MUSLIM PEDOPHILES RAPE UK TAXPAYERS

A judge has spoken out over the £25,000 legal bill racked up by a members of a paedophile gang who asked for five different interpreters - all to translate the same language.

Judge Martin Joy said the five men, all refugees from Sudan, had cost British taxpayers a total of £125,000 for the interpreters and individual barristers, all supplied by legal aid.
The judge spoke out after a jury at Maidstone Crown Court found one of the men guilty of rape and all five guilty of sexual activity with a child.

They had attacked two schoolgirls aged 13 in Dartford and Gravesend, Kent last summer.
Judge Joy told them: "It is quite plain you have exploited the most civilised aspect of this country throughout this trial, despite the fact that some of you have been in this country for several years.
"The bill for interpretation alone is a minimum of £25,000. Add to that are some eight pre-trial court management hearings and, no doubt, conferences at the prisons.

"It seems to me you have exploited the hospitality this country has to offer."

The judge added: "You came to this country to seek political asylum. No doubt you came to this country because you regarded it as a safe country.
"However, because of your conduct, this country becomes less safe."

Juma Saleh, 19, Mohamud Jimale, 20, Dawt Kefle, 18, and Mahder Zeregergis, 19, were convicted of two counts of sexual activity with a child.
Adil Aboulkadir, 33, was found guilty rape and three counts of sexual activity with a child.
The gang now await sentencing and could face deportation once they are released from prison, though Judge Joy said it would be difficult to find a country that would welcome them.

7 muslims of pakistani descent convicted in Henry Webster case.

Seven teenagers have been convicted of brutally battering a schoolboy close to death with a claw hammer.

Henry Webster, 16, from Wiltshire, was left fighting for his life after being hit in scenes the prosecution compared to a "Quentin Tarantino film".
Four teenagers - Wasif Khan, 18, Amjad Qazi, 19, and two boys aged 15 and 16, were found guilty of the attack.

Nazrul Amin, 19, and two teenagers had previously admitted inflicting grievous bodily harm.
The convictions, delivered at Bristol Crown Court on 14 February, can be made public after Judge Carol Hagen agreed to lift reporting restrictions she had implemented when the jury returned its verdict.

Henry Webster, who attended Ridgeway School in Wroughton, Wiltshire, suffered three skull fractures during the violence.
One caused a brain injury and required surgery to save his life.
As I got hit, my vision turned to stars Henry Webster
Describing the day of the attack in January last year, James Patrick, prosecuting, said a fight was arranged after Henry had "barged" into a group of boys in a school corridor
Mr Patrick added: "It was to be a fair fight. A one on one - or so Henry thought. But he had not reckoned on the fact it was not to be one on one."

The jury had been told how a gang of males from Swindon travelled to Wroughton for the fight, which had been co-ordinated through a sequence of phone calls and text messages.
"As he (Henry) came into the playground he was attacked by a group.
"He was knocked to the ground, he was kicked, punched and repeatedly hit over the head with a hammer."

In a video interview filmed six days after the attack, Henry told police the group had ambushed him.
He said: "I heard screams, then I was punched in the back of my head. I was curled up on the floor but they repeatedly kept hitting me.
"Then I felt the hammer hit the back of my head. I know it was a hammer because if it was a punch, your vision does not change.
"As I got hit, my vision turned to stars - it all separated, what I could see, because it was so powerful."

The seven youths will be sentenced at a later date.

Terrorist suspects must stay in Britain in case they are tortured at home, say human rights judges

Britain could be stuck with more than a dozen international terror suspects after a devastating ruling by the European Court of Human Rights.

Judges said the right of a fanatic to be protected from torture in his homeland was "absolute".
They rejected arguments that, in trying to deport an extremist to a country with a history of torture, the rights of British citizens to be protected from attack in their homeland should be considered, too.

The court also cast doubt on agreements Britain has been trying to secure with countries in the Middle East to allow the deportation of the likes of hate preacher Abu Qatada, known as Osama bin Laden's ambassador in Europe.
The Strasbourg judges said guarantees from countries such as Tunisia and Jordan they would not torture any terror suspect deported by the UK may not be acceptable.
The blow came in a ruling against an attempt by the Italian government to deport a terror suspect to Tunisia.

Britain had "intervened" on the crucial case, in an effort to establish it could deport more than a dozen terror suspects being held in secure jails.
The court described as "misconceived" the UK and Italian arguments that the risk to a terror suspect should be balanced against the risk they pose to innocent civilians.
Judges instead said the terror suspect had an "absolute" right to protection from torture - and this must come first.

It effectively upheld an earlier judgement blamed by ministers for our woeful failure to deport extremists.
They also cast grave doubt over the future of legal assurances given by countries with poor human rights records that they will not torture any suspect who is returned.
These so-called Memorandums of Understanding - including one which allows Qatada to be sent back to Jordan - could now be ripped up when they are challenged in Europe by suspects fighting deportation.

The first case is likely to be that of Qatada, who judges have labelled a "truly dangerous individual".
He called on British Muslims to martyr themselves in a war on oppression.
A Home Office spokesman said: "We intervened because terrorism undermines fundamental human rights - including the right to life. The Government is disappointed."

It came as the UK's most senior counter terrorism officer, Assistant Commissioner Peter Clarke, stood down yesterday, saying that the struggle against violent extremism is far from over.

Bobbies will be taught sharia law and the Koran in 'secret' plan to counter terror at local level

Police will be trained on the importance of the Koran and Sharia law to Muslims under Government plans to tackle extremism.

Lessons in the Islamic faith and culture will become part of the formal training for recruits.
Chief constables said officers will build better relationships by understanding the communities they are policing.

This could prove crucial in rooting out extremism and preventing a terrorist attack, according to the Association of Chief Police Officers.
But critics expressed concern that the plan could foster division, rather than combat it.
It comes after the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, said the adoption of certain aspects of Sharia law in the UK "seems unavoidable".

He later said his remarks had been misinterpreted.
Shadow Home Secretary David Davis added: "Of course it is sensible for the police to have an understanding of the Koran and Sharia law as long as we do not allow the situation to slip so that Sharia law is regarded on an equal basis with British law.
"British law is and always must be pre-eminent."

The scheme is part of a wide-ranging strategy to prevent extremist ideas gaining hold in schools, colleges and prisons.
Other initiatives in the 40-page strategy include guidance to parents on how to stop children searching for extremist websites, and intervening where convicted terrorists are suspected of spreading hate in prison.

Police will not have to learn the "depth and complexity" of Sharia law but would be expected to understand Islamic culture.
But critics have described the plan as "politically correct thinking".
Philip Davies, Conservative MP for Shipley, said: "Police officers are not there to implement sharia law. They are there to implement British law.

"This idea is misguided. We will only get community cohesion when everybody signs up to being British and following British law."
The so-called Prevent strategy says: "Research last year revealed that the police service would be very low on the list of agencies that the Muslim community would turn to if they had concerns about a member of their community who embraced violent extremism.

"The police service has a long way to go in building a relationship of trust around these issues."
The Chief Constable in charge of the strategy, West Yorkshire's Norman Bettison, said: "We work closely with communities and the majority of police training at the moment in this area is done in partnership with Muslim organisations.

"We are building on this basis of training and emphasising that a basic principle of policing is that officers work with and should understand the communities they are policing.
"The Acpo Prevent strategy recognises this in the context of non-Muslim officers working with Muslim communities.
"These issues can be complex and include nationality, community and religious issues, all of which are interwoven.

"That is what we are trying to get across to officers in our training. The depth and complexity of sharia law is not part of this training.
"The strategy remains in draft form at present and I expect it to be formally adopted by chief officer colleagues after further feedback from partners and communities."

Outcry as Muslim extremist is allowed to tour Britain to 'promote violence'

The Home Secretary came under fire last night for allowing a radical Lebanese propagandist with links to the extremist group Hezbollah to enter Britain for a national speaking tour.

The Conservatives urged Jacqui Smith to ban Ibrahim Moussawi from the UK, warning that he was "likely to foment extremism or promote violence".
Mr Moussawi edits Hezbollah's newspaper and is former political editor of the Iranian-backed group's television station, which is banned in many countries including France, Spain and the U.S. where its output is seen as anti-Semitic.

He was recently barred from entering Ireland, where he was due to speak at anti-war meetings.
He is scheduled to appear at an event in London tonight organised by the Stop the War Coalition, with more events planned around the country over the coming week.
Shadow Security Minister Baroness Neville-Jones attacked the Government's record of allowing radical extremists into the UK, after ministers previously ignored calls to deny Mr Moussawi entry to the UK.

She said: "The Government has the power to deny entry to people whose presence is not conducive to the public good.
"Yet in the past they have let in extremists to preach hate.
"Jacqui Smith failed to stop Ibrahim Moussawi from coming last December, despite my specific request that she do so.

"Regardless of what Moussawi actually says when he is here, it is vital that the Government always makes the security of the UK its top priority.
"That means stopping those who are likely to foment extremism or promote violence from coming here to speak. Ibrahim Moussawi should not be allowed to return to the UK."
The Stop the War Coalition website describes Mr Moussawi as "Editor of the journal Al-Intiqad in Lebanon, linked to Hezbollah."

Last night, the Home Office would not comment on Mr Moussawi's case, although sources confirmed that his visa had been approved for the trip.
Al-Manar television - the Arabic word for "beacon" - where he worked until recently as foreign and political editor, is Hezbollah's main mouthpiece in the Middle East and around the world, broadcasting from Beirut.

It describes itself as the "station of resistance" and campaigns on behalf of Hezbollah and against the state of Israel, and American and British policy in the Middle East.
It routinely describes fighters who are killed and suicide bombers as "martyrs", and condemns Israeli forces as criminals.

The station has been widely condemned for anti-Semitism after it broadcast a 30-part series based on The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a forged document setting out a supposed secret Jewish conspiracy to take over the world.
Bosses at the station deny anti-Semitism, claiming they are merely anti-Israeli.
Last month, David Cameron accused Gordon Brown of failing to tackle the dangers from extremist preachers radicalising audiences in the UK.

The Home Office said last night that the Home Secretary uses powers to exclude foreign nationals whose presence is "not conducive to the public good" when it is justified and "based on all the available evidence".

A spokesman said: "Since July 2005, successive Home Secretaries have made robust use of this power to exclude 76 individuals from the UK.
"In the same period, a further 136 individuals have been excluded on grounds of national security."

'War' on the streets

A MAJOR police alert was sparked after up to 40 Hungarian andPakistani yobs brandishing machetes and knives clashed inRavensthor.

Tensions boiled over in the multi-racial community on Tuesday nightamid claims that an Asian girl was "touched" by the Hungarians.The rival gangs clashed in Spen Valley Road and one resident said:"The Hungarians just decided to go to war."A 36-year-old man from Ravensthorpe and a 39-year-old fromHuddersfield suffered slight head injuries and a number of weaponswere recovered by police.

Police described the disturbance as "an isolated incident" but patrolshave been stepped up to reassure local people.
Tuesday’s disturbances mirrored what happened last summer when Iraqisand Pakistani youths clashed in Ravensthorpe and Savile Town.

Locals said the trouble then was caused by Asian girls being pesteredfor sex by the Iraqi Kurds. During a week of tensions, riot policewere called to deal with running battles between rival gangs armedwith baseball bats and other weapons.
One man, a Kurd, was badly beaten and suffered head injuries.

This week’s disturbance has led to fears that violence may escalateagain and Coun Khizar Iqbal, in charge of community safety at KirkleesCouncil, said: "This kind of behaviour will not be tolerated and Iwill be talking to the police to make sure there is no repeat of whathappened last year."
Coun Iqbal (Con, Dewsbury South) said that the make-up of theRavensthorpe community may need to be looked at."We have different groups of people coming into Ravensthorpe and thedispersal scheme is run by national government, not local councils.

"This is a sensitive issue but we often don’t know who is coming inand from where but it can disrupt settled communities. However wecannot tolerate this kind of aggravation."
Businessman Vinny Burman, who runs an off-licence shop on the cornerof Spen Valley Road, described what happened on Tuesday and said:"Some Asian men took offence at what had happened to the girl andtrouble erupted. It went pear-shaped and got hostile.

"A lot of residents were scared but we have had this before involvingIraqis and Kurds. It goes on all the time. There is a lot of conflictand this was not as bad as it could have been but then there was aheavy police presence."Mr Burman said grown Hungarian men were chasing young Asians withmachetes and knives. "That’s why it was so bad," he said. "It keptgoing quiet and flaring up again. It is at night when it is worst."People have been coming into the shop asking whether they are safe.They don’t know how to take this. They expect the worst."

Throughout Tuesday evening police mounted high visibility patrols.
Chief Insp Jon Carter, Dewsbury’s police commander, said: "We areworking closely with the community in Ravensthorpe to find out justwhat happened.

"Clearly, when we get reports of large groups of people we takepositive action as this can cause fear and intimidation for members ofthe community.

Muslim medics refuse to roll up their sleeves in hygiene crackdown - because it's against their religion

Health officials are having crisis talks with Muslim medical staff who have objected to hospital hygiene rules because of religious beliefs.

Medics in hospitals in at least three major English cities have refused to follow the regulations aimed at helping tackle superbugs because of their faith, it has been revealed. Women medical students at Alder Hey children's hospital in Liverpool objected to rolling up their sleeves when washing their hands and removing arm coverings in theatre, claiming it is regarded as immodest.

Similar concerns were raised at Leicester University and Sheffield University reported a case of a Muslim medic refusing to "scrub" because it left her forearms exposed. Some students have said that they would prefer to quit the course rather than expose their arms, but hygiene experts said no exceptions should be made on religious grounds. A Royal Liverpool hospital spokesman said they had experienced issues of Muslim staff not sanitising their forearms with alcohol gel although this had now been addressed.

Dr Steve Ryan, medical director at Alder Hey said that while the "bare below the elbows" dress code is a matter of patient safety, the trust would work with Muslim students to find a solution. He said: "We specify bare below elbows, no wrist watches, nail varnish or false nails in clinical areas. "Good hand hygiene is one of the most important and simplest actions we can take to prevent healthcare associated infections. "A number of female Muslim students had approached the University of Liverpool to ask if we would provide facilities for them to change their outerwear and Hijab for theatre scrubs. "We were pleased to accommodate this request and these facilities have now been incorporated."

Dr Charles Tannock, a Conservative MEP and former hospital consultant, said: "These students are being trained using taxpayers' money and they have a duty of care to their patients not to put their health at risk. "Perhaps these women should not be choosing medicine as a career if they feel unable to abide by the guidelines everyone else has to follow."

But the Islamic Medical Association insisted that covering all the body in public, except the face and hands, was a basic tenet of Islam. It said: "No practising Muslim woman - doctor, medical student, nurse or patient - should be forced to bare her arms below the elbow." The new Department of Health guidance was introduced this month in a bid to restrict the spread of potentially fatal infections such as MRSA and Clostridium difficle. The code of practice helps NHS bodies to plan and implement how they can prevent and control healthcare- associated infections.

It sets out criteria by which managers of NHS organisations are to ensure that patients are cared for in a clean environment and the risk of infections is kept as low as possible.

Hamza mate's new web of hate

A PAL of hook-handed Abu Hamza is continuing a war of hate against Britain — after being DEPORTED.

Evil Adbullah al-Faisal, 44, jailed here in 2003 for soliciting the murder of Jews and Americans, is mounting an internet campaign from his homeland Jamaica.
The preacher of hate — an associate of notorious rabble-rouser Hamza — was kicked out after his release last year.

He is now raising cash from followers so he can carry on his wicked doctrine on the web.

In an interview posted on an extremist British website, he defends terrorism and appeals for funds for equipment to broadcast online and to pay for an international “lecture tour”.
He says Allah will “reward” those who donate.
Faisal also brands democracy the religion of Satan and claims he was “framed” in Britain.
Last night a security source said: “This is clearly an attempt to link up with and recruit those who might be vulnerable to his message.”

Faisal, who will never be allowed to return to Britain, is one of al-Qaeda’s most menacing propaganda merchants.

He claims democracy is wrong “because in a democracy the vote of a Christian carries the same weight as the vote of a Muslim”.

His speeches had a deep influence on the four 7/7 suicide bombers who murdered 52 London commuters in 2005.
Shadow Security Minister Baroness Pauline Neville Jones yesterday demanded an investigation into his web activity.
She said: “This highlights the danger posed by the reach of the internet and difficulties in combating it, but we should not be cowed.”

Inayat Bunglawala, of the Muslim Council of Britain, called for family intervention to prevent youths falling victim to online brainwashing.
He said: “Parents have a responsibility to try to prevent their children from being indoctrinated by those who use the internet to incite hatred.”

'Osama bin London' guilty

A MUSLIM fanatic who boasted of being “Osama bin London” has been found guilty of organising terrorist training camps.

Mohammed Hamid, 50, was also convicted of encouraging others to murder non-believers at the end of a four-month trial at Woolwich Crown Court.
Three of his followers, Kibley da Costa, 25, Mohammed Al-Figari, 45, and Kader Ahmed, 20, were found guilty of attending terror camps in the New Forest and at a Berkshire paintballing centre.

Two further members of the gang, Mohammed Kyriacou, 19, and Yassin Mutegombwa, 23, admitted attending terrorist training camps, it can be reported today after restrictions were lifted.

Property manager Mousa Brown, 41, was cleared of providing and receiving weapons training and has been freed from custody.
The court heard Hamid led an al Qaida-style terrorist cell and aspired to send his recruits to join camps in Afghanistan and East Africa.
Among his pupils were five of the July 21 failed bombers, including ringleader Muktar Said Ibrahim, who attended Lake District camps in 2004.

Detectives said although there is no evidence Hamid organised the attacks, he was partly responsible for the state of mind of those that did.
He boasted that the July 7 attacks were “not even breakfast for me” and hours afterwards sent a text message to his friend, July 21 conspirator Hussain Osman.
It read: “We fear no-one except Allah. We will not change our ways, we are proud to be Muslim and we will not hide.”

Paintballing

Hamid organised outdoor activities including camping and paintballing at sites in the Lake District, New Forest, Berkshire, Kent and East Sussex.
The jury found three of these trips were terrorist training designed to recruit, groom and corrupt impressionable young Muslims.

They were combined with incendiary weekly talks at his east London council home where he sowed the seeds of hate among his followers.
He was joined in his teachings by Atilla Ahmet, 43, the self-styled emir of the gang, who admitted three charges of soliciting murder at the start of the trial.

Ahmet was Abu Hamza’s right-hand man at Finsbury Park Mosque and took control of his notorious Supporters of Shariah group after his arrest in 2004.
One senior police source said officers will never know whether Hamid and Ahmet intended their followers to attack targets in the UK or overseas.

He said: “They were certainly doing paramilitary training for terrorism.
Whether that was to be terrorism overseas or at home, I do not know.
“But five of the people convicted of the July 21 attacks attended these camps.
We could not rule out the possibility that these people would go on to commit terrorism here.”

'The white working class feels alienated, threatened and voiceless,' says BBC boss

Richard Klein said poorer whites believe they are "threatened economically and stifled socially" and that they no longer have a voice.

Mr Klein, the corporation's commissioning editor for documentaries, has courted controversy before.
He previously admitted that the political correctness the BBC is frequently accused of is at odds with many of its viewers.
His latest comments come ahead of a season of BBC2 programmes under the banner White, which he is overseeing and which he believes can play a part in easing the anxieties of that section of the community.

He said: "You don't hear white, working-class opinions often enough on TV.
"There's a large group of people who feel politically alienated, threatened economically and stifled socially. They feel they haven't got a voice."
He said many people interviewed for the programmes felt they could not say what they really thought for fear of being criticised.

"I wanted to change that. And I think it was important for the BBC to try and have a go at it."
The season has already provoked controversy, with politicians and race campaigners claiming the BBC should not be singling out ethnic groups.
There are fears from some that it will play into the hands of Right-wing groups like the BNP, by portraying white people as victims. One of the programmes, All White In Barking, will focus on a BNP activist.

Mr Klein, speaking to the Radio Times, admitted some viewers might consider the language and sentiments expressed in the programmes as racist.
But he added: "I don't think we're taking a stand here: we're hosting a debate. Quite a lot of these programmes are challenging to watch. What you get are sympathetic characters, complex responses to circumstances, and some people who are not particularly nice.

"They are torn. They are reacting as human beings would do, to situations they don't quite understand. I don't think we've given a platform to extremist political parties. We have, I think, given a platform to people whose views aren't often heard on TV."

Other critics have suggested that having ranks of middle-class TV executives examining the white working-class could be seen as patronising.
The season will include a "provocative" drama about a white girl who moves into a Muslim-dominated community and starts wearing the hijab.

Documentaries will include Last Orders, about an "embattled" working men's club in Bradford, while Rivers Of Blood assesses the impact of Enoch Powell's infamous 1968 speech.
Klein has previously broken ranks with the politically correct views of the corporation.
At the end of 2006 he admitted the broadcaster was out of touch with the British public, saying it was guilty of "ignoring" mainstream opinion.

Speaking to a room full of TV viewers and BBC staff, he suggested that if the current situation continued it could affect the organisation's long-term future.
Klein said: "By and large, people who work at the BBC think the same and it's not the way the audience thinks. That's not long term sustainable.

"We pride ourselves on being 'of the people' and it's pathetic. Channel 4 tends to laugh at people, the BBC ignores them."

SHARIA STORM GROWS

MUSLIM radicals have demanded Sharia law across Britain “without compromise”.

Extreme Islamics said the hardline system – where people are punished by stoning and beheading – is the future.

Speaking at a meeting in Birmingham, Abu Ibraheem said: “Let us make this absolutely clear
Islam is not subject to dilution, compromise or relegation.“The behaviour of some Muslims is failing miserably to meet these commands.”About 50 activists held the meeting in the same town where terrorist Parviz Khan, 36, plotted to behead a British soldier.

Ten thousand leaflets were distributed to attract moderate Muslims.

They criticised comments by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, 58, who suggested parts of Sharia law may be good for the UK.Abu Abdullah, who spoke at the meeting, added: “The purpose of this was not to discourage Muslims from following English laws. “It is to educate people about Sharia and its meanings.”

Muslims call for crisp boycott after it is revealed that some varieties contain alcohol

Furious Muslims have heavily criticised Walkers crisps after it emerged that certain varieties of the manufacturer's products contain trace elements of alcohol.

Some crisp types use minute amounts of alcohol as a chemical agent to extract certain flavours.
The report in Asian newspaper Eastern Eye, highlights concerns raised by shopkeeper Besharat Rehman, who owns a halal supermarket in Bradford, West Yorkshire.

Mr Rehman told the paper: "A customer informed us that Sensations Thai Sweet Chilli and Doritos Chilli Heat Wave are not on Walkers' alcohol-free list. Our suppliers were unaware of this.

"Even if it is a trace amount of alcohol, Walkers should make it clear on the packaging so that the customer can make an informed choice.
"I feel frustrated and angry. I have let my customers down simply because such a big company like Walkers is not sensitive to Muslim needs.

"Many of them were my daughter's favourite crisps. As soon as I found out about the alcohol in them, I called home to ask my wife to throw out all the packets.”
Shuja Shafi, who chairs the food standards committee of the Muslim Council of Britain, said that he intended to investigate. "Certainly we would find it very offensive to have eaten food with alcohol."

Masood Khawaja, of the Halal Food Authority, said that this was not the first time the issue had been raised with Walkers.
"They should have looked into the matter and solved it instead of hiding behind labelling regulations. It does not matter what percentage of alcohol is involved.

"Besides Muslims, there are a lot of teetotal people who would not like to consume alcohol in any form. As far as possible we try and lobby for halal symbols on popular products like Kellogg's cereals.
"But we have always told Muslims to check the contents list even if a product is marked suitable for vegetarians. But to not mention it on the packaging is unfair.”

However, a spokesperson for Walkers said that trace amounts of alcohol in crisps or bread are believed to be permissible for Muslims.
"We do not add alcohol to our products. However, ethyl alcohol may be present in trace amounts in a very small number of our flavours.

"It is used as a carrying agent for flavourings, and is found in many common food and drink products.
"Foods like bread can also contain the same or higher trace amounts due to fermentation. "We are aware of the concerns from some Muslim consumers about the appropriateness of specific ingredients. We take the concerns of our consumers extremely seriously.

"In previous assessments by Muslim scholars, foods and drinks that contain trace amounts of ethyl alcohol have been confirmed as permissible for Muslim consumption because of both the fact that the ingredient does not bear its original qualities and does not change the taste, colour or smell of the product, and its very low level."

MUSLIM SCHOOL 'SHREDDED 2,000 BOOKS USED FOR LESSONS IN HATE'

A BRITISH school attended by the children of Islamic fanatics was forced to shred 2,000 textbooks used to poison pupils’ minds with lessons of hate, an ex-teacher has claimed.

Colin Cook, who taught English at the King Fahad Academy for 18 years, told a tribunal that pupils as young as five were being taught from Arabic textbooks describing Jews as “monkeys” and Christians as “pigs”.

And he says when he exposed the racist Saudi curriculum, the school’s headteacher Dr Sumaya Alyusuf lied on national television that hateful passages had never been taught.

Under public pressure the Academy eventually agreed to destroy 2,000 books - but photocopied them first for future use, Watford Employment Tribunal heard.

The hearing was told that pupils at the private Muslim faith school in Acton, west London, included the five children of jailed cleric Abu Hamza and those of Abu Qatada, who was said to be Osama bin Laden’s right-hand man in Europe.

Mr Cook, 58, said that when he queried how the pair of preachers could be paying school fees when they were said to be on state benefits, he was told to mind his own business.

The tribunal heard that some pupils made “inappropriate” remarks about killing Americans and praised Al Qaeda leader Bin Laden and the 9/11 attacks.

And a school party was thrown out of Arsenal Football Club’s museum when Saudi children chanted “Saudi, Saudi, Saudi” and fought with non-Saudi pupils.

Married British father-of-three Mr Cook, from south London, is claiming unfair dismissal, race discrimination and victimisation, which the school denies.

He was earning £35,000-a-year and is seeking £135,000 in compensation for lost earnings, injury to feelings and aggravated damages.

The school, which opened in 1985 for the children of Saudi diplomats and is funded and controlled by the Saudi government, has vigorously denied ever teaching any form of racial hatred.

It insists that the offending passages in the books were “misinterpreted” and that they were never taught.

Giving evidence to the tribunal, Mr Cook claimed the school was seen as an extension of the Saudi embassy rather than part of the UK with Saudi teachers even enjoying diplomatic immunity.

He said that the Ofsted inspection in March 2006 failed to identify major issues at the school including parental complaints, unqualified or poor teachers and pupil indiscipline and truancy.

“The Ofsted report was very inadequate,” he said.

“This is partly due to what the Academy did not tell the inspectors and partly due to, at best, incompetence by Ofsted.”

He alleges that he was sacked on trumped up grounds in December 2006 after he blew the whistle on the school for covering up cheating by children in a GCSE exam.

Mr Cook said that when he questioned the cover up, a senior colleague told him: “This is not England. It is Saudi Arabia.”

Mr Cook told the tribunal: “I discovered that race hate was being taught in textbooks at the Academy.

“The race hate included test questions asking pupils to list the reprehensible qualities of Jews and described Christians as ’pigs’. It was appalling.”

After Mr Cook’s revelations in February last year, head Dr Sumaya Alyusuf went on BBC 2’s Newsnight to defend the school.

She told interviewer Jeremy Paxman that she was aware of the books but refused to withdraw them because they had “good chapters that can be used by the teachers”.

Mr Cook told the tribunal: “The Academy denied that race hate was being taught.

“However, eventually under public pressure but still denying any wrong-doing, the Academy agreed to shred 2,000 books.

“I now know that these textbooks had been taught for years to the knowledge of the current dean Dr Alyusuf and her predecessor.”

Mr Cook said that misbehaviour by Saudi pupils was overlooked with one escaping punishment for calling a non-Saudi teacher an infidel.

“There had been incidents in which Saudi curriculum children had made inappropriate remarks about killing Americans and had praised the 9/11 incident and Osama bin Laden,” he said.

Mr Cook was sacked in December 2006 for gross misconduct over his cheating allegations.

The hearing continues.

Rapist filmed sex attack on mobile

A MAN who filmed his sex attack on a 14-year-old girl on his mobile phone has been labelled a serious risk to young girls.

Former cricketer Ajmal Mohammad had driven the girl to Blackpool after meeting her in Accrington, given her alcohol and then abused her as she lay in a hotel room.
Over two or three hours, he carried out a series of sex offences on her, knowing he was infected with Hepatitis C.

The 40-year-old, of Audley Range, Blackburn, was jailed indefinitely for public protection.
A judge told him he would have to serve a minimum of five-and-a-half-years but warned he would not be released until the Parole Board was satisfied that he no longer posed a danger.

A Preston Crown Court jury convicted him of charges of rape, taking a child out of the control of her parents, sexual assault and indulging in sexual activity with a child.
Mohammad, who played for Ribblesdale League side Blackburn Northern, admitted a separate charge of a sexual assault which he filmed in a 51- second clip while the girl was asleep at the Avanti Hotel in Albert Road, Blackpool.

He claimed at his trial that there had been no other sexual activity with the girl, who had been a virgin. He now admitted he lied.
He was diagnosed with chronic Hepatitis C back in 2002 and Mr Philip Andrews, defending, said there had potentially been a risk of him infecting the girl through sex.
The court heard that the girl later took an overdose.

Judge Edward Slinger said it was a particularly unpleasant case.
Mohammad, described in testimonials as a good reliable family man, will be on the Sex Offenders’ Register indefinitely and banned indefinitely from working with children.

Life for Muslim fanatic in soldier kidnap plot who showed son, 5, how to behead British 'infidels'

A man who planned to kill a Muslim soldier in the British army has been jailed for life.
Last month, Parviz Khan, 37, from Birmingham, admitted the plot and to supplying equipment to the Taleban.

He planned to snatch the serviceman and decapitate him. Four others have also been found guilty over the plot.
On Monday, Leicester Crown Court cleared Amjad Mahmood, 32, of Birmingham, of knowing about the plan but failing to inform authorities.

A secret bugging device at the home of an Islamic fanatic convicted of a plot to kidnap and behead a British Muslim soldier recorded his attempts to teach his five-year-old son how to perform a beheading, it has been revealed.

The court heard Khan was at the centre of a Birmingham-based cell which had organised four shipments of equipment to terrorists based in Pakistan and operating against coalition forces in Afghanistan.
Prosecutor Nigel Rumfitt QC told the court Khan was "enraged" by the notion of Muslim soldiers in the British Army.

Mr Rumfitt said: "Khan decided to kidnap such a soldier with the help of drug dealers operating in Birmingham. He would be taken to a lock-up garage and there he would be murdered by having his head cut off like a pig.
"This would be filmed - they would have the soldier's ID to prove who he was and the film would be released through Khan's terrorist network to cause panic and fear with the British armed forces and the wider public."

Basiru Gassama, 30, of Hodge Hill, Birmingham, pleaded guilty at a previous hearing to a failure to disclose information about the plot.
Mohammed Irfan, 31, of Ward End, Birmingham, and Hamid Elasmar, 44, of Edgbaston, Birmingham, both pleaded guilty to engaging in conduct with the intention of assisting in the commission of acts of terrorism - namely helping Khan to supply the equipment.

Zahoor Iqbal, 30, of Perry Barr, Birmingham, was found guilty of the same charge.
In comments made last month, but which can only be reported now, Mr Justice Henriques said Khan was "likely to be a continuing danger".

Couple in court over terror pamphlet

Amjad Mahmood, 29, and Shella Roma, 27, are suspected of circulating a document telling others to go abroad and fight jihad.The couple, who have a six-month-old baby, were arrested by counter-terrorist police at their home in Oldham, Greater Manchester, last month.City of Westminster Magistrates' Court heard detectives launched an investigation, codenamed Operation Giraffe, after they were contacted by an employee at a printing firm.

Bethan David, prosecuting, said computer equipment at their home as well as a local library had been seized by police.The couple face a joint charge of distributing a terrorist publication between October 10 last year and January 31.

The court was told this is an offence under Section 2 of the Terrorism Act 2006.Roma, who wore a white jacket and jeans, spent most the hearing with her head on the shoulder of her partner who works at a restaurant in central Manchester.

The couple spoke only to confirm their names, ages and address during the one-hour hearing which included extended legal argument.Their legal representative said the couple intend to plead not guilty to the single charge.District Judge Timothy Workman released the couple on conditional bail to reappear at the same court on April 8.Mahmood and Roma, who live in Chester Road, Oldham, were charged by police last week.

Muslims protest outside Downing Street

Muslim groups are preparing to stage a demonstration outside Downing Street after what they describe as a week of "bias, prejudice, xenophobia and even borderline racism".

It has been organised by the British Muslim Initiative (BMI) and supported by 20 other Muslim groups including the Muslim Council of Britain and British Muslim Forum.
They are calling for equal rights under the slogan: Yes to equal citizenship, No to double standards.

The BMI have said the demonstration is a response to the past week's events including the controversy provoked by the Archbishop of Canterbury's comments that adoption of some aspects of Islamic sharia law in the UK seem "unavoidable".

It is also protesting over the Home Office's rejection of Egyptian-born, controversial scholar Yusuf al-Qaradawi's visa application to enter the UK.
The revelation that counter-terrorism officers had secretly recorded discussions between MP Sadiq Khan and a jailed constituent has also led to angry reactions from Muslims.

A BMI statement said the three events "provide further evidence of bias, prejudice, xenophobia and even borderline racism rampant in wide corners of the media as well as in the corridors of government."
BMI spokesman Anas Altikriti said: "It all gives out a message that Muslims can never be trusted and any discourse must be banned and no-one, not even the esteemed Archbishop of Canterbury, can say anything about Muslims.

"This vigil is about all Muslims coming together and asking to be treated as equal citizen with rights. And at the same time we are calling for issues to do with Muslims to be dealt with fairness and balance."

Saudi rulers threatened to make it easier for jihadists to attack London unless corruption investigations into their arms deals were halted

This ought to be front-page headline news all over the world. Why isn't it?
And is the State Department looking into the implications of this? Or will Bush return hat-in-hand to Saudi Arabia, in the spirit of his recent (rejected) request for a lowering of oil prices, and ask, Please, Sir, will you ease up on the global jihad?
Can there really be any further doubt about which side the Saudis are on?

Friend and Ally Update: "BAE: secret papers reveal threats from Saudi prince," by David Leigh and Rob Evans in The Guardian

Saudi Arabia's rulers threatened to make it easier for terrorists to attack London unless corruption investigations into their arms deals were halted, according to court documents revealed .

Previously secret files describe how investigators were told they faced "another 7/7" and the loss of "British lives on British streets" if they pressed on with their inquiries and the Saudis carried out their threat to cut off intelligence.

Prince Bandar, the head of the Saudi national security council, and son of the crown prince, was alleged in court to be the man behind the threats to hold back information about suicide bombers and terrorists. He faces accusations that he himself took more than £1bn in secret payments from the arms company BAE.
He was accused in yesterday's high court hearings of flying to London in December 2006 and uttering threats which made the prime minister, Tony Blair, force an end to the Serious Fraud Office investigation into bribery allegations involving Bandar and his family.

The threats halted the fraud inquiry, but triggered an international outcry, with allegations that Britain had broken international anti-bribery treaties.
Lord Justice Moses, hearing the civil case with Mr Justice Sullivan, said the government appeared to have "rolled over" after the threats. He said one possible view was that it was "just as if a gun had been held to the head" of the government.

Multiculturalism is making Britain 'a soft touch for terrorists'

Britain has become a soft touch for terrorists, leading defence experts warn today.

The world-renowned Royal United Services Institute has delivered an unprecedented attack on the Government's security policy.
It warns that a failure to "lay down the line" to immigrant populations is undermining the fight against domestic extremism.

It condemns the country's "fragmented" national identity and obsession with multiculturalism.
And it accuses ministers of a "piecemeal and erratic response" to urgent threats to the nation and of starving the armed forces of cash to the point of "chronic disrepair".
The security think tank, which has unrivalled contact with senior political and military figures, urges ministers to abandon "flabby and bogus strategic thinking" and to make the defence of the realm the "first duty of Government".

The bleak assessment comes as top security officials warn that planned job cuts could undermine the UK's intelligence performance.
The Defence Intelligence Staff (DIS), which analyses information with GCHQ, MI6 and the Ministry of Defence, is facing the loss of 121 posts.
DIS staff are central to the intelligence community and provide expertise on the development of weapons systems and arms proliferation, as well as support to UK operations overseas.
John Morrison, the former Deputy Chief of Defence Intelligence, claims such losses - amounting to a staff cut of more than 20 per cent - would be "ludicrous" and seriously compromise large areas of its work.

The study also follows two blows this week to Labour's anti-terror strategy.
Appeal judges have given an Algerian pilot the go-ahead to claim compensation which could run into millions for being wrongly accused of training the September 11 hijackers.
And five young Muslim men had their convictions for terrorist offences quashed by the Appeal Court.
Laws making it a crime to possess extremist jihadi propaganda and literature could now have to be re-written and dozens more prosecutions could collapse after senior judges ruled that police and prosecutors must prove to juries that terror suspects not only possessed potentially dangerous material but were intent on using it in an attack.

In Wednesday's ruling the Lord Chief Justice Lord Phillips stated that unless there was clear evidence of "terrorist intent", merely possessing or sharing extremist material did not amount to a crime.
The law was designed to help police catch so-called "clean-skins" - would-be terrorists who have yet to carry out an atrocity but are in the early stages of planning one.

But the effect of the ruling is that the police will struggle to build a watertight case against suspects based on such early planning or research for an attack, and will instead be forced to wait until plans are far more advanced - increasing the risk of a successful atrocity.

The Appeal Court ruling was the latest instance of counter-terrorist laws being defeated or watered down by senior judges, but RUSI's damning report raises fundamental questions over the Government's ability to protect Britain from the gravest threats.

The work of a panel of senior military commanders, diplomats, politicians and academics, it contrasts the erosion of national confidence with the "implacability" of Islamist terrorists.
The study calls for a radical shake-up of government to take away oversight of security and defence from "the arena of short-term party politics" - in the same way that interest rates are now set independently of politicians.
"The United Kingdom presents itself as a target, as a fragmenting, post-Christian society, increasingly divided about interpretations of its history, about its national aims, its values and in its political identity," it states.

By contrast those who refuse to integrate into British society have a "firm self-image".
"This is a problem worsened by the lack of leadership from the majority which in misplaced deference to "multiculturalism" failed to lay down the line to immigrant communities, thus undercutting those within them trying to fight extremism.
"We look like a soft touch. We are indeed a soft touch, from within and without."
The authors suggest the world is living through a "time of remission" between the September 11 attacks six years ago and a yet-worse future atrocity which will deliver "an even greater psychological blow".

The British people are "uncertain" about wars abroad, fearful over security at home and doubtful over the "muddling" of responsibility for protecting them between Westminster and Brussels.
"Repeated assertions by ministers that all is well, that the matter is well in hand and can be safely left to them to manage in-house, no longer carry conviction," the report warns.
Against this backdrop a serious decline in the armed forces has left Britain "open to ambush", with the military engulfed in an "atmosphere of chronic disrepair".

The RUSI study echoes concerns raised by five former heads of the armed forces who spoke out against military underfunding in the House of Lords last year.
It likens the lack of adequate spending on defence over the past ten years to "a breach made by the defenders themselves in the walls of their own city".
The report particularly condemns the savage cuts to the Royal Navy in recent years, accusing politicians of suffering from "sea blindness".

The Navy has seen its fleet of warships and submarines as well as its manpower drastically reduced in recent years, and is struggling to maintain training in the face of crippling budget pressures.
Britain now has a "bare-bones defence and security establishment", according to the report's authors, yet we lack the knowledge of future threats which would justify such a risk.
New threats are emerging besides Islamist terrorism - "ferocious" Russian nationalism, climate change and competition for resources - while international bodies which Britain relies on such as the United Nations, Nato and the EU are "weakening".

The report urges a return to "traditional alliances with the English-speaking world" - particularly the U.S., Australia, New Zealand and Canada - adding: "Foul-weather friends are to be preferred to fair- weather friends; and the British people know precisely which are which."
It calls for oversight of security and defence to be handed to two new committees - one joint Lords and Commons group, chaired by a senior opposition MP, tasked with identifying gaps in security, and another within the Cabinet to coordinate activity across the whole of Government.
Tory security spokesman Baroness Neville-Jones said: "This report sends a powerful message to Government that leadership is badly lacking at a time of significant threat to our country. Conservatives agree that multiculturalism has been a disaster for national cohesion and has increased our vulnerability to the terrorist threat."

With the Government's long-awaited National Security Strategy due to be published within days, the damning attack by such respected experts will add to the intense scrutiny of policies on terrorism and defence.
The Ministry of Defence rejected RUSI's warnings of military decline, saying: "The UK's Armed Forces have the ability to meet the broad range of tasks they may be required to undertake, often at short notice.

"They have a battle-winning capability that is second to none. The broad range of capability gives us insurance against the inherent uncertainty of the future."

Suicide bomb DVD probe arrest

A POLICE investigation into the sale in Britain of a DVD appearing to glorify suicide bombers will continue today.

A 33-year-old man was arrested at Manchester Airport yesterday on suspicion of distributing material likely to stir up racial hatred.
He was later bailed.

The DVD was handed in to West Yorkshire Police by a local newspaper in December.
The disc shows a dramatisation of a girl vowing to follow in the steps of her suicide-bomber mother, set to music featuring children singing in Arabic.

All three of the DVD’s tracks are sung by children in Arabic with English subtitles.
The first video shows an Arab woman playing with her two children before leaving her home with dynamite tucked into her dress.

She is approached by uniformed soldiers and the camera pauses on her thoughtful expression before a large explosion blazes across the screen.
After finding out about the suicide on television, her small daughter finds a stick of dynamite in her mother’s wardrobe and turns to the camera with the subtitles: “My love will not be by words. I will follow my mother’s steps.”

A West Yorkshire Police spokeswoman said: “As part of ongoing inquiries into a DVD that was handed into the counter-terrorism unit in Leeds in December, officers arrested a 33-year-old man from Weetwood.

“He has now been bailed pending further inquiries.”

Students 'intoxicated' by terror freed on appeal

Five young men, including four students, jailed on terror charges after being "intoxicated" by extremist propaganda have been freed by the Court of Appeal.

Lord Chief Justice Lord Phillips and two other judges ordered their release after quashing their convictions.

The men were convicted last year after an Old Bailey trial heard that they were obsessed with extremist websites and literature promoting violent jihad. Lord Phillips described the conviction as "unsafe". The trial, for downloading and sharing extremist terror-related material, was one of the first of its kind. The men said that their conviction was unique in British law, having been prosecuted for something they had read rather than something they had done, the BBC reports. Mohammed Irfan Raja, 20, Awaab Iqbal, 20, Aitzaz Zafar, 21, Usman Ahmed Malik, 22, and Akbar Butt, 21, faced charges of possessing extreme material on their computers.

Allowing their appeals, Lord Phillips, sitting with Mr Justice Owen and Mr Justice Bean, said: "We do not consider that it was made plain to the jury, whether by the prosecution or by the Recorder, that the case that the appellants had to face was that they possessed the extremist material for use in the future to incite the commission of terrorist acts.
"We doubt whether the evidence supported such a case."

Four of the men were students at Bradford University, while Mr Raja was a schoolboy in London at the time of his conviction.
He ran away from home in February 2006, leaving a note to his parents saying he was going to fight abroad and that they would be reunited in heaven, the court heard. However, he returned home within days, having realised his mistake.

He co-operated with detectives upon his return, leading to the arrest of the others and the discovery of the extremist material.
Among the literature discovered were publications from Islamist organisations encouraging Muslims to fight. Lawyers for the five said that the law had not been designed to prevent the dissemination of propaganda, but rather to stop people spreading bomb-making techniques.

None of the material suggested that the men were plotting a bombing, despite talk of travelling to Pakistan for paramilitary training.
Lord Phillips said: "The articles in question were documents, compact discs or computer hard drives on which material had been electronically stored.

"The material included ideological propaganda as well as communications between the appellants and others which the prosecution alleged showed a settled plan under which the appellants would travel to Pakistan to receive training and thereafter commit a terrorist act or acts in Afghanistan."
Joel Bennathan QC, for Mr Zafar, told the Court that his client had been convicted for reading. "The evidence at trial was that [Mr Zafar] made no attempt to conceal his very large collection of pro-jihadi sermons and lectures," said Mr Bennathan in his written arguments.

"His computer had no password, nor was any significant material encrypted or deleted."
The prosecution had used a "maverick" interpretation of the law to achieve a conviction, the appeal lawyers argued.
Lord Phillips said the "critical issue that arises on the facts of this case is whether there existed between the articles and the acts of terrorism a connection that satisfied the requirements of section 57".

Blimey! Allahu akbar, mate!

Britain exporting jihad. "RAF find 'Taliban with British accents,'" from Metro.co.uk

AFGHANISTAN: An Islamic group expressed surprise today at reports that RAF spy planes in south Afghanistan have detected Taliban fighters speaking in British accents.
Nimrod surveillance aircraft flying over Helmand province recently picked up voices lapsing from local languages into English with Midlands and Yorkshire accents, according to reports.

Inayat Bunglawala, assistant secretary-general of the Muslim Council of Britain, said he was aware that some British Muslims travelled to Afghanistan to fight when hostilities began in 2001.

He had heard of no cases since then, but accepted it was "not beyond the bounds of possibility", given that the conflict had "dragged on with still no end in sight".

...and given that neither Bunglawala nor other Muslim leaders in Britain have lifted a finger to disabuse their coreligionists in that country of the jihad ideology.

Islamist extremists have penetrated the heart of Britain

Islamist extremists have infiltrated Government and key public utilities to pass sensitive information to terrorists, the security services have warned.

Counter-terrorism officials say "insiders" or their associates are almost certainly working "undetected" in sensitive posts and are actively supporting the activities of extremists.
In some cases, lifelong relationships between friends or relatives are being exploited to obtain crucial information from those in sensitive posts.
The development is detailed in intelligence reports circulated to the Home Office, police and Whitehall officials.

The London Underground, Gatwick airport and BT are cited as examples of organisations which have been targeted by individuals linked to terrorists.
Officials say the idea of "penetrating the enemy is pervasive" for Islamist extremists.
It is understood a number of suspected jihadists working in Government departments and the public services are being monitored by the security services.

Details of the threat emerged months after the Daily Mail revealed fears that Scotland Yard has been infiltrated by individuals linked to extremist groups including Al Qaeda.
Several police officers and civilian staff are being monitored amid claims they are long-term sleepers trying to gain sensitive information of use to terrorists.

Some are even believed to have attended terror training camps in Pakistan or Afghanistan.
Fanatics who infiltrate the Government or the "Critical National Infrastructure" - vital utilities such as water, electricity, transport and communications - have a number of objectives.
These include trying to gain information on what the law enforcement agencies know about the activities of fellow Islamist extremists and how to evade the attention of police and the security services.

They may also try to obtain information or intelligence to help them to carry out acts of terrorism.
This involves getting access to premises or individuals "with the immediate purpose" of mounting an attack or obtaining sensitive information to facilitate a later atrocity.

The extremists might also seek information which is of "indirect use" to the planning of a terrorist attack - such as getting access to banking information to raise money through fraud, gaining insider knowledge about airport security and surveillance measures on the London Underground.

Security sources say there is evidence that UK-based terrorists have discussed the possibility of attacking national infrastructure targets with the help of a "sympathetic insider".
MI5 has warned in the past that suspects with "strong links" to Osama bin Laden have tried to join the British security services and, in January last year, exiled radical Omar Bakri claimed that Islamist extremists were infiltrating the police and other public sector organisations.
College teachers must be "vigilant" in tackling the threat posed by violent extremists who attempt to recruit teenage students to terrorism, ministers said yesterday.

Al Qaeda supporters seek to "groom" impressionable young people and staff should be prepared to tell the police if they have concerns, draft Government guidance said.
The guidance, published for consultation, is aimed at colleges teaching students aged 14 and over, including more than 700,000 aged 16 to 18, and follows similar guidelines for universities.

The terrorist traffic warden

A terrorist jailed for his involvement in a bomb attack on the Paris Metro later came to England and got a job as a traffic warden.
Mustapha Boutarfa, 32, was arrested by Scotland Yard's anti-terrorist squad in 1996 and extradited from Britain to France two years later.
He stood trial for his auxiliary role in the 1995 attack on the St Michel station by a notorious Islamist militant group, in which eight were killed and 80 wounded, and was given a two-year prison sentence.

But after his release, Boutarfa, who held dual French and Algerian nationality, managed to get back into the UK with his wife and children and secured the job as a parking attendant in Richmond-upon-Thames, Surrey, with NCP Services.
Boutarfa's secret would probably never have come to light had he not accused a van driver of assaulting him in a row over a parking ticket in October 2005.

It led to the sensational disclosure about his past in open court.
That case was then dropped and he was charged with fraud but walked away with a 12-month suspended sentence. He has quit his job.

It is still not clear how he was allowed back into Britain.

I was forced to marry my cousin - it's normal in my culture, but SO WRONG

These days Khaleda Begum, 25, hardly leaves the confines of her one-bedroom flat.
And when she does, her heart thumps and she looks over her shoulder in terror. For, in the eyes of her Muslim family, Khaleda has done the unthinkable.

Disgusted by her arranged marriage to a cousin - a suitor found for her by her father - she has fled her family home and now, fearful of reprisals, lives under police protection.
Khaleda's story makes shocking reading for anyone who is under the misguided belief that such marriages do not regularly go on in Britain today.

For Khaleda, who was born in Britain and took GCSEs and A-levels at her British school in the hope of becoming a teacher in this country, was forced by her father to go to Pakistan and marry his cousin - a man 20 years her senior, who spoke no English and whom she had never even met.
And according to Khaleda - who today, having escaped "the marriage from hell," lives in hiding with her British partner, Phil - she is far from alone.
She says: "Virtually every Asian girl I have ever met has an arranged marriage and the vast majority of them are to their cousins.

"It is well known within the community that such marriages do produce deformed babies. No one talks about it, but it is one of the reasons why I found such a marriage to someone so closely related to myself to be so very repugnant.
"Just before I was forced to marry I heard of one of my cousins who'd been forced to marry her auntie's son.

Downing Street rebuke for minister who warned of birth defects in Pakistani cousin marriages

"They had a baby daughter who died and when they asked doctors why, they were told it was because of inter-breeding. They were told the parents were too closely related to have a normal baby.

"And this was just one of many instances I would hear of. Anyone who thinks it doesn't happen is in denial. As I know from the most painful and personal experience, it is barbaric and unnatural.
"Marrying someone who is related to you - and being forced to do so - goes against all your natural urges. It is not racist to tell the truth. What I cannot understand is why it is allowed to go on in this country at all."

Khaleda's parents, Miryam and Khalid, came to Britain from Pakistan in the mid-1960s in search of work and a better way of life. The couple already had two sons, now aged 39 and 35, when they settled in a three-bedroom terraced house in the West Midlands near Khalid's job in a steel foundry.
A third son, now 25, followed, before their much-wanted daughter, Khaleda, was born.
"I had a happy childhood. I was especially close to my mother and, until my wedding, I shared a bedroom with her," she says.

"I loved it - we would spend hours talking, especially at night. I was the ideal Muslim daughter - I wore traditional Asian clothes and always helped with the housework."
Many of Khaleda's extended family lived nearby and weekends were often filled with family parties, some of them wedding celebrations.
"I was about eight when I remember the first ceremony I went to," says Khaleda.
"I remember thinking how beautiful the bride's dress was and I looked forward to having my own husband and family.

"But as I grew older I began to understand that any husband would be chosen for me. It was something I found extremely worrying. My mother's marriage was arranged but my father was cold and dominant, and it wasn't happy.
"When I was about 12, I remember saying: 'You won't make me have an arranged marriage, will you?' I'd begun to realise that many Asian women were forced to marry, even forced to marry their cousins.

"The thought of marrying someone I didn't know, and someone who was related to me, was disgusting."
Yet, as Khaleda reached her teens her father became stricter.
"I went to local state schools but unlike friends who went to parties and clubs, I knew that wasn't our way. It didn't bother me - I accepted our culture was different.
"Instead, I concentrated on my studies - I was in the top set for virtually every subject and enjoyed family parties at weekends."

Having gained nine GCSEs with top grades, Khaleda left school at 16 to go to college to do A-levels in English literature, Urdu and computing. Later, aged 19, she began courses in book-keeping and childcare.
"By now my father had begun talking about when I would be married and I realised that was my fate. I tried not to dwell on it but I purposely didn't even bother with meeting boys as I knew it was pointless."
Khaleda concentrated on her ambition to become a teacher, finding a job in telesales to fund herself through college. It was around this time that she met Phil Williams, a delivery driver.
"Phil lived down the road," she recalls. "I used to see him when I popped to the shops or walked to the bus stop.

"At first we just nodded hello. I used to keep my head down - he looked so lovely but I knew it couldn't go any further."
However, after two months the pair began talking and Khaleda found herself falling for Phil.
"He was so quiet and I just liked him so much," she says. "I used to see him when I went to college or sneak around to his house, telling my parents I was seeing a friend. I even bought a mobile phone - something my parents had forbidden - so I could speak to him secretly at home."
Life seemed fantastic. Adds Khaleda: "I had met Phil and also adored earning my own money and being independent. Within two months of working I'd been promoted to a junior managerial role.
"However, one day when I came home my father was waiting for me at the front door. As I went in he said I wasn't to go to work any more. Apparently some family members told him it could bring shame on the family and that a woman's place was in the home. I was devastated."

From then Khaleda was hardly allowed out of her room. Ominously, letters marked "private" began arriving from Pakistan addressed to her father.
"I knew something was happening," she says. "I would regularly hear my father on the phone speaking in Urdu in muffled tones. I worked out the letters were from his family in Pakistan, discussing my forthcoming marriage.

"I was terrified that my worst nightmare was coming true. No one spoke to me about it at all but at night, when everyone thought I was asleep, I'd hear my parents arguing about whether I should have an arranged marriage.
"I even used to hear my brothers rowing with my father about it. I would lie crying in bed, hearing them shout they didn't want me to be forced into marriage. But my father didn't listen to anyone."

Worse, was Khaleda's father's choice of groom. "Haram, my husband-to-be, was my father's cousin and about 20 years older than me.
"My brothers nicknamed him Fatso because he was so overweight. As he spoke no English and had always lived in Pakistan, his life was a world away from mine and I couldn't imagine how my father could have matched me with him.

"By now, Phil and I were very much in love. We regularly met in secret and I saw my future with him, not with some ugly man who I'd never even met.
"I told my mother I couldn't have an arranged marriage but she said I had no choice. I had no one to turn to. I knew then that refusing to get married would bring enormous shame on my family and that if I did, I may live in fear of reprisals from my family for the rest of my life."
A date was set for Khaleda's £25,000 wedding in Pakistan in December 2004 and preparations began in earnest with enormous shopping sprees to buy the ornate clothes, jewellery, decorations and food for the ceremony.

The celebrations, including dancing and singing, would last for two weeks.
"Almost immediately family members visited with gifts and greetings," she says, "but I couldn't stop crying. I was still seeing Phil and, when I told him, he was completely shocked. Like me, he couldn't believe such a thing was happening."
Four weeks later, the whole family flew to Pakistan for the ceremony. "My parents had a house there but once I was married, it was expected that I would go to live with his family," she says.
"Haram had a large family of eight crammed into a tiny two-bedroom house, so there would be no privacy. I felt as if my whole life was ending."

On the day of the ceremony, held at the family home, a priest arrived. Khaleda, adorned in a gold wedding dress and surrounded by family and friends, sat with her husband beside her, choking back sobs. She had only ever seen him from a distance before.
"I couldn't look at him," she recalls. "I didn't want to speak to him. As a little girl I'd always dreamed of a perfect wedding day. The sick reality was I was marrying a relative. It was a nightmare.

"After the ceremony I sat on a bed in his home that was decorated with petals for our wedding night. Haram locked the door and began to touch my face and take my jewellery off. His hands made me feel nauseous.
I kept brushing them away, repeating 'no.' Tears rolled down my cheeks and, even now, I cannot talk of that night as it totally disgusts me."
The following day Khaleda could take no more, running back to her mother - but she was furious.

"She told me I was married and I would just have to get on with it," she says, "I was distraught and felt so betrayed. I couldn't believe how my parents could have done this to me."
For the next four weeks Khaleda lived with Haram and his family. During this time she regularly texted and rang Phil. Eventually, she was sent back to the UK, to find work. Haram would follow once he'd received his visa.
As soon as the plane touched down at Manchester Airport, Khaleda ran into a waiting Phil's arms.

"Seeing Phil again made me realise how much I loved him. I knew then we could never be apart again," she says.
Within four months the rest of Khaleda's family and Haram had come back to the UK, living again in the three-bedroom house. Haram was expected to share the bedroom with Khaleda but she made excuses and always ensured she slept on the sofa.
"My worst nightmare was that I would get pregnant," she says. "But it wasn't only the thought of having a baby with Haram that revolted me, I was simply terrified that any baby would be terribly deformed or even stillborn."

Research has shown that babies born to cousins are twice as likely to suffer a birth defect than one born to a couple who are not related. While the risk is lowered if someone marries their father's cousin, it is still "reasonably high," an expert said.
So Khaleda refused to sleep with her husband and her whole family refused to speak to her.
"Then one day, about six months after we married, I went to my bedroom to get changed to find Haram lying on my bed," she says, "I just looked at him and realised I couldn't go on living like this, desperately unhappy, as an unwelcome stranger in my own home."

The following day, when everyone was out, Khaleda plotted her escape.
"There wasn't time to pack," she explains, "so I quickly gathered up just my passport and a small make-up bag. Then, I took a few photos as mementoes of my family and walked out."
Khaleda knew her family would report her missing so she fled to London, staying with a friend of Phil's. A few days later the couple flew to France, staying in cheap hotels, and later with friends abroad, for three months.

When she came back to the UK, she found she was listed as a missing person and the police wanted to speak to her.
Once she explained her plight they put her in touch with IKWRO, an organisation that helps women in such situations, and it helped her and Phil find safe accommodation.
"But then a relative, a distant cousin, told Phil in March last year that my mother was seriously ill and had been asking for me," she says.

Worried her mum would die and she'd never see her again, Khaleda went back home with a police escort, only to find her mother was well.
"It was just a trick to get me to come back," she says. "This time I told them I was leaving and I wasn't coming back at all. I haven't heard from my family since and I have to accept that I won't ever see them again."

Khaleda went into hiding in London. Since then a friend of Phil's has been threatened by thugs, who said they'd put a gun to his head because he wouldn't reveal the couple's whereabouts.
Consequently, today, they live under police protection, their flat alarmed to alert the local police station.

"While I know I made the right decision to leave, I have lost all my confidence and I am frightened that a relative will see me and find out where I am, and there could be reprisals," she says.
"Sometimes I just sit and cry and I've since been prescribed anti-depressants by my GP.
"I feel so guilty at the shame I know my family has suffered and not a day goes by when I don't wonder how my mother is. I miss them so much.

"Even as a Muslim I have no idea why families want to intermarry like this. I can only think it is to keep wealth within the family. But unless this practice is outlawed, more young Muslim women like me will have their lives ruined."
Sadly, Khaleda's future is far from clear. She longs to marry Phil but is still legally wed to Haram.
"I desperately want a divorce but I am too frightened to make contact," she says. "And as for my career, well, I am too scared even to pursue my dream as a teacher."
And so another young Muslim woman's life is ruined by this outdated practice. Just how many more babies will have to be born deformed, or even dead, before it is finally stopped?

12-year-old who trained to be a suicide bomber attending school in UK

FURY erupted last night after it emerged that a boy of 12 who trained to be a suicide bomber is being allowed to attend school in Britain.

Parents of his classmates are unaware of the Afghan child’s terrifying past. MP Philip Davies said the youngster should be removed from school immediately so a proper investigation can take place into any potential danger he poses.

The Tory MP for Shipley, West Yorks, said: “This boy has had a tragic upbringing through no fault of his own. But there should be a detailed and thorough look at his past and the threat he could pose in the future. I am sure that the parents in the school would be concerned if they were told about it.”

Extremists recruited the boy shortly after his father, a Taliban fighter, was shot dead by British soldiers in a gun battle. One elder told him: “You must avenge his death by becoming a martyr.” During intensive mountain training the youngster learned how to handle explosives and sophisticated detonators. He even went on dummy missions with bags taped to his body.

Taliban fanatics instructed him to wander towards British patrols, pretending to be a tearful lost child, and once surrounded by soldiers – or taken to an Army base – he would blow himself up.
But after weeks of secret training the boy blurted out to his mother what he was doing. She could not bear the thought of losing a son as well as her husband, so worried family members pulled all their resources together and paid for him to be spirited out of Afghanistan to escape the clutches of evil Taliban leaders.After a traumatic journey across several countries, the boy was smuggled into Britain, probably hidden on the back of a lorry.

Later he was questioned by immigration officials in Croydon, Surrey.
They were stunned when full details of the boy’s shocking story emerged. One source said: “There was so much detail that was little doubt he was telling the truth. You could see the terror in his eyes.

“He was being brainwashed to be a suicide bomber and was on the verge of carrying out an attack which would have claimed many British lives. Yet, to save him from death, his family sent him to the very country which sent the soldier who killed his father. The child has gone through a terrible experience and needs a strong, stable environment to unwind from all the pressure he has been put under. In Britain he is being offered that environment, which will hopefully convince him how evil his Taliban masters had been.”

The security services have been alerted to the situation and are concerned about the risk of him falling into the hands of Al Qaeda supporters in Britain, who may attempt to force him to become a suicide bomber here.
Patrick Mercer, a member of the Home Affairs Select Committee, said: “The progress of this boy through school should be closely monitored. But the real emphasis should be on tracking down those people in this country who support the Taliban and who are involved in the trafficking of young people.”

Terror expert George Kassimeris, who lectures at Wolverhampton University, added: “There are large numbers of children trafficked to Britain who have been radicalised to support the cause of the Islamic Jihadists.

“They have been brainwashed to carry out attacks, to become martyrs. The authorities will have to create deradicalisation programmes to make them change their ways, otherwise there is a potential that they will become terrorists in this country.”

Last week the US military released shocking pictures of Al Qaeda recruits in Iraq – boys as young as 10 being trained in assassination, kidnapping and suicide bombings.

In Afghanistan last year there were 140 suicide bombings against allied troops

Minister warns of ‘inbred’ Muslims and they want him sacked

A government minister has warned that inbreeding among immigrants is causing a surge in birth defects - comments likely to spark a new row over the place of Muslims in British society.

Phil Woolas, an environment minister, said the culture of arranged marriages between first cousins was the “elephant in the room”. Woolas, a former race relations minister, said: “If you have a child with your cousin the likelihood is there’ll be a genetic problem.”

The minister, whose views were supported by medical experts this weekend, said: “The issue we need to debate is first cousin marriages, whereby a lot of arranged marriages are with first cousins, and that produces lots of genetic problems in terms of disability [in children].”
Woolas emphasised the practice did not extend to all Muslim communities but was confined mainly to families originating from rural Pakistan. However, up to half of all marriages within these communities are estimated to involve first cousins.

Medical research suggests that while British Pakistanis are responsible for 3% of all births, they account for one in three British children born with genetic illnesses.
The minister’s comments come as Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, rejected calls to resign over claims that Islamic law should be introduced in Britain. “I’m not contemplating resignation,” he told friends.

Williams insists his remarks were misinterpreted and that he was not advocating a parallel sharia jurisdiction for Muslims, but Lord Carey, his predecessor, warned acceptance of Muslim laws in Britain would be "disastrous".
The archbishop is believed to have received hate mail since he made his controversial comments but has rejected offers of round-the-clock police protection.

Williams is set to clash with the government again this week by voicing opposition to plans to extend detention without charge for terrorist suspects to 42 days.
Woolas, who represents the ethnically mixed seat of Oldham East and Saddleworth, has previously warned that Muslim women who wear headscarves could provoke “fear and resentment”. Yesterday, he was similarly outspoken.

“If you talk to any primary care worker they will tell you that levels of disability among the . . . Pakistani population are higher than the general population. And everybody knows it’s caused by first cousin marriage.
“That’s a cultural thing rather than a religious thing. It is not illegal in this country.
“The problem is that many of the parents themselves and many of the public spokespeople are themselves products of first cousin marriages. It’s very difficult for people to say ‘you can’t do that’ because it’s a very sensitive, human thing.”

He added that the issue is not talked about. “The health authorities look into it. Most health workers and primary care trusts in areas like mine are very aware of it. But it’s a very sensitive issue. That’s why it’s not even a debate and people outside of these areas don’t really know it exists.”

Woolas was supported by Ann Cryer, Labour MP for Keighley, who called for the NHS to do more to warn parents of the dangers of inbreeding.
“This is to do with a medieval culture where you keep wealth within the family,” she said.
“If you go into a paediatric ward in Bradford or Keighley you will find more than half of the kids there are from the Asian community. Since Asians only represent 20%-30% of the population, you can see that they are over represented.

“I have encountered cases of blindness and deafness. There was one poor girl who had to have an oxygen tank on her back and breathe from a hole in the front of her neck.
“The parents were warned they should not have any more children. But when the husband returned again from Pakistan, within months they had another child with exactly the same condition.”

Birth defects warning sparks row

A minister who warned about birth defects among children of first cousin marriages in Britain's Asian community has sparked anger among critics.

Phil Woolas said health workers were aware such marriages were creating increased risk of genetic problems.
The claims infuriated the Muslim Public Affairs Committee (MPAC) which called on the prime minister to "sack him".
MPAC spokesman Asghar Bukhari said Mr Woolas' comments "verged on Islamophobia".
Mr Woolas, an environment minister who represents ethnically-diverse Oldham East and Saddleworth, risked sparking a major row after warning the issue was "the elephant in the room", Mr Bukhari said.

Expert analysis

Mr Woolas said cultural sensitivities made the issue of birth defects difficult to address.
The former race relations minister told the Sunday Times: "If you have a child with your cousin the likelihood is there'll be a genetic problem.

Awareness does need to be raised but we are very aware of the sensitivities Phil Woolas
"The issue we need to debate is first cousin marriages, whereby a lot of arranged marriages are with first cousins, and that produces lots of genetic problems in terms of disability [in children]."
Mr Woolas stressed the marriages, which are legal in the UK, were a cultural, not a religious, issue and confined mainly to families originating in rural Pakistan.

But he also told the paper: "If you talk to any primary care worker they will tell you that levels of disability among the... Pakistani population are higher than the general population. And everybody knows it's caused by first cousin marriage."

"Awareness does need to be raised but we are very aware of the sensitivities," he added, pointing out that many of the people involved were the products of such marriages.
His comments come at a sensitive time for community relations following the furore over the Archbishop of Canterbury's comments about accommodating aspects of Sharia law in Britain.

This is to do with a medieval culture where you keep wealth within the family Ann Cryer MP
Mr Bukhari told BBC News: "After his comments, MPAC UK is asking will Prime Minister Gordon Brown back him or sack him.
Mr Bukhari said it was "bizarre" Mr Woolas has spoken about a sensitive health issue which has no relation to his environment brief, and accused him of ignoring links between pollution and birth defects.

However, Mr Woolas was defended by cabinet minister Geoff Hoon who said expert analysis was needed on the extent of the problem.
"But it obviously is a very sensitive matter and no one, no one, would suggest this is a problem for the wider Muslim community," he told Sky News.
'Recessive disorders'

"I am confident that what he has said will have been said with sensitivity and with proper regard to his Muslim constituents and Muslims right across the United Kingdom."
The call for action was also supported by Labour MP Ann Cryer who raised the issue two years ago after research showed British Pakistanis were 13 times more likely to have children with recessive disorders than the general population.

Mrs Cryer, who represents Keighley in West Yorkshire, told the Sunday Times: "This is to do with a medieval culture where you keep wealth within the family."
"I have encountered cases of blindness and deafness. There was one poor girl who had to have an oxygen tank on her back and breathe from a hole in the front of her neck," she added.
"The parents were warned they should not have any more children. But when the husband returned from Pakistan, within months they had another child with exactly the same condition."

Research for BBC2's Newsnight in November 2005 showed British Pakistanis accounted for 3.4% of all births but have 30% of all British children with "recessive disorders".

It's us who pay

UNEMPLOYED scrounger Mohammed Salim is getting the state to pay for him, his wife and their ELEVEN kids—because he can't be bothered to go to work.

He quit his £27,000 job teaching maths and science three years ago and is BETTER OFF claiming £29,096 a year in benefits.
And he has much more time to devote to his Islamic political party— which ATTACKS the British government, even though this country gives his family their food, clothes and house for free.
Mohammed is also busy planning his TWELFTH baby with wife Noreen, 35, but has no plans to get a job.
He grinned: "For many years I worked in Derby as a teacher, earning £27,000 a year, and Noreen would be at home with the kids.

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"I would come home at weekends. Then I moved back to work in Manchester and took a pay cut to £24,000. It was a load of c***.
"I was teaching at a college and I'd be up at 5.30am with the kids then have to go to work.
"I just couldn't be a***d with sitting in traffic. I'd be sat in traffic for hours and I felt like I'd done a day's work by the time I got there, I was so stressed."

"It's nice to be at home with the kids and for Noreen to have a hand."
That's a luxury most hard-working taxpayers who struggle to support their families can only dream about.
The family we're all supporting live in a comfy five-bedroom house on a quiet street in Rochdale, Gtr Manchester. They get £19,000 a year Jobseeker's Allowance, £6,600 Child Benefit, £2,496 free school meals and £1,000 Council Tax Relief.

They have a minibus to swan around in, two TVs and a computer, plus a garden full of brightly-coloured toys. Noreen has never worked since marrying Mohammed—who is her cousin—when she was 16.
She said: "I spend all day clearing up after the children. As soon as you pick up one pile of crisps or mop up drink, there's another."

As she sits on the sofa nursing their latest addition—an as yet unnamed two-week-old girl—Mohammed explains: "I can't stand condoms.
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"I used a condom once. It was awful. Never again, it's nothing like the real thing. It's up to God whether we have any more kids."
He chortles: "It says in the Bible and the Koran to go forth and multiply, and that's what we'll do. It's Noreen, she finds me irresistible!
"I see my children as God's blessing, as a gift from God. Some people out there pay to have children, through IVF or surrogacy. I feel so lucky that I can have as many as I want.

"I want to carry on my family name and for my children and grandchildren to remember me."
The couple's ten other children are Muhammad Aves, 16, Sarah Zenib Bibi, 15, Maryam Hajra Bibi, 13, Muhammad Bilal, 11, Muhammad Haider Ali, nine, Halimn Sadia Bibi, eight, Umayah Habiba Hadia Bibi, seven, Saadiqah Fatima Bibi, five, Muhammad Ibrahim Amter, three, and Muhammad Imam Ismail, 18 months.

But Mohammed worries about how he will send them to university —because it is not free.
He said: "I think it's important for them to enjoy themselves and I make sure they have a good education.
"I don't know how we'd afford to send them to university.
"It's a shame really, because when I went it was free but you have to pay now. But it's in God's hands."

Mohammed moved to Britain from Pakistan in 1966, when he was eight. He went on to university and qualified as a teacher. He then taught computer studies, maths and science at primary and high schools and a higher education college in Manchester and Derbyshire until three years ago.
Soon afterwards he stood as a candidate in the Rochdale constituency in the 2005 General Election, using an anti-war message.

But he only got 361 votes—less then one per cent of the total cast. Mohammed said: "It goes to show that we are not living in a democracy, because a democracy is supposed to reflect the opinions and the interests of the majority.
"The so-called democratic process has let down the Rochdale people, just as it let down the people of the entire country when the Blair government went to war in Iraq."

Previously, Mohammed staged a hunger strike in protest at the publication of Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses—which some Muslims claimed was blasphemous.
He said: "The hunger strike was successful in that people saw I was prepared to make a sacrifice for what I believed in."

Now he spends his time running his political party, Islam Zinda Badd, whose name means ‘Long Live Islam'.
He said: "I set it up to protest about the war in Iraq and the NHS, and we want to show that all Muslims are not terrorists.

"We use the Koran for guidance. We are not radical.

We believe that we should look after each other, especially children and the elderly, and that wealth should be shared.
"That is what is great about Britain. In Pakistan the government does not look after you like in England. The government here is so supportive.
"It will help people out of work and it has a good welfare state. Islam teaches sharing of wealth. The people who put money in might complain, but the people who can earn need to look after those who can't. The only people I object to are people who abuse the system."

We know just what you mean, Mohammed.

And he has no plans to go back to Pakistan despite his party's anger at British policy. He said: "I did want to move back at one point but now it is so unstable—and I don't think we would be able to have the quality of life we have here."

A neighbour in Mohammed's street said he was disgusted by the Salim family's cushy lifestyle.
The married dad of four—who did not want to be named—said: "I only earn £15,000 a year in a factory and my wife is a part-time cleaner. We would be better off chucking in our jobs and claiming benefits like him down the road.

"But we want to work because it gives you a sense of worth and purpose.
"He used to be a teacher and it sickens me that a man with such a good brain can just give it up and have everything paid for by the state. It shouldn't be allowed.

"Why on earth is the state subsidising him to sit at home doing nothing when he could be teaching kids, paying taxes and contributing to society.
"There is something very wrong with a society that allows this to happen. The benefits system needs changing."