Posted on 02/02/2007 8:30:02 AM PST by kiriath_jearim
A Muslim leader has warned that Britain is moving towards a "police state," comparing the situation to Nazi Germany after the anti-terror raids in the city of Birmingham this week.
But Mohammad Naseem, chairman of Birmingham's Central Mosque, urged Muslims to show restraint following the raids, in which nine suspects were arrested over allegations of plotting an "Iraq-style" kidnapping and filmed beheading.
"The country is moving toward a police state. That's not right. We have to change this," he said inside the mosque, where some 2,000 Muslims gathered for weekly Friday prayers.
"We can change this for the better by coming together, not by coming apart. .. Remain calm, don't get angry. Anger is a natural emotion, but Muslims should control it. We must never give way to anger," he said.
Speaking outside the mosque shortly before the prayer session began, he compared the current situation, and anti-terrorism legislation introduced in Britain in recent years, to Nazi Germany.
"The German people were told the Jews were a threat. The same thing is happening here. The Muslims are now the bogey people," he said. "It's a small community. It's easy to pick on them. That's what's being done."
Tempers are high after the raids, which were accompanied by allegations that the suspects were planning to kidnap and behead a British Muslim soldier, and post a video of the execution on the Internet.
Police were on Thursday given more time to question the nine suspects, all of them said by neighbours to be Britons of Pakistani origin, and mostly family men with children.
Boy, these guys learn fast.
Bombs are a mistake. Hire lawyers, set up "Civil Rights" groups and bribe officials. Accuse folks of acting like "Nazis." That will win the day in the West.
Look who is talking! Islamic countries at best are authoritatian bordering on Facism. The Iran level Islamic hellhole is the trend. Make no mistake, Islam is trending toward more and more radical expression. Most evil Jews are falsely accused of Muslims actually do.
"Before Amin Al Husseini, there was no hatred between the Jews and the Arabs."
What twaddle!
Read the Koran, and feel the love!
ML/NJ
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Quite true, and yet over the centuries, there were periods when Jews fleeing Christian pogroms and expulsion orders found refuge in the territories of Islamic state. Like most religious texts and founders of religions, the content of the Quran can be read in many ways. The writer(s) behind the website are focused on how a particularly virulent reading of the Quran, combined with European-inspired ethnocentric national socialism, has been the inspiration for what we see in the countries where Islam is dominant or, as in the case of Europe, growing rapidly in influence.
These writers perhaps harbor unjustified illusions about the possibilities of a benign Islam, but the information they supply about the origin and effects of this volatile concoction of islamicist fascism is useful.
Analagously, the Bible has had interpreters who have made it a foundational ingredient of the ideologies of ethnocentric fascist groups whose effects, if they were as widespread as the followers of Husseini, would be quite pernicious. It is a difference in scale that makes the devotees of Christian Identity and such texts as the Turner Diaries relatively minor threats to public peace, and the intellectual descendents of Husseini a significant threat.
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