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August 12, 2006

UK: Muslims Blame Britain For Terrorism Plot, Not Islamic Fascism

We presented yesterday a selection of opinions from press sources, in which Muslims showed denial of their communities' responsibility for the air terror plot, which was recently unveiled. We also highlighted how many of those Muslim community representatives also support terrorism.

Now, a collection of Muslims have written to Tony Blair, the British prime minister, to voice not only denial that Muslim terrorism is caused by Islamic fascism, as George W. Bush so aptly described it, but to place the blame on Britain. In particular, these Muslim "representatives" are saying that Britain's foreign policy will cause more acts of terrorism. Britain supported the US with its moves to disband the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2001, and also moved into Iraq in 2003, and essentially UK foreign policy has not changed since then.

There were the attacks on London Transport on July 7, 2005, which were organised with assistance from Al Qaeda. But If foreign policy was to blame, then surely there would have been earlier attacks. It appears there were plots, as the trial of seven people arrested in March 2004 seems to verify. But with Taliban entering Afghanistan from Pakistan's uncontrolled FATA areas, and Iraq currently mired down in sectarian violence in which Muslims kill Muslims at a current rate of 100 per day, Britain can not change its foreign policy in either Iraq or Afghanistan. To do so would open the scene for sectarian Muslim on Muslim bloodshed of genocidal proportions.

Britain has assisted America in its attempts to install credible governments in both countries, but Muslim activists, many from outside these countries, have conspired to attempt to foment civil wars.

But the letter also appears to blame UK domestic policy regarding terrorism.

The open letter, despite being "open", is not reproduced in its entirety in any online media outlet so far, even the Times in which it was published as an advertisement. Snippets are quoted by Reuters, View London, China View, the Scotsman, the BBC, politics.co.uk, Rediff, Ananova and Associated Press via Santa Barbara News Press.

The news is also carried by IRNA, the Islamic Republic News Agency. As this is an organ of Iran's criminal government, we will ignore their copyright, as is our policy with supporters of international terrorism and illegal nuclear proliferation, and reproduce the article in full:

Muslims urge Blair to change UK's foreign policies

Leading British Muslims united Saturday to urge Prime Minister Tony Blair not to ignore the effects of his foreign policies in endangering the lives of civilians in the UK and abroad.

"The debacle of Iraq and now the failure to do more to secure an immediate end to attacks on civilians in the Middle East not only increases the risk to ordinary people in that region," they said in an open letter to Blair.

"It is also ammunition to extremists who threaten us all," said the letter, signed by 38 Muslim groups and six Muslim parliamentarians.

The warning comes as Britain remained on maximum terror alert for the third successive day after police said they had disrupted an alleged plot to carry out up to 10 simultaneous mid-air explosions on flights from the UK to the US.

"As British Muslims, we urge you to do more to fight against all those who target civilians with violence, whenever and wherever that happens," said the letter, published as an advertisement in the Times newspaper Saturday.

"It is our view that current British government policy risks putting civilians at increased risk both in the UK and abroad," it warned.

The Muslim groups were lead by the mainstream umbrella the Muslim Council of Britain, the Muslim Association of Britain, the British Muslim Forum and the Muslim Solidarity Committee.

Other signatories include three of the four Muslim MPs from the ruling Labour Party -- Sadiq Khan, Shahid Malik and Mohammed Sarwar -- as well as three of the four Muslim members of the House of Lords -- Lord Patel, Lord Ahmed and Baroness Uddin.

British Muslims have repeatedly accused Blair's government of being in a state of denial by refusing to accept the contempt provoked by many of the excesses of his foreign policies, especially the Iraq war.

The letter said that "ultimately, it's the terrorist who causes terrorism and they deserve and should get all the blame for what they do."

But the reality is, the pool of people who the recruiting sergeants try and radicalize and from which they draw the conclusion that the potential terrorist is growing bigger comes from a perception on the ground about the perceived unfairness of our country's foreign policy," it added.

The Muslim leaders referred to the government focusing extensively on domestic legislation to combat terrorism.

"While some of this will have an impact, the government must not ignore the role of its foreign policy," they said.

"We ask the prime minister to redouble his efforts to tackle terror and extremism and change our foreign policy," Blair was told.

But responding to the letter, Transport Secretary Douglas Alexander told Britain's Channel 4 television that "Nothing justifies the kind of actions which terrorists perpetrate."

Note that the letter is signed by representatives of the Muslim Council for Britain and the Muslim Association of Britain, both of whom have senior members who, as we said yesterday, support and defend terrorism, but in the case of MAB's Mohammed Kassem Sawalha, actively campaigned to fund the terror organisation Hamas, responsible for hundreds of attacks against Israeli civilians.

The attitude of blaming the government for its domestic policies is hardly fair. Muslims legally have the same rights as other citizens, even though many Muslims have contempt for British society. The well-publicised anti-terror raid at Forest Gate on June 2 (where no "chemical device" was found) is frequently used by Muslims to condemn the government for "victimising" Muslims. If no raids happen anywhere, and Muslim fascists are allowed to carry out their plots of maiming and murder, then the government, and Muslim communities, will be demonised by all and sundry.

On BBC Radio 4, Lord Ahmed defended the letter and said: "But what we are asking is that the government's recent action in terms of Lebanon are seen to be double standards: that we care for some civilians in this part of the world but that we don't care for the civilians elsewhere."

One wonders what "action" the government is supposed to have taken? Sided with Hezbollah, which has targeted Israeli civilians for years, and is funded by the regime in Iran, whose mission is to "wipe Israel off the map?"

Transport Secretary Douglas Alexander responded to the letter's claims on Channel 4 television. "Nothing justifies the kind of actions which terrorists perpetrate," he said.

The attitudes of Muslims seem to be to blame others for the actions of Muslims who behave appallingly, but when other Muslims appear to be "victims" then they automatically show common cause with these other inhabitants of the Muslim "Ummah". This letter is a prime example of that.

In Burton, Staffordshire one "community leader" railed against the British and US government, and suggested that those who were recently arrested in the air terror plot were innnocent. Mohammed Jamil of the Pakistani Community Centre in Uxbridge Street said: "If the men arrested are found guilty and the police have real evidence then I have no problem. Of course anyone - be it Muslim, Jew or Christian - who plans to commit crimes of terrorism has to be arrested. However, the police and the West, in particular George Bush, seem to be targeting Muslims. There is a conspiracy against us."

"If, in a few weeks time, these people are released without charge then there will be a lot of concerned Muslims asking questions of our intelligence services. Because of what is happening in the Middle East they are trying to put fear into the minds of British people, while at the same time cementing the views of racists. It is no wonder that the Muslim community in Burton is feeling so isolated."

Burton has a six per cent Muslim population, higher than average. But while he distracts away from the real problem - Islamic fascism - Jamil seems to ignore the fact that without the cooperation of a Muslim government in Pakistan, this plot would never have been exposed, until it bore its deadly fruit with bodies dropping into the Atlantic from 50,000 feet up.

And this plot, which seems to be causing Britain's Muslim Pakistanis so much anxiety, was hatched more than a year ago, long before Hizbollah kidnapped the Israeli soldiers on 12 June and precipitated the crisis in Lebanon.

There is, as Douglas Alexander stated, no excuse for terrorism. And those who seek to justify it are themselves no better than terrorists.

This is the following entire text of the letter and list of signatories, as it appears in the print edition of today's Times newspaper, page 43:

Protect civilians wherever they are

Prime Minister,

As British Muslims we urge you to do more to fight against those who target civilans with violence, whenever and wherever that happens.

It is our view that current British government policy risks putting civilians at increased risk both in the UK and abroad.

To combat terror the government has focused extensively on domestic legislation. While some of this will have an impact, the government must not ignore the role of its foreign policy.

The debacle of Iraq and now the failure to do more to secure an immediate end to attacks on civilians in the Middle East not only increases the risk to ordinary people in that region, it is also ammunition to extremists who threaten us all.

We urge the prime minister to redouble his efforts to tackle terror and extremism and change our foreign policy.

Attacking civilians is never justified. This message is a global one. We urge the Prime Minister to redouble his efforts to tackle terror and extremism and change our foreign policy to show the world that we value the lives of civilians wherever they live and whatever their religion.

Such a move would make us all safer.

Sadiq Khan MP, Shahid Malik MP, Mohammed Sarwar MP, Lord Patel of Blackburn, Lord Ahmed of Rotheram, Baroness Uddin, Association of Muslim Schools, British Muslim Forum, Bolton Mosques Council for Community Care, Confederation of Sunni Mosques, Midlands Council for Nigerian Muslim Organisations, Council of Mosques - London & Southern Counties, Council of Mosques - Tower Hamlets, Da'awatul Islam UK & Eire, Federation of Muslim Organisations (Leicestershire), Federation of Students Islamic Societies (FOSIS), Indian Muslim Federation, Islamic Forum Europe, Islamic Society of Britain, Jama'at Ahle Sunnat UK, Jamiat Ahl-e-Hadith UK, Jamiat-e-Ulema Britain, Lancashire Council of Mosques, Muslim Association of Britain, Muslim Council of Britain, Muslim Council of Wales, Muslim Doctors and Dentists Associaion, Muslim Parliament, Muslim Solidarity Committee, Muslim Students Society UK & Eire, Muslim Welfare House (London), Muslim Women Society (MWS), Muslim Women's Association, Northern Ireland Muslim Family Association (NIMFA), Sussex Muslim Society, The Council of European Jamaats, UK Action Committee on Islamic Affars, UK Islamic Mission, UK Turkish Islamic Association, World Federation of KSIMC, World Islamic Misssion, Young Muslim Organisation UK, Young Muslim Sisters (UK), Young Muslims UK

UPDATE: According to the Observer early edition, the letter has provoked stronger reactions from the cabinet. Foreign Office Minister Kim Howells called the statement "facile" and "dangerous". Howells said: "I have no doubt that there are many issues which incite people to loathe government policies - but not to strap explosives to themselves and go out and murder innocent people."

Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett told the BBC that it would be the "gravest possible error" to link government policy to acts of terrorism. She said such perceptions were "part of a distorted view of the world, a distorted view of life. Let's put the blame where it belongs: with people who wantonly want to take innocent lives."

Despite such strong words, members of the government are nonetheless going to act in appeasement mode on Monday (14 August). John Prescott, deputy prime minister, will meet Muslim MPs, and Ruth Kelly, the Communities Secretary, will be making a statement with Muslim "leaders" (the ones who support terrorism like the MAB and the MCB perhaps?) to urge Muslim leaders to take "greater action to tackle extremism", but while sugaring the pill by asking what the government can do to support them.

UPDATE 2: The Sunday Telegraph has a very sound editorial, in which it echoes the sentiments which have been made above, that the letter from the Muslim "representatives" is reprehensible, when looked at in context. The words appear harmless but are, in essence, a blackmail. Click the link to read the whole commentary, but this is its conclusion:

There was an election in 2005 that provided the opportunity for changing foreign policy by democratic means. There will be one again by 2010. Muslims who disapprove of the Government's policy are entitled to try to persuade Tony Blair to change it.

What they are not entitled to do is blackmail the Government into changing tack by threatening that violence will result unless it does so. "Do as we say, or the extremists will plant more bombs," is not a form of argument acceptable in a democracy. Until that point is understood by all elements of the Muslim community, we cannot hope to eliminate the terrorist fringe within it.

It appears that the craven manipulation of the current crisis, in which travellers at airports across the country are suffering confusion and frustration because of the revelation of an air terror plot, has been seized upon by many people as a sign of how far from the mainstream morality most Muslim "representatives" really are.

Britain is still in "Code Critical". There are five potential terrorists, who have apparently been trained in Pakistani terror camps to manufacture explosives, still on the loose. For the Muslim "leaders" to be capitalising so soon on the national situation, pushing their own narrow agenda with this letter, is wrong at every conceivable moral level.

We here already know how little many Muslim leaders value Britain's values, customs, or even the basic concept of citizenship. Bullying and threatening may work in a jirga in Pakistan. It does not work in the West. The Muslim "leaders" have over-played their hand, and have been exposed in the process for all to see.

At last, as a direct result of this snide letter, even the Guardian/Observer appears have been galvanised into a fiery response to the attempts by British Muslim leaders to push too far at the edifice we rely upon, our democracy. In an editorial in the Observer entitled "These ludicrous lies about the West and Islam" the same reactions as described in the Telegraph can be found. The leader-writer notes that before 9/11 happened, when Western powers were preoccupied with the thawing out of the Cold War and the demise of Communism, rather than dealing with attacking the Islamic World. But it did not prevent the attack upon the World Trade Center in February 1993.

The Observer/Guardian concludes:

If young British Muslims are alienated, that is sad and their anger should be addressed. But anyone whose alienation leads them to want to kill indiscriminately has crossed a line into psychopathic criminality. Policy cannot be dictated by the need to placate such people.

British Muslim leaders are entitled, along with everybody else, to raise questions about the conduct and consequences of Mr Blair's foreign policy. But they have a more immediate responsibility to promote the truth: that Britain is not the aggressor in a war against Islam; that no such war exists; that there is no glory in murder dressed as martyrdom and that terrorism is never excused by bogus accounts of historical victimisation.

Hopefully, the scales have now fallen from the eyes of the liberal intelligentsia at the Observer/Guardian, whose white middle class readers hideously reiterated the arguments of "bogus accounts of historical victimisation" last week. Most of the respondents to a commentary by Harold Evans, which condemned the presence of Hizbollah supporters at a rally last weekend, actually defended the terrorists of Hizbollah.

Hopefully the BBC will be the next British institution to wake up and realise what devious and manipulative pro-terrorists the leaders of the Muslim Council of Britain and the Muslim Association of Britain really are, and will in future starve them of the oxygen of publicity, or furnish each interview or press release from these institutions with an additional account of their support for terrorist causes.

Keyword: The name of the UK police operation on this plot is Operation Overt

Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at August 12, 2006 10:55 AM

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