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"...Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner Tarique Ghaffur,"

Profile: Tarique Ghaffur By Cindi John Community affairs reporter, BBC News

Tarique Ghaffur has been a police officer for more than 30 years

Britain's most senior Asian police officer has warned Muslims are being discriminated against as the result of anti-terror legislation.

In a speech in Manchester, Metropolitan Assistant Commissioner Tarique Ghaffur said many police stop-and-searches were based more on physical appearance than on specific intelligence.

Discrimination as a member of a minority community is something Mr Ghaffur, himself a Muslim, experienced first-hand at an early age.

Born in Uganda in east Africa, his family were forced to flee their native land when dictator Idi Amin expelled most of the country's minority Asian population in 1972.

Just two years later, aged 16, he began his police career as a Pc with Greater Manchester Police (GMP) in Salford.

For someone who was destined to become the UK's highest-ranking Asian officer and receive a CBE for services to policing in 2004, his start with the GMP was inauspicious.

At the time Mr Ghaffur was one of only two officers from an ethnic minority in a force of more than 6,000.

He has recalled that on his first day the desk sergeant refused to believe he was a police officer and initially would not let him enter the station...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/5252030.stm

Discrimination as a member of a minority community is something
Mr Ghaffur, himself a Muslim, experienced first-hand
at an early age.

Born in Uganda in east Africa, his family were forced to flee their
native land when
dictator Idi Amin expelled most of the country's minority Asian
population in 1972.

The good officer leaves out "the rest of the story".
(For the younguns, Amin was A MUSLIM; Khadaffi sent Libyan troops to
help him. And when he went into exile, he went to live with his co-congregants
in...Saudi Arabia.)
At that young age, he was discriminated against because he wasn't
the right kind of Muslim.
He found himself in a situation similar to that of the African Muslims
in the Darfur area of Sudan.
He was a Second-Class Muslim dissed by First-Class Muslims.

You'd think he'd learn and ditch that Religion of Peace.

But then, maybe he's found a good career-enhancer with his "I've
been discriminated against" mantra.