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| British Muslims anxious about plot news |
| 2006-08-10 |
| And there it is! As we knew it would be... LONDON - News of a thwarted plot to down trans-Atlantic airliners sent a shiver of anxiety through Britain's Muslim community Thursday. Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr... Muslim men accustomed to nervous looks from passers-by after last year's transit bombings noticed they were attracting them again. Some said they worried about a spike in hate crimes and job discrimination. I worry about being blown to shit when I fly next month. And not by the Amish... There was no confirmed word about the religious or ethnic background of those arrested, although a top French official described them as originating from predominantly Muslim Pakistan. Police said only that they were working with Britain's large South Asian community. Call it a "hunch"... Three of the four suicide bombers who struck London's transit system in July 2005 were Britons of Pakistani origin, and many Muslims feared their community would be held responsible this time. Monirul Sardar, 33, said that after the transit bombings and the Sept. 11 attacks on America, a neighbor left duck droppings on his parked car."Tonight I've got to watch out," he said. Sardar, a Briton of Bangladeshi origin who runs an east London travel agency, said he'd noticed his bushy beard drawing stares after every major terror attack in recent years. "It's started up again," he said. "People are afraid of me, mostly. ... If it's an old man, a lady in a hijab, they'll pick on them." Harris Bokhari, a spokesman for the Muslim Association of Britain, said the group was asking mosques to urge worshippers to report any racial attacks. But he said Muslims had demonstrated after the Sept. 11 attacks and the London bombings that they would not let such trouble stop them from participating in British life. The Muslim community's relationship with police has been fraught in recent months, and some said they were waiting to see what evidence police would produce of the alleged bomb plot. "They've arrested people, but let's see what they find from them," said Maj Ali, 27, who works at a northeast London restaurant near a home police were searching as part of their terror investigation. "They didn't find nothing," he recalled of a June raid in which officers shot a man in the shoulder in his east London home during a search for the makings of a chemical bomb. The man and his brother were arrested but later freed without charge. That raid and the fatal subway shooting last year of an innocent Brazilian man mistaken for a terrorist infuriated many Muslims. The sun rising infuriates many Muslims... "Was this (airline bomb plot) information really accurate or not from the police in terms of its intelligence?" Bokhari asked. "We need to be aware how these people were arrested." Near the East London Mosque in the capital's Whitechapel neighborhood, home to a large Muslim population, several people said they feared the terror plot allegations might spark fresh antagonism against them. "People forget things really easily," Sardar said. "This brings it all back again." You can call these in like clockwork... |
| Posted by:tu3031 |
| #7 Instead of being indignant, perhaps if they: 1. protested Islamic violence 2. began a process of self criticism 3. monitored themselves actively, bringing to light and shaming those who engage in such behavior This presumes both a modicum of rationality and at least minor contamination by the notion of Cause & Effect. Not bloody likely with Muslims. The shaming part involves either the accusor or the accused being declared apostate (i.e., death sentence). This simple fact induces a near monolithic and paralyzing restraint amongst Muslims when it comes to reporting on the jihadis whithin their midst. It is also a major reason why Islam will probably meet with nuclear extinction. Muslims will need to reform or die, no other options apply. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2006-08-10 20:45 |
| #6 I'm kinda anxious, too. In my uniformed youth I, and like-minded young gents, lashed out at shit that made me anxious. I found that ambushing and killing my adversaries worked fairly well. Zero recurrence from those sources. Zero. You were saying, you whiny-assed symp-network bitch? |
| Posted by: flyover 2006-08-10 19:53 |
| #5 So they get all bent out of shape because the public is wary? Instead of being indignant, perhaps if they: 1. protested Islamic violence 2. began a process of self criticism 3. monitored themselves actively, bringing to light and shaming those who engage in such behavior We'd have a modicum of respect for these asswipes. |
| Posted by: PlanetDan 2006-08-10 19:15 |
| #4 Sardar, a Briton of Bangladeshi origin who runs an east London travel agency, said he'd noticed his bushy beard drawing stares after every major terror attack in recent years. "It's started up again," he said. "People are afraid of me, mostly. ... If it's an old man, a lady in a hijab, they'll pick on them." Hint: lose the beard, better still, lose the 'religion'. And I have never seen anyone give a hard time to 'an old man' or 'a lady in a hijab'. |
| Posted by: Tony (UK) 2006-08-10 17:19 |
| #3 Perhaps they would feel more comfortable in Pakistan. Perhaps they would no longer get hostile stares if they stood up enmass and pointed out the terrorists in their midst instead of hiding them with their silence or actively supporting them. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2006-08-10 17:12 |
| #2 The problem in the past is that these guys get a pass. Psychopathic behavior has to have consequences. The consequences have to be harsh, massive and overwhelming so that the behaviors are not repeated. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2006-08-10 17:07 |
| #1 “…a neighbor left duck droppings on his parked car. ‘Tonight I've got to watch out’.” Are you worried about scores of innocent civilians being savagely blown up Monirul? Ohhh..I see...your concerned about more duck shit on your car. Gotcha! |
| Posted by: DepotGuy 2006-08-10 16:37 |