Posted on 08/06/2006 7:55:56 PM PDT by blam
Anti-terror laws alienate Muslims, says top policeman
· Call for judicial review into causes of extremism
· Ghaffur says racism has curtailed his own career
Riazat Butt and Vikram Dodd
Monday August 7, 2006
The Guardian (UK)
A Muslim man looks out at the police cordon following an evacuation in the Beeston area of Leeds after last year’s terrorist attack in London. Photograph: Dan Chung/Guardian
One of Britain's top police officers will today warn that anti-terrorism laws are discriminating against Muslims and law enforcement agencies are running a "real risk" of criminalising ethnic minorities. Tarique Ghaffur, assistant commissioner in the Metropolitan police, will also call for "an independent judicial review" of why some young British Muslims turn to extremism. He warns that more work is needed to stop the "flight, fright or separation" of British Muslim communities after the July 7 2005 bombings in London.
Mr Ghaffur, Britain's highest-ranking Muslim police officer, will today address a National Black Police Association conference in Manchester and tell how racism has blighted his own career.
Since the September 11 2001 attacks on the United States, western countries have toughened counter-terrorism laws. Mr Ghaffur will say: "Not only has anti-terrorism and security legislation been tightened across many European countries with the effect of indirectly discriminating against Muslims, but other equally unwanted practices have also emerged, including 'passenger profiling' as well as increased stop and search and arrest under terrorism legislation."
In Britain, people of Asian appearance have borne the brunt of increased stopping and searching. Police have said the practice is "intelligence-led", but Mr Ghaffur appears to cast doubt on this repeated defence: "These practices tend to be based more on physical appearance than being intelligence-led."
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I'd like to see those laws here. Immediately. Who's responsibile for the criminalizing? Yes, THE CRIMINALS.
Well, ya know, they're not the same as me. They don't have the same culture as me. They don't have the same values as me. They don't have the same history and goals as me.
They have their place. Yet they are here, threatening to either make us like them or kill us if all else fails.
Am I the only one who sees something wrong with this picture?
Uh, thats who is committing terrorism!
Typical. Include another ethnic group in the mix to push the point. All a bunch of garbage. Stereotyping of muslims has been earned by them. Time for them to live with it.
It's sad isn't it? All Muslims want to do is blow infidels up, but no...The Zionist Controlled Government of the US and UK want to try and curtail the right of Muslims to do this. This smells like RACISM!
No. I'm worried.
Guffaw alert?
Then they should go back to countries where they can practice their way of life without such discomfort.
Anti-terrorism laws are discriminating against terrorists (excuse me I mean Muslims) but terrorists are discriminating against me.... there should be a law.
The freedoms and rights that we have inherited were never meant to be freedoms and rights for some foreign group to conquer us.
Not only has anti-terrorism and security legislation been tightened across many European countries with the effect of indirectly discriminating against Muslims...
We're doomed if the Democrats take control of Congress.
Might just have something to do with all terrorists being mooseslimes? Ya thunk?
Go back to sand land slave of satan!
This is what happens when you get passed over for being elected King:
You get old and bitter, and paranoid.
...never mind that being old and bitter and paranoid and hateful and racist is WHY you were passed over!
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