Posted on 01/22/2008 6:02:12 AM PST by 3AngelaD
THE Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq has claimed mosques in Blackburn {in the UK} are more extreme than in his home country, according to an MP. The comments were allegedly made by Dr Barham Salih, who visited the town as a guest of Jack Straw in 2005. He is reported to have told a Conservative MP: "I am not surprised that you British are facing so many problems with extremists after what I saw in those mosques in Blackburn.
"What I saw...would not be allowed here in Iraq - it would be illegal."
The comments have angered mosque leaders in the town, who have branded them "a load of rubbish"....Shadow culture minister Tobias Ellwood said Dr Salih was speaking to him at a dinner party in Baghdad in November. Ellwood made the claims during a Westminster {Parliament}debate about terrorism.
After the debate, Mr Ellwood said: "I know Jack Straw well, but my eyebrows raise when you have a very senior Iraqi leader make comments like that. I do not believe these comments can be dismissed out of hand....He went inside the mosques, and said literature he saw would be illegal. He was quite clear...."
Salim Mulla, of the Lancashire Council of Mosques, reacted furiously to the comments. He said Dr Salih spoke positively about what he had seen when they spoke during his visit. Mr Mulla said: "We are going out of our way to bring the community together....I don't know where he's coming from....
Dr Salih, a Sunni Muslim, was elected in January 2005 to Iraq's first democratically-held elections in 50 years....
(Excerpt) Read more at blackburncitizen.co.uk ...
“He said Dr Salih spoke positively about what he had seen when they spoke during his visit. “
Well, what did you think he was going to say when he realized he was surrounded by a bunch of cut throat radicals?
“Why are they here ?”
To take over, by infiltrating ever aspect of life that they can.
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