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October 4, 2006
UK: Police Support Muslim Officer's Anti-Semitism
The Metropolitan Police has just committed another act of appeasement to Muslim bigotry that defies belief. After the recent decision to ensure that terror raids against Muslims should firstly be vetted by a panel of four Muslim "representatives", the Met has now allowed a Muslim police constable, PC Alexander Omar Basha, permission to avoid guarding the Israeli Embassy in Kensington Palace Gardens, West London.
The news is splashed across the front page of the Sun newspaper (currently not yet online) and is carried by the Daily Mail, Reuters and Sky News.
PC Basha made a request to shirk duties outside the embassy, citing "moral" grounds. Basha is a member of the Met's Diplomatic Protection Group. His request was accepted by Chief Supt Jamie Stephen, and this was agreed by Commander Peter Loughborough.
Former commander of the Metropolitan Police's elite "Flying Squad", John O'Connor, said: "This is the beginning of the end for British policing. If they can allow this, surely they'll have to accept a Jewish officer not wanting to work at an Islamic national embassy? Will Catholic cops be let off working at Protestant churches? Where will it end? This decision is going to allow officers to act in a discriminating and racist way."
"When you join the police, you do so to provide a service to the public. If you cannot perform those duties, you leave."
"The Metropolitan Police are setting a precedent they will come to bitterly regret. Top brass granted his wish as they were probably frightened of being accused of racism. But what they've done is an insult to the Jewish community."
Exactly.
The decision seems to have shocked even the appeaser of London's Muslim extremists, the Chief Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, Sir Ian Blair. He has demanded an urgent inquiry into how one Muslim bigot should have his personal prejudices patronized in this manner. He said: "Having learned of this issue I have asked for an urgent review of the situation and a full report into the circumstances."
A Scotland Yard spokesperson said: "In terms of the general protocol for officers requesting to be moved for any reason we'd say that on occasions, for a variety of reasons, an officer may have to be moved within a specific command."
"Each case is considered separately, balancing the needs of the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) against those of the individual and the role which they will have to perform. However, the needs of the MPS takes precedence and the organisation reserves the right to post an officer anywhere within the MPS."
Basha should be sacked. Personal bigotry and prejudice have no place in a police force which is charged to uphold justice for all.
Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at October 4, 2006 8:37 PM
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