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Scottish Muslims fear revenge attacks

2007-07-09

Standard story, a few days late, get out yer hankies...

In the entire row of stores, the only one that was targeted the one that still smells of smoke is owned by a man of Pakistani descent. Shafiq Ahmed said vandals rammed a car into his "One Stop Shop" convenience store, then set a fire an assault disturbingly reminiscent of the attempted terror attack just days earlier on the airport of this gritty Scottish city.

Police are investigating the alleged attack and others as part of an apparent backlash against Glasgow's Muslims since the failed airport assault and attempted car bombings in London. At least 24 incidents are being probed, from graffiti on a mosque to firebombed businesses.

As he cleaned the soot from his charred store, Ahmed, who moved to Britain as an infant, hoped the attack on his family business wasn't racially motivated. After 30 peaceful years in Scotland, the idea that some may no longer welcome him and his Scottish-born children is highly uncomfortable. "I haven't got words to describe it. I'm hoping it's not retaliation," Ahmed, 41, said Sunday, in a thick Glasgow accent. "It's a shame to think you can't work with people and enjoy the company of people and instead have to worry."

Posted by:Seafarious

#15 Pointing to other young Muslims gathered around him, Aslam added: "If one of these guys supported any terrorism, we would all let them him know that we were ashamed."

Ashamed they didn't think of it first?

You have to ask yourself "would the country be better off without muslims in it?"

Which beggars the question that .com asked: (paraphrased)

Does Islam have any redeeming features?

I've yet to identify a single one. Any takers?

[crickets]

Posted by: Zenster 2007-07-09 22:10

#14 Point is, Broadhead6, you aren't under oath as a police officer to uphold the law. Much as it is applied unevenly, making such uneveness a matter of extralegal policy is wrong.

It's the same as raising one's right hand to enlist in the military. Remember that? Atrocities get committed, prisoners never make it back to the muster-point, wounded enemy die mysteriously. But it is not business as usual.

Something the KinderKriegers might want to keep in mind.

Posted by: Pappy 2007-07-09 21:50

#13 If some muslim store owner back in Detroit was running his mouth spewing anti-American or pro-terror sentiments I wouldn't damage his property or his person. OTOH, I wouldn't go to the police if I knew beforehand someone else planned on vandalizing his property. Guess that makes me a bad person. Oh well, I can live with that.

Posted by: Broadhead6 2007-07-09 15:29

#12 Ahmed's store is on a row of shops that includes a Chinese take-out restaurant, a betting shop, a kebab restaurant, a bank, a post office and a pub, The Princess. Plywood boards now cover part of his storefront.

I think they'd better keep an eye on the kebab place too...

Posted by: BigEd 2007-07-09 15:28

#11 Like Muslim communities across Britain, there is seething resentment in Glasgow at the British government's foreign policy.
Seething? Funny that's just how we feel out their desert cult and Dhimmitude. Well maybe no Pappy...

Posted by: Icerigger 2007-07-09 14:38

#10 You have to ask yourself "would the country be better off without muslims in it?"

I can't come up with a single reason to say no.

Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2007-07-09 14:31

#9 #2 Territoriality, wxjames, territoriality.

Posted by: gromgoru 2007-07-09 14:05

#8 there is a limit. there just has to be a limit to what we will tolerate

Hope it won't come too late.

Posted by: gromgoru 2007-07-09 13:48

#7 It's like someone else said - not all muzzies are terrorists, but the majority of terrorists are muzzies. Until that is no longer true, muzzies will be singled out for scrutiny. Until the muzzies themselves denounce terrorism, and work together with others to stop it, they will be stigmatized by what their co-religionists do. Too bad, so sad.

Posted by: Old Patriot 2007-07-09 13:47

#6 Got it, Pappy, but when your sworn enemy refuses to act in anything remotely civilized, you are stuck with losing by attrician or genocide.
I prefer winning at any cost, even genocide.
I've thrown in the towel early, but you certainly can't fit a puzzle piece like doctors blowing up thousands of nightclubbers with car bombs, into a picture of civilization. So toss out the rules and take society back by force, I say. Anything else is just rearranging the deck chairs. To date, Hamas teaches small children to become suicide bombers. It goes on and on and we, the UN, the civilized world, do nothing.
If government officials are unwilling to draw a line, then people must or we all 'accept Islam'.

Posted by: wxjames 2007-07-09 10:44

#5 Of course they fear revenge attacks. That's how the muslims would react.

Posted by: Formerly Dan 2007-07-09 10:40

#4 I believe it's called 'civilization', wxjames. Oh, and 'law and order'. Y'know, protecting all citizens, whether you like them or not?

But you do write well. You'll do fine when they post the job openings for concentration camp guards.

Posted by: Pappy 2007-07-09 09:46

#3 "youth worker" = yet another affirmative action position for foreigners while Scots and English yoof are left to rot.

there is a limit. there just has to be a limit to what we will tolerate.

Posted by: Excalibur 2007-07-09 09:27

#2 At least 24 incidents are being probed, from graffiti on a mosque to firebombed businesses.

This is a waste of tax dollars. The police should focus on muzzie bombing jihadi scum and leave the regular citizens alone. The Scotch are correct in turning up the burner on muzzies. How else can we get muzzies to convert from the caveman religion to something more fitting for good community relations ? The police and governments just don't see the big picture yet, do they ?

Posted by: wxjames 2007-07-09 07:27

#1 "It's a shame to think you can't work with people and enjoy the company of people and instead have to worry."

Damned if it isn't at that!

Posted by: Besoeker 2007-07-09 04:56

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