathroom. Muslim prisoners complained of having to sit sideways on toilets so as to not break code.
Faith leaders in the government pressured officials to approve turning the toilets 90 degrees at HMP Brixton in London.
A member of the Muslim Brotherhood front group Muslim American Society was asked to comment:
A Muslim American rights worker commended the London prison system for their actions, but said the problem, so far, doesn’t appear to be an issue in the U.S.
"There have been very significant and numerous complaints at U.S. prisons on issues of regulating hygiene and respect for dietary laws," said Ibrahim Ramey, director of human and civil rights work for Muslim America Society. However, Ramey said he was unaware of any specific complaints regarding the direction of toilets in U.S. prisons.

Asylum seeker attacked young girl

An asylum seeker who was jailed for several sex attacks but was allowed to stay in Britain has been found guilty of further assaults on a young girl.
Sadiq Mohammed, 32, was found guilty of abducting and sexually assaulting a girl of seven in Bristol in May 2006.
Mohammed, of Barton Hill, was jailed for four years in 2000 for indecently assaulting a 55-year-old woman and trying to attack two others.
Mohammed, from Somalia, will be sentenced later at Bristol Crown Court.
'Public protection'
Four years after being released from jail, Mohammed took the seven-year-old girl from outside a corner shop and sexually assaulted her in his flat.
He denied one charge of child abduction and assault, but the jury at Bristol Crown Court took just under one hour on Tuesday to find him guilty on both counts.
Speaking after the hearing the victim's father, who cannot be named for legal reasons, said he was relieved.
He said: "Justice has been served today. We are very glad about the verdict."
Commenting on why Mohammed had not been deported, a Home Office spokesman said: "The government has made clear that public protection is the overarching priority of the Home Office.
"As part of this we have made clear that we will seek to deport foreign national prisoners who have committed a serious crime as early as possible in their sentence."

A Somali asylum seeker who was jailed for several sex attacks but was allowed to stay in Britain has been jailed indeterminately for a further attack.

Monday, January 29, 2007

Men charged under Terrorism Act

Two men held after police searches of properties in West Yorkshire have been charged under the Terrorism Act.
Rizwan Ditta, 29, and Mohammad Dilal, 25, both from Halifax, will appear before City of Westminster Magistrates' Court in London on Tuesday.
The men were arrested following an inquiry led by the Metropolitan Police.
Mr Ditta faces 13 charges connected to possessing computer files and Mr Dilal is accused of two offences in relation to a disc, a computer file and CDs.
Anti-terrorism officers from Metropolitan and West Yorkshire Police forces arrested the men in the Pellon area of Halifax on 23 January.
'Sound of Jihad'
Mr Ditta, of Royd Terrace, was charged under section 57(1) and 58(1) of the act with having items for a purpose connected with terrorism or that are likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism.
He is alleged to have possessed several computer files with titles such as Attack Against American Troops, Sound of Jihad, and Hamas Bomb.
Mr Dilal, of Thrum Hall Close, was charged under 58(1)(b) of the act with having items likely to be useful to a person committing an act of terrorism.
It is alleged that "without reasonable excuse" Dilal had a record containing information of a kind likely to be useful to a person committing an act of terrorism, which was five copies of a CD entitled The Manhattan Raid and a computer file of the same title.
He is also accused of having possessed a disc containing a clip entitled Al-Qaeda

Sunday, January 28, 2007

Dark Ages vs. Modern Medicine

When Islamic fanaticism meets the 21st Century British health system, it’s the children who suffer: Muslims urged to shun ‘unholy’ vaccines.

A MUSLIM doctors’ leader has provoked an outcry by urging British Muslims not to vaccinate their children against diseases such as measles, mumps and rubella because it is "un-Islamic".
Dr Abdul Majid Katme, head of the Islamic Medical Association, is telling Muslims that almost all vaccines contain products derived from animal and human tissue, which make them "haram", or unlawful for Muslims to take.
Islam permits only the consumption of halal products, where the animal has had its throat cut and bled to death while God’s name is invoked.
Islam also forbids the eating of any pig meat, which Katme says is another reason why vaccines should be avoided, as some contain or have been made using pork-based gelatine.

muslims demand own hospitals

what being taught in muslim schools in u.k.

"There are ten types of filth and impurities: urine, faeces, semen, carrion, blood of carrion, dogs, pigs, disbelievers"

(Text being taught at The Hawza Ilmiyya Islamic school, Willesden, London. From: The Times, Apr 20, 2006)

Jihad and Sharia preaching in British mosques, and its implications

In this week's Jihad Watch videoblog at Hot Air, I discuss the Dispatches documentary that recently uncovered Islamic supremacism being preached in mosques that had been considered moderate. This underscores the necessity of doing what so few dare to do: discuss the elements of Islam that are fueling the jihad. This must be done, for the "extremists" are using those elements of Islam to recruit terrorists, and thus that recruitment cannot be stopped without confronting the way in which it is being done. Contrary to D'Souza, Lowry, and others, this shouldn't hurt and radicalize genuine moderates: if they're serious about Islamic reform, they shouldn't be enraged by a discussion of what needs reforming.

Saturday, January 27, 2007

Muslim Council of Britain Shuts Down Holocaust Memorial

The Bolton City Council in Manchester has bowed to the vile demands of the radical Islamic front group calling itself the Muslim Council of Britain, and banned Holocaust Day.
IN A move widely seen to be bowing to Muslim pressure, Bolton Council has scrapped its Holocaust Memorial Day event.
The council is to replace it with a Genocide Memorial Day in June. This is in line with the policy of the Muslim Council of Britain, which continues to
boycott HMD and is asking for a Genocide Day, which will also mark "the ongoing genocide and human rights abuses of Palestinians" by Israelis.
The council decision was made in consultation with the town’s Interfaith Council.
But Rabbi Joseph Lever of United Synagogue who has participated in the Bolton event for around three years was not consulted on the decision.
He said: "I mourn the fact that the Holocaust Memorial Day event
will not take place in Bolton this year."
Louis Rapaport, president of the Jewish Representative Council of Greater Manchester, was equally disappointed that the Jewish community was not consulted.
He said: "Bolton, alone of all the local authorities in our area, is not
having an HMD event which is a government recommendation." He added: "There may not be many Jews in Bolton but the day is supposed to have an educational message to the whole community.
"I can’t help feeling the decision was influenced by Bolton’s large Muslim community."

BBC2 will tackle Islam debate



BBC2 is launching a new three-part series called The Retreat in which volunteers will live in a remote Islamic study centre to learn about and practise Islam.
Six people will spend a month at the Alqueria de Rosales retreat in Spain where they will pray daily, study the religion and even fast for the holy month of Ramadan.
The show – from the team that produced The Monastery and The Convent – aims to shed light on the religion and broader questions of faith today.
And TV bosses will also be hoping for some lively debates between their hand-picked group.
Muslim Aisha Alvi is a 31-year-old single law graduate from Cheshire whose work specialises in Islamic law. At 14 she campaigned successfully for the right to wear the hijab at school.
Khadejah Begag is a 32-year-old married mum-of-one. Formerly Claire Sullivan, she converted to Islam 10 years ago and married an Algerian man. But she worries she is losing her faith and is fed up with abuse since 9/11 and 7/7.
Sarah "Pom" Jenkins is 28 and single. She is a psychotherapist in London, was brought up a Christian but is still seeking a faith, having tried alternatives including Kabbalah.
The group will be led by scholar Abdullah Trevathan. He lives in Spain but also works as a lecturer at the University of Roehampton in Twickenham.
Azim "Han" Ziaee is 34, single and an advertising salesman from Birmingham. He was born into a Muslim family but rebelled from an early age.
Muddassar Ahmed is 23, single and from East London. He leads a hectic life running various businesses and is rarely off his mobile. He sees Islam as a chore rather than a conviction.
Divorcee Simon Yarrow, 36 is a scuba diving instructor. He describes himself as a "questioning agnostic". He beat cancer in his twenties and prefers rationalism to religion.
The series will air from the end of February.

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Friday, January 26, 2007

Islamic school raided by police stays open

Still more UK dhimmi follies. "Islamic school raided by police stays open," by Julie Henry in the Sunday Telegraph,

The Government has failed to close down a Muslim school that was raided by anti-terror police, despite being advised by Ofsted to deregister it.
More than 100 police carried out a dawn raid at Jameah Islamiyah, a private school near Crowborough in East Sussex, in September.
Officers remained at the site for more than three weeks before the investigation was wound up.
The operation was linked to the earlier arrest of 14 men in London in connection with an alleged terrorist recruitment network. Twelve people were charged and remanded in custody to await trial. No arrests were made in connection with the school.
At the time, the Department for Education and Skills (DfES) said that Ofsted was due to visit the school and, if improvements that were deemed necessary after an earlier inspection in 2005 had not been made, the department would "delete the school from the Register of Independent Schools and shut it down".
The Sunday Telegraph has obtained a confidential report which shows the school was the subject of a monitoring visit by Ofsted in November and that a report was sent to the DfES recommending the school be deregistered.
However, no action has been taken and the school remains on the Register of Independent schools.

This is the REAL racism on Channel 4

Channel 4 has done us all a great service this week in exposing the vile racism and hatred which lurks within British society.
The camera has laid bare the vicious enmity which so many of our fellow citizens harbour towards those of different ethnic backgrounds and religious beliefs.
But, no, I'm not talking about Big Brother, I'm referring to Dispatches, which was broadcast on Monday night.
Secret filming of incendiary sermons at some of Britain's leading 'moderate' mosques reinforced the findings of Sue Reid's investigation in last Saturday's Daily Mail into Islamic rabble-rousing in the Home Counties.
It would be sloppy shorthand to describe the revelations as 'shocking'. Alarming, maybe, but not much of a shock.
This documentary only served to confirm what many of us have long taken as read - namely that what is preached inside a substantial number of Muslim places of worship in Britain is diametrically opposed to what 'community leaders' say for public consumption.
Over four months, Dispatches recorded an assortment of mad mullahs calling for 'jihad' (holy war) against the 'kuffaar' (unbelievers).
Muslims are urged to hit women who refuse to wear the hijab, kill homosexuals, reject British law and democracy and set up in this country an Islamic state within a state.
Praise is lavished on those who kill British soldiers, particularly the Taliban. "The hero of Islam is the one who separated his head from his shoulder," screams one imam at the Sparkbrook mosque, in Birmingham, which has been hailed by Tony Blair for its contribution to its "multi-faith and multicultural activities".
The unrelenting message is one of Muslim world domination and denigration of 'infidels'. At the nearby Green Lane mosque, Channel 4' s undercover reporter was directed to a secret website where the popular convert Abu Assama preaches that Jews and Christians are the enemy of Islam and it is the duty of all Muslims to fight them.
Green Lane mosque, bankrolled by Saudi Arabia, is the headquarters of the radical organisation Markali Jamat Ahi-Hadith, which is affiliated to the 'moderate' Muslim Council of Britain.
At the Regent's Park mosque, in London, as well as many others throughout Britain, DVDs disseminating the most disgusting slurs on the 'kuffaar' are on open sale.
Needless to say, the 'moderates' who run these mosques deny any knowledge of the preachers of hate and their violent propaganda, which almost exclusively follows the teachings of the extremist Wahhabi movement in Saudi Arabia.
They claim not to be able to control what is sold in their bookshops or what is said in their mosques or community halls, which are hired to a number of outside groups.
If they popped their heads round the door for 30 seconds they wouldn't be left in much doubt.
Can you imagine what would happen if a Conservative Club was regularly letting its function room to white supremacists?
A couple of weeks ago, after the Guardian had wasted seven months on an undercover investigation telling us - shock, horror! - that the BNP is pretty unpleasant, I wondered why neither they nor the rest of the so-called 'liberal' media ever bothered looking in to what goes on in Britain's mosques.
So Dispatches is to be congratulated on this exposé and its reporter on his bravery. If there were any justice, this programme would win a Bafta. But it won't.
The 'anti-racism' brigade aren't interested in these inconvenient truths about Islamic fanatics.
I looked in vain for any mention of this programme in the Guardian, or its mini-me, the Independent.
Nothing, nada, zilch.
Unless I missed something, it didn't even warrant a line on Channel 4 News, which immediately preceded Dispatches - even though cross-promotion is the lifeblood of any TV network.
Curiously, there have been no questions in the House, either.
Surely the police were investigating the Dispatches revelations with a view to bringing prosecutions for incitement to violence and racial hatred - especially against the backdrop of this week's London Transport terror trial.
Er, not as such.
Perhaps the Old Bill are too busy sifting through the e-mails about 'racism' on Big Brother.
In the normal course of events, I wouldn't even dignify this fatuous freak show with any comment. I've never seen it and have no intention of ever watching it.
I don't suppose Gordon Brown has seen it, either, any more than he listens to the Arctic Monkeys.
But that didn't stop him commenting on it, even though he hasn't said a word about the increase in mortgage rates, the Himalayan personal debt mountain or the highest inflation figures for 14 years - which are supposed to come within his area of competence.
Most MPs watch TV only when they're appearing on it. But still 24 of them have found the time to sign a Commons motion expressing outrage about what a pig in lipstick said to a Bollywood actress they'd never heard of.
Any opportunity to flaunt their 'anti-racist' credentials, while remaining blithely indifferent to the latest evidence of the very real threat Islamic fanaticism poses to the safety and security of our society.
For crying out loud. Channel 4 News, which completely ignored Dispatches, has been filling its boots with Big Brother 'racism'.
In India, where no one has seen it either, effigies of Big Brother's producers have been burnt in the street by an 'angry mob' of half a dozen layabouts from central casting rounded up for the benefit of the British TV cameras.
If you believe the hype, this is a rerun of the ridiculous Danish cartoons episode. Which it isn't.
I'm sure the overwhelming majority of the Indian people couldn't give a monkey's.
If anyone is to blame, it's Shilpa Shetty's agent, who should have watched a few old videos of Big Brother before pitching her into this mindless menagerie and exposing her to the high priestess of the slagocracy.
Still, it allows everyone to revel in their own self-righteousness and gives the Guardianistas the chance to lord their moral superiority over Britain's burgeoning underclass of 'white trash' (no racism, there, then).
We're told there have been more than 20,000 phone calls of complaint. I imagine every handset connected to the Endemol switchboard has been on speed dial.
The show might have lost its sponsor, but there'll be another one along in a minute.
Most depressing of all is that off the back of this artificial outrage, the viewing figures for Big Brother have risen to 5.7 million.
Meanwhile, Dispatches: Undercover Mosque attracted only 1.5 million viewers. It deserves a wider audience.
If you missed it, you can catch the programme again tonight - or rather in the early hours of tomorrow morning.

From Aladdin to Lost Ark, Muslims get angry at 'bad guy' film images

ANGRY Muslims yesterday complained that films always portrayed them as terrorists and villains — even in the cartoon Aladdin.
A string of blockbusters — even those made before Osama Bin Laden’s Twin Towers attack — were accused of giving Islam a "bad name".
They included the 1981 smash Raiders Of The Lost Ark, Bruce Willis’s The Siege and Halle Berry flick Executive Decision.
And the 1998 Bruce Willis movie The Siege — about a terror attack on New York — reinforced the "stereotype of the Muslim being violent and ready to be martyred".
The film "brings into focus some of the worst American fears — Muslims or Arabs attacking the country, murdering men, women and children and attacking the way of life".
It also hints that "terrorist acts are intrinsic to Islamic beliefs and practices". The 1996 Halle Berry movie Executive Decision was attacked as "almost defining terrorism as an Islamic ritual".
The report called for British film censors to be given greater power to cut out "objectionable material".
And it said media watchdogs should be more effective in making sure Muslims got "responsible coverage".
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Thursday, January 25, 2007

Police chief calls on communities

The police are considering proposals to share intelligence and information with Muslims before launching anti-terror operations.
The plans, announced by the Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair, are part of a wider vision to engage more with British Muslims whose support police need in fighting terrorism.

Schools 'must teach Britishness'

Schools in England should teach "core British values" alongside cultural diversity, a report will say.
A review of how schools teach citizenship and diversity found there was not enough emphasis on British identity and history.
The study, by Sir Keith Ajegbo, says pupils should be taught more about what binds them together.
Education Secretary Alan Johnson will say schools should "play a leading role in creating community cohesion".
He will say it will be compulsory for secondary school pupils up to the age of 16 to learn about shared values and life in the UK in their citizenship lessons.
Sir Keith, a former head teacher of a London school and Home Office adviser, has concluded that pupils should be taught more about the history of Britain and about how British values of tolerance and respect developed.
He was asked to look at how the subject of "Citizenship" was being taught in schools. It became compulsory in England's secondary schools in 2002.
Last year schools inspectors Ofsted said the subject was taught badly in one in four schools in England.
Sir Keith's report, which was commissioned by the government, will say more needs to be done to engage white, particularly working-class pupils, with the issue of diversity.

The values our children learn at school will shape the kind of country Britain becomes Alan Johnson, Education Secretary
It will say white pupils can feel disenfranchised as much as pupils from other ethnic backgrounds.
"Many indigenous white pupils have negative perceptions of their own identity," it will say.
"It makes no sense in our report to focus on minority ethnic pupils without trying to address and understand the issues for white pupils. It is these white pupils whose attitudes are overwhelmingly important in creating community cohesion.
"Nor is there any advantage in creating confidence in minority ethnic pupils if it leaves white pupils feeling disenfranchised and resentful."
Slavery
The compulsory lessons in shared values for secondary school pupils which will be confirmed by Mr Johnson will include history topics.
At the moment, history is optional after the age of 14. The historical lessons could include topics such as slavery and the movement towards votes for all.
Mr Johnson will say Britain is a nation built from and by people from other countries.
"I believe passionately that schools can and should play a leading role in creating greater community cohesion and combating ignorance of other countries, religions and cultures," he will say.
"By 2010 one in five pupils in our schools will be from an ethnic minority - this is a challenge but also an opportunity to instil a culture of understanding and tolerance at an early age.
"The values our children learn at school will shape the kind of country Britain becomes."
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Terror suspects held for longer

Police have been granted more time to question two men arrested under the Terrorism Act 2000, Scotland Yard says.

Replace Muslim schools, says top Blair aide

Watch for Sir Cyril Taylor to be called an "Islamophobe" and worse. "Replace Muslim schools says top Blair aide," by Rob Waugh in the Yorkshire Post,

SCHOOLS which are dominated by children from Muslim families should be closed and replaced with "multi-faith" academies, a senior Government adviser has said.
Sir Cyril Taylor, chairman of the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust, said police faced problems in areas where different communities were concentrated in separate schools.
He suggested that such "segregated" schools should be replaced with privately sponsored academies.
Bradford and Leeds were among the areas where such changes could be implemented, Sir Cyril said.
But his comments were severely criticised by one senior Bradford councillor who described them as "staggering" and unfairly singling out Muslims.
That someone would say that after the Dispatches documentary, to say nothing of 7/7, is...staggering.

Tuesday, January 23, 2007

Failed London Bombers C.C.T.V.

British bomb plot suspects planned to continue jihad in Pakistan, Afghanistan after attacks in UK

An update on this jihadist cell. "British bomb plot suspects 'planned jihad'," from Reuters:
LONDON (Reuters) - Seven Britons accused of plotting to bomb clubs, trains and synagogues in England planned to take their fight to Pakistan and Afghanistan if they had succeeded, prosecutors told a court on Tuesday.
"The overall desire was to further the (cause) of jihad (Holy War) wherever and however it could be achieved," prosecution lawyer David Waters said in what police have described as Britain's biggest terrorism trial since September 11 attacks on the United States.
The seven are accused of conspiring to bomb high profile targets, possibly including London's Ministry of Sound nightclub and the huge Bluewater shopping center in Kent using bombs made from fertilizer.
The defendants -- Anthony Garcia, Jawad Akbar, Omar Khyam, his brother Shujah Mahmood, Waheed Mahmood, Nabeel Hussain, and Salahuddin Amin -- deny conspiring to cause an explosion "likely to endanger life."
Garcia, Khyam and Hussain deny possessing an article for terrorism -- the fertilizer. Khyam and Mahmood deny having aluminum powder, an ingredient in explosives.
Meanwhile, the prosecution is somewhat on trial itself for Islamophobia:
The prosecution said the trial was not a witch-hunt against the defendants' religious beliefs.
"Of course it would be ludicrous to approach the allegations in a vacuum and pretend the backdrop or religious or political motivations does not exist," Waters said.
"But having acknowledged that it is only a backdrop, what we are concerned about are allegations of crime."

Muslim father gets legal aid to fight school over veil ban



Courtroom Jihad meets UK dhimmitude and cultural weariness. Guess
who wins? "Muslim father gets legal aid to fight school over veil ban,"
by Daily Mail,

A school may be forced to allow a 12-year-old Muslim to wear a full-face veil because its local council is refusing to fund a court battle against the child's fundamentalist father.
The school told the girl it was not acceptable for her to wear the niqab – which covers all of her face except her eyes – because teachers believe it will make communication and learning difficult.
Call to tackle 'segregated' schools
But the child's Pakistan-born father is seeking a judicial review of the decision in the High Court in London.
He argues that the ban amounts to an infringement of his daughter's human rights and is understood to be receiving legal aid for his case....
The British government could ask for reciprocal recognition of the human rights of non-Muslim minorities in Muslim countries. But it won't, of course.
Its governors are meeting tonight and may vote for a climbdown because of
the council's refusal to support them, fearing costs for contesting the action could climb to £500,000.
Last year the Law Lords ruled that a Luton school was justified in barring Muslim schoolgirl Shabina Begum from wearing a jilbab, a long loose gown,
to classes – but it took a long and expensive legal fight.
Even though court costs are currently low, neighbouring Buckinghamshire County Council fears the bill could rocket if its case drags on.
Many of the school’s 1,000-plus pupils are Muslim girls, and they are allowed
to wear headscarves.
The girl is the only pupil demanding the right to wear the full-face veil. Her three elder sisters, who attended in the past, were allowed to wear the niqab when a different head was in charge.
A source at the Conservative-led council said: "With 250 other schools in the area and severe cuts to the social care budget, it would be inappropriate to spend taxpayers' money on this.
"The council backs the right of the head to enforce her uniform policy, but is not commenting about its stand on the veil."
The girl is understood to have come to school with her face covered in September and the head and governors tried to reach a compromise with her parents to no avail.
She has not been excluded, but has been out of school since early October.
A source close to the school said: "The school feels it would be inappropriate
to allow the veil because it could bring difficulties interacting with the girl, especially in lessons like drama.
"The teachers are also concerned they would not be able to see whether or not she has understood something if they cannot see her face."
Yes, drama might be tough. Of course, they could always put on The Great Train Robbery.

Five Christian fundamentalists held after anti-terror raids -- no, wait...

They weren't actually Christians at all, of course -- not that the continued non-participation of Christians in terror plotting makes any impression on the moral equivalence crowd.

"Five held after anti-terror raids," from the BBC,

Five men have been arrested under terrorism laws in two separate operations, police have confirmed.
Police arrested two men, aged 25 and 29, during morning raids in Halifax, West Yorkshire.
Another two men, both 24, were arrested in Cheetham Hill, Manchester, and a fifth man, 32, was held after his arrest in that city's Longsight area.
Police said there was no evidence "any of the men were involved in planned terror activity in the UK".
The men in Halifax, thought to be British Pakistanis, are being held on suspicion of involvement in facilitating terrorist activities overseas....

Monday, January 22, 2007

UK Islamic Groups Organized Campaign Against "Undercover Mosque"

Perhaps more disturbing than the radical Islamic ranting revealed by Dispatches: Undercover Mosque is the reaction to the documentary by British government.
There was none. Not a single MP has spoken out against the misogyny and Islamic supremacism we see is being preached in Britain’s supposedly "mainstream" mosques.
The UK Daily Pundit has evidence that the silence is due to a concerted campaign by British Islamic advocacy groups to delegitimize the report, using their time-honored tactics of victimhood and intimidation, starting a week before the show was broadcast: Muslim Groups Organised Campaign to Silence Critics Over Channel 4’s Dispatches.

Sunday, January 21, 2007

Boy, 15, Hit With Hammer

A 15-year-old boy was pinned down in a school playground and hit repeatedly around the head with a hammer yesterday afternoon by a gang of men who entered the school at the end of the day.
He was set upon by at least four men who came into the tennis courts at the Ridgeway school in Wroughton, Swindon, at about 4pm, according to witnesses.
The year 11 student was last night being treated for head injuries in hospital and his condition was described as stable. Eight men were arrested and were being held at the Gable Cross police station in Swindon, Wiltshire.
The school's principal, Steve Colledge, who was on duty in the grounds when the attack happened, said: "It's a shocking incident." He said the boy was "bleeding profusely, but [was] conscious at all times. He was able to tell us what happened and we were able to talk to him."
Mr Colledge said there had been a similar incident at the school before he took up his role as headteacher in September.
The mother of one child, who did not wish to be named, said an incident before Christmas may have been the trigger for yesterday's attack.


Headmaster meets parents

Headmaster meets parents

One woman told him her son had been attacked by Asians and claimed racism was rife in the comprehensive.

She said: "This was a racist attack. The school has a racism problem. Is it going to take one of our children to die before they do something?"

Another parent said: "I'm not having my son coming to school. He was attacked last year and nothing was done about it."

Police have been questioning staff and pupils about the assault. Up to 100 pupils are thought to have witnessed the attack.

Mr Colledge told reporters that the incident could have happened as a result of an argument between a white and an Asian pupil.

He said it is predominantly a white school, with Asian pupils making up less than 5%, and counselling would be offered for children who witnessed the incident.

Britain open to terror suspects in EU loophole

Foreign terrorist suspects are free to enter Britain because an EU "wanted" list cannot be checked by British immigration officers.

New row in Britain over Muslim customs and professional duties

Clash of Civilizations Update from Britain -- or rather, Acquiescence to Islamic Customs by Supine Dhimmis Update. From AFP,

A Muslim woman police officer refused to shake hands with her force’s chief, police said Saturday, amid a new row in Britain over religious customs and professional duties.
The officer was granted the exemption for religious reasons at a graduation ceremony where newly-qualified recruits met Sir Ian Blair, the head of London’s Metropolitan Police force, a police spokeswoman said.
The officer, who has not been named, reportedly refused out of respect for a strict school of Muslim faith which dictates that a woman must not shake hands with, or kiss, a man other than her husband or close relative.
The "request was only granted" in order not to spoil what is a key event, the police spokeswoman said.
She said that Sir Ian, Britain’s most senior police officer, questioned her refusal to shake his hand, but the officer insisted she put her duties above her personal beliefs unless she had a choice to do otherwise....
A senior police source told the Mail On Sunday that "Sir Ian was informed on his arrival of the officer’s request" during the graduation ceremony on December 21.
"This has never happened before and he was bloody furious. But he agreed to go along with it so as not to cause a scene," the source was quoted as saying.
Bloody furious, eh. But above all, Sir Ian, avoid a scene.
It is not just Muslims who avoid shaking hands in certain circumstances. But it is only Muslims who have a ready-made replacement for the whole panoply of societal norms, and many of them in Britain are quite obviously determined to impose that replacement upon the country as a whole.


Muslims in police will rise up, Bakri insists
Moderate British Muslims in the police, Armed Forces and Civil Service will one day revolt against the system to "crush it from within", according to Omar Bakri Mohammed, the notorious Islamic extremist.

Saturday, January 20, 2007

Five terror suspects to leave UK

Five Algerian terror suspects detained in Britain have voluntarily agreed to be deported, the BBC has learned.

Veil row woman challenges sacking


A Muslim classroom assistant sacked by a West Yorkshire school for refusing to take off her veil during lessons is appealing against her dismissal.
Aishah Azmi, 24, was asked to remove the veil after Headfield Church of England school in Dewsbury said pupils found it hard to understand her.
She refused and was sacked after an employment tribunal ruled that she had not been discriminated against.
Mrs Azmi has now lodged papers with the Employment Appeals Tribunal in London.
In October, an employment tribunal dismissed her three claims for discrimination and harassment, although it did agree she had been victimised by Kirklees Council, the local education authority.
She was awarded £1,100 in damages.
Religious beliefs
Mrs Azmi had said she was willing to remove her veil in front of children, but not if male colleagues were present.
The school and authority argued that pupils needed to see her face to understand what she was saying in lessons.
Mrs Azmi's lawyer Nick Whittingham, of the Kirklees Law Centre, said on Saturday that her appeal would again focus on alleged discrimination around her religious beliefs.
It was currently going through a "sifting process" before being listed for a hearing in London, which he expected to take place in the first half of this year.
Nobody at Kirklees Council was available for comment on Saturday.

Muslim store worker refuses smoker cigs

A SMOKER was refused cigarettes at a Cambridge store because the Muslim shop assistant said it was against her religion to sell tobacco.
A 31-year-old woman, who asked not to be identified, was shocked when she attempted to buy a pack of 20 cigarettes at the WH Smith store in Market Street and was turned down.
She said: "I asked for a pack of 20 Lambert & Butler and the woman behind the desk asked me if they were cigarettes.
"When I said they were she told me that it was against her religion to sell them - I couldn't believe my ears.
"I rang up the manager to complain and he said the shop assistant has to ask someone else to serve them for her if a customer wants tobacco.
"If she had just said, I can't serve you, then that would have been fair enough, but the thing that really annoyed me was the way she gave me a lecture as well.
"She started saying she doesn't agree with smoking, that it kills you - I was really gob-smacked."
When contacted by the News, the store's assistant manager, who refused to give her name, said: "It is true that Muslims can't sell cigarettes - I used to be Jehovah's Witness and I wouldn't on religious grounds either."
She said the customer should have realised the shop assistant was a Muslim, and would not sell her tobacco, because she was "sitting there in her full robes".
Asked why the store had someone who would not sell tobacco working behind the till, she said: "It is against the law to discriminate against people on religious grounds".
However, a leading Muslim denied the claim it was against Islam to sell tobacco, and said he had Muslim friends who smoke.
Asim Mumtaz, president of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Association in Cambridge, said: "I don't think there is any basis for refusing to sell cigarettes.
"Islam, like most religions, is against anything that injures health or the body, but there is no ban on cigarettes or on smoking.
"The holy Koran is quite specific about intoxicants, alcohol and other drugs which cause a person to lose control are forbidden, but cigarettes are not forbidden so I am surprised by this."

Brown: I'll get Muslims to take pride in Britain

And not just pride, but Churchillian pride. But he doesn't explain how he will do this, or how he intends to confront Islamic supremacism. From the Daily Mail,

Gordon Brown today signalled that his first task as Prime Minister would be to get Muslims to rally around a "Churchillian" pride in Britain.
Finally admitting that he expected to take over from Tony Blair this year, the Chancellor said that he wanted to promote a "modern patriotism" as an alternative to Islamic extremism. Mr Brown said: "I believe we can do more to separate some Muslims from the dark forces that they can be susceptible to."
Good luck

Winston Churchill on IslamThe River War 1899

How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men. Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities, but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome. -- Sir Winston Churchill (The River War, first edition, Vol. II, pages 248-50 [London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1899]).

How will Gordon Brown perform his trick?

Thursday, January 18, 2007

American-Born Imam Spews Message of Hate in England

Abu Usamah is from New Jersey and preached at the Islamic Center of Peoria. Did anyone there agree with him? What are those who heard him doing now? Does anyone know? Does anyone care? No worries: his teachings there were "moderate."
A report by George Kindel for FoxNews, with thanks to Sr. Soph:
NEW YORK — A New Jersey-born Muslim cleric with links to a suspected Al Qaeda operative who surfaced at a college not far from the cleric's Peoria, Ill., mosque the day before the Sept. 11 attacks has found a new home.
The imam now is spewing his message of hate to a growing group of followers at a mosque in Birmingham, England.
His target: the United States, the United Kingdom, Christians and Jews.
Abu Usamah at-Thahabi, who preached at the Islamic Center of Peoria in 2001, is the subject of a British news documentary that revealed Monday how he regularly exhorts worshippers at the Green Lane Masjid, or mosque, in Birmingham to hate Westerners, whom he calls "pathological liars" and "kuffar," a derogatory term for non-Muslims.
Click here to view the British news documentary.Abu Usamah also calls for the public crucifixion of all "kuffar" and says they should be "left there to bleed to death for three days."
Crucifixion of those who cause fitnah, or trouble in the land, is in accord with Qur'an 5:33: "The only reward of those who make war upon Allah and His messenger and strive after corruption in the land will be that they will be killed or crucified, or have their hands and feet on alternate sides cut off, or will be expelled out of the land. Such will be their degradation in the world, and in the Hereafter theirs will be an awful doom."
Abu Usamah, who was born in New Jersey and is 42 or 43 years old, was the imam in Peoria when federal agents swooped down in December 2001 and arrested Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri, a Qatari student at Bradley University, on charges that he used false documents to open bank accounts and was in possession of a telephone credit card used to call a number in Dubai that federal agents said was linked to reputed Al Qaeda financier and Sept. 11 organizer Mustafa al-Hawsawi.
Sources tell FOX News that Abu Usamah is a mysterious character — no one, including federal agents and fellow imams, seems to know what his name was prior to his conversion to Islam.
But sources in Peoria say that though his public teachings there were moderate, he occasionally stepped over the line into anti-Semitic rhetoric.
Just prior to the invasion of Iraq in 2003, he called President Bush a "pathological liar" and constantly argued to his followers that "Jews controlled the media."...
Abu Usamah, in the days immediately after Sept. 11, asked Peoria residents not to judge the Muslim community by the actions of the terrorists who carried out the attack and thanked the local Christian community for its support.
"More faiths, different groups reached out to us," he told the Peoria Journal Star newspaper a year after the attacks.
He went on to thank "those open-minded people who judge everyone individually."
The New Jersey-born imam, who claims to have studied a strict version of Islam at the Islamic University of Medina in Saudi Arabia, has since changed his tune.
"Lying is part of their religion," Abu Usamah is heard telling his followers in the special report produced by the British news show "Dispatches" on Channel 4.
"They do whatever they want to do. They are liars, they are terrorists themselves. They are lying, you can't believe them.
"They are pathological liars," he rants.
Ironic in light of, for example, Ibn Kathir's commentary on Qur'an 3:28: "...'unless you indeed fear a danger from them' meaning, except those believers who in some areas or times fear for their safety from the disbelievers. In this case, such believers are allowed to show friendship to the disbelievers outwardly, but never inwardly. For instance, Al-Bukhari recorded that Abu Ad-Darda' said, 'We smile in the face of some people although our hearts curse them.' Al-Bukhari said that Al-Hasan said, 'The Tuqyah [taqiyyah] is allowed until the Day of Resurrection.'"
He also is heard ticking off an enemies list that includes mainstream British culture.
"America, the U.K., Germany and France, they have come against the religion of Islam," he declares.
"Popular culture … if you're a person who gives yourself to that, your mind is going to be controlled by the so-called powers to be, who make these manmade laws."
The mosque's official Web site says its purpose is to counter Muslim stereotyping, but the Channel 4 report found there is a secret chat room area of the site that only mosque members know about, where At-Thahabi's lectures are broadcast.
It is in this chat room, the report says, that Abu Usamah preaches the creation of a "total Islamic state" that advocates harsh punishments for non-believers.
"Whoever changes his religion from Islam," he declares, "kill him, in the Islamic state."
This is a quote from Muhammad, who said: "Whoever changes his religion, kill him" (من بدل دينه فاقتلوه).

Abu Hamza must pay £1m for trial.


Jailed radical Islamic cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri has been made liable for Legal Aid costs of more than £1m for his defence at an Old Bailey trial.
The cleric was jailed for seven years in February 2006 for soliciting to murder and inciting racial hatred.
Abu Hamza might not be able to pay, a judge said, but his judgement would allow the Legal Services Commission to seize his assets.
London-based Abu Hamza is seeking leave to appeal against the decision.
Lord Justice Hughes said he was making an order for the recovery of the full costs of the defence because of the "inaccurate and false information" Abu Hamza had provided the court about his financial interests.
It was claimed that Abu Hamza bought a £220,000 house in Greenford, west London, while in jail despite his assets being frozen by the Treasury under anti-terrorism measures.
An investigation was subsequently carried out by the Legal Services Commission.
Designated terror suspects are not permitted to transfer any forms of funds or assets, including property, the government has said.

Wednesday, January 17, 2007

Jihad terror suspect evades police by taking shelter in mosque

Why didn't the Vast Majority of Moderates® in the mosque turn him over
to police? "Terrorist suspect flees police in mosque," by Daniel McGrory
and Richard Ford in the TimesOnline,

A British-born terror suspect was on the run last night after breaking
his control order and evading police by taking shelter in a mosque.
The man, aged 26, is thought to have escaped abroad after claiming that
he wanted to undertake terror training in Afghanistan.
His disappearance is a further embarrassment for John Reid, the Home Secretary, as he is the third terror suspect under a control order to escape
in less than six months.
It raises serious questions about the effectiveness of the orders, which were introduced by Government in 2005 and are designed to control and
monitor terrorist suspects who can’t be prosected or deported from Britain.
Opposition MPs last night demanded that the suspect be identified.
Currently there is an anonymity order in place and the Government
has not applied to overturn it.
The man, who is of Pakistani origin and lives in Manchester, was
only placed under the control order this month. But within four
days he disappeared. Police sources say that the man failed to show up
at a local police station to surrender his passport. He was traced to a
nearby mosque, where community leaders say he had sought sanctuary.
Police rarely enter a mosque: they began discussions with both local
community figures and leading officials connected to the mosque.
It is understood that while these talks were taking place, the young
suspect was helped to escape through a back entrance while officers
from Greater Manchester Police were stationed outside.

Tuesday, January 16, 2007

Why are British Asians turning to drugs?

Second and third generation British Asians are using class A drugs more than ever before, according to a new report.
But who exactly is using and why?
I met Naz, a 26-year-old professional British Bangladeshi in a swanky central London bar.
He started using hard drugs as a teenager - cocaine and ecstasy being his drugs of choice.
But damage to his liver and kidneys means he has been forced to stop.
Another score and he could be dead.

I took drugs because I enjoyed it. Wanted the experience. Drugs are easy to come by and cheap Naz, former drug user

"Just water for me please," he says as we ordered our drinks.
Naz says his drug use is a consequence of British club culture. His ethnicity, he says, has nothing to do with it.
"I don't think it's about race - it's about society as a whole," he said.
"I took drugs because I enjoyed it. Wanted the experience. Drugs are easy to come by and cheap.
"As I say, last week I went out with my brothers and sisters. They took drugs and I couldn't.
"I went home early. I suppose life is more boring but I guess it'll turn out for the best."
Naz's experience is common. British Asian use of hard drugs is catching up with the rest of Britain according to research conducted by the University of Central Lancashire for the NHS.
Alternative therapies
Nearly a third of those surveyed said they had used an illegal substance. And Just over 16% said they'd tried a class A drug.
So if you are hooked what is the chance of getting adequate treatment?
An hour's drive west of London is an holistic practice in Reading.
It offers a range of alternative therapies to clients from experts who donate their time for free.
It is one of only a handful targeting black and Asian addicts.
Its founders, two British Muslims who are both ex-users, say Asian communities are oblivious to conventional services or feel they are only for white addicts.

I don't like dealing to my own people, but if they want it I'd rather they got it from me, not anyone else, because I know my stuff is clean Amjid, convicted drug dealer
Irfan Azad who launched the Black and Asian Narcotics and Alcohol Service says: "White counsellors, when they see a user coming in they don't see their backgrounds.
"They don't understand the reasons they started. Family pressures, forced marriages, there are certain expectations on Asian people.
"Trying to explain that to people with no experience of these backgrounds is hard.
"That's partly what we're going to concentrate on - training counsellors - white, black or Asian to try to understand."
Of course, as the lives of young British Asians begin to reflect those of their mainstream counterparts it is not just drug using, but drug dealing that is becoming a problem.
'Already hooked'
After dark, Beresford Park in Reading becomes a no-go zone for young families as it transforms into a haunt for dealers.
This is where I met Amjid, a 24-year-old British-Kashmiri and convicted drug dealer.
He started dealing to fund his own habit, but earning up to £5,000 a day has itself proved addictive.
I asked how he felt about dealing in a community that condemns drug use.
"It's not about that. I don't think of myself as British Asian, British black all that stuff. We're just dealers," he said.
Combating drugs 'critical'
But isn't he adding to the problem, I asked. "No, no, I don't get them hooked, they're already on it," he said.
"It's just a business see. Look, I don't like dealing to my own people, but if they want it I'd rather they got it from me, not anyone else, because I know my stuff is clean."
And what about breaking the law?
"Well I've just come out for heroin [dealing] but they didn't find anything on me see.
"That's the thing, I don't do it on the street anymore, I run a crew, and if it wasn't me doing that, if I ended up in jail or got shot, someone else would take my place."
The problem with drugs in Asian communities is now critical say researchers - a failure to tackle the issue could criminalise British Asian youth for generations to come

Suicide bomb' CCTV shown to jury

A jury has been shown CCTV footage of the moment an alleged suicide bomber tried to detonate a device on a London underground train on 21 July 2005.
The pictures taken on a train near Oval station, south London, were played to the jury at Woolwich Crown Court.
Muktar Ibrahim, Manfo Asiedu, Hussein Osman, Yassin Omar, Ramzi Mohammed and Adel Yahya deny conspiracy to murder and conspiracy to cause explosions.
Prosecutors allege the failed bid was planned before the 7 July 2005 attacks.
The footage shows Mr Mohammed, 25, boarding the train with a rucksack, and turning so that the rucksack on his back faces towards a mother and her child before apparently trying and failing to detonate a bomb.
The jury watched as the CCTV footage showed all the passengers on board the carriage trying to get away from the scene except for fireman Angus Campbell who remonstrated with Mr Mohammed.
"Mohammed said not that it was a bomb but rather 'what's the matter, it is bread, it isn't me, it was that', pointing to the rucksack," prosecuting counsel Nigel Sweeney QC said.
Mr Mohammed is later seen running up the escalator after the train had arrived at Oval as he made his way out of the station, chased by several members of the public.
Later on in Tuesday's proceedings, the jury heard the contents of what the prosecution says is a suicide note written by Mr Mohammed.
He wrote of being admitted "to the highest station in paradise", Mr Sweeney said.
It was also thought the plotters made a suicide video, Mr Sweeney added.
'Crowded platform'
The court also heard details of Mr Omar's alleged failed attempt to detonate his bomb on a Victoria Line tube approaching Warren Street station.
Afterwards, as he fled Warren Street station, heading north up Hampstead Road, Mr Omar approached two women in full Muslim dress, Mr Sweeney said.
"He demanded of the younger woman that she take him to her home," Mr Sweeney added.
"When she declined he said words to the effect of 'What kind of Muslim are you not helping another Muslim?'"
Mr Osman, meanwhile, is alleged to have tried to set off a bomb in his rucksack on a Hammersmith and City line tube between Latimer Road and Shepherd's Bush.
"Some passengers recall him being thrown off his feet and landing on the floor of the carriage still wearing his rucksack," Mr Sweeney said.
When the train had arrived at the open air Shepherd's Bush station, Mr Osman had squeezed himself between two carriages to hide before escaping over a trackside wall, Mr Sweeney added.
The court was also shown footage of Mr Ibrahim trying to set off his bomb on the top deck of a number 26 bus in Shoreditch.
As with all the other instances, the main explosive charge in the bomb failed to explode.
Mr Sweeney said that, while fellow accused Mr Yahya and Mr Asiedu had not tried to detonate bombs, they had "played a full part" in the bomb plots as "knowing conspirators".
"Not every soldier can fight on the frontline," he added.
The prosecution has said all of the men were would-be suicide bombers except for Mr Yahya, who was out of the country on 21 July 2005.
Mr Asiedu allegedly lost his nerve at the last moment and dumped his bomb.
'Not copycat'
Earlier, the jury heard that components for the devices started to be bought in late April or early May and that a "bomb factory" had been set up at the flat of Mr Omar in New Southgate.
"The events with which you are concerned... are plainly not some hastily-arranged repetition of the devastating events of 7/7, plainly not some hastily-arranged copycat," Mr Sweeney said.
He said the defendants had chosen to mount their attack at lunchtime to avoid enhanced rush hour security in the wake of the 7 July bombings.
'Suicide note' read to plot trial
The July 21 bomb plot trial has heard the contents of what the prosecution says is a suicide note written by the one of the defendants.
Ramzi Mohammed wrote of being admitted "to the highest station in paradise", prosecutor Nigel Sweeney QC said.
It was also thought the plotters made a suicide video to explain their reasons for the bombings, Mr Sweeney added.
Mr Mohammed and five other men deny conspiracy to murder and conspiracy to cause explosions in London.
'For Allah'
The note, allegedly signed by Mr Mohammed and found in his friend's flat, begins with a quote from the Koran.
"Verily he [Allah] grants martyrdom, whomever he wishes," it continues.
"Secondly, my family don't cry for. But instead rejoice in happiness and love.
"What I have done [is] for the sake of Allah for he loves those who fight in his sake."
Mr Sweeney told the jury how Mr Mohammed urged his family to "hold tight for the rope of Allah and don't let go" and to pray "five daily prayers so that you may be saved from hell".
Mr Mohammed also called on his two sons to "be good Muslims... and you shall see me again in paradise, God willing," Mr Sweeney added.
Mr Sweeney also said that, when police raided Mr Mohammed's flat in Dalgarno Gardens, North Kensington - eight days after the alleged attempted bombings on the London public transport network - they found a camera tripod along with an Islamic headband and a wall banner containing Arabic writing.
When fellow accused Hussein Osman was arrested in Rome, he was in possession of a digital camera which had had its memory card removed, Mr Sweeney added.
Mr Sweeney claimed that when the bombs failed to explode on July 21 1995, the defendants realised they had to cover their tracks and dispose of the video.
Mr Osman later told police in Italy that it was not an attempted suicide bombing but simply a hoax designed to "frighten people" and make a political point.

Third terror suspect 'on the run'

Another terror suspect on a control order has absconded, Home Secretary John Reid has revealed in a written statement to MPs.

Dispatches: Undercover Mosque

This is part one of the much-anticipated UK Channel 4 documentary Dispatches: Undercover Mosque, exposing evidence of Islamic supremacism, shocking misogyny, and support for violence at a number of Britain’s leading mosques and Muslim institutions

video.

Monday, January 15, 2007

mcb complain before programmes aired

We noted last week that documentary footage of jihadist preaching inside British mosques would soon air in Britain -- and it's airing tonight. But oddly enough, the Muslim Council of Britain, the "moderate" group, is unhappy. You would think that a group of moderate Muslims would be cheering the exposure of jihad sympathizers among them, but they're instead sounding all the familiar themes of selective quotation, etc. etc. etc. But you know, in most circumstances, no matter how selectively one quotes not much can be made of the result. "TV documentary accused of misrepresenting UK Muslims," from Arabic News

Six accused of London bomb plot

THE ACCUSED
Muktar Said Ibrahim, 28, from Stoke Newington
Ramzi Mohammed, 25, from North Kensington, west London
Yassin Omar, 26, from New Southgate, north London
Hussain Osman, 28, of no fixed address
Manfo Kwaku Asiedu, 33, of no fixed address
Adel Yahya, 24, of High Road, Tottenham


British prosecutors have accused six suspects of mounting "an extremist Muslim plot" using suicide bombers to try to kill masses of London commuters in July 2005, days after a successful terror attack.
At the start of a long-awaited trial Monday, the six Muslims were alleged to have tried to carry out another series of "murderous suicide bombings" on July 21, two weeks to the day after July 7 attacks which left 56 people dead.
The plot to blow up three subway trains and a bus only failed because detonators did not work properly, leaving four attempted suicide bombers with their unexploded devices, Britain's highest-security court heard in Woolwich, southeast London.
In what is likely to become one of the most high-profile cases involving alleged terrorism seen in Britain, the accused deny charges of conspiracy to murder and conspiracy to cause explosions likely to endanger life.
The trial is expected to take up to four months.
The alleged failed attacks came exactly two weeks after four Islamist suicide bombers attacked three London Underground trains and a bus, killing themselves and 52 others in Britain's worst peacetime terrorist incident.
The court heard Monday from the prosecution, which said the role of Ibrahim, Asiedu, Osman, Omar and Mohammed in the alleged conspiracy was ultimately "that of would-be suicide bombers".
"This case is concerned with an extremist Muslim plot," prosecution lawyer Nigel Sweeney said.
"The ultimate objective of which was to carry out a number of murderous suicide bombings on the public transport system in London.
"The day eventually chosen was Thursday, July 21 2005, just 14 days after the carnage of July 7."
Sweeney said evidence showed that from March 2005, the accused, "in various combinations, were in frequent contact and had a number of meetings in furtherance of the conspiracy".
He said the bomb components were bought from late April or early May 2005.
"The conspiracy had been in existence long before the events of July 7.
"It is our case that the events with which this case is concerned are plainly not some hastily arranged copycat, albeit, as we shall see, like 7/7, one of the bombs was deployed on a bus somewhat after the others."
Sweeney said Omar's one-bedroom flat in New Southgate, north London, was the "bomb factory" and "where the great majority, if not all, of the work required to make those bombs was carried out".
The court heard that the bombs were made of a mixture of liquid hydrogen peroxide and chapati flour, which would burn with the oxygen provided by the hydrogen peroxide.
Sweeney said the bomb would be detonated by several grams of triacetone triperoxide (TATP).
"In each case, the TATP detonator fired but the main charge failed to explode," he said.
He said Mohammed had written a suicide note, a draft of which had been found in pieces, while a full version was discovered at a friend's home.
The prosecution's case is expected to take between six and eight weeks.
One of the defendants, Mr Omar, fled London after the attempted bombings and got on a coach to Birmingham disguised as a woman wearing a burka, the court heard. Mr Sweeney said Mr Omar was arrested at a house in Birmingham, where he was found fully dressed standing in a bath with a rucksack on his back. He said: "The evidence will show, amongst other things, that at the least of it Ibrahim, Omar, Osman and Yahya all held extremist views.
On April 18 last year, Ibrahim, Mohammed, Omar and Osman denied conspiracy to murder and to cause explosions, attempted murder of transport users and having improvised explosive devices with intent to endanger life.
Asiedu, 32, who was not charged with attempted murder, denied the other charges. He was charged over a discarded rucksack found in a west London park on July 23.
'Plotters spied on for 14mths'
THE men on trial were under surveillance 14 MONTHS before their attempted attacks, the court heard.
Police hiding in undergrowth photographed five of the six camping on Lake District farmland.
They were among a group of 20, with a leader who gave instructions. Cops have been told some also attended training or indoctrination camps in Scotland and Kent to "get fit for jihad", the jury heard.
It was also alleged that some of the suspects attended radical preacher Abu Hamza’s mosque and supported Osama Bin Laden.
Yassin Omar, Adel Yahya and Muktar Said Ibrahim all went to Hamza’s mosque in Finsbury Park, North London, the jury heard.
Omar and Ibrahim had tapes of Hamza’s sermons and a friend told how Omar appeared to admire the Taliban for creating a "true Islamic state".
Prosecutor Nigel Sweeney QC said Omar attended Finchley Mosque in February 2005, when the imam gave a sermon saying that suicide bombing was against Islam.
Mr Sweeney said Omar disagreed and told the imam not to mislead people.
Omar also kept tapes of suicide bombings, beheading of Western hostages and images of the 9/11 attacks at his flat in Stockwell, South London.
Mr Sweeney said: "They show that suicide bombings and attacks on people and property are advocated."
Ibrahim allegedly told a witness he had done "military training" at a Sudan camp and fired rocket grenades.

UK Islamic Forum Incites Somalia Jihad

One of the UK’s most unapologetic Islamic supremacists, Anjem Choudary, has been caught inciting violence (again!) on a password-protected web site: UK preacher in secret web call for jihad.
ONE of Britain’s most vocal, extremist preachers has been using a false name on a secret website to incite Muslim followers to go on jihad, or holy war, in Somalia.
Anjem Choudary, former spokesman of the banned group Al-Muhajiroun, has posted a statement on a jihadist internet forum telling followers they must join the "divine call of jihad" in the African state.
His call in the password-protected site came days before America mounted air raids on suspected Al-Qaeda units in southern Somalia and news emerged that seven British passport holders had been captured in Somalia by Ethiopian troops.
This weekend the Ethiopian embassy in London said its forces had five Britons in custody, although it has failed to provide any documentary evidence. The Britons are said to have been fighting against the interim Somali government alongside the Union of Islamic Courts, an Al-Qaeda-linked movement.
Choudary is a well-known figure on the forum called Followers of Ahlus Sunnah Wal Jama’aah Muntada (Followers of the Prophet and His Companions). The site, which has about 700 members, is visited by some of Britain’s most notorious Muslim extremists, members of groups such as Al-Ghurabaa and the Saved Sect, offshoots of Al-Muhajiroun and banned after the London bombings on July 7, 2005. Applicants have to be recommended by a member.
Choudary, who uses the pseudonym Abou Luqman, declares in the forum: "The Ethiopians, with . . . support (from the Christian crusader regimes) and backed by illegitimate Israel (Zionists), have violated the blood of Muslims in Somalia. By committing such an act of terrorism the Muslims in Somalia and nearby lands have responded to the divine call of jihad."
He then reminds followers of their duty to fight jihad: "The obligation of supporting jihad all over the world is fard ayn (an individual obligation) . . . This honourable act must be carried out according to your own capabilities because our beloved prophet Muhammad said strike the mushrik (infidels) with your wealth, hands and tongue."
The forum has videos and images produced by Al-Qaeda that call on Muslims to join the jihad. Images of corpses of Ethiopian soldiers are captioned "dead kuffar (infidel) bodies".
The Guardian has details of a fundraising trip to Britain by the Somali Islamic Courts, to finance their jihad—with the tacit approval of the UK Foreign Office:

Somali Islamists held UK meeting to raise funds.
Somalia’s Islamist movement, whose leadership is accused by the US of sheltering some of al-Qaida’s most wanted operatives, sent a delegation on a fundraising trip to Britain last year, the Guardian has learned. Led by an Islamist minister, the Union of Islamic Courts delegation received pledges of funding from members of Britain’s Somali diaspora at a meeting at a north London school in November.
According to one community leader, the Somali delegation also met sympathisers at the Finsbury Park mosque, which became notorious as a recruiting ground for radical Islam under its former imam Abu Hamza. Abdiwali Mohamud, a Somali community worker in Camden, said: "They were trying to influence people in a Muslim way, saying are you with us or with the unbelievers?"
Although they were not officially recognised by Britain, the Islamists also held talks with Foreign Office officials, who urged them to negotiate with Somalia’s government.
The Foreign Office meeting underlines the strikingly different approaches taken by the US - which describes the Islamists as "extremists to the core" and targeted Somalia with an air strike this week - and Britain, which accepts that there were moderate elements within the UIC.
Around 500 people attended the Islamists’ fundraising meeting at the Islington Arts and Media School, according to a British Somali who was in the audience. A delegation led by Omar Mohammed Mahamoud Aftooje, the Islamist minister responsible for reconstruction, appealed for financial help.
"They talked about the progress they made in Mogadishu, how they defeated the warlords," the audience member, who requested anonymity, told the Guardian. "More than 20 people donated £1,000 each, some people said £100, others £300, some of them gave cash on the spot, others gave bank details or agreed to transfer money. They said the money was for repairing roads in Mogadishu."

Sunday, January 14, 2007

London Mosque DVD: Jews Face Mass Extermination

A leading mosque in London is selling DVDs that proclaim the coming mass extermination of Jews around the world on a "day of judgment."
It also attacks Christian groups and the United Nations.The London Central Mosque, also known as Regent's Park Mosque, is "the spiritual focal point for Muslims" throughout Great Britain, the European Jewish Press reported. It is also home to the Islamic Cultural Center, which educates Muslim children.The report said that a British television station will air on Monday a documentary on Muslim extremism in Britain, and will report the selling of the DVD.The DVDs are being sold at the London Central Mosque Shop. One excerpt shows a preacher, Sheikh Feiz, imitating the sounds of a pig and referring to the Jewish people who will be killed on the "day of judgment."Another preacher, Sheikh Yassin, states that United Nations missionaries and Christians conspired to inject an AIDS virus in inoculations against diseases in Africa.Faced with charges of selling the DVDs, the manger of the shop at the mosque said there were only 10 DVDs and all of them have been sold. He claimed that the supplier asserted the excerpts were taken out of context.The television documentary discusses Muslim extremism and the July 2005 attacks on London's transportation system, which killed 52 people.

'Undercover Mosques', Dispatches, goes out at 8pm on Monday, 15 January

Saturday, January 13, 2007

Watching the BBC's coverage of the verdict in the trial of Umran Javed

at the end of last week there were many, many Beeboid references to 'the Prophet Mohammed', as if Mohammed was generally accepted as being a, or even the, prophet.
The BBC would, quite rightly, never refer to Jesus in their coverage as 'the Lord Jesus Christ', so I'm at a loss as to whether it's plain laziness or multiculti-zeal that permits such reverential treatment of Mohammed. Mercifully, Martha Kearney on Newsnight showed the rest of the BBC how it should be done, as shown in her introduction of the clip below from Friday's programme. Note how the correspondent, Andy Tighe, then lazily refers to Mohammed as 'the Prophet Mohammed'.


Martha Kearney correctly denotes Mohammed as 'the Islamic Prophet', rather than the usual lazy BBC acceptance of him as 'the Prophet'.

Life for man who abused and then killed teenage bride from Pakistan

A husband who beat his teenage bride to death weeks after she arrived from Pakistan in an arranged marriage was convicted of her murder yesterday and jailed for life.
Shazad Khan, 25, whose 19-year-old wife's injuries were worse than any a Home Office pathologist had seen in a 16-year career, will serve a minimum of 15 years before he is eligible for parole.
The prospect of life in Britain held out hope for Khan's young bride Sabia Rani, who had left school at 13 to help with the cooking, cleaning and the raising of her siblings in the village of Palak, in the Mirpur district of Pakistan. She shared a small home there with her grandmother, parents, two brothers and one sister.
She met Khan when he visited Pakistan for a family funeral in December 2002 and they married, but it was not until December 2005 that she arrived in Britain, with no grasp of English and little sense of the lifestyle.
The first signs were not good. Her new husband expected domesticity from her and was unhappy to find that she did not place fresh sandwiches in his lunch box, which he left in the kitchen at the family home at Oakwood Grange, Roundhay, Leeds. When she did produce sandwiches, she had failed to establish that he was off work the following day, which also angered him.
Ms Rani also found herself living with up to eight - members of her husband's westernised family yet struggled to fit in with any of them, according to Khan.
She rarely saw her husband, who worked long hours and had three jobs. Khan told police that his own mother had raised five children while his father worked 14-hour days at a factory - so that is "how it would be" for Sabia.
The smallest tasks - visiting the supermarket or knowing how to apply the make-up her husband expected her to wear - were difficult for her, Khan told detectives under interview. He admitted this irritated him, as did her failure to fit in with the family.
Khan's mother believed Ms Rani was possessed by evil spirits. This was confirmed by a "holy man" in Bradford, who did not meet Ms Rani but told her in-laws about her "problem" after performing a ceremony involving a top she wore.
Khan told his work supervisor that he was unhappy with his marriage because he had been rushed into it, and soon began kicking and beating his wife.
Leeds Crown Court heard that Ms Rani's injuries, similar to those of a car crash victim, were so severe that she would have been in constant pain and ill for at least three weeks before she died.
Yet Khan's sister said she had seen no evidence of injuries. She and Ms Rani had been great friends, she said.
Ms Rani was found dead in a bath of cold water at the family home on 21 May last year, after another attack.
The Recorder of Leeds, Judge Norman Jones, QC, criticised Khan's family. "I can't help but note that others in that house, that very intimate family, must have known," he said. The court heard further inquiries where being made with the family following the conviction

Muslim-only kitchen kit for jails

JAILS are spending thousands on colour-coded kitchen tools for Muslims, it was revealed last night.
They are getting special red handled equipment to prepare Halal meals.
The move comes after an MPs’ committee recommended more should be done to meet the needs of Muslim prisoners.
So far 900 kits — costing £500 to £800 — have gone to jails across the UK.
The Koran prohibits eating pig meat, which is considered unclean. So the serving spoons, ice cream scoops and ladles are kept in special locked chests to prevent contamination by those used for other inmates.
But many of the UK’s 7,000 Muslim prisoners think the kits are a step too far.
A Muslim in Wakefield jail, Yorks, said: "We’ve all eaten in restaurants where no one cares how food is prepared. None except the strictest Muslims bother to check whether different equipment is used — it’s a waste of money."
A Prison Service spokesperson said: "A comprehensive policy is in place for all aspects of Halal products including storage, cooking and service."

Battle of Belmarsh prison

Friday, January 12, 2007

muslim demand own hospitals .

The NHS should provide more faith-based care for Muslims, an expert says.
Muslims are about twice as likely to report poor health and disability than the general population, says Edinburgh University's Professor Aziz Sheikh.
Writing in the British Medical Journal, he called for male circumcision on the NHS and more details over alcohol derived drugs.
But Manchester University health expert Professor Aneez Esmail said it was not possible to meet everyone's needs.
Professor Sheikh said a better picture of the health profile and experiences of British Muslims was needed to help them access services.
He said the first step to facilitate this was the recording of religious affiliation, not just ethnic background at primary and secondary care levels.
"Male infant circumcision should be available throughout the NHS. Although a handful of NHS trusts provide it, most parents are forced into the poorly regulated private sector," Professor Sheikh said.
He also said hospitals needed to accommodate Muslims in other ways.
"Many Muslims, to maintain modesty, prefer to see a same sex clinician. Such choice is typically unavailable despite the higher number of women doctors in the NHS.
"Another important service is to enable Muslims to avoid porcine and alcohol derived drugs."
Professor Sheikh, from Edinburgh University's division of community health services, added Muslims should be given better access to prayer facilities and advice over how they should modify their treatment for chronic conditions during Ramadan.
Identity
But Professor Aneez Esmail, from Manchester University's school of primary care, said: "While it is reasonable we try to plan and configure our services to take account of needs that may have their roots in particular beliefs... we cannot meet everyone's demands for special services based on their religious identity. It would not be practical."
And he added that some faith groups might support practices which may be morally and ethically unacceptable to the majority - for example female circumcision and the refusal to accept blood transfusions in life saving situations.
Professor Esmail said going down the path of providing special services for defined groups risks stigmatisation and stereotyping.
"In an ideal world doctors would ask about a patient's beliefs not so that they can be categorised but because it might be important for the patient in their illness."
The Department of Health said services were and had to be decided on a clinical need, which was decided either on recommendations from the NHS advisory agency NICE or on a trust by trust basis.
The spokesman added: "All patients are entitled to ask to see doctors of a certain sex."