British Home Secretary angers Muslims

Hindustan Times ^ | November 01 2003 | Nabanita Sircar

[knighthawk]

Home Secretary David Blunkett provoked indignation from the Muslim community in the UK once again by warning that extremist imams were increasing the threat of terrorism by preying upon impressionable young members of the community.

In his speech at York University he also stressed the importance of ensuring that Muslim Imams and other teachers from the community learn English to avoid "clash of cultures." He reiterated that the Imams who could speak English had a key role in helping to shape the world view of young Muslims.

"We have to understand what is happening in a world where young men and women can be enjoined by their religious leaders to take their own lives and others as suicide bombers," he pointed out.

Blunkett referred to the involvement of two British Muslims in the suicide attack in Israel earlier this year and said it demonstrated that "we are not completely untouched".

Britain has in fact also supplied Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh who allegedly masterminded the attack on the Indian Parliament and the kidnapping and murder of the American journalist Daniel Pearl. Richard Reid, the shoe bomber who tried to carry out a suicide attack on a Paris-Miami flight in December 2001, was also born in London.

Anjem Choudary, the British leader of Al-Mujahiroun, had despite the pressure on radical imams, had declared that Muslims had an obligation to support their fellow believers in jihad.

Blunkett minced no words in saying that tension between religion and nationality was a worrying trend and the second generation of Muslims were more likely than their parents to feel a need to choose between feeling British and their faith.

He blamed religious extremism for forcing the youth to choose. It was separating them from their British citizenship and demanding the impossible, Blunkett asserted. He warned that there was real danger that religion instead of helping build a civic society could actually increase alienation.

Home Secretary's blunt message to imams and teachers to learn English and to desist from alienating the youth from the society they live in has however, outraged quite a few. A Muslim Council spokesman said it was dismaying that Blunkett had again singled out the community for denigration.

Inayat Bunglawala said, "Blunkett appears to be ill-briefed when it comes to matters dealing with the Muslim community? His comments seem to be a post-September 11 form of Paki-bashing."

A think-tank had, however, said a little while ago what Blunkett hinted now. It held that religious leaders who preached hatred of western values should be barred from British mosques. Another organisation called for an immediate reform of immigration rules to stop influx of Islamist ideologues.

[knighthawk]

Home Secretary David Blunkett provoked indignation from the Muslim community in the UK once again by warning that extremist imams were increasing the threat of terrorism by preying upon impressionable young members of the community.

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[Guillermo]

Funny how "moderate" Muslims get pissed when you speak out against the extremists among them.

[Brian Allen]

<< Funny how "moderate" Muslims get pissed when you speak out against the extremists among them. >>

Islam is The Beast.

"Moderate islam" is its Trojan Horse!

[Jakarta ex-pat]

"and the second generation of Muslims were more likely than their parents to feel a need to choose between feeling British and their faith."

What a stupid statement.

They don't need to feel British, because they are not.

[umgud]

Not all Muslims are terrorists, but all Muslims know exactly what Islam teaches about us infidels.

[PlanoMike]

Everything angers Muslims !!

[joyful1]

We ain't seen nothin yet folks.

Wait til these militant Islam kooks get the "bomb." It won't be long.

[FierceDraka]

Why is everyone so afraid of angering these terrorist sympathizers? Sounds like a bunch of appeasement, to me.

[theFIRMbss]

>Everything angers Muslims !!

If we could just teach
them about "boycotts," the world
would finally know peace!

[chuckwalla]

Yeah they hate everything. Everything makes them mad and they want to kill everyone they don't like. Even the countries they enjoy to live in have to be destroyed. Weird religion that preaches death and hate.
If they boycotted they would find themselves in some desert away from everything they hate and completely seperate from the rest of us where they would die of starvation because they produce nothing but hate and they cannot live on that.

[Gritty]

A Muslim Council spokesman said it was dismaying that Blunkett had again singled out the (Muslim) community for denigration.

I find it dismaying the Home Secretary even felt the need to bring it up.

[Redcloak]

"...and in other news, Imam Achmed Ali bin Skyhook announced a jihad when the sun rose this morning. Said the Imam 'We will not stand for this outrage from the infidel sun!!!' Bin Skyhook made this announcement after rumors swept the Muslim community that sunlight causes impotence in males and sexual pleasure in females."

[FITZ]

Another organisation called for an immediate reform of immigration rules to stop influx of Islamist ideologues.

One good reform would be to stop letting in imans who won't learn or speak English. The Western world is stupid when it believes that the islamists are coming because they value anything in the West (except money), they despise our freedom. All you need to do is look at a country like Iran to know about islam.

[Travis McGee]

Radical Islam is an insane murder cult, "moderate" Islam is its Trojan Horse in the West.

[Travis McGee]

We're going to find out, sooner or later,

If Abdul will pray, to a smoking crater.

[Brian Allen]

<< "and the second generation of Muslims were more likely than their parents to feel a need to choose between feeling British and their faith."

What a stupid statement.

They don't need to feel British, because they are not. >>

Not even the silly limeys get it, yet, that they have provided the transportation, the protections, the subsistance and the life-support systems for the growth within once great Britain of the hostile colonies of unassimilable third-world savages that have already begun to put the limeys, their Law, their way of life -- and their membership of the Civilization whose Vanguard that now sorry squalid socialist state once shared with Our Nation -- to death.

And they haven't yet felt the onslaught of the several millions of the Brusells' based EURO-peon Neo-Soviet's new members -- those formally-Nazi-allied EURO-peon islamofascists that their Neo-Axis prime minister, Blair, freed to turn on them from Kosovar and Bosnia and Romania.

And yet, already, in London, ten times more islamofascists attend mosque on a weekly basis than Christians attend Church of England services.

[YoungKentuckyConservative]

Home Secretary David Blunkett provoked indignation from the Muslim community in the UK once again by warning that extremist imams were increasing the threat of terrorism by preying upon impressionable young members of the community.

You mean he dared tell the truth? How un-PC of him. If we would ALL start speaking the truth, especially in the face of liberals aspousing falcities, we'd be a lot safer. I, for one, am done playing "PC" games. I call it as I see it at any and all risk.

[VOA]

British Home Secretary angers Muslims

I need to get a list of the current U.K. officials who are ticking off extreme Muslims
(and standing with Dubya, Rummie, Connie, and Co.).

That way I'll know which ones to buy a drink in case I meet one of them as they tour
the USA in their retirement.

[Rollee]

I'm with you on that one. People don't like it, but tough toenails.