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July 6, 2006
UK: Muslim Rights Group Advised By Terror Supporter Whines About Terror Laws
Oh the hypocrisy of it all! The Islamic Human Rights Commission is whining about how the UK's Terrorism Act 2000 is so unfair on poor British Muslims. For the innocent Muslims who are questioned and stopped and searched, the Terror Laws may be applied unfairly. But the irony of all this is that the UK Terrorism Act 2000 is not so harsh as to do anything to imprison or deport one particularly odious Saudi individual, Mohammad al-Massari (pictured).
Massari escaped from Saudi Arabia to Britain in 1994 and instead of living as a good and decent citizen, Massari has been acting to incite others into acts of terrorism and lawlessness via his website, Tajdeed.net.
This Arabic language website is produced in London, and as we reported on November 19 last year: "We reported earlier that this Arabic-language site has recently been urging Muslims in Europe to copy the French example, and to start rioting on the streets." (This was when the Muslim rioting in France was also starting to spread to other nations).
We wrote then: "Last week, it was announced that the website was carrying a message from Ayman al-Zawahiri that the UK Queen is an "enemy of Islam"."
"According to Homeland Security US.com: "UK based Mohammed Al-Massari's Islamic terrorist group, the Tajdeed/Committee for the Defense of Legitimate Rights organization celebrates attacks. .... Al Massari has been soliciting funding for terrorist attacks in the UK, US and other western countries"."
So pardon me for finding the complaints from the Islamic Human Rights Commission pathetic and ludicrous, because who is one of their main advisers? None other than the pro-terrorist Muhammad al-Massari.
But I will never shortchange our readers on all the grisly details. You need to see the IHRC's complaints in their entirety, as so heartrendingly described on IRNA, official propaganda organ of the Islamist regime in Iran, which is already recruiting suicide bombers for attacks against Israel, and is barbaric enough to allow the sentence of stoning to death to still be ordered for the "crime" of adultery.
As Iran is currently illegally enriching uranium, almost certainly for terrorist activities, I will reproduce IRNA's article in its entirety, and ignoring their copyright. Here it is.
UK terror laws equivalent to Muslim "witch-hunt": IHRC
Britain's 1.8 million Muslim community has been under siege since before the 9/11 attacks in the US in 2001, according to a new report on the UK's anti-terrorism laws published Thursday.
The report, the second in a series by the London-based Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHCR), said that Muslims in the UK have been "under severe persecution by the British government, police and other institutions" since Terrorism Act 2000 was introduced.
Analyzing a raft of subsequent "draconian" legislation with case studies, it equated the government's anti-terrorism strategy as a "later day witch-hunt" against Muslims.
The strategy, including internment without trial, control orders and house arrests, not only violate basic human rights and curtail civil liberties, but is counter-productive in Britain's declared war on terrorism, IHCR warned.
"Daily stop and search of tens of thousands of Muslims and hundreds of arrests of innocent Muslims have effectively demonized the Muslim community in Britain as `the enemy within'," it also said.
The 116-page report predicted that the new Terrorism Act 2006 will only "confer previously unthinkable powers on law enforcement authorities to counter terrorism and will effectively remove what few civil liberties remain in Britain today."
"They bear the hallmarks of authoritarian dictatorships rather than liberal democracies. Such laws are only the latest in a series of such measures which have been used to victimize British Muslims even before the events of September 11, 2001," it said.
But the human rights group warned that such measures will "not prevent terrorism similar to how draconian laws in police states around the globe do not prevent terrorism in those countries." "As long as there is a perceived injustice held by a section of the population against the government and this injustice is not addressed, the threat of terrorism will remain," it said.
The report, timed to coincide with the first anniversary of last year's London bombings said that if the British government was "truly committed to defeating terrorism, it is crucial that the root causes of terrorism are correctly identified and efficiently tackled." "Not to do so will only perpetuate this `war' that has indiscriminately claimed the lives of thousands of innocents," it said.
In its report, the IHRC made 42 recommendations to the UK government ranging from repealing existing anti-terrorism legislation and more precisely defining future laws to making the police more accountable in using unfettered powers.
"Racial and religious profiling must be abandoned as a method of policing. It is ineffective and counter-productive and will only lead to further alienation and marginalization of the victimized community," it said.
The report also called for the police to immediately suspend its `shoot to kill' policy against terrorist suspects following the mistaken killing of a Brazilian engineer last July and the shooting of a 23-year-old Muslim in a bingled anti-terror raid last month.
It also recommended that the hundreds of suspects released without charge should be issued with an apology by the police to help remove the stigma of the publicity of their detention.
The British government was also advised to refrain from using the term `extremism' in its discourse on the causes of terrorism because it has "no tangible legal meaning or definition" and was also "unhelpful and emotive" in misrepresenting Muslims.
The human rights group also referred to a parallel campaign to denounce anyone who questions the legitimacy of Israel which, it said, is seen as an attempt to silence academic thought and legitimate political expression.
"If the government hopes to pander to Zionist pressure by condemning and excluding from this country people who are critical of Israeli apartheid, it is in fact supporting apartheid," it said.
"Criminalizing the mere possession of certain opinions is the hallmark of dictatorships," it added.
The report said that similar reasoning for attempts to ban certain political groups applied to threats to close mosques if they are arbitrarily defined as being "extremist" and amounted to "collective punishment" of whole communities.
Initiatives were also condemned such as CampusWatch, which is aimed to make students spy on one another.
Such schemes "will lead to mistrust and religious segregation on campus, and must therefore be discontinued," it said.
The IHRC recommended that in order to protect the rights of Muslims in Britain, religious discrimination must be outlawed, otherwise it leaves the "impression that Muslims are not full citizens entitled to protection in Britain."
It also warned against terror suspects being tried by the media or by comments made by politicians, saying that the Contempt of Court Act 1981 must be used to prevent reports which could prejudice the right to a fair trial and to punish those who breach it.
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This is what we wrote in November: "The Sunday Times states that the Tajdeed website carries messages urging Jihad, and recently has been glorifying the recent suicide attacks in Jordan from November 9, which killed at least 60 innocent people....."
"Muhammad al-Masri, whose son is in a Seattle prison on cocaine smuggling charges, has publicly called for the overthrow of the House of Saud, and believes homosexuals should be beheaded. For an insight into his ideas, there is an interview with him, here from two years ago, where he mostly details his views on the House of Saud, and a more recent article from the Jamestown Foundation, from August 19, 2005."
When one reads that a group complains about terror laws, when you already know that its chief adviser is a supporter of terrorism, then this is a sure sign that the UK Terrorism Act 2000 is affecting that adviser personally, and preventing him from carrying out his terror propaganda.
At least the UK government is doing something right.
Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at July 6, 2006 7:18 AM
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