Oh Dear, We Shant Offend Our Pakistanis!


Here are some samples of the reaction of British Muslim “leaders” to the arrests of
local terrorists seeking to blow up airplanes (courtesy of The Guardian):

It’s About Lebanon, Stupid:

But Fahad Ansari, of the Islamic Human Rights Commission, was more sceptical. “I think you will get cynicism from the community,” he said. “Over the last few years we have seen many high-profile raids like this plastered over the press to terrify the public. We have seen it time and time again. It has been hit and miss on too many occasions. It is causing a lot of mass hysteria.”

He suggested that the raids could even have been timed to distract attention from criticisms of the government’s stance on the Lebanon crisis.

“There has been so much pressure on the government, it could be a way of diverting attention away from its policy on the Middle East.”

Don’t Make our Young Muslims Mad:

Sheikh Ibrahim Mogra, who has in the past been critical of some foreign-educated imams, said: “We appreciate that our country is under threat from terrorist activity and we want to be part of the solution to this difficulty. We appreciate that the police have an extremely difficult job but there is a risk of adding fuel to the fire and increasing anger, resentment and mistrust and so diminishing cooperation.

“No one would be more worried than our community if these suspects are British-born and educated. We constantly preach that they should not be misled by these terrorists, but if the government refuses to acknowledge the contributions its actions have made, what more can we do collectively?”

Tampons and Tempers:

“One youngster said to me this morning, ‘look, Tony Blair goes on holiday and the next thing you know they close all the airports’,” said Mr Mogra, an imam in Leicester. “I mean, people are asking what kind of liquid are they talking about? What is all this about electronic car keys and women’s sanitary towels? The measures being adopted are making a mockery of the seriousness of the situation.

“The youngsters are trying to laugh it off. Another said that we all know the human body is 75% liquid.

“What I think is, we have to be extremely cautious about the measures being taken. People are cynical about the timing and critical about the way this is being done. People are supportive of the need for security in our country, but they’re fearful of their front door being kicked down by the police at 3 o’clock in the morning.”

4 thoughts on “Oh Dear, We Shant Offend Our Pakistanis!

  1. With the extreme, yet necessary security measures taken since this plot was revealed, it should be clear to anyone that the British and American governments are not trying to racially profile or target any single group of people: except terrorists. And, to that end, we have done a pretty good job at preventing another major attack on U.S. soil.

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  2. The point of these posts is to show how timid and obsequious the British Muslims are. There is no condemnation of the terror plots or of people who forment these atrocities. Instead there is the usual bs about “distracting people from Lebanon” or “there is a lot of anger in our young people.”

    But in all fairness, England has had a long history of pissed off young people from every race. “Look Back in Anger” (1958) by John Osborne had nothing to do with young Muslims.

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  3. Umm, where do the people quoted above mention they are Pakistani?? As far as I know, Ansari is British and Mogra is from somewhere in Africa.

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  4. When did the world became so fucking politically correct. It’s enough to make me sick. It’s reading articles like this that makes me tempted to just stop keeping up with the news altogether. Reading such ignorant and clearly misguided people’s words actually makes me feel violently ill.

    I really appreciate your moderate stance on the issues. You were one of the few people to be right on the Iraq war for the right reasons. Almost every other person left of center was wrong for the wrong reasons. Well done as always

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