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March 14, 2006

UK: Muslim Students Whine About Being "Spied Upon"

The Daily Mail's Sunday sister-paper, the Mail of Sunday, recently offered students financial incentives to provide information on Islamic Society meetings. This is not an unusual step for a newspaper to take. Informants from the general public with access to information on celebrities and issues of public concern are routinely courted by the press.

But the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA), a mouthpiece of the regime of Iran's insane tyrant President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is decrying the actions.

As Iran is breaking international law with its nuclear plans, we break their copyright protections as a matter of course. So, here in full is their article:

Muslim students condemn UK newspaper spy ploy

London, March 14, IRNA
UK Media-Islamophobia

The umbrella organization of Muslim student groups Tuesday condemned a British weekly newspaper for reportedly offering cash to students to spy on Islamic Society meetings.

The Federation of Student Islamic Societies (FOSIS) in the UK and Eire said that the action of the Mail on Sunday will do nothing to help alleviate the concerns of Muslim students.

"This comes at a time when Muslim students are already feeling threatened on university campuses, having been banned from wearing the veil at Imperial College, London, and from forming an Islamic Society at Matthew Boulton College, Birmingham," Fosis said.

In a recent expose, the newspaper was caught offering student reporters at the London Student Newspaper cash in return for infiltrating Islamic Society meetings in an attempt to report claims of Islamic radicals being active on campuses.

"We condemn the Mail on Sunday for further attempting to perpetuate the myth that University campuses are breeding grounds for radicalism and extremism," Wakkas Khan, Fosis president, said.

"If allegations of extremism were really as widespread as is often claimed, then there would be no need to resort to such measures," he said.

The University of London Union said last week it was considering banning the sale of the Daily Mail following reports that its sister paper has been trying to bribe students to spy on their Muslim colleagues.

Fosis, which represents over 90,000 Muslim students in the UK, said that Islamic Societies play a "highly pivotal role in bridging the gap between Muslim Students and the wider student body."

"It is important the media recognize the importance of such institutions on campus and promotes them within the positive light which they deserve. The students they represent are a far cry from the enemy within," Khan said.

Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at March 14, 2006 8:30 PM

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