Category Archives: UK

Muslims call for calm after Mosque attacks

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Muslim leaders have called for calm after a series of attacks on mosques in the wake of the London bombings. Iqbal Sacranie, secretary general of the Muslim Council of Britain, said in a letter to leaders of Muslim communities: “We know that there may be some unscrupulous elements in our society who may look upon Thursday’s carnage as a morbid opportunity to attack and undermine British Muslims, their institutions and mosques.”

There were reports of arson and criminal damage attacks on mosques in east and south London, Bristol, Leeds, Telford and Birkenhead. Police were investigating several other attacks on Asians that may have been linked to the bombings.

Police have increased patrols in Muslim areas of Bristol and were meeting community leaders to reassure them that they were making every effort to protect them from further attacks.

On Friday evening bottles were thrown at the Jamia mosque in the Totterdown district of Bristol. At about the same time a mosque and an Islamic school in Mile End, east London, had their windows smashed.

A similar incident took place on Sunday at the Shajalal mosque in Easton, Bristol, where stones were thrown at its windows in the early hours. No one was hurt in the attacks.

Independent, 11 July 2005

Mosques attacked by arsonists as Asians fear surge of race hate

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Mosques attacked by arsonists as Asians fear surge of race hate

By Robert Verkaik

Independent, 11 July 2005

The terrorist attacks in London have provoked reprisal attacks on Asians. Police are investigating several incidents, including four arson attacks on mosques, that may have been motivated by revenge.

The arson attacks were carried out in mosques in Leeds, Belvedere, Telford and Birkenhead. Three further attacks were reported on mosques in east London and Bristol. In the attack on the east London mosque, 19 windows were smashed, according to the newspaper The Muslim News.

In Hayes, Middlesex, an Asian woman reported attempted arson after she noticed “liquid dripping down her door and smelt petrol” on the day of the terrorist attacks in London. The same day, five white men were arrested after bottles were thrown at the windows of a Sikh temple in south London. In a separate incident, arson was reported at the home of an Asian family in The Broadway, Southall.

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London’s mayor must resign (says rabid Zionist)

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“For years, the loony Left, epitomized by Red Ken, has encouraged radical Islam to take root in Britain, particularly London. While British policy has allowed a wave of Islamists to enter Britain and abuse the system, people like Galloway and Livingstone have encouraged these people to be active in their murderous agenda. They have sanctioned calls to Jihad and have legitimized the very programs that are now being turned against innocent Londoners, resulting in death, injury, suffering and grief.”

MidEastTruth.com, 9 July 2005

UK fatwa to call bombers unbelievers, if proved Muslims

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Britain’s top Muslim scholars are drafting a fatwa stripping those behind the grisly London blasts, if proved Muslims, from the right to call themselves Muslims, a leading British newspaper said Sunday, July 10.

Signed by dozens of prominent Muslim bodies, mosques, Islamic scholars and community groups, the religious edict will brand the attacks as a breach of the most basic tenets of Islam, reported The Independent.

“If these bombers are found to be Muslims, we will make it clear we utterly dissociate ourselves from them – even if they claim to be Muslims or are acting under the mantle of the Islamic faith. We reject that utterly,” said the official spokesman of the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB).

Islam Online, 10 July 2005

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Living together takes effort

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Tariq Ramadan“On Wednesday Londoners were united in joy. Now we face the risk that fear will build walls of doubt and misunderstanding between them. All could come to feel that they are potential victims: of Muslim extremists on the one hand; of rejection and racism on the other. The proponents of the ‘clash of civilisations’ theory will have won if we allow ourselves to become suspicious towards people of other faiths and cultures.”

Tariq Ramadan in the Guardian, 10 July 2005

Fascist quotes Qur’an to show Islam is not a religion of peace

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In an “open letter” to Sir Iqbal Sacranie and the Muslim Council of Britain, BNP leader Nick Griffin writes: “Terrorism; the slaughter of innocents; war against the Unbelievers; mass murder – all are (assuming the words of various Koranic verses are taken to have their ordinary English meanings) ‘justified’ in the Koran, and anyone who denies this is a liar. How can we say such Politically Incorrect things? Because we have studied the Koran….”

BNP website, 9 July 2005

This could have been lifted almost word for word from Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch, couldn’t it? In fact, if the racist filth that appears in the comments section of Spencer’s site is a guide to the sort of people who read his writings, it probably was.

Spencer must be really pleased with himself. Not only is he an influence on more “mainstream” right-wingers like Melanie Phillips, but his work also serves as an inspiration to out-and-out Nazis like Griffin.

‘Leaked No 10 dossier reveals Al-Qaeda’s British recruits’

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“Leaked No 10 dossier reveals Al-Qaeda’s British recruits,” the Sunday Times announces. Yeah, the same dossier the leaking of which was a hot news item in the Sunday Times … over a year ago. The same dossier which is used by the Sunday Times to suggest that thousands of British Muslims are potential supporters of terrorist attacks on the West because they attended a conference organised by Hizb ut-Tahrir – an organisation that unequivocally rejects terrorist attacks on the West.

Indeed, the leaked document concedes that Hizb ut-Tahrir “does not advocate violence”, that “membership or sympathy with such an organisation does not in any way pre-suppose a move towards terrorism”, and that at most “what it may indicate is the possibility of a few of its members being open to gradual consideration of far more extremist doctrine” …  while offering no evidence that any of them in fact have been.

Over at Jihad Watch, Rebecca Bynum posts the article as if it were some new revelation about the extent of Islamic terrorist organisation within the UK. But what can you expect from a site that repeatedly told its readers that Al-Muhajiroun was the largest Muslim organisation in Britain, and continued repeating this nonsense long after that tiny, marginal, extremist group had disbanded itself? You really wonder how much jihad watching the folks at Jihad Watch actually do.

Muslims see more abuse after London attacks

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Muslims have been subjected to a higher than usual level of abuse since Thursday’s bomb attacks in London, police and Muslim groups said on Sunday.

But they have also received thousands of messages of support from non-Muslims who recognise the vast majority of the country’s 1.6 million Muslims have no sympathy for those who carried out the attacks.

Three Islamist groups have claimed responsibility for the blasts, which government ministers said bore the hallmarks of the Islamic militant al Qaeda network.

Police said one person was assaulted and seriously injured in London in what they described as a hate crime, and Muslims reported attacks on several mosques.

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