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Blame terrorism on migrants – Daily Mail

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Deadly Cost of Open Borders

Editorial comment  in the Daily Mail, 1 August 2005

THE more we learn, the worse it gets.

One of the July 21 failed suicide bombers Hussain Osman was an Ethiopian posing as a Somali who used fake documents to gain asylum in this country (even though he’d been living for years in Italy) and later a British passport.

He fled Britain last Tuesday – five days after failing to blow up himself and others at Shepherd’s Bush Tube station.

Despite a national anti-terrorist alert at an unprecedented level neither he nor his passport were checked by British officials at Waterloo’s Eurostar terminal because such checks were scrapped last year as a cost-cutting measure. (With breathtaking insouciance the Leader of the Commons Geoff Hoon said yesterday the Home Office ‘will be looking at that’.)

Oh yes – and he and the rest of the terrorist cell have milked the benefits system of more than £300,000.

There, in a nutshell, is the scandal of our asylum and immigration system.

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Al-Qa’ida aren’t behind these bombings

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James Harkin, writing in the Independent (1 August), tells us that Al-Qaida is not a centralised worldwide organisation. Now there’s a revelation. He continues: “Turning the spotlight on Al-Qa’ida is a convenient lie. It helps us to avoid the uncomfortable truth that the London bombs were only the most poisonous fallout from the pallid recipe of multiculturalism, and its failure to inspire our ethnic young.”

MAB complains to the CRE over Times article

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MAB logoIn today’s The Times, Anthony Browne, a renowned Zionist Right-wing commentator who has made his campaign to attack Muslims and their faith in the most despicable manner, wrote another disgusting attack under the title ‘Fundamentally, We’re Useful Idiots’.

In his article, Browne chose to go out ‘all guns blazing’ and accuse Muslims of being the Nazis and Fascists of today, treating all others with disdain and considering them ‘sub-humans’. On more than one occasion, Browne wrote of the ‘similarities’ between Muslims and Hitler and also stated that the Eminent Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qaradawi is a moderate ‘in the same way that Mussolini was’.

It is clear that Anthony Browne has chosen to go beyond the pale and to blatantly accuse Muslims and particularly MAB of being fascists and Nazis. The magnitude of his statement regarding Sheikh Qaradawi can only be measured if one were to imagine the Pope being accused of being a Nazi, and the outcry and outrage that would generate.

Anas Altikriti, speaking on behalf of MAB stated earlier: “The Muslim Association of Britain will be forwarding an official complaint to the Commission of Racial Equality (CRE), and have written a letter to The Times in response to the article. “However, it is also vital that British Muslims contact The Times to sound their disgust of Anthony Browne and the hate-fuelled discourse he promotes. “At a time when all Muslims come under immense pressure from all corners through no fault of their own, Browne’s article can only lead to more hate, division and even violence against Muslims throughout the country.”

MAB press release, 1 August 2005

Qaradawi and MAB – ‘Islamic fascists’

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London vigil“Elements within the British establishment were notoriously sympathetic to Hitler. Today the Islamists enjoy similar support.

“In the 1930s it was Edward VIII, aristocrats and the Daily Mail; this time it is left-wing activists, The Guardian and sections of the BBC. They may not want a global theocracy, but they are like the West’s apologists for the Soviet Union – useful idiots….

“The support of Islamic fascism spans Britain’s Left. The wacko Socialist Workers Party joined forces with the Muslim Association of Britain, the democracy-despising, Shariah-law-wanting group, to form the Stop the War Coalition. The former Labour MP George Galloway created the Respect Party with the support of the MAB, and won a seat in Parliament by cultivating Muslim resentment.

“When I revealed on these pages last year both the fascist views of Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, and the fact that he was being welcomed to Britain by Ken Livingstone, the Mayor of London, it caused a storm that has still to abate. Mr Livingstone claims that Sheikh al-Qaradawi is a moderate – which he is, in the same way that Mussolini was.”

Anthony Browne in the Times, 1 August 2005

London bomber says motivated by Iraq war, not religion

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A would-be London bomber arrested by Italian police has told investigators that he and three fellows were motivated by the Iraq war and not by religious fervor, denying any link to Al-Qaeda network.

“We met each other at a muscle-building class in Notting Hill and Muktar (Said Ibrahim) showed us some DVDs with images of the war in Iraq, especially women and children killed by American and British soldiers,” Osman Hussain, suspected of attempting to blow up commuters in west London on July 21, was quoted as saying by Italy’s La Repubblica newspaper Sunday, July 31.

Hussain said films on the atrocities committed by US and British occupation soldiers in Iraq helped to foster the group’s “political conviction that it is necessary to give a signal, to do something.”

The Italian Interior Ministry confirmed that the quotes from Hussain’s interrogation in La Repubblica were authentic but declined to comment on the source of the leaks, reported the Independent Sunday.

Islam Online, 31 July 2005

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Campaign against Hizb ut-Tahrir continues

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The Independent on Sunday makes its contribution to the ongoing campaign to associate Hizb ut-Tahrir with the London bombings. The “authorities” quoted in the article are Zeyno Baran and Ariel Cohen, two hardline right-wingers in the US who are associated with such objective sources of information as National Review Online and The Counterterrorism Blog.

And in an interview with the Sunday Times General Musharraf repeats his call for a ban on the organisation.

Faith hate hotline launched as attacks on Muslims increase

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The police are to launch an emergency hotline to report “faith hate” attacks after a steep rise in abuse and assaults on Muslims in London in the wake of the suicide bombings.

Police reports seen by The Independent on Sunday show the number of attacks in the capital rose to more than 20 a day after the first bombings on 7 July. The police have recorded 230 religious hatred offences in the past three weeks.

After the first blasts and the attempted bombings two weeks later, racist attacks more than doubled to a peak of nearly 60 a day. The police have logged more than 800 racist crimes since the first bombings, reversing a long downward trend.

Somali Muslim women, who tend to wear long robes and hijab head-coverings, have been singled out after it emerged several of the suspected bombers arrested last week are of East African origin. One woman had her hijab torn off.

The new hotline will be set up tomorrow by the Met’s Assistant Commissioner Tariq Ghaffur. Mr Ghaffur, the most senior Asian and Muslim policeman, said there had been a “very substantial increase” in faith crimes in London.

There had also been an increase in the severity of attacks. “What used to be abuse has now escalated into assault. What was minor damage could escalate into a lot more serious damage. I think that is trend across the country,” he said.

Mr Ghaffur will ask people to report incidents to the hotline because he fears some ethnic and religious minorities could “retreat” and not report incidents to the police. “Quite clearly, we fear there will be an escalation,” he said.

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