Posted on 10/02/2006 1:03:08 PM PDT by Republicain
A teenager was stabbed when hundreds of people became involved in a battle on the streets of Preston. Trouble centred on the Jamea Masjid mosque in Clarendon Street, Avenham, for more than four hours last night (Sunday) and led to a massive policing operation.
Preston's police chief said the problems were triggered by local youths throwing stones at cars belonging to people attending the mosque.
This sparked a response from around 200 people inside the mosque who came out to defend those under attack.
It resulted in one 16-year-old Asian youth being stabbed in the arm, but ambulance crews were turned back as the police felt it was too dangerous for them to enter the scene.
Fighting continued into the early hours and led to police requiring back-up from officers as far away as Lancaster and Burnley.
Chief Supt Mike Barton, divisional commander for the area, said more than 100 officers were deployed and he was treating the incident as race-related.
He said: "Some people I spoke to at the mosque insisted it wasn't racial but I think some people at the mosque believe it was.
"Until we actually find the offenders and speak to them, and because some people believe it to be racial, then that's how we'll treat it."
Insp Simon Hayes, force incident manager for Lancashire Police, described the incident as "community tension" with youths on the streets in a "confrontational mood".
He said: "As a result of that, there was a high-level policing operation to reassure the public and disperse these groups.
"There was no major disorder or serious incident."
Ilyas Desail, of the Jamea mosque on Clarendon Street, said: "It is not a mosque issue, it is a community issue.
"It is the month of Ramadan and that is the only reason the mosque has been brought into this.
"We are all upset by this, everyone is upset. No one is going to be happy with the tarnishing of such great efforts we have made in Preston in the past 40 years."
A mother-of-three, 33, from Clarendon Street, said: "It's getting ridiculous and for the past two nights there's been fighting."
Get off it, yourself. And you're not going to give me the old "Americans have no sense of humor" routine, are you?
Can you please address my concerns that there is no credit on the billboard? And why are they posted on the way to Heathrow?
BTW, red is levels of Marshall Plan aid...
Off all the mullahs.
My acquaintances and friends are all in the theatre. That's my profession, unfortunately.
Becasue the term "Asian" means anyone from Asia - hundreds of different cultures. Why do Brits narrow it down to just three? Especially when actually referring to Muslims? Most Asians are Hindus or Buddhists - NOT Muslims, so why use the word "Asian" when you are only referring to Pakistanis or Indians?
That's like referring to Brits, Greeks, Russians, Swedes, Irish, Germans, Italians, Hungarians and Serbians all as "Europeans".
While it is true that a Swede is a European - it is NOT true that a European is just a Swede.
Same thing with "Asian" and "Muslim".
Thanks!!
I guess some of the Brits have forgotten WWII?
No. I'm not saying Americans have no sense of humour. I have the Family Guy DVDs to prove otherwise. I am suggesting that you, personally, have no sense of humour.
Can you please address my concerns that there is no credit on the billboard? And why are they posted on the way to Heathrow?
It's an old advertising dodge to say something shocking and make you wonder what the hell it's all about; then follow it up with an explanation which sells the product. In this case, it's helping American television. I know for a fact this dodge has been used in America as well as in Britain.
Ivan
"BTW, red is levels of Marshall Plan aid..."
Whewww...
You had be worried. I thought those bars were graphical depictions of the percentage of Religion of Peace adherents in a given country. If so, the UK would have been in deep trouble.
As former socialist minister Jack Lang has announced this evening that he has decided to don't be candidate to the presidential election, it's almost certain now that Segolene Royal gonna be chosen by socialists militants. But, from now, it's absolutely impossible to say who gonna be elected in april.
Tried calling him but he is still on duty.
If I get any first-hand info., I'll post it.
haha, it's probably not too far from the truth...
The mullahs ARE the problem. As long as they are brainwashing the young with their vile teachings, terrorism will never cease.
I wish you the best of luck. If you get Sarkozy, things will improve. With Royal...the problem is you don't know what you're going to get!
Regards, Ivan
"It's getting ridiculous and for the last two nights there's been fighting." Ms Street is absolutely right.
If the Brits were properly armed the fight would be over in just a few minutes, if there were a fight at all. Here "yobs" are quickly perforated, problem resolved.
I entirely agree with your assessment, btw.
"Becasue the term "Asian" means anyone from Asia - hundreds of different cultures. Why do Brits narrow it down to just three?"
Because those bits of Asia are the bits we used to own and from where there was immigration into the UK in the postwar period. Hence most people's experience of someone from Asia would have been from one of those countries and hence the usage.
"That's like referring to Brits, Greeks, Russians, Swedes, Irish, Germans, Italians, Hungarians and Serbians all as "Europeans"."
Yes it is. Which people from the US do regularly! Why do American police sometimes describe someone as 'black' when they are actually of Jamaican descent?
Mal Reynolds in "Serenity"?
Well said; Ivan.Over two hundred years ago my grand father plus 8 generations fought a war with your great country but today I have inlaws living there and I love your people for the most part.
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