More Britons are turning to terror, says MI5 director

Wake Up Call? It’s sad to hear that more and more young British Muslims turning their head towards terrorism and feeling honoured in killing their own innocents countryman. At this point what we need is proper debate about this issue, government should do bit more to help these young Muslims to understand how our policies works. We should bring some really intellectual and scholars who understand a lot more about Holy Quran ( not the one who comes in Sharia TV, they bloody don’t agree with each other statements) to tell these people, what Quran says, and help the government to let these people know about UK governments policies and issues.

 More Britons are turning to terror, says MI5 director

1,600 suspects under surveillance,  30 plots to kill, maim, damage, 200 terror groups or networks

 

Hundreds of young British Muslims are being radicalised, groomed and set on a path to mass murder, the head of MI5 said yesterday. In a stark public warning, Dame Eliza ManninghamBuller, the Director-General of MI5, revealed that the Security Service’s caseload had risen by 80 per cent since January and now involved about 30 “Priority 1” plots.

It has identified 200 terrorist networks involving at least 1,600 people, many under the direct control of al-Qaeda leaders in Pakistan.

“More and more people are moving from passive sympathy towards active terrorism through being radicalised or indoctrinated by friends, families, in organised training events here and overseas,” she said. “Young teenagers are being groomed to be suicide bombers.”

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Muslim lawyer refuses to remove veil during hearing in British court

Here we go again….

LONDON (AP) — A Muslim lawyer refused a judge’s orders to remove her full-face veil during a hearing, lending more fuel to an increasingly contentious debate in Britain over the right of women to wear the garments.

Shabnam Mughal, 27, insisted she had the right to wear the black veil covering everything but her eyes during the immigration tribunal hearing Monday in Stoke-on-Trent, central England. The judge had asked her to remove it, saying he could not hear her.

Judge George Glossop adjourned the case until later in the day, but Mughal again refused to remove her veil when the hearing was reconvened.

“You are clearly aware of my position on the grounds of my religious beliefs. I won’t,” Mughal told the judge, according to Wednesday’s Daily Express newspaper.

Glossop adjourned the hearing until next week to seek a ruling on the veil dispute from the president of his court, the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal. A tribunal official said the court had never come across such a dispute.

Mughal, a lawyer for the Law Partnership Solicitors in Coventry, is representing a man appealing a Home Office decision to deny one of his relatives a visitor’s visa.

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UK wants to improve image with Muslims

If this report is correct then I do support the government efforts and heartedly appreciate it. In my opinion government is trying hard and has tried hard in past to convince the British Muslim’s that Government or normal public is not against the religion.

Today most of British Muslim is saying that they are not happy with the policies of government, ok fair enough but you don’t bomb the whole country because you not happy with few elected members of parliaments and their decision. Do you?

No body labeled any Muslims as fanatic or extremist, till they don’t bring religion in every way of life. Take a recent example Muslims organization demanded special treatment from government and they said in this following article that “’If you give us religious rights, we will be in a better position to convince young people that they are being treated equally along with other citizens.”

They asked government to let them implement Sharia Law for their own family matters, which is in my opinion is extremism why the hell a non Islamic country, with his own constitution will allow any other law which can threaten the main entity of country “Constitution”? When you live in democratic country you are abide to follow main constitution law, you can’t make your own laws nor can government give any particular faith favor to practice their own religious law which can challenge the main entity of democratic country “Constitution”.

I said it earlier and still want to say that we as resident or citizen of this beautiful country must understand it is not possible for government to make every one happy at a same time. Because it’s a democratically elected government so they go according to simple rule, majority wins. And government policies doesn’t change by terrorist threats, you can’t bow your heads in front of terrorist and criminals. When ever governments of any country make policies, they make it by taking whole picture in their mind of internal and external threats, so that they can provide better and secure place for their own citizen.

I guess it’s a peak time to have a proper debate about this issue, government should do bit more to help these young Muslims to understand how our policies works. We should bring some really intellectual and scholars who understand a lot more about Holy Quran ( not the one who comes in Sharia TV, they bloody don’t agree with each other statements) to tell these people, what Quran says, and help the government to let these people know about UK governments policies and issues.

Muslims leaders should come forward and give proper statements and assure these young and vulnerable people, that government and normal public of this country is with them, they are not isolated and neglected. We need proper Muslims scholars (not moderate or extremists Muslims) to do this job.

Make this country, more safe and secure.

LONDON - The British government would like to change the perception in the Muslim world that its foreign policies are hostile as part of reforms aimed at reducing terrorism, according to Cabinet documents obtained by a newspaper and published Sunday.

The Sunday Telegraph said it had obtained Cabinet documents that suggest the government aim for a “significant reduction in the number and intensity of the regional conflicts that fuel terror activity.” In an ideal world, “the Muslim would not perceive (Britain) and its foreign policies as hostile,” the documents said.

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Muslim community to blame for inviting ridicule: Hameed

Good to see that some people are understanding our point of view “Stop The Blame Game”. Mr.Hameed speech remind one famous quote of Wayne Dyer quotes American motivational Speaker and Author

“All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for external reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration. You may succeed in making another feel guilty about something by blaming him, but you won’t succeed in changing whatever it is about you that is making you unhappy.”

We need more people like him, who can understand the value of our beloved country and help others too integrate with it and live peacefully.

London, Oct 26 (ZEENEWS.COM) Blaming Muslims in Britain for not doing enough to stop their own people from trying to “radicalise the faith”, the High Sheriff of Greater London, Dr Khalid Hameed has said that the community has to shoulder the burden for bringing the faith into “ridicule.”

“We have ourselves done everything possible to invite ridicule on the faith,” Hameed said while addressing a function to celebrate Eid here last night.

He noted that “a small minority” among the Muslim community destroyed harmony and peace of the majority but the community as a whole has failed to talk to them and bring about a change in their thinking. “The community must not give a cloak of respectability to those elements which are trying to radicalise the faith.”

Hameed said the Muslim holy book did not advocate killing of innocent people. “In fact, killing of innocent people and committing suicide in the name of religion are banned by the Quran,” he said.

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Our failure to confront radical Islam is there for all to see

Finally some one has been got courage from some where to put the whole sorry picture of the British Muslim problem. “Our failure to confront radical Islam” I got many Muslims as my close friends, through school, university and now in the workplace. Only few days we were discussing same problem at one dinner party and I felt disgust and even my Muslims friends felt disgust by understanding that we all are threatened by the ugly face of militant Islam. Thank you, Dennis McShane for providing such a clear and balanced view.

At long last, the debate on Islamism as politics, not Islam as religion, is out in the open. Two weeks ago, Jack Straw might have felt he was taking a risk when publishing his now notorious article on the Muslim veil. However, he was pushing at an open door. From across the political spectrum there is now common consent that the old multicultural emperor, before whom generation of politicians have made obeisance, is now a pitiful, naked sight.

The 10,000 Muslims in my constituency of Rotherham can only benefit from removing the dead hand of ideological Islamism – allowing their faith to be respected and their children to flourish in a Britain that finally wakes up to what must be done. Despite the efforts of extremists to prevent any sort of rational debate about the place of Islam in Britain, it is at last happening.

A fight-back is beginning to reclaim Britain from the grip of those who refuse to acknowledge the centrality of British values of tolerance, fair play and parliamentary democratic freedoms – notably those of free speech and respect for all religions, but supremacy for none. Voltaire noted this attribute of the English three centuries ago, when he wrote: “If there was just one religion in Britain there would be despotism. If two, there would be civil war. But as there are 30, they all live at peace with each other.”

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Prime Minister asks for reprieve for Brit facing execution in Pakistan

Update: Update: Pakistani prison asks for fresh date to hang Briton

How Pakistan government can hang Mr.Hussain when his murder conviction has already been quashed. Second when Lahore High Court already freed him and declared him non guilty earlier, how come Sharia Court found him guilty of the crimes he never committed?

Tony Blair issued a last-ditch appeal today to save a British man due to be executed in Pakistan in two weeks’ time.

But the Prime Minister refused to join calls for the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall to cancel a planned royal visit to Pakistan which would coincide with the execution.

Mirza Tahir Hussain, 36, a former Territorial Army soldier originally from Leeds, faces the death penalty on November 1 for murdering a taxi driver 18 years ago.

But amid fierce objections that the conviction is unsafe, his family and a coalition of campaigners have battled against the sentence. But at Prime Minister’s Questions, Mr Blair appealed to Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf to spare Hussain even though he acknowledged the president’s powers were limited.

 

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Blair, Brown, Rushdie back minister in veil row

Thank God!People still understand simple English. Jack Straw finally found much needed support from his colleagues. I don’t have any thing against about wearing “veil” every women have every right to choose what they want to wear and how they want to wear, but personally I believe “veil” present the problem in communication.

LONDON — Britain’s former foreign secretary Jack Straw found support Tuesday from Prime Minister Tony Blair, Finance Minister Gordon Brown, and controversial author Salman Rushdie for raising the issue of whether Muslim women should be veiled.

Blair said that Straw had been “perfectly sensible” in addressing the topic while Rushdie - forced into hiding because of Muslim outrage at his 1988 book The Satanic Verses - used more forthright language.

“He [Straw] was expressing an important opinion, which is that veils suck - which they do,” the British-Indian author, who was raised as a Muslim but is now an avowed atheist, told BBC radio.

Brown, meanwhile, told the BBC in an interview that it would be better for Britain if fewer Muslim women wore veils. Straw - still in the Cabinet as leader of the House of Commons - wrote in his local newspaper last week that he asks Muslim women to remove their veils when they visit his constituency office in Blackburn, northwest England.

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Muslims Should Back British values

This make sense. very well said !!

Back British values or lose grants, Kelly tells Muslim groups

Muslim organisations that refuse to defend core British values and fail to take a “pro-active” role in the fight against extremism are to lose access to millions of pounds of Government funding, it was disclosed yesterday.

Ruth Kelly, the Communities Secretary, said it was time for a “fundamental rebalancing” of relations with Muslim organisations if a new generation of terrorists was not to grow up in this country.

The tough new approach would involve shifting grants towards those organisations which accepted and promoted a set of “non-negotiable values” including respect for the law and freedom of speech.

“It is only by defending our values that we will prevent extremists radicalising future generations of terrorists,” Miss Kelly said in a speech to Muslim groups in London.

In an apparent threat to the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB), the umbrella group for Muslims which has received more than £200,000 from Government in the past two years, Miss Kelly highlighted its refusal to take part in Holocaust Memorial Day.

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