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Originally Posted by me283
....but I have not heard any gripes from the Muslim Council of Great Britain, for example?
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I dont think the Muslim Council was overly impressed hence they wrote to Hazel Blears and have reported her response on their website:
"Hazel Blears responds to MCB letter
The MCB wrote to the Home Office Minister Hazel Blears following her comments to the Home Affairs Select Committee on March 1, 2005. The Minister had said that British Muslims will have to accept as †˜realityâà ƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¡Ã‚¬Ã¢â€à …¾Ã‚¢ that they will be stopped and searched by the police more often than the rest of the public. The MCB Secretary-General Iqbal Sacranie in his letter to Hazel Blears described the 'great alarm and offenceââ‚à ‚¬Ã¢â€žÂ¢ felt by Muslims as a result of her comments. In her response to the MCB in a letter dated March 4, 2005, Hazel Blears reassured the Muslim community that she had †˜always been very clear that the powers in our counter terrorism legislation are aimed at terrorists, whatever their background. They are not aimed at any community, religion or ethnic group.ââ‚Ã⠀šÃ‚¬ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¾Ã‚¢ She added that stop and search powers would not be disproportionately used against members of any particular community."
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Originally Posted by me283
I think too much has been made of this "looking like a Muslim" angle. It's obvious that the security forces aren't going to just run around detaining anyone with a beard; they will have a lot more information on their suspects than anyone here will ever know, and if they detain someone, they will have a damn good reason.
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Hmmm, remember this story?
"Based on "credible" intelligence sources, presumed Al-Qaeda and Taliban terrorists were planning to hijack an Air France plane and "crash it on US soil in a suicide terror strike similar to those carried out on September 11, 2001."
Air France Christmas flights out of Paris were grounded. F-16 fighters were patrolling the skies.
Following the investigation by the French authorities, the Al Qaeda terrorists turned out to be a five year old boy, an elderly Chinese lady and a Welsh insurance salesman.
A routine case of "mistaken identity" had contributed to breaking the Spirit of Christmas, across the Land.
Based on erroneous intelligence, an entire Nation had been brought under Orange Code terror alert... It is now official: the stand down orders on Air France's Christmas flights from Paris to Los Angeles were based on fabricated information."
Source is an anti globalisation site
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO401A.html but I think we all recall the case in question. Worth reading the article.
Fills me with confidence!