Posted on 08/13/2006 6:43:20 PM PDT by dervish
AS LEADERS of Britain's Muslims appealed to Prime Minister Tony Blair to reduce tensions after last week's terror alert, a former London police chief has inflamed the debate by blaming Muslims for terrorist networks in the country.
"When will the Muslim community in this country accept an absolute, undeniable, total truth: that Islamic terrorism is their problem?" wrote Lord Stevens, former commissioner of London's Metropolitan Police, in an opinion column for the News of the World.
In their open letter to Mr Blair on Saturday, Muslim leaders urged him to alter his political stance on the Middle East, which they said provided "ammunition to extremists who threaten us all".
Lord Stevens, whose continuing responsibilities include the inquiry into Princess Diana's death, called on Muslims to "stop the denial, endless fudging and constant wailing that somehow it is everyone else's problem and, if Islamic terrorism exists at all, they are somehow the main victims".
He also defended racial profiling at airports and other hotspots, saying resources were being wasted on searching everybody out of a sense of fairness.
"I'm a white, 62-year-old, suit-wearing ex-cop — I fly often, but do I really fit the profile of a suicide bomber?" Lord Stevens wrote.
His comments clash with a speech delivered last week, before the latest arrests, by Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner Tarique Ghaffur, who said profiling had discriminated against Muslims and added to racial tensions in Britain.
"Of course, there'll be instant squealings that this is racism. It's not," Lord Stevens insisted.
(Excerpt) Read more at theage.com.au ...
45% of British Muslims believe Israel and the U.S. conspired to cause 9/11. 37% believe it is okay to kill Jews at any given moment.
Heck you don't even need that.
All you need are the words: "If you don't co-operate with us we are going to transfer you to Israeli intelligence".
I read the whole op-ed; it's an amazing breath of fresh air! We need more of it in this country - less mealy-mouthed pandering to the Religion of Peace (the peace of the dead) and more straight talk: muslims in the US, as long as there is islamic terrorism, every muslim is going to be the subject of heightened scrutiny. Want it to stop? Then help stop terrorism. Pure and simple.
Thanks for the biography.
Three words.
He's a mole.
why export? All I need to do is find out who needs to talk and make them talk. A knife, a car lighter, and maybe some rubbing alcohol are the only tools I need. I won't even break a sweat.
Not ALL Muslims are terrorists, but all TERRORISTS are MUSLIM!!! Hey, Muslims of the world....CLEAN UP YOUR MESS!!
It is the equivalent to telling a mouse he is going into a snake cage.
The Mossad doesn't have the ACLU looking over its shoulder, and have these PC prisoner guidelines like the US.
Plus they are amazingly effective.
neither do I . . . I am not associated with any law enforcement agency. Screw the ACLU!
Interesting choice of words.
Thanks for the backstory on Ghaffur.
And I agree. Muslims are horrible racists. What other religion condones slavery in the 21st century?
I agree.
Our politicians - of whatever "falvor" do not.
I guess the smell of Saudi campaign money and oil profits impacts their reasoning
Not unsurprising.
They go back to history for past history for their justification.
We can too. Once upon a time all of North Africa and most of western Asia was Christian.
Non nobis, non nobis, Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam
He owned a chain of grocery stores in Kampala but arrived in Britain with his family and only the possessions they could carry with them.
He is a great guy and I try to think of him to give me a sense of balance.
It is so easy to think badly of all Muslims. It is in a way a defense mechanism. We see ourselves threatened by them - with reason.
Certainly there are Muslims who conduct themselves as good citizens/subjects.
Probably fifty years from now we'll marvel at the revelations of how
some of them risked their necks to fight back against the monsters.
Maybe I was a bit tough on the good policeman.
But I just wanted folks to note that while he did experience some
discrimination in the UK (Christian/Post-Christian nation)...
his folks actually had to flee their country run by a Muslim.
While the UK hasn't treated him perfectly...apparently it's enough
of an improvement that he's settled in for good.
He should be saying that he won't let his current home nation turn
into a hell-hole like the one he came from.
And if some folks feelings get hurt in accomplishing the mission...tough.
They need to get a bit of that "stiff upper lip".
It's Criminal profiling not racial profiling.
Where, oh where, is America's Lord Stevens?
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