Increase in anti-terror targets

By Dominic Casciani
BBC News home affairs

if these muslims have nothing to hide,why are they so scared.

Counter-terror police have recorded a 37% increase in "suspicious reconnaissance" of potential targets in the first four months of 2007.

Metropolitan Police commanders said the "undiminished" threat level justified the continued use of random stop-and-search powers.

But they accepted the reasons for almost 23,000 stops under anti-terror laws in London needed more explaining.

Campaigners say anti-terrorism stop and searches "criminalise" communities.

In February London police came under fire from their watchdog, the Metropolitan Police Authority, in a major report into the effect of counter-terrorism policing on the capital.

The watchdog found that the force's use of special anti-terror stop and search powers were doing "untold harm" to communities in the capital, in particularly Muslims.

Under Section 44 of the Terrorism Act 2000, police officers may randomly stop someone without reasonable suspicion, providing the area has been designated a likely target for an attack.

The power is currently in force across the whole of London.

But coming under fire for the use of the power, senior officers told the watchdog that the threat to the UK from terrorism remained "undiminished" - and that police had to use as broad a range of tools as possible.

However, the Home Office may expand the powers yet further.

Commander John McDowell, the Met's deputy national co-ordinator for counter-terrorism in the UK, said he agreed with analysis that the threat had worsened.

"There have been public pronouncements that the threat has grown in volume and I would concur with that," he said.

"Since 2005 we have seen an increase in activity and an increase in the gradient of the graph."

Commander McDowell said the first four months of 2007 had seen the police record a 37% increase in what it classed as suspicious reconnaissance - incidents that may be the first stage in planning an attack on the public.

He cautioned that this increase in reporting may be partly attributable to improved intelligence gathering as the security services expand counter-terrorism operations.

Powers defended

Assistant Commissioner Andy Hayman of the Met Police said the figure showed why officers were right to continue to use the Section 44 powers.

While police could never be certain that a stop directly reduced the threat of a specific potential attack, he said it was important in a wider counter-terrorism context.

"What we do know is the mode of behaviour around a terrorist," he said. "If they feel that they could be stopped and searched under these powers, they could be prevented [from attacking]. What I don't know is how many are truly prevented."

Rule book

Assistant Commissioner Hayman said that he accepted some of the criticisms of how the powers had been deployed - in particularly the lack of public information on who was being stopped.

He said the force would introduce a new rule book for officers involved in Section 44 stops - and the Met would also build a publicity campaign to explain to key communities why police believed the power was necessary.

Some officers were "unsure" of how the powers should be used, according to the Met's report into their use.

The defence of the powers came days after the Home Office said it was considering introducing a wider "stop and question" law.

The new power would give police an automatic right to stop and question anyone in the UK about suspected terrorism, building on the Section 44 power currently in force.

The proposal immediately drew fire from civil liberties groups and Muslim campaigners who predicted it would criminalise entire communities.

ANTI-TERRORISM STOPS AND SEARCHES

22,672 from Sept 05 to Oct 06

27 terrorism arrests

242 other arrests

16% of stops Asian

52% White

Source: MPA

WHERE SEC 44 STOPS HAPPEN

26% Transport hubs

23% Outside Govt buildings, iconic sites, tourist attractions

13% Financial centres

23% Airports

Source: Metropolitan Police

'Honour killings' increasing in Britain as women stand up for their rights

The number of "honour killings" in Britain is rising, campaigners have said.

Their warning came after the brother and cousin of Samaira Nazir, 25, were sentenced to life imprisonment for her barbaric murder.

Miss Nazir, a recruitment consultant from Southall, west London, was murdered in April last year. She was strangled with a silk scarf, stabbed 18 times and had her throat cut. She had argued with her Pakistani family after rejecting an arranged marriage and falling in love with an Afghan asylum seeker. Her two nieces, aged two and four, were made to watch the murder, and were found spattered with her blood.
Last week, Diana Nammi, the co-founder of the London-based International Campaign Against Honour Killings, revealed that the number of women seeking help from her organisation had quadrupled over the past year.
She said that the women's desire for independence had caused friction within their families. "The number of honour killings has gone up because more women are realising that they have rights," she said.
In the past year, Miss Nammi's organisation, which provides advice and counselling for victims of domestic violence and those in fear of their lives, has assisted 200 women - up from 50 the previous year. Miss Nammi believes that, in the past year, the organisation has saved the lives of at least a dozen women. The women were all Muslim and were mostly from Afghan, Iranian and Kurdish families. "Believe me, many of these women were in danger. Sometimes, families were paying for bounty hunters to look for them."

Ann Cryer, the Labour MP for Keighley and a vociferous opponent of forced marriages, said: "Think about what has happened over the past 30 years: many families have moved here from Pakistan and Kurdish countries and now their children are reaching marriageable age. The number of 'honour killings' is going up because the number of vulnerable women has increased. Often the triggers for these cases are marriages or relationships that the families don't agree with."
Between 1993 and 2001, there were 109 "honour killings" in Britain, after relatives of the victims decided that the women had brought dishonour on their family. In 2004, Scotland Yard detectives began to re-examine 81 cases in London that they suspected could have been "honour killings".
In one case, a young woman in Bradford was believed to have been kidnapped and murdered by her family after a love song was dedicated to her on a radio station.
Ghayasuddin Siddiqui, the leader of the Muslim Parliament of Great Britain, said of the phenomenon: "It occurs more and more as people migrate to Britain from the rural, tribal areas of the Indian subcontinent. They bring the customs with them."

He added: "Mainstream Islamic thought totally condemns the concept of honour killings. They mostly occur when women are being forced to marry, but Islam believes marriage should be based on willing consent and force should play no role whatsoever."
The International Campaign Against Honour Killings was founded in 2003, after the murder of Heshu Yones.
The 16-year-old from Acton, west London, bled to death after her father cut her throat. He had been "disgusted and distressed" by her relationship with a Lebanese Christian student. He was later sentenced to life imprisonment.

Academics oppose drive to root out jihadists on university campuses

There is no jihad. There is only "Islamophobia" and racism.

"Lecturers oppose Muslim 'witch hunt,'" by Graeme Paton in the Telegraph,

Academics are threatening to derail a Government drive to root out Islamic extremists on university campuses.

The University and College Union, will ask its 120,000 members to refuse to take part in the Government-led "witch hunt".

It insists that Muslims are being "demonised" because of new guidance that asks staff to look out for students falling under the influence of radical preachers.

The Department for Education and Skills has warned university staff to log suspicious behaviour amid fears that campuses are being infiltrated by fanatics recruiting for so-called jihad. In a 20-page report published in December, ministers warned of "serious, but not widespread, Islamic extremist activity in higher education institutions".

It asks lecturers to vet Islamic preachers who have been invited to campuses, ensure that "hate literature" is not distributed among students and report suspicious behaviour to police.

But at the UCU annual conference in Bournemouth, lecturers will warn of a "recent rise" in racism and its "apparent promotion by Government policies".

Academics at the union's London Metropolitan University branch will say that "increasingly restrictive measures and the xenophobic language surrounding them" has led to an increase in racist attacks on Muslims.

"Islamophobia and the attempts at increased surveillance on Muslim communities are not only encouraging racist and xenophobic tendencies in Britain but are also leading to measures that threaten civil liberties," they will warn.

A motion to the conference will condemn Government attempts to use "members of staff for such witch hunts"....

Wife 'urged man to die a martyr'

A young mother urged her husband to die as a terrorist martyr and said their baby son could follow in his footsteps, the Old Bailey has heard.

An Islamic religious leader and his wife flew into the UK with missile blueprints and bomb recipes to be used against the West, a court has heard.

Yassin Nassari, 28, was caught carrying instructions to build the same rockets used by the Palastinian terrorist group Hamas as well as a chilling library of extreme Islamic documents, jurors heard.

The Old Bailey heard his wife, Bouchra El-Hor, 24, actively encouraged her husband to become a terrorist and had offered herself and the couple's five-month-old son for martyrdom.

Prosecutor Aftab Jafferjee said: "It is the prosecution's case that they are not merely radicalised Muslims but that Nassari was going to engage in what he and others like him would call a 'jihad' but what the law describes as terrorism.

"He possessed both the ideology and the technology with which that could be achieved either by him or by some other like-minded people.

"His wife was not only aware of his intention, but positively encouraged it - despite that fact that his actions would almost certainly result in his death in some form of combat and would also result in their son being without a father.

"These are mindsets which are beyond ordinary understanding and which possess a chilling resilience."

Nassari and El-Hor were stopped coming into Luton airport on an easyJet flight from Amsterdam on May 13 last year.

A hard drive belonging to Nassari was seized and police were shocked to find it contained detailed instructions to build Al Qassam rockets and explosives.

"From the material held on Nassari's hard drive a viable missile could be manufactured," said Mr Jafferjee.

Among other files, police uncovered hate-filled lectures from radical Islamic clerics including a speech by Dr Azzam entitled "We are terrorists and terrorism is an obligation".

The court heard how Nassari was born in London in 1979 and lived in Ealing.

In 2001 he enrolled on a cognitive science course at the University of Westminster.

But he disappeared between 2002 and 2003 and although previously described as "friendly , thoughtful and wearing Western clothes" he returned to the university a changed man.

Mr Jafferjee said: "He was now sporting long robes and wearing head-wear. He claimed he was the religious leader of the Islamic Society at the University's campus in Harrow.

"To put it bluntly he was now radicalised. Attention to his academic obligations was intermittent and he did not achieve his degree."

Nassari married Dutch national El-Hor on March 24 2005 and the pair moved to Syria shortly afterwards, where Nassari worked as an English teacher and clothing supplier.

His wife returned to Holland in November 2005 to have the couple's first child, Mohammed, and Nassari joined her on April 30.

Just weeks before his departure he had downloaded rocket plans and Jihadi literature onto his hard drive.

"It was material do to with the construction of missiles and the handling of those and other explosives such as landmines," said the prosecutor. "Material, and a vast amount of it, to do with Jihad - both the ideology of Jihad and video files of the gruesome application of Jihad in a variety of conflict zones."

The jury was shown blueprints for the type of rockets "widely known to be used by Hamas" as well as instructions for making highly explosive "Urea Nitrate".

Also hidden in the files were articles entitled "Virtues of martyrdom in the path of Allah" and "Islamic Ruling on the Permissibility of Self-Sacrifical Operation - Suicide or Martyrdom?".

"He also had a variety of material regarding Jihad fitness training, martial arts and hand to hand combat," said Mr Jafferjee.

The prosecutor said other material relating to Nassari's Cognitive Science degree and clothing business proved he was responsible for the content of the hard-drive.

"He was clearly going either to create or to enter a conflict zone," said Mr Jafferjee.

"The technology was in place, the ideology was in place. The construction of the rockets - even though designed to be long range - is a dangerous activity.

"Handling land mines is a dangerous activity. His decision to die is his right. His decision to injury or kill is not.

"Nor in law is it defensible for his wife to withhold information she plainly possessed."

Nassari, from Ealing, denies possessing an article for the purposes of terrorism and possession of a document of record likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism.

El-Hor, also from Ealing, denies failing to disclose information about acts of terrorism.

The jury was shown a series of pictures and diagrams found on Nassari's computer which gave detailed instructions to build a rocket.

The documents were hidden away in a number of files which were downloaded from the Internet on the day he bought his new laptop in April last year.

Mr Jafferjee said computer experts will say Nassari was in contact with others on Internet discussion forums about the construction of rockets, similar to the Al Qassam missile used by Hamas.

He said: "Experts will tell you that the first five images comprise images and diagrams of the apparent component parts of a rocket engine.

"The expert on Al Qassam rockets concludes that the images all depict rocket bodies with a single nozzle which show a similarity to the Nassan rocket which is widely used by Hamas."

The computer files showed detailed measurements and information about the missile components, how to make the explosive charge and the assembly of the completed rocket.

They also included instructions to the rocket-makers to use driveshafts from the Peugeot 504 "found in breakers' yards" for the fuselage, if good quality stainless steel was not available.

Mr Jafferjee said: "It is the considered view of two military experts that this document when taken together with other documents you have seen appears to refer to an Al Qassam 1.5 rocket and does provide details of how to construct the missile and methods of making the propellant.

"From the material we have just been looking at it is the military experts' view that a viable missile could be manufactured."

He continued: "That Nassari should possess such damning material is no unfortunate coincidence - it's by design.

"That's amply documented by other material on the hard drive and some CDs in the house in Ealing, it reveals the ideology behind the possession of the explosives material.

"You will have to decide whether the material you have seen can have any explanation for anything other than a terrorist purpose or likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism.

"Be it Nassari or others who would be supplied with that material by him."

The trial continues.

the Tablighi Jamaat should not be permitted to build this mosque at all.

An ultra-orthodox Islamic sect has delayed plans to build a "mega-mosque" in East London after the Government warned it could "raise tensions" in the community.

Tablighi Jamaat had intended to submit plans to build Britain's largest place of worship next to the Olympic site, this September. But the group told Times Online that no plans would now be submitted until next year at the earliest.

More than 48,000 people have petitioned the Government to "abolish plans for the £100m mega-mosque" with a capacity for 12,000 worshippers beside the London 2012 Olympic park in Newham, East London.
The Government said that the issue could "raise tensions" and did not expect any planning application to be made in the "near future".

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1,000 men living legally with multiple wives despite fears over exploitation

Polygamous marriage is flourishing as the Government admits for the first time that nearly a thousand men are living legally with multiple wives in Britain.

Although the families are entitled to claim social security for each wife, no one has counted how many of them are on benefits.
Ministers appear to be ignoring the separate practice of unauthorised polygamy, which is said to have become commonplace in some Muslim communities. The Ministry of Justice admits that it has no estimates of numbers for these unions, which are often presided over by an Islamic cleric.

A senior Conservative MP and immigration expert called for action last night to end the scandal of women being pressured into entering unrecognised marriages with no rights.
“The Government has no grip on the situation,” said Humphrey Malins, the former Shadow Home Affairs Minister and founder of the Immigration Advisory Service. “This is quite clearly exploitation of women.”

A comedy harem scene as featured in the 1971 film Up The Chastity Belt

MPs and peers have struggled for years to extract figures from ministers about the extent of polygamy. The first official estimate was made in response to a freedom of information request by The Times asking for statistics on benefits that are paid to wives who share a husband.

“It is estimated that there are fewer than 1,000 valid polygamous marriages in the UK, few of whom are claiming a state benefit,” the Department for Work and Pensions said. “Because of the small numbers concerned, our IT systems do not specifically record such information.”

Polygamous husbands can claim cash for their harems

The Government has long reassured Parliament that its policy is to prevent the formation of multiple marriages by refusing to allow second wives entry into the country. Under British law, husbands and wives can have only one spouse at a time. Multiple simultaneous marriages constitute bigamy, a criminal offence.

Britain does recognise polygamous marriages that have taken place in countries where the custom is legal, such as Pakistan, Nigeria and India. The Home Office said that multiple wives in polygamous marriages may be allowed into the country as students or tourists.

Officials are advised to let extra wives into Britain even if they suspect that a husband is trying to cheat the system by getting bogus divorces.

“Entry clearance may not be withheld from a second wife where the husband has divorced his previous wife and the divorce is thought to be one of convenience,” an immigration rulebook advises.

“This is so, even if the husband is still living with the previous wife and to issue the entry clearance would lead to the formation of a polygamous household.”

Opposition politicians are concerned about the burden being placed by polygamy on the social security and tax systems.

A husband may claim housing benefit for each wife even if she is abroad, for up to 52 weeks, as long as the absence is temporary and for pressing reasons. In a draft Commons reply released under the Freedom of Information Act, officials explained another way in which the system made it easy to receive handouts.

“A polygamous marriage is the only circumstance in which an adult dependency increase is payable in income-related benefits,” it stated. “In any other circumstances an adult ‘dependent’ would have to make a separate claim.”

To calculate the amount of income support that is payable to an extra wife, officials subtract the rate paid to an individual from that paid to a couple. This produces the amount that a cohabiting spouse is deemed to need in social security benefits. If a man lives with two valid wives, his household is paid the rate for a couple, plus an amount for the extra spouse, the documents show.

Women who enter unrecog-nised multiple marriages in Britain are far more vulnerable. They can end up being dumped by their “husbands” with no safeguards.

Mr Malins asked the Government three years ago to reveal how many unregistered polygamous weddings took place in Britain, but he did not receive an answer. Now officials admit that they do not know.

“I’ve not been able to find out from the Government what the extent of the problem is,” Mr Malins said. “It’s a very serious issue.”

The practice is said to have become commonplace, at least among Kashmiris, a group that accounts for most of the 747,000 Pakistanis in Britain.

Muslims believe that the Prophet Muhammad practised polygamy. One of his motiva-tions was thought to have been charity, taking on widows in time of war.

In contemporary Muslim countries, patriarchal attitudes may leave a woman and children defenceless if they do not have a man to protect them.

Asian republics that were part of the former Soviet Union have debated the legalisation of polygamy to save war widows from being forced into prostitution and human trafficking. Tajikistan has an estimated 25,000 widows. Kyrgyzstan rejected an attempt to legalise polygamy this March.

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Concerns voiced over new terror powers[by muslims]

Labour and opposition MPs joined Muslim and civil rights groups today in voicing concerns over proposed new anti-terror laws designed to give police powers to stop and question anyone in the UK.

John Reid, the home secretary, who is quitting next month, intends to extend Northern Ireland’s draconian police powers to interrogate individuals about who they are, where they have been and where they are going.

Under the new laws, police will not need to suspect that a crime has taken place and can use the power to gain information about “matters relevant” to terror investigations.

Anyone who refused to give their name or explain what they were doing could be charged with obstructing the police and fined up to £5,000.

Mr Reid’s cabinet colleague Peter Hain, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, warned the tough new anti-terror restrictions could become “the domestic equivalent of Guantanamo Bay”.

David Davis, the shadow Home Secretary, said that the “draconian announcements” appeared to be more of a “wish to project the reputation of Mr Reid and Mr Blair in their last weeks in office, than a need to protect the British public”.

He added: “The Government should understand that no amount of new draconian laws will make up for incompetent implementation.

“We will consider carefully every proposal the Government comes up with and support those we judge to be effective, reasonable, and will not act as a recruiting sergeant for terrorism. This cannot, and will not, be concluded in four weeks.

“A consensual approach to terror laws is the right approach to take but will take some time.”

Bertie Ahern, the newly re-elected Irish Prime Minister, said Northern Ireland had been looking forward to the amendment of restrictive legislation introduced during the Troubles.

He told Sunday Live on Sky News: “International terrorism is something nobody can take for granted and nobody can ignore... but it would be a pity if that continues what has been a very restrictive regime in Northern Ireland which is certainly not something that the ordinary citizen likes.

“I think people in Northern Ireland would feel that whatever is going to be the legislation everywhere else should be the legislation in Northern Ireland.”

Civil rights campaigners and British Muslim groups also attacked the proposed new legislation.

Ahmed Versi, editor of Muslim News, a newspaper for British Muslims, warned that if the legislation was passed relations between the Islamic community and the police would only get worse.

“There is a complete lack of confidence in the Government and the police service in the Muslim community. If this legislation is passed, it’s going to get worse.”

Liberty director Shami Chakrabarti said: “The police should not have powers to run around questioning people willy-nilly, otherwise people feel hunted.

“This looks like political machismo, a legacy moment. Stopping and questioning anyone you like will backfire because people will be being criminalised.”

Inayat Bunglawala, spokesman for the Muslim Council of Britain, argued that the new powers would lead to young Muslim men being “disproportionately targeted“.

He said that of 22,700 stop and searches carried out by the Metropolitan Police last year, only 27 led to terrorism-related arrests.

“Our concern is that what are already dismal results will get even worse,” he added. “It will only succeed in driving a further wedge between the police and sections of the Muslim community. We certainly would support measures that are designed to reduce the terror threat that we are facing.

“However, we believe this requires more than just giving ever-increasing powers to the police.”

Mr Hain said he wanted to see the details of the policy before making any judgment.

But he told BBC1’s Sunday AM: “We cannot have a reincarnation of the old ‘sus’ laws under which mostly black people, ethnic minorities, were literally stopped on sight and that created a really bad atmosphere and an erosion of civil liberties.”

The controversial ‘sus’ laws, permitting police officers to act on suspicion or ‘sus’ alone, have been blamed as one of the causes of riots in Bristol, London and Liverpool in 1980 and 1981.

Counter-terrorism minister Tony McNulty insisted there would be plenty of time to consult on the measures which would not be put to Parliament until the autumn.

He told BBC Radio 4’s The World This Weekend the stop and question powers were “one of a whole range of things we are looking at with a view to introducing a terrorism bill later in the year.

“People can’t have it both ways; they can’t attack us for quick legislation and, in their terms, ill-thought-out legislation and then when we are saying ‘here’s a whole series of things that based on an analysis of existing counter-terrorism we want to consult on and will afford people the time for that consultation’ attack us when they don’t know what the details are.

“We are still going through internal Government processes. This story is based on a leak. We were very clear we were going to go to Parliament in the next couple of weeks and tell them, in substance, what was likely to be in such a bill but...not as a fait accompli.

“There will be plenty of time to consult with a whole range of people before introducing such a bill probably as late as October, November.”

Meanwhile, Mr Blair hit out today at the “dangerous misjudgment” of putting civil liberties before fighting terror.

He insisted the disappearance of three suspects under control orders was not the fault of the Home Office but society’s “misguided and wrong” priorities.

Writing in today’s Sunday Times, he said: “The fault is not with our services or, in this instance, with the Home Office.

“We have chosen as a society to put the civil liberties of the suspect, even if a foreign national, first. I happen to believe this is misguided and wrong.”

The militant leader of Fatah al-Islam warns that terror attacks against Britain will continue

The leader of Fatah al-Islam has threatened Britons with “destruction through resistance and attacks” for their government’s policies in the Middle East.

In a recent interview with The Sunday Times, Shakir al-Abssi, whose militant group is locked in a battle with the Lebanese army, said: “I advise the British people to cease their destructive policies in the Islamic world and to take an example of the fate of the United States, which is on its way to destruction.

“We tell the British people to exercise pressure on their government not to continue to be the arm and tail of the United States. They must understand that it is in their interest to ensure that unless we as a people are safe, they cannot be safe as a people themselves.”

The radicalism of Abssi and his group was evident as soon as I arrived at the Nahr al-Bared camp several weeks ago accompanied by a woman photographer. Though we were both wearing scarves, Abssi’s men told us we were not dressed appropriately and we were kept in an office while they decided how to deal with us.

Several Kalashnikovs hung on the door; rocket-launchers leant against the wall, which was plastered with maps of Palestine. His followers had a distinctive appearance: with long hair and beards, most wore headscarves, some wrapped in a style notable among the fighters of Falluja in Iraq. They moved around heavily armed with Kalashnikovs and M16 rifles.

After several arguments and attempts to drive us out of the camp, we were escorted to another of Abssi’s bases inside Nahr al-Bared.

Abssi was refusing to meet us in person, apparently because we were women and it would contradict his Islamic teachings.

We were forced to remain in the vehicle while his spokesman Abu Salim came to see us instead.

He brought along a young man, introduced to us as Abssi’s adviser on sharia (Islamic law), who lectured us at length, in a Saudi accent, on why it was prohibited for us as women to meet Abssi. After nearly two hours, we finally struck a deal. I could interview Abssi - but only over the telephone.

During the interview Abssi blamed Britain for most of the ills of the Middle East.

“The British are the primary cause of the Middle East problems and they should be correcting their errors in the region and returning the rights of the people they erred against instead of blindly following the policies of the Americans,” he said.

“Is it just that we should accept their slaughtering of us and our people, and do nothing for fear of being labelled terrorists?” He spoke calmly, with none of the ranting of some jihadists, but it was clear he believed attacks against the United States and Britain would be justified.

“The crime is for them [Britons] to follow the Americans in their policies. If they want to be safe, especially since they are the principal culprits in the region, then they should now start supporting and backing the oppressed people,” he said.

He argued that both the US and Britain had preached democracy in the Middle East, but failed to recognise the democratically elected Palestinian government on the grounds that it was Islamist.

“How can we swallow this or even accept it? So yes, we do not denounce attacks against the United States. Under what logic should we, given what it is doing in Palestine and the region?” he said.

The trouble with Islam

UK Jihad Cleric Deported to Jamaica

Abdullah El-Faisal, the Jamaican Islamic cleric who influenced one of the 7/7 London bombers, has been deported back to Jamaica.

El-Faisal arrived in the UK in 1992 and married a British biology graduate, establishing himself as a lay preacher at Brixton Mosque, often preaching to crowds of up to 500 people.

His preaching came to the attentions of police when tapes of his sermons were found in the car of a suspected rapist in Dorset in late 2001.

During subsequent searches of specialist Islamic bookshops and El-Faisal’s rented house in Stratford, East London, police found other recordings in which he exhorted young Muslims to accept the deaths of women and children as “collateral damage” and to “learn to fly planes, drive tanks... load your guns and to use missiles”.

He told young British Muslims it was their duty to kill non-believers, Jews, Hindus and Westerners, urging them to adopt a “jihad mentality”. He also promised schoolboys that they would be rewarded with “72 virgins in paradise” if they died in a holy war.

The jury watched a video of El-Faisal after the Sept 11 attacks telling up to 150 young Muslims that the Koran justified attacking “kaffirs”, or unbelievers.

Recordings of al-Faisal's lectures

I've put Charlene in the kebabs

A KEBAB shop boss butchered a girl of 14 — then joked he had put her in takeaways, a court heard yesterday.
Jordanian immigrant Eddie Albattikhi, 29, killed and chopped up schoolgirl Charlene Downes after having sex with her, a jury was told.
He was allegedly heard making his sick joke about the Blackpool youngster — who vanished 3½ years ago and whose body was never found — as he and pals drooled about having sex with white girls.

Prosecutor Tim Holroyde QC said: “He and others present were laughingly saying that Charlene had gone into the kebabs.”
Cops bugged the flat and car of chum Mohammed Reveshi — co-owner of the Funny Boyz fast food restaurant in Blackpool.

Mr Holroyde said Albattikhi admitted on tape: “I killed her. I was just angry. There is nothing left of her.”

His brother Tariq is said to have told a witness Charlene was “killed, chopped up and there had been a lot of blood”. Charlene’s parents, two sisters and brother wept as extracts from the police bugs were played to Preston Crown Court.

They heard Albattikhi brand the schoolgirl a “f****** bitch.”

He denies murdering Charlene. Iranian-born Reveshi, 50, denies helping to dispose of her body.

The court heard Charlene and other adolescent girls would go to an alley at night to romp with older men from the resort’s restaurants.
Cops quizzed Albattikhi and Reveshi after Charlene went missing and both denied knowing her.

But Mr Holroyde said that Albattikhi’s overheard conversation with his pals — during which he made his kebab joke — proved this was untrue.
He said: “These people were talking about sex with white girls, and there was mention of having sex with Charlene.

“Albattikhi laughed and said she was kinky and she was very small — the plainest possible indication that he was lying to the police when he said he did not know her.”
Another reference to Charlene having been turned into take-aways was said to have been made in a bugged conversation in Reveshi’s car. Mr Holroyde said: “There was talk of eating the body or selling it in kebabs.” The trial continues.

THREE fugitive terror suspects who made a mockeryt of the Home Office’s control orders were last night feared to be on their way to Iraq.

THREE fugitive terror suspects who made a mockery of the Home Office’s control orders were last night feared to be on their way to Iraq — to wage war on British troops.

Algerian brothers Lamine and Ibrahim Adam are suspected by the Home Office of using false passports to sneak out of the country with pal Cerie Bullivant.

Last night pressure mounted on PM-in-waiting Gordon Brown to tear up the Human Rights Act — blamed for the farce of control orders being so lame.
Uproar over how easily the suspects scarpered intensified as it emerged three MORE have also fled the country.

The only safeguard on one of THEM was that he had to ring a voice-recognition computer once a day.

Met Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair confirmed the Human Rights Act was to blame for tying his officers’ hands.

He said: “We enforce the law as it is and we will now do our best to find these people. But the police service would always be interested in a better system than one that is as imperfect as this.”

Control orders were introduced as a fudge to counter human rights objections to locking up terror suspects without trial.

Lamine Adam, 26, and his brother Ibrahim, 20, failed to ring in with a private monitoring firm on Monday night from their home in Barkingside, East London.

Last month a third brother Anthony Garcia, 25, was jailed for life over a plot to bomb Bluewater shopping centre in Kent and London’s Ministry of Sound nightclub.
On Tuesday British Muslim convert Bullivant, 20, failed to turn up to his local police station in Essex. He vanished days after getting a £1,500 NHS university grant to study mental health.

Fugitives ... (l-r) Lamine Adam, Ibrahim Adam and Cerie Bullivant

Bullivant had been on the course since March at London South Bank University’s Essex campus in Havering.

A fellow student said: “Everyone is saying he was only on the course to get his hands on the money so he could fund his escape. He got the cheque a few days before he vanished.

“We had no idea he was on a control order or was clearly planning to disappear.”

Last Friday Bullivant — whose mum Christine is a mental health consultant — surprised others at the university by turning up with his long shaggy hair and beard shaved off.

A neighbour of his mum in Goodmayes, Essex, said: “The son is a bit of a loner.”

Shake-up ... John Reid

Bullivant and the Adam brothers are known to have voiced a desire to join the bloody uprising in Iraq which has claimed the lives of 149 UK troops.

A Whitehall security source confirmed last night: “It is feared they want to get into Iraq.

“But UK soldiers are of course also deployed in Afghanistan. It is possible these individuals may already be overseas.”

Lord Carlile — Britain’s independent reviewer of terrorism laws — confirmed “solid intelligence” indicated the three had long planned to target Our Boys.

He said: “They intended to damage our national security by going as insurgents to kill British and other allied troops abroad.”

Home Secretary John Reid yesterday denied the three were a threat to the British public — although Met chief Sir Ian admitted they may be a risk if still here.

Dr Reid declared the Government will consider dumping human rights legislation to keep terror suspects on a tighter leash.

He said ministers might suspend parts of the European Convention on Human Rights so tougher control orders can be imposed.

Only 17 people have been subject to the curfews since 2005.

PM Tony Blair told MPs control orders were “very much a second-best option” for protecting the public.

Tory leader David Cameron vowed to rip up the Human Rights Act if he comes to power.

Yesterday cops refused to name or release photos of the three other suspects on the run — to protect their HUMAN RIGHTS. Two are from London and one from Manchester.

Mr Cameron said: “It is crazy the rights of criminals are put above the safety of law-abiding citizens.”


A TERROR suspect on the run for a week after breaking his Home Office curfew appeared in his school yearbook as the kid most likely to be . . . a TERRORIST.

ANYONE with information on the three is urged to call the anti-terrorism hotline on 0800 789 321

Fury as 'terror' brothers do runner.

MINISTERS were accused of putting lives at risk last night as three more terrorist suspects went on the run.
Two brothers of Bluewater bomb plotter Anthony Garcia were being hunted by police, along with a third man.
They had broken control orders placing them under a loose form of house arrest.
Shockingly, six men out of 17 on control orders because they are feared to present a threat are now known to be at large.
Shadow Home Secretary David Davis said: “People are placed on control orders on the basis they are terror suspects who pose a serious risk to the public.

“It is shocking that these three have absconded.”

Lib Dem home affairs spokesman Nick Clegg added: “This is yet another hammer blow for the increasingly discredited system of control orders.”
Lamine and Ibrahim Adam, and Cerie Bullivant, are the three currently flouting Home Office anti-terror orders.
Garcia was jailed for life last month. He was convicted with terror leader Omar Khyam for targeting the shopping centre in Kent and the Ministry of Sound nightclub in South London.
At the Old Bailey trial, Lamine Adam was linked to the gang. He and the other two men were suspected of a terror plot.
But with no evidence to arrest or charge them, control orders were made placing them under curfew.
The brothers failed to check in with a monitoring company on Monday night. Bullivant did not report to police on Tuesday.
Home Secretary John Reid approved the unprecedented step of police naming and issuing photographs of Lamine, 26, Ibrahim, 20, and Bullivant, 24.
A security source said: “Close scrutiny has been kept on these three and the fact that they have vanished at the same time has caused intense concern.”
At the time of his brother’s trial, Lamine Adam was a driver on the London Tube’s Northern Line.
He and Khyam were secretly recorded by MI5 discussing his job.
In the tapes, played in court, Adam — who did not stand trial — was asked by Khyam: “Have you passed yet?” He replied: “Yeah.”
Khyam said: “Are you going to start driving now?” Adam said: “Tomorrow.”
Al-Qaeda supergrass Mohammed Babar revealed that another associate of the Khyam cell known only as “Uniboy” wanted to use Lamine Adam on missions.
Babar was asked during his evidence: “Uniboy wanted to do operations in the UK with Lamine?” He replied: “That is what Uniboy told me.” Babar also claimed Lamine was involved in sending cash to the gang, who were in Pakistan at training camps.
A security source said last night: “It is a matter of urgency that we find these three men quickly.”
Those subject to control orders have previously remained anonymous.

ANYONE with information on the three is urged to call the anti-terrorism hotline on 0800 789 321

21/7 duo 'armed with spears'

TWO alleged July 21 bombers armed themselves with makeshift spears to attack police trying to arrest them, a court heard yesterday.
Prosecutors said Ramzi Mohammed and Muktar Said Ibrahim couldn’t use the weapons because cops disabled them with CS gas as they swooped on their West London flat after the failed attacks.
Mohammed admitted making a spear from a kitchen knife and mop handle, claiming he used it for martial arts.
Six men deny conspiracy to murder and cause explosions.

Trial continues at Woolwich Crown Court.

Silly Internet Polls, the Jihad Edition

The jihadis have their own silly internet polls, on subjects nearer and dearer to their hearts, such as “Should kidnapped BBC reporter Alan Johnston be killed?”

Currently running 95% in favor.

In the discussion following the poll, comments ranged from “do the killing in coordination with al-Qaida in Iraq who have hostages of their own who need to die - the combined effect will be very good”, to “mmmm, Roman [i.e. Crusader] blood is good!”. One guy tried to argue that they needed a fatwa, and not just people’s personal opinions - to no avail.

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Londonistan In Allah We Trust



Islamic Extremism Grows in Britain



Muslims debate Sharia (Islam laws) over England - Sky News

Honour killing riddle of knifed girl, 17

Police launched a murder inquiry after a pregnant teenager was found dead with stab wounds at her home.

Sana Ali, 17, had knife injuries to her stomach and slashes to her arms.
Greater Manchester Police refused to speculate if Sana's death was a so-called 'honour killing'.
Detectives were alerted after the teenager's body was discovered at a large detached property in Bury on Friday afternoon.

She was taken to hospital by paramedics, but died later.
Ms Ali had been living at the house with her 24-year-old husband and parents-in-law. Also living at the sprawling six-bedroom house was her brother-in-law.

Det Chief Insp Keith Dillon, who is leading the murder hunt, said no one had been arrested in connection with the killing, but the teenager's close family were being questioned.

He confirmed Ms Ali was two months pregnant and added: "I can't tell you how many injuries she suffered, but this was a very violent attack. We are awaiting the results of the post-mortem. But it is clear that this woman was attacked with a sharp implement."

The house was still cordoned off as forensic teams combed the area. Ms Ali was of Pakistani origin and her family lived eight miles away in Cheadle Hulme.

The couple married in December last year and have no children.

The girl's parents-in-law were on holiday at the time but are believed to now be back in Manchester.

Neighbours were shocked by the murder. A woman who lives opposite said: "We heard a woman screaming, "she's dead" and we rushed outside.

"An ambulance arrived and one of them was shouting "keep her alive".

"We saw members of the family being taken away in police cars and we saw something that we believe was a large knife being removed from the house."

Honour killings are becoming more prevalent within the Asian community.

What are honour killings and why do they happen? Who are the people committing honour killings?

The victims are usually women who are perceived to have brought dishonour to their family.

Third arrest after woman killed

Londonistan Calling

Muslims at the French Embassy in London complain about cartoons, February 3, 2006.
The London neighborhood of the author's youth, Finsbury Park, is now one of the breeding grounds for a new phenomenon: the British jihadist. How did a nation move from cricket and fish-and-chips to burkas and shoe-bombers in a single generation?
by Christopher Hitchens

Extremist group claims BBC newsman abduction in Gaza

A Palestinian extremist group on Wednesday claimed to be holding a BBC journalist kidnapped nearly two months ago in Gaza and demanded the release of a radical Muslim cleric in British custody.
In an audio clip posted on an Islamic website favoured by fighters in
Iraq and delivered to local journalists, the Army of Islam said it was behind the March 12 abduction of Alan Johnston, now missing for more than eight weeks.
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I wonder why the media are suddenly calling the terrorists who kidnapped Alan Johnston “extremists?” After all, kidnapping, bombing, shooting, murder and similar activities aren’t exactly unheard of in Gaza. How is that “extreme?”

Police quiz 7 July bomber's widow

The wife of 7 July bomber Mohammad Sidique Khan is among four people being questioned in connection with the 2005 attacks, which killed 52 people.

Death Cult Mickey Mouse Teaches Islamic Supremacism

Death Cult Mickey Mouse Teaches Islamic Supremacism

Britain's Rather Large Problem

Last week the BBC reported that Britain’s MI5 intelligence service was monitoring at least 2,000 terror suspects in the UK.

Today we learn that report was incorrect. The actual number of Islamic terrorists on MI5’s watch list is closer to 4,000.

Up to 4,000 terrorism suspects and their supporters are active in Britain, the former Metropolitan Police Commissioner Lord Stevens said yesterday.Lord Stevens said the security service MI5 had recently suggested a figure of 2,000 but the true number was “probably nearer 4,000”.

Police and MI5 were “still too underfunded and undermanned to cope with the task they face in the decades to come. And that’s how long this will last,” he said.

The “infection” had spread out from “hot spots” such as Luton, the West Midlands and Finsbury Park in London and those involved in the fertiliser bomb plot case which finished this week were “ordinary and British”.

Lord Stevens also gave warning that al-Qa’eda-linked extremists were already trying to infiltrate the police and the security services and that dozens had already been weeded out.

He urged that known terrorism suspects and “hate clerics”, such as Abu Hamza and Abu Qatada, should be deported, adding: “Our human rights come first. Yet, incredibly, our so-called Human Rights laws, and our enviable history of religious tolerance, mean that foreigners preaching death and destruction to our way of life are allowed to stay here because their own countries won’t tolerate such evil.”

'A Warning to Britain'

BBC Panorama had a scary little show tonight on the refusal of British Muslims to integrate into mainstream society, and their takeover of the town of Blackburn;

Bakri recruits 20 preachers

BANNED hate preacher Omar Bakri has recruited 20 rabblerousers to spread his messages of evil.

Five other disciples, led by Omar Khyam, are serving life for the Bluewater bomb plot.

Now Bakri, exiled in Lebanon after being booted out of Britain, is using extremist mouthpieces to recruit more misfits to his twisted cause.

Their rants, many thought to have been recorded in London, are posted online. Bakri’s copyright flashes onscreen as the sermons are played.
One fanatic said the beheading of non-Muslims was acceptable. Another mocked the holocaust, saying Hitler made kebabs of the victims.

The Queen and Tony Blair are also attacked, while Britain’s Muslims are urged to “rise up”.

Bakri’s latest vile crusade was uncovered by internet terror investigator Neil Doyle.

He said: “It indicates his determination not to be silenced even though his organisation is banned. I estimate he has 20 people spouting his views.

“One common theme is hatred against non-Muslims.”

Missile plot Briton sent to jail

A Briton who allegedly tried to buy missiles to shoot down airliners has been jailed, it has emerged following the Old Bailey fertiliser bomb trial.

Reporting restrictions covering the conviction of Kazi Nurur Rahman have been lifted.

Rahman, 29, was arrested in November 2005 after trying to buy three Uzi sub-machine guns in a police sting.

He pleaded guilty and was jailed for nine years but details were kept secret because of his links to the defendants.

Rahman was arrested only four months after the 7 July attacks in London and when sentencing him in May last year (2006) the judge, Mr Justice David Calvert-Smith, said: "These negotiations were conducted in the immediate aftermath of the worst terrorist outrage ever perpetrated on these shores.

"What was intended was the deaths of large numbers of people in this country."

When Rahman's home in Manor Park, east London was searched police found literature relating to the 9/11 "martyrs" and details of guerrilla warfare and how to execute prisoners.

Rahman, also known as Abdul Haleem, was friendly with several of the defendants and had trained in the same camps in Pakistan.

'Risk to air traffic'

The prosecution's star witness, Mohammed Babar, told the Old Bailey Rahman was the head of a cell in east London.

David Farrell, QC, prosecuting, said: "The terrorist purpose, which the defendant accepts by his plea but does not define, was to cause death, injury and damage for the religious and political purposes of al-Qaeda."

This purchase was intended to be the first of other purchases, he being in negotiation...for the purchase of even more potentially deadly terrorist weapons, including a Sam-7 missile and rocket-propelled grenades David Farrell QC

"The potential risk to air traffic is all too obvious," he added.

He was not arrested when Khyam and the others were picked up but the security services kept him under surveillance and finally lured him into a trap using undercover officers posing as Muslim arms dealers.

One of the officers, posing as 'Mohamed', offered to sell him the guns, together with silencers and 3,000 rounds of ammunition. Rahman offered to pay £1,000 per gun.

David Farrell QC, prosecuting, said: "This purchase was intended to be the first of other purchases, he being in negotiation, albeit in the early stages of negotiation, for the purchase of even more potentially deadly terrorist weapons, including a Sam-7 missile and rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs)."

Rahman was quoted a price of around £70,000 for the missiles and RPGs, a figure which he said was "no problem".

On 29 November 2005 Rahman met Mohamed at South Mimms services on the M25 and handed over some money.

He then met another undercover officer, 'Iqbal', and they drove to a cul-de-sac in nearby Welham Green, Hertfordshire.

There Iqbal showed Rahman a van and inside was a suitcase containing the guns, wrapped in black plastic bags.

Mr Farrell said: "Rahman got out of the van and told Iqbal to put the suitcase in the back of his vehicle and they would leave that location and find a better, safer place for the exchange.

"Iqbal refused to do this. Rahman also stated that he wanted to see the ammunition, which had not been brought to the location for safety reasons.

Armed officers

"Iqbal told him the ammunition was nearby. Rahman was unhappy and said it looked like a 'sting'.

"He returned to his vehicle and telephoned Mohamed. At this point armed officers intervened and Rahman was arrested."

When interviewed by police Rahman claimed he was working for MI5, who had recruited him 10 years earlier.

But, in pleading guilty to attempting to possess property intending it should be used for the purpose of terrorism, he later accepted this story was untrue.

It also emerged that Rahman had been interviewed by a British TV reporter in Lahore, Pakistan in October 2001 and had spoken of Muslim volunteers from the UK fighting British troops in Afghanistan.

Deputy Assistant Commissioner Peter Clarke: "This is another example of where we have been able to take pre-emptive action to protect the public from the threat of terrorism. Whenever the evidence allows us to take such action, we will do so."

In 1995 Rahman was arrested and charged in connection with the death of Ayotunde Obanubi, a Nigerian student who was stabbed to death outside Newham College in east London.

Charges were dropped against Rahman but his co-defendant, Saeed Nur, 27, was jailed for life and another friend, Umran Qadir, 18, was ordered to be detained at Her Majesty's Pleasure for his involvement in the killing.

The murder trial heard that the killing arose because of tension between Muslim and non-Muslim students at the college.

'Terror' pair are to be set free

A TERROR suspect found with a map showing a UK airport flightpath was ordered to be freed yesterday — to protect his human rights.

His alleged accomplice was also given bail after British judges refused to deport the Libyan pair, despite a deal by our Government with their country.

Both the Muslim men are considered a threat to national security, but may now be freed within days. The Government was last night reeling from the decision by the Special Immigration Appeals Commission — and Home Secretary John Reid was “stunned”.

The suspect with the map was branded “a global jihadist with links to the Taliban and al-Qaeda” by an earlier hearing of the commission. He was also called a “real and direct threat to the national security of the UK”.

Identified only as DD in court for legal reasons, it was yesterday revealed he had an A-Z map with a flightpath for Birmingham Airport drawn on it. The other suspect, referred to as AS, had been described in court as “an Islamic extremist who has engaged actively with a terrorist group”.

But the commission ruled both men’s human rights could be under threat if they returned to Libya. Chairman Mr Justice Ouseley said: “There is also real risk that the trial of the appellants would amount to a complete denial of a fair trial.”

The Home Office last night said it would appeal. A spokesman added: “We are very disappointed.”

guards fight 'terror lags

FOUR hero prison guards were taken to hospital after a vicious battle with Muslim terror suspects in a top-security jail.

Violence erupted at Belmarsh when one officer tried to remove an inmate’s laptop.

At the height of the five-minute clash four prisoners were punching and kicking furiously.

Other terror suspects in the South East London prison’s high-security unit were baying for blood from the sidelines.

The other three officers rushed to help their colleague — then more staff courageously stepped in to quell the fighting.

Last night governor Claudia Sturt praised their bravery.

She said: “It is another instance of ordinary people in jail doing an extraordinary job extraordinarily well. I am really proud of the bravery displayed by my staff, whose courageous response brought this incident to an end quickly.
An insider added: “It was absolutely full-on in there. The prisoners involved were going for it.

“The staff were up against some heavy-duty individuals, who were really trying to let rip. There were suspects fighting while others were urging them on.

“But for the prompt action of the staff, the situation could have turned very ugly indeed.”

One guard was left badly dazed with head injuries. Three others were bleeding from face wounds, including a fractured cheekbone.

Prison medics went with them to hospital by ambulance.

Belmarsh holds a number of prisoners awaiting trial on terror charges — including conspiracy to murder.

Convicted inmates there include al-Qaeda fertiliser bomb plotter Omar Khyam, 25, dirty bomber Dhiren Barot, 34, and hook-handed hate cleric Abu Hamza, 48 — jailed for inciting murder.

The suspect at the centre of the clash was tampering with the laptop in breach of strict rules.

He would not hand it over and tried to hide what he was doing.

Laptops are supplied to help prisoners remanded on terror charges prepare for their trials. But they are not allowed to connect to the internet or send emails.

The insider said: “Experts will be checking the computer.” The suspects in the attacks cannot be named for legal reasons.

WE CANNOT SIT BACK AND LET SHARIA LAW TAKE ROOT IN BRITAIN

THE wail of the mosque is signalling the end of traditional British justice.
For centuries, the principle of equality before the law for all citizens has been at the heart of our society. It has been one of the cornerstones of our liberty, stretching back to the time of Magna Carta.

Now, thanks to the pernicious doctrine of multi-culturalism, it is under attack as never before. In a political climate of craven appeasement towards Muslim extremism, the Islamification of our country is steadily accelerating.Across large swathes of urban Britain, Muslim practices, customs, schooling and dress-codes now prevail. But perhaps the most dramatic indicator of this process comes from the West Yorkshire town of Dewsbury, where Muslim elders have decided to set up their own Islamic court to impose Sharia law in civil disputes within their communities. Crucial issues such as divorce and child custody are settled by a panel of four senior Muslim clerics and scholars.The age-old British attachment to trial by jury or by magistrates is at risk from an utterly alien Islamic code imported from regions far less civilised and democratic than our own. Effectively, the integrity of British law has been eclipsed in parts of Dewsbury by quasi-judicial religious zealotry.In this once proud Yorkshire mill town, there are now two legal systems in operation for civil matters, one for Muslims and one for the rest of the population.This is a recipe for more division in a place already notorious for its links to fanatical Islam. Dewsbury was, after all, the home town of Mohammed Siddique Khan, the leader of the July 7 suicide bombers.The establishment of Sharia law will only increase the trend towards Muslim separatism.The Government is partly to blame as its enthusiastic promotion of the dogma of cultural diversity has encouraged ethnic minority groups to cling to their own traditions rather than embrace Britain’s.But the self-styled community leaders of Dewsbury are also displaying a repellent arrogance towards British law, which they seem to believe is inferior to their own code. Well, if they really think Sharia law is better than our own, why don’t they go and live in some brutal theocracy such as Saudi Arabia rather than trying to destroy the judicial fabric of Britain?It is sickening that they want to have it both ways:enjoying the fruits of our prosperous society while demanding that their superstitious, barbaric, misogynistic ideology be given official legal status. Indeed, it is this misogyny that is perhaps the most sinister aspect of the arrival of Sharia law in Britain.For the Islamic code enshrines the institutional oppression of women, treating them as second-class citizens.A wife mistreated or beaten by her spouse is hardly likely to receive much justice from the bearded patriarchs of an Islamic court, for whom anti-female discrimination is part of their theology.It is telling that when there was a proposal to introduce Sharia law for Muslims in Ontario, Canada, the most vociferous opposition came from female Muslim immigrants who had fled from states such as Iran."I came here to escape Sharia law," said one Iranian exile. "Under it, a woman is worth half a man.She has no rights."Thankfully, even in politically correct Canada, the proposition was quashed.But Britain under Blair is less robust.For the Sharia court in Dewsbury will not be an isolated case. With our Government too enfeebled to challenge it, the idea will spread.Other Muslim neighbourhoods will start to impose Islamic rules.And the scope of the Sharia judges will be expanded far beyond mere matrimonial and child custody disputes. This could be just the first step towards the creation of localised Taliban regimes in Muslim areas of British cities, enforcing their own distorted moral codes, clamping down on alcohol, imposing new forms of censorship, promoting anti-western attitudes and peddling yet more grievances against the British state.Lurking in the background is the threat of terrorism if demands for special treatment are not met.MJ Akbar, a Muslim scholar, recently made this menacing comment on any attempt to resist Sharia law: "A Muslim does not have to live in a Muslim state but he must have the right to live by his divine law.If that is denied then he is in Dar al Harb or the House of War and jihad becomes obligatory upon him."Muslims continually bleat about so-called "Islamophobia" but the isolation they experience from mainstream society is of their own making.British society has bent over backwards to accommodate Islam. We now have state-funded Muslim schools and Muslim-friendly mortgages. Mosques have been erected across Britain while, unlike in France, the hijab headscarf is allowed in schools.Only last week, the Government announced that it is planning to introduce Islamic-compliant security bonds in the City.But none of this is ever good enough.The more we fall to our knees, the more emboldened radical Muslims become. That is because we have made the grievous error of thinking that Islam is another religion, like Christianity or Buddhism, based on the individual relationship between the believer and God.In reality Islam, certainly in its modern manifestation, is as much an aggressive political ideology as a faith.The religious and the political realms are merged under Islam, which prescribes a mode of governance for society.That is why Muslim states are so authoritarian.And it is also why the advent of Sharia law in Britain is so terrifying.It will bring about the end of liberal democracy unless it is stopped.The misguided creed of anti-racist tolerance could herald a dark new era of judicial intolerance.

Britain's MI5 monitoring 2000 suspected jihadists

An update on this story as the known Tiny Minority of Extremists continues to grow. "MI5 watch 2,000 terror suspects,"

The number of terror suspects being monitored by MI5 in the UK has grown by a quarter in the past six months, the BBC has learned.
The security service and police are monitoring about 2,000 individuals who they say are actively involved in supporting al-Qaeda.
Some are thought to have direct links with al-Qaeda in Pakistan.
The fertiliser bomb plot case has highlighted the links to terrorist training camps in Pakistan.
More than 400,000 Britons each year go to Pakistan on innocent family visits.
But Pakistani intelligence agents cannot follow everyone.
And from cites like Karachi, it's easy for Jihadist recruits to head up into the hills to training camps hidden in areas like Malakand.
There, they're taught explosives and weapon handling by al-Qaeda veterans.
This is how the London bombers got their final training before returning to Britain.
Peter Neumann, from King's College's Defence Studies centre, said: "I think this is the strongest connection that we are confronted with at the moment, not least because of the historical connections between Pakistan and Britain and this is most likely to be the greatest source of vulnerability - especially for Britain."

London: First halal McDonald's

Muslims flocked to a McDonalds restaurant in London yesterday for their first taste of halal chicken nuggets.
The fast food giant is putting several halal products on trial for a month at its Southall branch to see if it is feasible to introduce them in Britain.Meat only qualifies as halal, an Arabic term meaning permissible, if the animal is blessed in the name of Allah then slaughtered facing Mecca. A company spokesman said: "The product cannot have come into contact with non-halal products so there are logistical issues. We hope to see if it is possible for us to do." McDonalds says British Muslims have been pleading with them to introduce halal meals here for years.Sales doubled when two McDonalds restaurants in Melbourne, Australia, began serving halal fast-food meals last December, despite initial protests by non-Muslims. When halal chicken went on sale in Detroit last September, Muslims travelled there from as far away as New York to sample it.

UK Terror Cell Plotted Dirty Bomb Attack

The UK jihadis convicted of conspiracy to commit mass murder with fertilizer bombs also took steps to carry out a more terrifying kind of attack:
a dirty bomb
The gang’s most frightening plot was to buy a "dirty" nuclear bomb from the Russian Mafia and blow up a crowded city centre. Apart from the mass killing, the explosion would have left radioactive fall-out over a wide area.
One plotter later told interrogators he was in talks to obtain a "radio-isotope" device. He said he contacted a man via the internet who claimed to have a "source" in the Russian Mafia. But the plotters were never able to get their hands on a nuclear device.
The judge described ringleader Omar Khyam, 25, as "ruthless, devious and dangerous" and accused fellow plotter Anthony Garcia, 25, of harbouring a "murderous ambition on the UK".
The pair and three other "home-grown" terrorists, Waheed Mahmood, 35, Jawad Akbar, 23, and Salahuddin Amin, 32, were jailed for life for conspiracy to cause explosions after a record-breaking Old Bailey trial that lasted a year. The judge warned them they may never be released. The cost to the taxpayer of bringing the gang to justice was a staggering £50million.
The five extremists planned to massacre thousands of their fellow countrymen in up to 30 explosions across the country. Packed pubs, clubs, High Streets and trains were on the terrorists’ hit list as well as major gas and electricity plants.
Khyam, who once dreamed of playing cricket for England, also planned to lead his gang in the slaughter of hundreds by blowing up the Bluewater shopping centre in Kent and London’s trendy Ministry of Sound nightclub.
They even talked about dropping a bomb on the House of Commons during Prime Minister’s Question Time to "take out" Tony Blair and every MP in the land.
Khyam and some of his gang were disciples of radical clerics including hook-handed Abu Hamza and and Sheikh Abdullah Al-Faisal, now both behind bars. The gang planned to detonate remote-controlled bombs across Britain in revenge for the Iraq war.
They gloated over the prospect of carrying out atrocities on the scale of 9/11 in America and the 2004 bombings in Madrid, where 191 were killed.
One gang member was bugged by police as he told another: "Spain was a beautiful job, weren’t it? Absolutely beautiful - so much impact."

Questions over 'plot mastermind'

A man named in court as a facilitator of terrorism in the UK is living freely in England, the BBC can reveal.

WHO IS Q? Real name Mohammed Qayum Khan Based in Luton

Evidence in the trial of five men jailed for a homemade bomb plot alleged some were working for a senior figure with links to al-Qaeda.
In the unprecedented fertiliser bomb trial, the jury heard a Luton-based man played a key role in sending a 7 July suicide bomber for military training.
Counter-terrorism chiefs have refused to discuss the man, codenamed "Q".

Allegedly acted as "facilitator" Allegedly sent London suicide bomber to Pakistan Q refused BBC interview requests Told a newspaper he had been a charity worker Watched by MI5 in 2003 Police refuse to discuss him.

On Monday five men were jailed for life for a 2003-04 plot to build a massive bomb out of fertiliser to use on a target in southern England.
In a record-breaking year-long trial, the Old Bailey heard that the plot's key figures trained with Mujahideen figures in Pakistan. The ringleader of the plot, Omar Khyam, had personal contacts with a senior Al Qaeda figure, now in Guantanamo Bay.
But evidence in the trial also pointed to links between the fertiliser bomb plotters, the 7/7 suicide bombers and a Luton man called Mohammed Qayum Khan.
A part-time taxi driver, Qayum Khan is alleged to have direct links to al-Qaeda figures as part of a broad international "jihadi" network established to facilitate support for causes including the Taleban and Kashmiri separatists.

According to evidence in the trial, MI5 officers discovered the fertiliser bomb plotters after seeing ringleader Omar Khyam in secret meetings with "Q". The last of these was in Southall in west London, shortly before police arrested the plotters.
During the trial it was alleged that Q was a senior inspiring figure for the fertiliser bomb plotters, linking them with military trainers in the Pakistani and Afghan mujahideen.

It was also alleged that he organised fund raising in the UK to send cash to the Taleban or other jihadi groups.
But Qayum Khan, it was also alleged, sent London suicide bomber Mohammad Sidique Khan to Pakistan in July 2003 - a trip which saw him join paramilitary training with other British extremists.

In the trial, it was alleged that Q was a key rallying figure for a growing band of Islamist extremists in the wake of the 9/11 attacks as Luton emerged as a secret powerbase for "jihadi" ideology and activism.

Two Luton men who died in fighting in Afghanistan after the 2001 al-Qaeda attacks on the US lived in the same road as Q.
The taxi driver is also alleged to have had strong ties with another of the jailed fertiliser bomb plotters. Salahuddin Amin, who was living in Pakistan at the time of his arrest, acted as a reciprocal facilitator, receiving money, men and equipment and sending them on to Mujahideen, al-Qaeda or Taleban groups.
Requests for interviews
BBC teams have approached Mohammed Qayum Khan on more than one occasion for an interview or response to the allegations made against him in court.

The BBC's Newsnight team were forcibly thrown out of a cafe in the town centre after identifying Q as eating there and approaching him for comment.
He appears to be no longer living at his home address after approaches from the BBC's Panorama programme.
The Daily Telegraph has also approached Q for an interview. He told the newspaper he knew Omar Khyam and Mohammad Sidique Khan - but only through attempts to raise money for poor people in Pakistan.
Deputy Assistant Commissioner Peter Clarke of the Metropolitan Police refused to discuss Q when asked about his role in the fertiliser bomb plot or in alleged wider jihadi activity.

"I know who 'Q' is but I'm not going to discuss who he is or what he is, or what he does," said DAC Clarke.
"Decisions are made during the course of investigation based upon the evidence that's available, and the decision as to who should be arrested based entirely upon what evidence is available at the time."

year-long terrorist trial that cost an estimated pound stg. 50 million ($120 million)

Q&A: UK terrorism trial