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.

[Right_in_Virginia]

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

Huh? How is this statement even possible? Why isn't it laughed at by the media??

[expatguy]

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

Sympathizers.

Why is it that some many people can't see this?

[lainde]

ping1

[kashif777]

The description of the beast gives us help to understand why Islam is the beast of revelations:

It has the body of a leopard... this represents Africa, which has a large number of muslims.

It has the feet of a bear... this represents the nations to the south of Russia, and former states of the USSR which lie in the south, also largely muslim.

It has the mouth of a lion... this represents Arab countries (royalty).

It had blasphemous names on ten heads: KazakhSTAN (short for satan), AfghaniSTAN, PakiSTAN... (I must verify that there are indeed ten such nations, making this interpretation more substantial).

Now don't get me wrong, I am not a hate-monger. I was a muslim, and my parents are from Pakistan. But they are being brainwashed to push Israel into the sea over there, which you know is the description of the beasts's vocation according to the apostle.

In fact, many people are hungry for the truth, and we would do well to send bibles, not bombs. As the Lord said to Peter when he wanted to rain fire down from heaven on those who refused to believe in the Messiah,

"We did not come to destroy but to save men's lives."

It is not America's job nor the UK's to wage war on terrorism, but the Lord Himself will appear on mount Zion to destroy the 200 million soldiers who march on Jerusalem. Deus Ex Machina.

[kashif777]

I have been going with a theory that Islam is the
beast of revelations.

Just today I got a key piece of evidence that I want
to share with you.

The beast had seven heads and the heads had
blasphemous names. Well, there are exactly seven
Islamic countires with names ending in "stan", short
for satan:

Afghanistan
Kazakhstan
Kyrgyzstan
Pakistan
Tajikistan
Turkmenistan
Uzbekistan

What other clues had me believing before this
clincher?

The beast has the body of a leopard... this represents
Africa, which is largely muslim.

The beast has the feet of a bear... this represents
the states to the south of Russia, including former
nations of the USSR. (See list above).

The beast has the mouth of a lion... this represents
the Arab states (lion for royalty).

The express mandate of Islam to is throw Israel into
the sea, exactly the job of the beast in the
Apocalypse.

[Brian Allen]

Wass'allam Alyakim

#24 #25 BTTT!

Blessings -- Brian