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| MPACUK London : 1 in 400 stop and searches leads to arrest! What will you do? |
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| Friday, 02 November 2007 | |
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Muslims caught in the glare of suspicion, pigeon-holed because now 'Muslim' IS synonymous with 'terrorist', Jean Charles de Menezes has been shot, the brothers of Forest Gate injured and then ignored once their names are cleared and yet the anti-terror legislation continues, stop and search continues, detention without trial continues, discrimination continues.
So dear reader who visits this website maybe once a week, and probably gets their dose of ‘what’s going on’ and what they as an informed Muslim ‘needs to know', what are you going to do about it?
Maybe you’ll send a letter to the Police Commissioner? Or write an article in your local newspaper. Maybe you’ll tell your local Imam and ask him to alert the congregation to the news.
Or maybe you’ll join the London MPACUK team and get involved in our pre-emptive lobbying campaign where we are currently engaging local mosques to petition their local MPs to ensure that the detention without trial time limit is not increased, that the encroaching anti-terror legislation is curtailed and that stop and search is not used to vilify and single out Muslims. Maybe you’ll fund MPACUK so our work can continue. Maybe, just maybe, you’ll read the stories, feel unsettled and angry about what is going on and you’ll do something and it will actually work, and things will start to change insh’Allah.
So I plead to you to come along to our London branch meeting this Sunday and every fortnight after that, and learn how you as a British Muslim can feel empowered, meet like-minded Muslims and learn a way of working that actually confronts what is going on today. Join our struggle, join our Jihad.
Email us at info@mpacuk.org or call 0870 760 55 94 for more information on how we can work together to tackle injustice.
MPACUK London Branch Meeting
Date: Sunday 4th November Timings: 11am - 1pm
Venue: Redbridge Islamic Education Centre, 103 Belgrave Road, IG1 3LG
Read the Guardian Article on Stop and Search for more information.           Readers have left 11 comments.
ShahidM:
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"Muslims caught in the glare of suspicion, pigeon-holed because now 'Muslim' IS synonymous with 'terrorist'"
And didn't the film Britz help! Perhaps if Muslims stopped hatching terrorists plots then the police wouldn't have to stop so many people. I urge people to write to their local Mosque and ask them to be more vigilant to extremism and radicalisation of young Muslims where their heads get filled with hate. Why are you blaming the victim (the people of the UK) for trying to protect themselves?
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2007-11-03 09:20:47
Mohsin:
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Shahid , writing to Local Mosques,is like a "kicking a dead horse", you will never get any kind of response. Equally by "urging"-people to writing to Mosques to be more vigiliant etc, you clearly are saying that "mosques" are harbouring potential/future terrorists. Your playing the game. Your playing the game in the hands of those, who want you to play the game in accordingly to what they expect you to reinforce on their behalf. Shahid, you should ask the IRISH community , in the experiences they suffered during the IRA campaigns bombing UK. How much injustice they got, and how the police treated them, during that era. The exact same Police state strategies are being deployed on the Muslim community. Its a strategy on the mass, no one should be given the benefit of the doubt. Some people even get stopped at US airports, despite being high authortity. Their are gaps and loopholes with the existing police strategy,and they need to address the manner they conduct themselves. They need to segment more specifically and metaciously. MB
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2007-11-03 11:59:29
Syed:
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I urge people to write to their local Mosque and ask them to be more vigilant to extremism and radicalisation — ShahidMWhy are you blaming the victim (the people of the UK) for trying to protect themselves? — ShahidMOr as a British citizen, do I remain silent that the Government are increasing the risk to myself, my loved ones and society at large?
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2007-11-03 12:53:12
ShahidM:
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I urge people to write to their local Mosque and ask them to be more vigilant to extremism and radicalisation — SyedWhy are you blaming the victim (the people of the UK) for trying to protect themselves? — ShahidMOr as a British citizen, do I remain silent that the Government are increasing the risk to myself, my loved ones and society at large? "But it is wrong for the Government to implement policies where it can be shown (by using the IRA campaign as a basis) that those policies will not stop terrorism and in fact INCREASE radicalisation" So, since we are not going to respond to blackmail, and since radicalised Muslims aren't going to stop planning terrorist atrocities (correct use of that word) then we have no alternative to keep up anti-terror vigilance, increase the detention periods in order to have the time to establish complex cases and increase our anti-terror police. Since when did more bobbies on the beat result in criminals saying that it will only encourage them to rob more banks? The correlation stated that anti-terror breeds terror is exactly that equation. No! People with high morals, deep religious conviction and respect for their country don't detonate suicide bombs. If a young Muslim detonates a suicide bomb on the UK Underground then please tell us what the name is of their Moral Compass. WHat creed or learning of morality are they using to guide their actions?
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2007-11-03 15:42:47
ShahidM:
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Shahid , writing to Local Mosques,is like a "kicking a dead horse", you will never get any kind of response. Equally by "urging"-people to writing to Mosques to be more vigiliant etc, you clearly are saying that "mosques" are harbouring potential/future terrorists. Your playing the game. Your playing the game in the hands of those, who want you to play the game in accordingly to what they expect you to reinforce on their behalf. Shahid, you should ask the IRISH community , in the experiences they suffered during the IRA campaigns bombing UK. How much injustice they got, and how the police treated them, during that era. The exact same Police state strategies are being deployed on the Muslim community. Its a strategy on the mass, no one should be given the benefit of the doubt. Some people even get stopped at US airports, despite being high authortity. Their are gaps and loopholes with the existing police strategy,and they need to address the manner they conduct themselves. They need to segment more specifically and metaciously. MB First of all it is without doubt that potential terrorists have passed through the doors of Mosques. However, I don't say that Mosques are harbouring or protecting these people. I am sure that someone at a Mosque has a suspicion. I remember the MCB letter to Mosques after 9/11 where they were accused of not doing enough to find potential terrorists in their midst. MCB wrote to them and asked for any Imam to reveal any suspicions to the police with a giant BUT. BUT, be aware that many in the community have been wrongly accused and arrested and this has stigmatised them. ie "Don't pass anything on". The gap and loophole in our justice system is that it is too liberal at the moment.
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2007-11-03 15:48:23
Adam:
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When the police started targeting innocent Irish people during the IRA troubles, then actually, it drew more people towards the IRA and more IRA donations from Catholics in the US.
I'm continually surprised at the patience of Muslims in this country. Here you are - your countries are being bombed, you are targeted in this country, your belief system is continually trashed, your identity is attacked, and you're ask to apologise for it all. You're being kicked again and again and again and you actually take it! I can't think of any group of people who would take all this rubbish. Jews would fight back. Sikhs would fight back. Whites and blacks have fought back. Even Hindus would fight back. Yet Muslims just seem to lie there and take it all. Now politicians are talking about extending the 28 day limit on detention without charge? Where is the anger? Where are the condemnations from your leaders? Do you have leaders? I don't see them. As a black man, let me tell you one thing - no black person would take all this crap lying down if it was directed towards us. We've learned this from our experience of slavery and racism. We would make it loud and clear that the police would no longer have our support or co-operation and we would protect every single one of our people who was accused of breaking the law or being a terrorist and we would embrace them. So you people either have the patience of a saint, or are extremely stupid. Which one is it?
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2007-11-04 15:46:45
Khan:
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ShahidM, you are truly an imbecile. stop writing posts that are counterproductive and please stick to the topic. MPAC UK should have a policy to stop terrorists like you hijacking muslim websites!
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2007-11-04 16:27:19
Syed:
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So you people either have the patience of a saint, or are extremely stupid. Which one is it? — Adam
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2007-11-04 18:18:25
Mohsin:
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Adam : You got some interesting points !! Our biggest problem is that those whom are supposed to be our so-called leaders, even within the UK, hence the likes of many Muslim MPS etc they are Sell-outs !!! some losers even supported the WAR in Iraq. When your divided, then your isolated and weak. The black community, in times of hardship remain united. They know that if they dont support one another, they will one day or another, get the crap.
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2007-11-04 20:12:57
Alex:
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I'm continually surprised at the patience of Muslims in this country. Here you are - your countries are being bombed. — Adam'Your' countries? A British born Muslim doesn't own Afghanistan or Iraq.
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2007-11-04 20:29:45
Zesto:
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News from 5th Nov by the head of MI5 addressing a Society of Editors Conference in Manchester:-
"Al Qaeda is deliberately "grooming" children and young people to carry out terror attacks in Britain" "... he said the number of individuals in Britain identified by MI5 as having links with terrorism had risen from 1,600 last year to at least 2,000" "As I speak, terrorists are methodically and intentionally targeting young people and children in this country," "They are radicalising, indoctrinating and grooming young, vulnerable people to carry out acts of terrorism. This year, we have seen individuals as young as 15 and 16 implicated in terrorist-related activity." Its all very worrying.
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2007-11-05 13:00:50
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