This letter was sent in to the police by breadwinner who gets the Bedfordshire on Sunday (free rag)
Chief Constable
Bedfordshire Police
One Law equally administered and respected by all communities.
It should be noted that the rights of Muslims are being more than respected by the police and the people of this country and they are being given an unfair advantage to all other communities, despite the fact that it is from Islam that this country is suffering its present abuses, why are Muslims not issuing fatwa’s against Jihad of the sword when they are being allowed to live here and prosper, why are Imams saying they are not in control of the youth in UK. It is this admission by some Imams which will make police intervention in Muslim life unavoidable.
However inconvenient this police intervention is, it should not be seen as an attack on the Muslim community, we must extend to the police the confidence that comes from a community that has nothing to hide and the trust which is synonymous in a peaceful society.
I would like to draw Muslims attention to the fact that because you may be praying that everything does not stop around you, people have to knock on your doors to deliver goods and they will not accept that you are praying when they go to their next delivery, nor will they remove their work wear shoes as this renders them partially liable in the event of an accident in your houses, this is common sense, if you do not answer the door you must be presumed to be out! We must also assume that for you to put these restrictions on police that you are not cooperating with the police, and your actions are designed to portray the police and the community which you live in as oppressive, not to the UK but to other Muslim nations, as was the case of the Jilbab and Ms Begum, what this clearly shows is that Muslims in Britain are playing “the oppressed” to the Muslim audience in the wider world.
With regard to the ‘untouchability’ of ‘religious books and artefacts including the Koran, the police are not hunting the Koran if it is in the house it is there as a personal item of the owner, he is responsible to as much as possible keep it safe. Muslims should understand that we give you much greater freedoms than are given to Christian people in Muslim countries, Saudi Arabia refuse us to have a Christian church on its soil, no Christian religious worship of any kind is allowed, neither prayer or prayer books are allowed. This is because the God of Islam is not the same God of the Christians and Jews. In Pakistan the Barnabus Trust have highlighted the plight of Christians who are accused of Blasphemy and have identified the use of the Blasphemy laws to deprive Christians of their property and their person, this is achieved by forcible conversion under threats, it is also highlighted by Amnesty and both sources cite the Sharia laws as responsible because Christians are not protected by them, from Muslims.
It is about time people in this country were made aware of the suffering of Christians and other non Muslims in other countries and apply a justified moral pressure to Muslims in Britain to reciprocate the rights and privileges which this country gives them by communicating that freedom to be emulated in the countries they have come from, we have allowed mosques to be built on a grand scale in the UK but Christian Copts in Egypt (and elsewhere) have restrictions on even repairs to a church having to be approved by the president of Egypt, Mr Mubarrek. It is also about time that we admitted the massive human rights violations perpetrated on non Muslims in Muslim countries. Above all we must also make Muslims understand that we also have religious communities which have no problems with the way the police interact with us, why, I wonder is that?