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No deportation for Muslim Serial Rapist as UK Immigration let him get away

A convicted rapist is on the run after escaping security guards at the Pakistan High Commission in London days before he was due to be deported.

Imtiaz Hussain, 44, had been transported from prison, where he was serving a nine-year sentence for rape, to the Pakistan High Commission to get a new passport in preparation for his deportation.

But the serial rapist gave immigration officials the slip, escaping through a window after claiming he needed the toilet.

He was last seen running along Sloane Square.

Police have now launched an nationwide manhunt for the sex attacker said to be 'very dangerous' and a 'serious threat to women'.

The failed asylum seeker was convicted on May 14, 2004 of rape and false imprisonment after attacking two prostitutes at knife-point in March of that year.

He was jailed for nine years, but after serving half of that his sentence expired last week.

But Hussain was still being held in a prison in the north of England pending his deportation to Pakistan.

Last Thursday he was transported in a secure prison van to Colnbrook immigration removal centre in Slough.

The following day he was escorted by immigration officials to the Pakistan High Commission in Victoria for his appointment about a replacement passport.

He was due to be sent back to prison following the interview, but he escaped at 2.30pm on Friday.

Scotland Yard is now liaising with police officers in Derbyshire, where he last lived.

At his trial at Derby Crown Court, the jury heard Hussain had threatened two women with a knife, beaten and raped them when they refused to do what he wanted.

Sentencing him, Judge David Pugsley said: 'You have perpetrated two rapes in circumstances which were horrific.'

Yesterday Detective Chief Inspector Brent Lancaster said: 'This individual is believed to very dangerous and we need to apprehend him as soon as possible.

'If anyone sees him, please don't approach him but call or alert police immediately.'

Hussain is described as around 5ft 5ins, of medium to chubby build, with dark cropped hair, and was wearing a blue T-shirt, blue jeans and white trainers.

David Wood, head of Criminality and Detention for the UK Border Agency said: 'A 44-year-old Pakistani male has absconded whilst on an escorted visit to the High Commission in London.

'Police were immediately informed. His details have been placed on the Police National Computer and watch-lists.

'We are actively searching for this individual to return him in to custody and remove him from the UK.'

Thus we find ANOTHER serial rapist is back on the streets of England.

MUM-of-three Beth Hoyle claims an Asda till worker refused to serve her because she was wearing a wristband backing injured troops.

Beth says the checkout lad told her the band for Help for Heroes - aided by The Sun - meant she supported the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

And when she complained to a supervisor, he BACKED the Asian youth, saying he was entitled to his view.

Beth, 40, who has two brothers in the services, said the checkout worker told her he didn't want to serve her because of "what she was wearing."

Shocked Beth, of Whitworth, Greater Manchester, said that at first she thought the youth at Asda's Rochdale store meant a cross round her neck.

"He pointed to my Help for Heroes wristband and accused me of supporting the war. I told him it was nothing to do with the war, but about supporting our injured troops.

"I immediately complained to a supervisor, but he said it was his right not to serve me. I was disgusted."

An Asda spokeswoman said they were "shocked" by the claims but had found no evidence that the incident happened in their store.

She added: "We are big supporters of the Help for Heroes campaign and we sell the pin badges and wristband in hundreds of our stores."

interesting - but not surprising - is Beth Hoyle first thought it was the crucifix around her neck that caused the 'offense" to the 'Asian' clerk.

Help for Heroes web site

Muslim mother who hid terrorist manual in burka 'was willing to blow up herself and her children'

A mother-of-six who today admitted hiding an explosives manual in her burka wrote a note suggesting she was willing to blow up herself and her children, a police source said.

Houria Chahed Chentouf, 41, from Manchester, was sentenced to two years in prison for the terror-related offence but walked free from court after serving her time on remand.

Officers found the chilling note written by Moroccan-born Chentouf at her home in Holland.

It indicated she was prepared to sacrifice her life and that of her children for the sake of her religion.

She wrote: 'Myself and my children would seek revenge, we would be bombs for the sake of this religion, may Allah forgive you.'

The court heard Chentouf suffers from a mental illness, triggered by the death of a family member and has previously self-harmed.

Her extremist views were discovered when she accidentally dropped a pen drive computer storage device containing terror-related documents while she was being questioned at Liverpool's John Lennon Airport.

On October 16 last year she was randomly stopped and searched by officers after she landed on an easyJet flight from Amsterdam, Manchester Crown Court heard.

Police said Chentouf had become agitated as soon as she was stopped at the airport.

The memory stick had been tied to the inner sleeve of her burka but fell out as she reached down to scratch her leg.

Liverpool John Lennon Airport: Where the memory stick was found (file image)
Chentouf was released but arrested the following day at her rented home in Reynell Road, Longsight, Manchester.

More than 7,000 files were found on the pen drive, including an explosives manual for the 'Brothers of the Mujahadeen,' the court heard.

It was described by police as 'a mini encyclopaedia of weapons making' and amounted to a step-by-step guide on how to create a bomb.

She had identified suitable targets as sports grounds, cinemas, colleges and bus stations, the court heard.

Another document contained information about the military use of electronics, the court heard, while searches of computers and laptops at the home found clear evidence she had had chat room conversations with militants about the roles of women and martyrdom.

She had been radicalised through the Internet, investigators said - the process beginning about two years ago.

Chentouf pleaded guilty to two offences of possessing documents likely to be useful for a terrorist.

A guide on establishing a terror cell, a manual setting out the principles of Jihad and a document about creating a training camp were also found on the 4GB pen drive, but these counts were allowed to remain on file.

Detectives also discovered she had written to convicted terrorist Mohammed Chentouf - no relation - who is serving a prison sentence in Holland for his part in a terror plot targeting Dutch politicians.

She had telephone numbers for the exiled Muslim cleric Omar Bakri Mohammed, who is banned from Britain, and Islamic convert Abu Izzadeen, also known as Trevor Brooks, who famously heckled the former Home Secretary John Reid and was jailed for raising money for terrorists and inciting terrorism overseas.

Chentouf, wearing a full burka, did not react to the sentencing as Judge Michael Henshell told her she had 'developed an obsessive interest in Jihad and the more extreme forms of Islam'.
But he said there was 'no evidence' to suggest she intended to pass the material on and 'no intention of putting it into practical use'.

Chentouf was born in Tangier but moved to Holland when she was 19, where possessing an article for terrorist purposes is not illegal.

She lived in The Hague with her now ex-husband and their six children, who are aged between four and 16.

Six computers were later recovered in the UK and a further four were recovered in The Netherlands.

An external hard drive, other electronic media and a number of other documents were recovered from both addresses.

About 90% of the material recovered was in Arabic or Dutch and each one had to be translated, which took more than 12,000 man hours.

She wanted to move permanently to the UK because she was discriminated against in Holland, the court heard.

Police say she worked for the tax office in Holland but was on benefits at the time of her arrest for her mental health problems.

Detective Chief Superintendent Tony Porter, of the North West Counter Terrorism Unit, said they might never know Chentouf's intentions.

'This woman elected not to give us the reason why she had the material but possessing it constitutes a serious offence,' he said.

'It was the huge quantity which lead us to believe that this was not by sheer chance.
'We do know she has got known and established links to extremists abroad and that puts us on notice to be concerned.

'She is on our radar and she will know she is on our radar so I think we are in a better position than we were a year ago.'

Under the terms of her sentencing, Chentouf must notify police if she wishes to travel abroad in the next five years.

"It had been tied to the inner sleeve of her burka, but fell out as she reached down to scratch her leg ... It was described by police as "a mini encyclopaedia of weapons-making."
"Truly Multicultural" Britain

Muslim man 'racially abused BNP leader Nick Griffin and threatened to shoot him', court hears

British National Party leader Nick Griffin was racially abused by a Muslim man who made threatening 'gun gestures' towards him, a court heard today.

Mr Griffin was giving evidence in the trial of 23-year-old Tauriq Khalid, from Burnley, who is accused of shouting 'white b*****ds' towards Griffin and other BNP members who were demonstrating in the Lancashire town.

As the far-Right leader gave media interviews outside Burnley police station last November, Khalid drove past and made the comment, returning shortly afterwards to make the gun gesture, Preston Crown Court was told.

The defendant denies one charge of using racially abusive threatening behaviour against Griffin.
But he admits he stopped his silver Vauxhall Astra at the scene but says he shouted, 'Nick Griffin, you f*****g w****r' and the hand gesture was a V-sign.

Ian Metcalfe, prosecuting, told the jury of seven men and five women that the incident took place as several BNP members, including Griffin, staged a peaceful demonstration outside Burnley police station against the arrest earlier that day of four party colleagues.

Mr Metcalfe said: 'In the course of that demonstration Mr Griffin received some signals of support from members of the public and also signals of reproach from others.

'The prosecution say the defendant went further and indeed broke the law.

'He drove past the demonstration on repeated occasions and while doing so took the opportunity, from inside his car with the window down, to shout to Mr Griffin that he and other demonstrators were white b*****ds.'

Mr Metcalfe added that Khalid then went further 'by words or hand gestures to threaten to Mr Griffin that he was going to shoot him or have him shot'.

Khalid then drove off and, Mr Metcalfe said, Griffin then left the demonstration following the advice of BNP security guards.

The party leader sat in an unmarked car for 30 minutes.

After learning that one of the protesters had noted down the registration number of Khalid's car, a complaint was made to police and the defendant was later arrested by appointment.

Giving evidence, Mr Griffin said he was abused on two occasions that afternoon, firstly by the driver of a private hire cab and then by the driver of the silver Astra.

He said of the Astra driver: 'He stopped the car and shouted out of the window, I thought, "white b*****d"

i saw him again when he came back - he was a young Asian man wearing a white top.'

Demonstrating the alleged gun gesture to the jury, Mr Griffin said: 'The second time I saw him, he leaned out of the car and pointed at me and made a gun and gang gesture.

'I took it to be in the manner of a handgun.'

Mr Griffin then said he heard the defendant shout 'I'm going to...' but did not hear the rest of the sentence.

Mr Griffin said: 'I took it as "kill you" or "shoot you".

'I discussed it with my security men and decided it would be best to make myself scarce.'
Under cross-examination by Mark Stuart, defending, Mr Griffin denied he had misheard what Khalid said.

Mr Griffin said: 'I don't think "Nick Griffin, you w****r" can be possibly be misheard as "white b*****ds".

Mr Stuart said: 'The defendant accepts it is him and he is not proud of his behaviour but he says he drove past and flashed a V sign at you.'

Mr Griffin said: 'I am quite used to people making gestures at me, it doesn't bother me.
'But there is a difference between that and making a gun gesture, it is a direct threat.'
The trial continues.

‘Behead soldier' plot terror gang go free

THREE convicted terrorists who plotted to kidnap and behead a British Muslim soldier have been freed early from jail.

Hamid Elasmar, 46, Zahoor Iqbal, 32, and Mohammed Irfan, 33, were all caged less than two years ago.

they had been given between three and seven years for helping to plan the Birmingham kidnap of a squaddie, who they plotted to behead "like a pig" in a lock-up garage.

But the trio have now been released early for good behaviour.

During their trials, a court heard how the gang met at Elasmar's Edgbaston council flat to plot the release of video footage of the planned killing.

Plot mastermind Parviz Khan, 39 - now serving 14 years - was recorded by security services saying he intended to parade the soldier's head on a pole.

Khan told Elasmar: "We'll cut it off like you cut a pig, man. Then you put it on a stick. Then we throw the body, burn it, send the video."

Birmingham Central Mosque chairman Dr Mohammed Naseem aims to visit the men next week.
He said: "If they planned something like this they are in the wrong about their Islamic obligations. We would want to re-educate them."

Elasmar plus Iqbal, from Kingstanding, and Irfan, from Ward End, remain on a Bank of England watchlist restricting their bank accounts, freezing their assets and imposing caps on financial transactions.

Benefits fraud investigator faces jail for claiming £31,000 by pretending his wife was a hard-up single parent

Mohammed Aslam, 37, helped Afshan Ishaq make a string of benefit claims as she pretended to be a hard-up single parent with as little as £20 in the bank.

But London's Harrow Crown Court heard that in reality they were living together, and apart from working as a teacher she was enjoying the rent from one of their properties.

Andrew Evans, prosecuting, said Ishaq, also 37, eventually fell under suspicion.

Despite the pair having wed the previous year under Islamic tradition, her trusted Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) partner pretended he and the mother-of-two were strangers.
That allowed him to formally interview her and halt the inquiry.

Aslam, of Baffingham Way, Wembley, north-west London, and Ishaq, who according to court records now lives separately in nearby Barn Way, originally denied any wrongdoing.
But a month into their trial, and while one of them was still in the witness box, further developments resulted in the pair changing some of their pleas.

Ishaq admitted three accounts of deception involving housing and council tax benefits as well as income support.

Aslam pleaded guilty to wilful misconduct in public office, money laundering and three counts of perverting the course of justice.

All the offences were committed between April 18, 2004 and July 2, 2008.
Judge Graham Arran told the couple they could remain on bail until November 2 while pre-sentence reports were prepared.

Mr Evans told the court that Aslam joined the DWP in February 2000 as an administrative assistant.

The following year he met Ishaq - then a colleague - and a relationship developed.
In 2003, and still at the DWP, she allegedly began a life of crime with a £157,000 mortgage obtained by posing as a £49,000-a-year self-employed IT consultant.

Twelve months later, by which time she was a primary school teacher, Aslam helped her submit a dishonest £9,000 income support application.

The barrister said that according to the paperwork she did not have a partner, lived at an address she was really renting out, covering up thousands in the bank, and had no income apart from state handouts.

Mr Evans told jurors the pair then conned Harrow Council out of a fortune by claiming housing and council tax benefit.

This time they pretended to be landlord and tenant and concocted a rent agreement showing Ishaq was supposedly paying Aslam £1,050 a month.

The £22,546 they are said to have dishonestly pocketed as a result boosted their alleged criminal windfall to a total of £31,447.

'In July 2005, Ishaq's income support claim was investigated by Harrow's Fraud Investigation Service, which had received information that she had been working whilst claiming benefits.
'She was therefore requested to attend an interview under caution, which she did on July 28 that year.

'But the benefit fraud investigator who interviewed her on that occasion was Mohammed Aslam.'
By doing so, he committed 'a clear and serious breach' of the investigators' code of conduct and good practice.

Counsel explained he then effectively buried the matter by pretending to issue her with a formal caution, but then failed to log it on the DWP's database.
The barrister added the investigator also tried to reduce his workload by forging signatures on three special forms that halted inquiries by making it appear those under investigation had agreed to pay penalties.

'Dishonest' Blair and Straw accused over secret plan for multicultural UK

Jack Straw and Tony Blair 'dishonestly' concealed a plan to allow in more immigrants and make Britain more multi-cultural because they feared a public backlash if it was made public, it has been claimed.

Read more: http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/article-1222769/Dishonest-Blair-Straw-accused-secret-plan-multicultural-UK.html#ixzz0Uybo56QQ

Sharia supremacist group gets $165,000 in taxpayer funding

The same group on whose TV program Obama adviser Dalia Mogahed recently defended Sharia. "Islamists who want to destroy the state get £100,000 funding," by Andrew Gilligan for the Telegraph,

Leading members of a group that wants to bring down the British state and replace it with a dictatorship under Islamic law have secured more than £100,000 of taxpayers' money for a chain of schools.

Accounts filed at the Charity Commission show that the Government paid a total of £113,411 last year to a foundation run by senior members and activists of Hizb ut-Tahrir -- a notorious Islamic extremist group that ministers promised to ban.

The public money helped run a nursery school and two Islamic primary schools where children are taught key elements of Hizb's ideology from the age of five....

Hizb regards integration as "dangerous" and says that British Muslims should "fight assimilation" into British society. It wants to create a global Islamic superstate, or "caliphate", initially in Muslim-majority countries and then across the rest of the world.

It says that "those [Muslims] who believe in democracy are Kafir", or apostates. It orders all Muslims to keep apart from non-believers and boycott "corrupt" British elections and political processes. It has a tiny following and its views are rejected by most British Muslims.

Hizb, which operates worldwide, insists it is non-violent and condemned the London bombings.
However its website previously displayed a leaflet urging Muslims to "kill [Jews] wherever you find them" and at a rally in London earlier this year, Imran Waheed, its chief media adviser in Britain, said that there could be "no peace" with Israel, calling on Muslims to "fight" a "jihad... in the way of Allah" against it.

The group - which Tony Blair promised to ban after the 7/7 attacks on London - were given £113,411 to provide the three educational centres in Tottenham and Slough.

Hizb ut-Tahrir is an international Sunni political party whose goal is to combine all Muslim countries in a unitary Islamic state or caliphate, ruled by Islamic law and with a caliph head of state elected by Muslims.

Its anti-Semitism has resulted in the group being banned in Germany and on some British university campuses....

Ministers are today expected to come under pressure to investigate why the money was provided.

The group is regarded as an 'organisation of concern' by the Home Office.

Tory MP Patrick Mercer, chairman of the parliamentary sub-committee on counter-terrorism, today condemned grants to schools with connections to extremist groups.

Mr Mercer, MP for Newark and Retford, said: 'Hizb ut-Tahrir may not be illegal but it has definitely been identified as part of the conveyor-belt to terrorism.

That Hizb is involved with vulnerable youngsters is deeply disturbing.'

Lib-Dem MP Paul Holmes, a member of the Commons children, schools and families committee, said: 'It seems illogical that the Government would give money to a school associated with this type of group.

'The Government has said Ofsted inspects all schools ... however, I have not been convinced that the government inspections have been robust enough to prevent schools teaching things which society could be concerned about.'

Hizb ut-Tahrir has said British Muslims should 'fight assimilation' into British society.
The three schools are run by the Islamic Shakhsiyah Foundation, a registered charity. At least three of the four trustees are Hizb ut-Tahrir members or activists.

A Department for Children, Schools and Families spokesman said local authorities were responsible for ensuring 'providers were

No face...no place

A COLLEGE has banned a Muslim woman from becoming a student - because she will not take off a veil hiding her face.

Shawana Bilqes, 18, was turned away after trying to enrol on a course.
Staff asked her to remove her burka - which covers everything but her eyes - for identity fraud purposes.

But she told them she could not because of her religious beliefs, and was forced to abandon plans to sign up for the Access course to Higher Education Diploma.

Yesterday Shawana, from Burnley, Lancs, said: "It is my choice to wear the veil.
"I live around the corner from the college in an area where there are so many practising Muslims.

"I tried to compromise but they wouldn't. The college sent me a letter to say I could continue with my course if I stopped wearing the veil.
Security

"We are in the 21st Century and we get people from all walks of life. I'm in the police cadets as well and yet it's not a problem wearing the veil there."
Burnley College has 7,500 sixth-form students and a 100 per cent pass rate for the fourth year running.

Principal John Smith defended the decision, saying: "The highest standards of learning require unimpeded communication with students.

"This is not possible if the face is not fully visible."

He also insisted all staff and students must wear a tag showing their face for security reasons.
Justice Secretary Jack Straw previously hit out at the rise of the burka in his Blackburn constituency.

And in France, President Nicolas Sarkozy spoke out in June against the garment, claiming it undermined women's dignity.
He said: "The burka is not a sign of religion, it's a sign of subservience."

Muslim group demands full Sharia law

This was inevitable once Sharia provisions began to be introduced, and not surprising coming from Choudary. But look what changes the supporters of Sharia have in mind for Britain. "Now Muslims Demand: Give Us Full Sharia Law," by Martyn Brown for the Daily Express,

A RADICAL Muslim group sparked outrage last night as it launched a massive campaign to impose sharia law on Britain.

The fanatical group Islam4UK has ­announced plans to hold a potentially ­incendiary rally in London later this month.

And it is calling for a complete upheaval of the British legal system, its officials and ­legislation.
Members have urged Muslims from all over Britain to converge on the capital on October 31 for a procession to demand the full implementation of sharia law.

On a website to promote their cause they deride British institutions, showing a mock-up picture of Nelson's Column surmounted by a minaret.

Plans for the demonstration have been ­delivered to the Metropolitan Police and could see up to 5,000 extremists marching to demand the controversial system.

The procession - dubbed March 4 Shari'ah - will start at the House of Commons, which the group's website describes as the "very place where the lives of millions of people in the UK are changed and it is from here where unjust wars are launched".

The group then intends to march to 10 Downing Street and "call for the removal of the tyrant Gordon Brown from power".

The march will then converge on Trafalgar Square where protesters expect it "will gather even more support from tourists and members of the public, making clear in the heart of London the need for Shari'ah in society".

The group declared: "We hereby request all Muslims in the United Kingdom, in Manchester, Leeds, Cardiff, Glasgow and all other places to join us and collectively declare that as submitters to Almighty Allah, we have had enough of democracy and man-made law and the depravity of the British culture.\

"On this day we will call for a complete upheaval of the British ruling system its members and legislature, and demand the full implementation of Shari'ah in Britain."Last night politicians and fellow Muslims condemned the group's incendiary comments, which come in the wake of recent violent incidents in towns and cities like Manchester, Birmingham and Luton, Beds....A spokesman for the Islamic Society of Britain said: "99.999 per cent of Muslims despise these people. This only serves to fuel racial ­tensions."...Uh huh. But what about Sharia in the UK?
What is your position on that?

Plans for the march are revealed on the website Islam4UK, which is fronted by preacher Anjem Choudary who has also called for all British women to wear burkhas.

Explaining the Nelson's Column mock-up he said that under sharia law the construction and elevation of statues or idols is prohibited and consequently the statue of Nelson "would be removed and demolished without hesitation". At the base of the column the friezes would be replaced with Islamic decoration and giant urns would be filled with gold coins for the poor.

Mr Choudary has said that under sharia law in Britain people who commit adultery would be stoned to death, adding that "anyone who becomes intoxicated by alcohol would be given 40 lashes in public"....

Tension was high as angry protests greeted a visit to the UK by a Dutch far-right MP.

Around 40 Muslim demonstrators gathered near the Houses of Parliament as Geert Wilders arrived in central London.

Brandishing banners saying "Shariah is the solution, freedom go to hell" and "Geert Wilders deserves Islamic punishment", the protesters were held back by police.

Mr Wilders' press conference was moved inside the Abbey Gardens building opposite the Houses of Parliament.

Abu Muaz, from Islam For UK, said: "If I were to say some of the things he has said I would be arrested under the Terrorism Act. But because there is a war on Muslims he gets an easy ride."

Addressing journalists alongside UKIP peer Lord Pearson, Mr Wilders said his visit was "a victory".

Explaining his controversial views on Islam, he said: "I have a problem with the Islamic ideology, the Islamic culture, because I feel that the more Islam that we get in our societies the less freedom that we get."




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Dutch MP Wilders wins appeal

Geert Wilders, a member of the Party of Freedom party in the Netherlands' House of Representatives, was prevented from entering Britain on February 12th by the Home Office, which claimed he would spread hatred by showing an anti-Islam film.

He had been invited to show the film by Ukip peer Lord Pearson, who told journalists following the ban that Mr Wilders "has a right to say what he is saying". "We are disappointed by the court decision today," a Home Office spokesman said. "The government opposes extremism in all its forms.

The decision to review Geert Wilders' admission was taken on the basis his presence could have inflated tensions between our communities and led to inter-faith violence. We still maintain this view." Fitna, the film which Mr Wilders wanted to show, opens with images of the Qur'an which is followed by footage of terrorist attacks around the world.

Today's appeal win raises the possibility it could now be shown in the UK.

Wilders, leader of the Party for Freedom in the Netherlands, was originally refused entry in February after arriving in London. He had been due to show his 17-minute film Fitna, which criticises the Qu'ran as a "fascist book", at the House of Lords, but was turned away at Heathrow airport.

The decision to refuse Wilders entry to the country, made by Jacqui Smith, then the home secretary, led to criticism of what was seen by some commentators as the silencing of free speech.

The ruling by the asylum and immigration tribunal means that Wilders, who is accused of Islamophobia, could now be allowed into the country.

In initially refusing Wilders access, a letter sent to the politician by the Home Office, on behalf of Jacqui Smith, said his presence "would pose a genuine, present and significantly serious threat to one of the fundamental interests of society.

The secretary of state is satisfied that your statements about Muslims and their beliefs, as expressed in the film and elsewhere, would threaten community harmony and therefore public safety in the UK."

Today a Home Office spokesman said the government was "disappointed" by the ruling. He said: "The government opposes extremism is all its forms. The decision to refuse Wilders admission was taken on the basis that his presence could have inflamed tensions between our communities and have led to inter-faith violence. We still maintain this view."

Qatar donates £1.5m for mosque after intervention from Jack Straw

Mr Straw wrote a letter of introduction for his friend and political ally, Lord Patel of Blackburn, who wanted to persuade the emir, Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa al-Thani, to spend £1.5m, half the total needed to build the five-storey mosque.

The gift came after Mr Straw, then leader of the Commons, accepted free first-class flights and accommodation for himself and his wife for a four-day trip to the emirate in April 2007. He declared the trip in the MPs’ register of interests.

Liberal Democrats in Blackburn, Mr Straw’s constituency, claimed the Labour party had used the donation to the Bicknell Street mosque in order to garner votes from local Muslims.
Concerns over foreign funding have led Italy, France and Spain to introduce checks on the sources of foreign money used to build mosques.

Professor Anthony Glees, an expert on the influence of Islamic groups, said: “I think it’s a matter of grave concern that our institutions should receive unregulated funding from individuals and organisations about which we know practically nothing.”

Haras Rafiq, co-founder of the Sufi Muslim council, said large foreign donors expected mosques to reflect their beliefs, and this was squeezing out moderate Muslims. “This has been a huge problem for the last decade. Some of the biggest mosques and institutions in the UK have been funded by foreign money and have been proven to be portraying extremist viewpoints.

“Money speaks and we need to ensure that the money is not coming from the wrong people.”
The Emir of Qatar has an image as a pro-western reformist and moderniser and his country is the base for a significant US military presence.

However Qatar has also provided aid to Hamas and offered support to the extremist Muslim Brotherhood and to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran and Omar al-Bashir, the president of Sudan who has been indicted for war crimes in Darfur.

The emir, who seized power from his father in a bloodless coup in 1995, is the founder of the controversial al-Jazeera television channel which includes among its presenters Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, who has praised suicide bombings and is banned from the UK.

Like Saudi Arabia, which also funds a number of mosques across Britain, Qatar follows the fundmentalist wahhabi form of Islam.

Mr Straw was moved from his job as foreign secretary in 2006 amid claims that he had upset President Bush with his views on the Middle East.

Lord Patel, a former businessman who is chairman of Blackburn’s central mosque, said Mr Straw gave him “a reference letter” and added: “It was a general letter introducing me. He is a Blackburn MP and he wrote that as a Blackburn MP.”

Mr Straw’s spokesman said: “Jack is entirely comfortable with his role in this. He is proud of his efforts to support all sections of the community in Blackburn. He does not know whether his trip to Qatar, in his role as MP for Blackburn, had any bearing on the donation to the mosque.”

46 years for city centre violence

A GROUP of eight men who started serious violence and disorder in Leeds city centre on New Year’s Day have been sentenced to a combined total of 46-and-a-half-years in prison.

The eight men from Manchester started a large-scale fight during which one man suffered serious head injuries, before moving onto Wade Lane. Once on Wade Lane further disorder occurred before Javan Service, aged 18, of South Grove, Longsight, fired a gun six times towards a group of people.

Sheffield Crown Court, Recorder Alan Goldsack QC sentenced Service to 12 years’ imprisonment for Violent Disorder, Grievous Bodily Harm, Possession of a Firearm with Intent to Cause Fear and Violence, Possession of a Prohibited Weapon.

Seven other men were also sentenced for their part in the disorder. They are: Mohammed Mohibur Uddin, 20, of Stapleford Close, Sale was sentenced to eight years for violent disorder, possession of a prohibited weapon, attempting to pervert the course of justice and grievous bodily harm.

Mohammed Rahel Choudhury, 22, of Handcock Close, Manchester was sentenced to two-and-a-half-years for violent disorder and attempting to pervert the course of justice.

Mohammed Rahim Choudhury, 19, also of Hancock Close, Manchester received four years and eight months for violent disorder and GBH.

Curtis Mattis, 19 of Edbrook Walk, Longsight received four years and eight months for violent disorder and GBH.

Mohammed Ali Muzzafar, 21 of East Grove, Manchester was sentenced to four years and eight months for violent disorder and GBH. Jarrell Wright, 18 of Victory Parade received seven years for violent disorder and GBH.

Luqmaan Mahmood, 19, of Slade Lane, Manchester was sentenced to three years for possession of a firearm with intent to cause fear and violence. Detective Inspector Jaz Khan of City and Holbeck CID said: ‘’This was a complex investigation and today’s result is the culmination of much hard work and dedication by officers from City and Holbeck CID and all the investigation team received a commendation from the judge.

"Throughout the investigation we worked closely with our colleagues at Greater Manchester Police, and I would like to thank them for their assistance. "Facial Mapping and DNA evidence were used during the investigation, but CCTV footage played the most pivotal part. "Much credit is given to the operator who became aware of the volatile situation that was about to develop and had the presence of mind to capture the footage which was vital both to the investigation and the evidence which secured the convictions of these men.

"I am pleased with the sentences handed by the Court, as they reflect the serious nature of this incident.’’ Chief Superintendent Mark Milsom, Divisional Commander for City and Holbeck, said: "The events of New Year’s Day morning stand out from the bigger picture which is that Leeds city centre has far less incidents of gun crime when compared to other major cities in this country.

"Following this incident we have run a number of special operations during the bank holiday weekends in the city, including the August Bank Holiday which is the busiest weekend of the year in Leeds, and we have not seen any repetition of this kind of incident.

"But it is also crucial to stress that our officers will work as hard as possible to arrest, charge and convict anyone who uses a firearm in our city, and this case clearly demonstrates that."

British Taxpayers Pay to Fly Illegals Home (from France)...

A charter flight paid for by British and French taxpayers is set to fly to Afghanistan today carrying around 250 illegal migrants arrested near Calais.

As well as a seat on the plane, at an estimated cost of £500 each, many of those on board will receive £1,900 in cash and a guarantee of retraining in their homeland.
However, there will be nothing to prevent any of them travelling back the moment they get to Kabul.

Migrants gather near the ferry terminal in Calais, France following the demolition of their makeshift homes in 'the Jungle' last month

The flight, which will begin in London, is intended to be the first of many which will end up costing millions of pounds, split equally between France and Britain.

The main aim will be to try to reduce the mounting number of migrants massing in Calais, which they use as a springboard to reach Britain where they will claim asylum or disappear into the black economy.

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The development follows last month's clearing of The Jungle, a notorious Calais squatter camp which was filled with mainly young men from Afghanistan.
French immigration minister Eric Besson was criticised after almost all those arrested were released.

It now appears that a compromise has been reached with many agreeing to accept the huge cash incentive to go home, if only briefly.

The sum involved will be worth hundreds of times more in Afghanistan than it is in Europe.
The French pulled out of a similar voluntary deportation scheme a year ago, with First Lady Carla Bruni among those insisting that it was immoral to send Afghans back to their war-torn country.

But now such arguments appear to have been quietly forgotten with the first plane, believed to be being supplied by a British firm, taking off from London in the early hours before stopping to pick up some 250 migrants in Paris.

They will then be flown to Kabul accompanied by police and security guards, again mainly believed to be British as French unions have refused to take part.

UK Muslims Want Grant Money without Anti-Extremist Strings...

Muslim groups say that they want money from the Government but don’t like the strings attached which ask them to help root out extremism.

The Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) says that the grants which require them to stand against violent hard-liners are ‘intrusive’.

However, they say they do want the money which is designed to help local communities.

The MCB’s Deputy Secretary General, Dr Daud Abdullah, told the Guardian: “Experience has shown that very often funds are accompanied with intrusion and attempts to influence decision-making”.

He added Muslim groups were now turning away from Government funding.

Khalida Khan, Director of the An-Nisa Society, would welcome money but said: “There’s a lot of strings attached – the government stance is just terrorism driven”.

The funding comes from an initiative called Preventing Violent Extremism which has been allocated £70 million over three years.

The Government say it is particularly for helping “support local authorities and community groups in improving the capacity of local communities to resist violent extremism”.

A spokeswoman for the Department for Communities and Local Government said the effectiveness of the scheme was dependent on: “everyone involved playing a positive part in standing up to, isolating and challenging those that seek to spread hatred and violence”.

The Government spokeswoman added: “We have acknowledged that the Prevent label can isolate some groups and that is why funding going into communities will no longer be branded in this way”.

Earlier this year the Government suspended ties with the Muslim Council of Britain.

Hazel Blears, then Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, raised concerns that Dr Abdullah had signed a document justifying attacks on the Royal Navy.

She said that until the matter was resolved, “I feel that it is only appropriate for us to suspend our engagement with the Muslim Council of Britain”.

Dhimmi laws applied in UK: Church forbidden to play music because it offends Muslim community

According to Islamic law, dhimmis -- primarily Jews and Christians under the "protection" of the Islamic state -- are "forbidden to openly display wine or pork, (A: to ring church bells or display crosses,) recite the Torah or Evangel aloud, or make public display of their funerals and feastdays" ('Umdat al-Salik, o11.5(6)).No bells, no public displays. And in the modern age, no loud joyful music. And now these dhimmi laws come to the UK. Dunni Odetoyinbo said in court that a council officer asked her "to keep the noise down so as not to offend the Muslim community." The council denies this now, but given that Muslim neighbors were complaining, there is nothing implausible about Odetoyinbo's claim."Worshippers quit church after council noise ban 'takes away their ability to praise God," from the Daily Mail,

They praised the Lord by singing their hearts out and chanting prayers at packed services.
But members of a congregation in north London have abandoned their church - because of a council noise ban.

The Immanuel International Christian Centre was ordered to keep its amplified music and sermons quieter after a neighbour complained.

But the church's pastor Dunni Odetoyinbo claimed Waltham Forest council had only told them to keep quiet so as not to offend the Muslim community....

In court Mrs Odetoyinbo, 55, claimed a council officer had asked her 'to keep the noise down so as not to offend the Muslim community'.

But magistrates rejected the appeal, and ordered the church to pay £2,250 costs.
It can now only play music for 20 minutes on a Sunday between 11.30am and 11.50pm....

U.K. to release dozens of high-risk jihadists -- in order to avoid "inflaming" extremism

Up to 30 "high-risk" terrorists -- including some of the most dangerous men in Britain --are due to be released from jail in the next year.

More are being freed in the wake of a ruling by Britain's most senior judges that long sentences for terrorist crimes could "inflame" rather than deter extremism.

An analysis of appeal court cases shows that of the 26 terrorism cases it has heard, 25 have led to men with terrorism convictions having their sentences reduced. Others are being released because they serve only part of their term.

The leniency of the British appeal court to some convicted terrorists contrasts with America where they can be locked up for their whole lives.One man designated "high risk" and due to be freed soon is Andrew Rowe, a Muslim convert who was found guilty of having notes on how to fire mortar bombs.

Rowe was sentenced to 15 years in 2005. He is due to be freed next April after his sentence was reduced to 10 years. Others who have had their terms cut include some of those who helped the failed suicide bombers of July 21, 2005 and two of those convicted of soliciting murder during the Danish cartoons protest.

The sentences were reduced after a key ruling in July 2008 by Lord Phillips, then the lord chief justice, and two other senior judges, who reduced Abdul Rahman's sentence from six to five years following his guilty plea for disseminating a terrorist publication. Rahman, a key al-Qaida player, recruited disaffected Muslims from England to fight British troops in Afghanistan.

At the heart of this decision lie two absurd assumptions: First, there is the idea that fighting terrorism -- indeed, seeing that justice is served -- causes terrorism, and so not fighting quite so hard will make the enemy dial it back a notch, too. The second is the notion that there are "hearts and minds" that can be won over: Release people who hate Britain and were willing to act on that hatred in hope of making them and their friends hate the Sceptred Isle less.

Councillor Stops Meeting to Pray...

A Muslim Labour councillor faced a backlash when a Town Hall meeting was adjourning while she went to pray. The development committee at Tower Hamlets stopped after five minutes to allow Muslim councillors a prayer break during its last meeting.Cllr Rania Khan faced shouts of "disgusting" from the public gallery as she left to pray and on her return said she had been disturbed by the "abuse hurled at her".

A former Labour councillor, Ronald Osborne, sitting in the gallery, said: "We weren't hurling abuse at her. But you don't stop a meeting to pray, that should be done beforehand.

Are they paying her to pray?

People rushed home from work to get to this meeting and it's not fair to keep them waiting."Cllr Khan later explained that as many other Muslim she tries to pray at set times five times a day. She said: "I'm a politician but my religion is also important to me.

I had been in meetings from 2-7pm and I'm entitled to a 15 minute break in any job. "I had already missed earlier prayers and the important thing was to try and pray before the sun sets

muslim Bomb hoaxer closed airport to prevent UK authorities deporting him to Pakistan

A failed asylum seeker shut down an airport and put three others on red alert with a series of hoax calls warning of suicide bomb attacks.

Salman Mukaty, 27, was trying to stop himself being deported to Pakistan after more than nine years in the UK.

He told police that 16 passengers carrying 'suicide bomb materials' were about to board planes in airports across the country.

His false warnings forced Leeds-Bradford airport to close for one hour and put Heathrow, Birmingham and Manchester on red alert.

Alan Blake, prosecuting said it was 'hard to conceive a more dramatic, more horrific threat' than the series of calls made on March 27.

Mukaty believed he would avoid deportation as it would 'not be safe for him to return to Pakistan once he had helped the UK authorities', he added.

Mukaty, of Slough, Berkshire, claimed he had been tipped off about the bombs by an extremist friend. But, said Mr Blake, his account was 'riddled with lies and inconsistencies'.
'The calls were made specifically to service his own interests. He is a dangerous and selfish man,' he told Reading Crown Court.

'What better way for Mr Mukaty to show that it would be unjust for him to be returned to Pakistan than to show how useful he was to the authorities?'

Mukaty, born in Karachi, had been appealing against his asylum refusal and met immigration officials on the day of the hoax calls.
He claimed to have genuinely believed the information given to him by someone he called Arif Khan, who he said had links with Islamic extremists in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

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Mukaty said he had known Khan since he was four but his friend has never been tracked down. Mr Blake dismissed Khan as a myth.

Harold Persaud, defending, said that Mukaty genuinely feared that 'innocent people would die' after he was tipped off.

'The person who is given that information would very rarely be in a position to judge whether that information is credible,' he told the court.

'He still believes what he did was right giving what he knew.'

It took the jury less than two hours to convict Mukaty of four counts of communicating false information with intent at the airports.

He will be sentenced on November 6. The offence carries a maximum term of seven years.
The early-morning bomb scare caused misery for hundreds of passengers at Leeds-Bradford airport. There was traffic chaos as roads were closed and fire engines raced to the scene.

Once the airport reopened, it took another two hours for services to return to normal. Around 2.87million passengers use Leeds-Bradford every year.

A spokesman for the UK Border Agency said an independent immigration judge was due to rule on Mukaty's asylum appeal.

Detective Chief Superintendant George Turner, head of the South East Counter Terrorism Unit, said: 'This case sends a clear message that this sort of offence will be thoroughly investigated and dealt with robustly.'

UK Home Office staff officially warned not to eat in front of Muslims during Ramadan - in case it made them feel hungry

MPAC plays the victim card while denouncing this document below, but nonetheless the organization has a point: this is the kind of walking on eggshells around Muslims that only creates resentment among non-Muslims in a land where there ought to be equality of treatment of all people, regardless of creed. Now if MPAC could come out across the board against special preferences and special treatment for Muslims, and work against all accommodation of Sharia provisions in Britain, we might be getting somewhere.

The advice came in a taxpayer-funded internal document listing do's and don'ts during the Muslim holy month, which ends this weekend.

The Home Office Islamic Network produced the five-page information sheet which says: ‘In practical terms, please be sensitive when eating lunch near a Muslim colleague who is fasting.
This can make an individual feel hungrier and make it more challenging to observe the fast.’

During the holy month devout Muslims do not drink or eat from dawn until sunset and, according to the document, must avoid ‘all obscene and irreligious sights and sounds’.
It also urged Home Office managers to be flexible over working arrangements.

It says: ‘The most likely need Muslim staff may present to managers during this period is for flexibility around working hours and break times as those fasting will have a slightly different routine from usual. Managers and Muslim staff should discuss what their needs are and be responsive and sensitive.’

Managers were also told: ‘Muslim staff who are fasting and whose environment allows it may wish to set out for work earlier than usual and finish their working day correspondingly early...in line with flexi-time arrangements.’

Last night a Home Office spokeswoman confirmed the document had been distributed to its staff and posted on the department’s internal intranet system.
She said: ‘It is not formal departmental guidance and was written by volunteers.

But the guide is now at the centre of a row with Islamic groups who said it was more likely to incite hatred of Muslims than promote understanding....The Muslim Public Affairs Committee, which claims to be fighting a 'political jihad against Islamophobia', attacked the document.

It said: 'It is designed to create more hatred in the hearts of non-Muslims.

'We don't care how much non-Muslims eat in front of us.

'It's never been an issue and never will be and we have never asked for any special treatment or sensitivity from non-Muslims whilst fasting.'

Christian couple charged with criminal offense after offending Muslims during discussion of religion

A Christian couple have been charged with a criminal offence after taking part in what they regarded as a reasonable discussion about religion with guests at their hotel.

Ben and Sharon Vogelenzang were arrested after a Muslim woman complained to police that she had been offended by their comments.

They have been charged under public order laws with using 'threatening, abusive or insulting words' that were 'religiously aggravated'.

The couple, whose trial has been set for December, face a fine of up to £5,000 and a criminal record if they are convicted.

Although the facts are disputed, it is thought that during the conversation the couple were challenged over their Christian beliefs.It is understood that they suggested that Mohammed, the founder of Islam, was a warlord and that traditional Muslim dress for women was a form of bondage.

The contention about traditional Muslim dress for women is a matter of opinion, but anyone, Muslim or non-Muslim, who denies that Muhammad was a warlord is simply ignorant or deceptive.

They deny, however, that their comments were threatening and argue that they had every right to defend and explain their beliefs.

Mrs Vogelenzang, 54, who has run the Bounty House Hotel near Aintree racecourse in Liverpool with her husband Ben, 53, for six years, said: 'Nothing like this has happened to us before. We are completely shocked.'

She added that the episode had damaged their business and they had been forced to lay off staff and run the nine-bedroom hotel by themselves, leaving them exhausted.

Sources said that a number of guests staying at the hotel, which charges £92 a night for a double room, were having breakfast in its restaurant on March 20 when comments were made about religion.

One of those involved was the Muslim woman, who was staying at the hotel while she received treatment at a hospital nearby.

The couple, who are members of the Bootle Christian Fellowship, and their solicitor, David Whiting, said they could not discuss the content of the conversation for legal reasons. But the independent lobby group, the Christian Institute, which has seen both the prosecution and defence legal papers, is supporting their defence.

Mr Whiting, who last year successfully defended street preacher Anthony Rollins in Birmingham, said: 'There is a dispute as to the facts of the allegations, but Ben and Sharon do not accept they were threatening, abusive or insulting.

'They are committed Christians and it is the defence's contention that they have every right to defend their religious beliefs and explain those beliefs to others who do not hold similar views.'...At least for now, even in Absurd Britannia.

Yet another indication of the walking-on-eggshells that British authorities (and plenty of non-British authorities) are doing around Muslims these days.

Camera Catches Muslim Behaving Very Badly at Store...

Police are probing a video of an ex-Asda worker caught on camera licking a chicken from one of the supermarket's displays before replacing it.

The scene comes at the end of a shocking video which shows Adeel Ayub running amok in Asda's store in the Fulwood area of Preston.

He is seen:

Urinating in a toilet bin
Slashing furniture and colleague's coats in the staffroom
Setting off a fire extinguisher
Filming firefighters responding to a false alarm
Playing cricket and football with stock
Poking his fingers in, stamping on and licking an uncooked chicken
Smashing boxes of eggs in the stockroom

The chicken-licking yob unwraps a raw bird

The man stamps on chickens while they are on display

The same Asda store features in a new TV advertising campaign filmed in May.
A spokesman for Asda said: 'We are absolutely disgusted and appalled by the behaviour of this man.

'Despite leaving our business three years ago, we now have video evidence of criminal damage and we have taken this matter up with the police.'

Inspector Jameel Murtza of Lancashire Constabulary, Fulwood said: 'We are currently in the process of reviewing CCTV footage of the incident.

We are liaising with the management at Asda with the aim of identifying any criminal offences that have taken place.'

Ayub worked at the supermarket between 2005 and 2008. At the start of the film, Ayub is seen wearing Asda's distinctive green uniform as he lets off a fire extinguisher and gloats as the fire service respond to a false alarm at the supermarket.

The film, which was left anonymously in a brown envelope at the front desk of a local newspaper, was then passed to Asda, who are now investigating the incident.

The thug makes no effort to conceal his identity as he gloats and boasts throughout the film as he wreaks havoc in the aisles.

He then returns to the store in 2009 dressed in a hoodie - after he has left Asda's employment - where he is first seen stamping on whole chickens out on display.

The vandal then picks one out, tears off the plastic wrapping and licks the breast before placing the bird back on the shelf.

The mobile phone footage is thought to have been filmed by a fellow Asda employee over a series of night-time shifts.

Ayub is heard referring to the film as a 'top secret video' that is 'never going to get released'.
In increasingly vulgar footage, Ayub uses a craft knife to slash furniture in the staffroom, which led to it being closed and a £50 reward offered for information.

He also breaks trophies awarded to the store, hurls boxes of eggs around the warehouse, and plays 'Asda football' with boxes of stock.

The footage begins with the man in his Asda uniform in the staff section of the superstore releasing a fire extinguisher.

As firefighters are filmed attending the call out he is heard to boast: 'I think this baby is my last video because if I get caught I'll probably get sacked.'

Lancashire Fire and Rescue Service, which confirmed it received two false alarm calls to the store in 2008, today condemned the footage.

Spokesman John Taylor said: 'We deplore this behaviour. Hoax calls take up firefighters time and setting off an alarm system takes crews away from genuine emergencies. It's a criminal activity.'

British Taxpayers Fund Muslim Brotherhood Organization...

A British government funded organization has donated nearly £50,000 to a Muslim Brotherhood connected organization, according to a UK think tank.

The Center for Social Cohesion, an organization specializing in the study of extremism in Britain, reports that Preventing Violent Extremism (PVE) established in 2007 to "work with Muslim organisations to tackle violent extremism" had donated £48,000 pounds (almost $80,000) to the Muslim Welfare House (MWH)

MWH is a member of Federation of Islamic Organizations in Europe (FIOE.) The FIOE serves as an umbrella organization for most European Brotherhood group, according to analyst Lorenzo Vidino. The House has had on its board such extremists as Mohammed Sawalha, a former Hamas leader. Earlier this year, Sawalha signed a declaration in Istanbul in support of Hamas.

One of the clauses in the document called for fighting "by all ways and means' foreign navies preventing the smuggling of arms into Gaza. The British navy was engaged in that very activity.

Other MWH officials have had definite Muslim Brotherhood ties, according to the think tank.
None of the extremists are currently on the board of MWH. However, its ties to FIOE remain. At a time in which the UK is subject to intense international criticism for the release of Abdel Baset al-Megrahi the convicted Lockerbie bomber, the British government would do well to more closely vet the recipients of its largesse.

Muslim Gangs Enforce No-Go Areas...

Police in Bradford are appealing for witnesses to an assault.

The male victim was walking towards the city centre in White Abbey Road, Manningham, when he was approached by three suspects who verbally abused and then attacked him.
He suffered a broken nose, cuts and bruising to his face.

The first suspect is described as an Asian male, 16 to 19 years old, skinny and 5ft 10in. He was wearing a dark hooded top.

The second suspect was of similar age and build, 5ft 8in and also wearing a dark hooded top.
The third suspect was a similar age and build to the other two, 5ft 6in and wearing a green and grey checked top.

Anyone who witnessed the attack between 5.15pm and 5.30pm on Wednesday, September 9, particularly nearby car drivers, should contact PC Richard Bedford on 0845 6060606 or Crimestoppers, anonymously, on 0800 555111.

Meanwhile police are more concerned with political correctness than the escalating race hate violence against the white British people and British courts worry about the safety of muslim criminals.

Mosque told it must close

AN Islamic community must find a new place of worship after a controversial mosque was shown the red card.

Sunderland's Pakistani community set up the mosque at St Mark's Road, Millfield, without planning permission and have spent almost four years fighting to keep it open.But neighbours raised concerns about noise at prayer times and claimed the street was not suitable for the extra traffic generated by worshippers.

Planners from Sunderland Council agreed and the mosque, which also includes a social and education centre, was originally turned down for retrospective planning permission in January 2006. The worshippers took their case to the national planning inspector, but the appeal was dismissed.The council began enforcement action against the unauthorised use of the building, a former Asian food store.Users of the mosque appealed against the enforcement action, but lost in 2008 and the community was told it must move out by March this year.

However, a fresh planning application was submitted in a bid to overcome the problems, which left protesters furious.Mosque leaders said they had taken over a property in Chester Road as an extension to the centre and its rear yard provided three parking places to help ease traffic problems.But planners were still not happy with the parking situation, and recommended councillors reject the application once more.

Speaking at a planning committee meeting, objector Marjorie Matthews appealed to councillors to rubber-stamp the recommendation."This has been dragging on since 2006 – how much longer is it going to go on? "It has been turned down three times and its taxpayers that are having to pay for all these appeals."Mrs Matthews said residents were disturbed by noise from a speaker system set up in the mosque.

But a spokesman from the mosque said the small speaker system was no louder than a television, and only used so those using the rooms in the Chester Road building could take part in services.He added: "The car parking issue keeps coming up time and time again but we feel it is not an issue as the surrounding streets are mostly empty anyway."Councillor Graeme Miller asked representatives from the mosque why they could not use the large, established place of worship on Chester Road.

They said that like Christianity and Judiasm, Islam had a large number of different denominations and those using the mosque on Chester Road had different beliefs and customs.But councillors again ruled the St Mark's Road site was not suitable for a place of worship of any kind, and unanimously refused planning permission.

The council said it was now in a position to take enforcement action if the mosque did not cease operating.

6 deny disorder at heroes parade

SIX men today denied public order offences during a soldiers' heroic homecoming parade.

Angry scenes broke out at the parade for the 2nd Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment, known as The Poachers, on March 10, when a group of Muslim extremists brandished placards with slogans including "Butchers of Basra".

Today Jalal Ahmed, 21, Yousaf Bashir, 29, Jubair Ahmed, 19, Ziaur Rahman, 32, Shajjadar Choudhury, 31, and Munim Abdul, 28, all from addresses in Luton, appeared before magistrates in the town.

All six denied using threatening or abusive words or behaviour.

A seventh defendant, Ibrahim Anderson, 32, facing the same charge, did not attend.

The defendants were all granted bail to reappear at a trial at Luton Magistrates Court on January 4. A case management hearing will be held in December.

Today's appearance came less than a week after two other men appeared in the same court on charges relating to the disturbance.

On Friday Bryan Kelso, 27, and Kevin Carroll, 40, both of Luton, pleaded not guilty to causing harassment, alarm, or distress at Luton Magistrates Court.

Both men were granted unconditional bail until a one-day trial on November 23.

a former Islamic extremist, feel we have given in to the fanatics

Like many young British Muslims, I was 'radicalised' at college. Just as the three British-born men who were found guilty this week of plotting to blow flights out of the sky were recruited at school, I encountered extreme Muslims at the age of 16 and was slowly converted to their ranks.

At my East London college, the Islamic society was run by the extremist group Hizb ut Tahrir, which believes in setting up an Islamic state, destroying Israel, and denounces Western values.
At first, I, too, was convinced by their rhetoric. However one awful violent moment changed me for ever. A young African man was knifed to death by the Muslim contingent at the college, simply for being a non-believer.

After a petty row over the use of the snooker table, the Muslim group issued a call of Jihad against the young man and summoned their Hizb ut Tahrir contacts for 'outside backup'.
An operative arrived and plunged a dagger into the boy's heart. The victim's name was Ayotunde Obunabi and I saw him lying dead. To Hizb ut Tahrir his life was worthless because he was not a Muslim.

At that moment I understood the consequences of the rhetoric of radicalism.
The murder, in 1996, compelled me to walk away from extremism. Now I believe I have to speak out about what I see happening in Britain before a terrible act of terrorism claims yet more lives.

Although one fanatical Muslim cell has been caught, this is no time for complacency. Make no mistake, terrorism is flourishing in our country as never before.
Why? Because a toxic combination of politically correct policy, denial and fear have opened the way for hate to grow in our midst.

Unwilling or unable to recognise the scale and cause of the danger we are all facing, our leaders have turned a blind eye to what is going on.
There are now tens of thousands of Muslims living in Britain, physically present in our country, but psychologically attached to Muslim-dominated countries.

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Large parts of our cities have become Muslim ghettos, where you can wake up in the morning and go to bed at night without seeing a non-Muslim face.
They might as well be in Pakistan or Afghanistan for all the contact they have with ordinary Britain. They can send their children to Muslim state schools, go to Muslim NHS doctors, and do business at the Islamic bank.

Not only this, but we, the taxpayers, fund many of these Muslim ghettos. When immigrants arrive in this country to claim free housing from the Government, they are given a choice of Muslim areas to settle in. Why do we allow this? Why not offer these new arrivals housing where they can integrate with the British people and learn about our nation's culture?

Meanwhile, our prisons have become recruiting centres for radical imams, or Islamic priests.
Around 10,000 ordinary Muslims are in our prison system, sharing space with convicted terrorists and extremists, putting them at risk of brainwashing.

But instead of protecting them from this, our system actually directs them towards these forces. So when a young Asian drug dealer from Bradford's streets goes down, he is designated a practising Muslim, whether he was previously religious or not.

He is issued with a prayer mat and a copy of the Koran and is handed over to the prison imams, many of whom come from the same Islamic school of thought that produced the Taliban. Time and time again, I have seen Muslims go into prison as young Asian men, and return to their communities as something very different.

Then there are the satellite television stations that freely transmit the radical Islamic message straight into British homes. Thousands of UK Muslims-watch the Islam channel for their news instead of the BBC or ITN.

The tragedy is that it doesn't have to be like this. There are four million Muslims living in America, and yet they are not producing 'home-grown' bombers like ours, despite America leading the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that are so often cited by extremists as the root cause of their grievance.

Because of their stronger national identity, the Americans encourage immigrants to join their culture and newcomers are expected to be loyal to the U.S.
For us, it is not too late. We can reverse the damaging policies that have made Britain a seedbed for terrorists. But if we fail to do so, I fear we will see further carnage unleashed on our streets.

Islamic extremists guilty of liquid bomb plot to kill thousands by blowing up transatlantic jets

Plot was on a bigger scale than September 11

• All three guilty men filmed suicide 'martyrdom' videos
• Cost £35million to bring would-be bombers to justice
• Gang's arrest led to liquid clampdown on flights
  

Ringleader: Abdulla Ahmed Ali was found guilty of conspiring to murder thousands in an airline bomb plot

Three British Islamic extremists were today found guilty of conspiring to murder thousands in an unprecedented airline bomb plot.

Abdulla Ahmed Ali was responsible for the most complex and daring UK-based terrorist conspiracy of modern times.

The 28-year-old, along with two other men, had planned to detonate home-made liquid bombs in suicide attacks
on transatlantic aircraft bound for major North American cities.

With thousands killed in the air and on the ground, the explosions would have exceeded the carnage of the September 11 attacks.

Abdulla Ahmed Ali was the leader of the east London Al Qaeda-inspired terror cell.

Assad Sarwar, 29, and Tanvir Hussain, 28, were also convicted of conspiracy to commit mass-murder.

All three will be sentenced on Monday after being found guilty by a jury at Woolwich Crown Court.

The trio was accused, along with five others, of conspiracy to murder by smuggling bombs disguised as soft drinks on board planes between January 1 and August 11, 2006.

The jury of nine women and three men in the six-month trial at Woolwich
Crown Court had been considering its verdicts for more than 50 hours.

Abdulla Ahmed Ali, along with Hussain and Sarwar, was previously found guilty of conspiracy to murder involving liquid bombs - but that jury could not decide whether the three men's plans extended to detonating the devices on planes.

Now this second jury has decided that such a terror plot did exist.

Counter-terrorist police, the security services and prosecutors spent more than
£35million foiling the plot and bringing the would-be bombers to justice.

Guilty: Assad Sarwar (left) and Tanvir Hussain (right) were also convicted of plotting to detonate liquid-based explosives on transatlantic flights

The arrest of the gang in August 2006 sparked tight restrictions on carrying liquids on to aircraft that led to travel chaos.

The guilty verdict will come as an enormous relief for Government
ministers who endured heavy criticism for introducing the draconian
luggage restrictions.

It will also be seen as a vindication
of the decision to retry the trio after all three were found guilty of conspiracy to
cause explosions last September. The previous jury failed to reach
verdicts on the airline plot.

British-born Abdulla Ahmed Ali, of Walthamstow, was inspired by the July 7 bombers and Osama Bin Laden and considered taking his baby son on his suicide mission.

He planned to smuggle homemade bombs disguised as soft drinks on to passenger jets run by United Airlines, American Airlines and Air Canada.

A mystery Al Qaeda bombmaker is believed responsible for the ingenious liquid bomb design, concealed within 500ml Oasis or Lucozade bottles

The hydrogen peroxide devices would have been assembled and detonated in mid-air by a team of suicide bombers.

He singled out seven flights to San Francisco, Toronto,
Montreal, Washington, New York and Chicago that departed within
two-and-a-half hours of each other.

Authorities on both sides of the Atlantic would have been left powerless to stop the destruction once the first bomb exploded.

Police said the plot was drawn up in Pakistan with detailed
instructions passed to Abdulla Ahmed Ali during frequent trips to its lawless border
with Afghanistan.

Officers believe a mystery Al Qaeda
bombmaker was responsible for the ingenious liquid bomb design,
concealed within 500ml Oasis or Lucozade bottles.

Surveillance teams watched Abdulla Ahmed Ali on his return to Britain as he
assembled his terror cell, gathered materials and identified targets.

Undercover
officers looked on as the unemployed former shop worker used cash to
purchase a £138,000 second-floor flat in Forest Road, Walthamstow.

They planted a secret bug that revealed it had been converted into a bomb factory where Abdulla Ahmed Ali met others to construct the bombs.

Security alert: Armed police patrolled Heathrow in August 2006 following the gang's arrest. Thousands of travellers were delayed as a result (below)

The flat was also used as a location for him and others to record suicide videos threatening further attacks against the West.

In
his video Abdulla Ahmed Ali warned the British public to expect 'floods of martyr
operations' that would leave body parts scattered in the streets.

He was watched as he used public phone boxes, mobile phones and anonymous
email accounts to keep in touch with mystery terrorist controllers in
Pakistan.

On his arrest, he was found to be carrying an elaborate and damning blueprint for the plot scrawled in a battered pocket diary.

Airport
security arrangements and details of flights, including the seven
highlighted services, were discovered on a computer memory stick in
another pocket.

Although Abdulla Ahmed Ali, Sarwar and Hussain were convicted, Ibrahim Savant, 28, of Stoke Newington, North London,
Arafat Waheed Khan, 28, and Waheed Zaman, 25, both of Walthamstow, were
found not guilty of the airliner plot.

The jury failed to reach a
verdict on Umar Islam, 31, of Plaistow, East London, of the airliner
plot. But Islam was convicted of conspiracy to murder.

Target: United Airlines planes at Heathrow. The would-be bombers also plotted to bring down passenger jets run by American Airlines and Air Canada

Donald
Stewart-Whyte, 23, of High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, was found not
guilty of both conspiracy to murder on aircraft and conspiracy to
murder.

Abdulla Ahmed Ali, Sarwar and Hussain were convicted of conspiracy to murder in the first trial but retried, along with the five other men, for the airliner plot after the first jury failed to reach verdicts on those charges.

All the defendants except Muslim convert Stewart-Whyte admitted conspiracy to cause a public nuisance and will be sentenced on Monday.

The jury took a total of 54 hours and 11 minutes to reach their verdicts in the retrial.

Abdulla Ahmed Ali, wearing a dark blue sweater, showed no emotion as the verdicts were read out, while Hussain nodded his head as the verdicts were read and shrugged his shoulders as he left the secure dock at the back of the court.

Stewart-Whyte looked to the ground as he was cleared before smiling.

Although Savant, Khan and Zaman were cleared of the airliner plot, the jury failed to reach verdicts on general conspiracy to murder charges against them.

Adina Ezekiel, for the prosecution, said they would announce a decision on whether they would seek a retrial of Savant, Khan, Zaman and Islam on Monday.

The jury rejected the defence of Abdulla Ahmed Ali, Sarwar, and Hussain that the plot was an elaborate publicity stunt.

The men claimed they wanted to draw attention to an internet propaganda documentary, complete with spoof martyrdom videos, attacking British foreign policy.

The three fanatics who planned to kill thousands of innocents

Abdulla Ahmed Ali

Abdulla Ahmed Ali described himself as the leader of the 'blessed
operation' to cause carnage and to teach non-Muslims 'a lesson that
they will never forget'.

The fanatical mastermind was captured with a blueprint for the plot
in his pockets and the evidence against him was overwhelming.

Counter-terrorist police believe he finalised the terrorist attack strategy during a six-month trip to Pakistan in 2005.

'Martyr tape': Abdulla Ahmed Ali recorded a suicide video threatening further attacks against the West

They dubbed him 'triple A', a black reference to the unusual Japanese batteries that would form a vital component of the bombs.

He was left to recreate the homemade bombs in East London, gather supporters and select appropriate targets.

See Ali's video here:

Secretly-filmed footage showed him casually experimenting with the
plastic bottle bombs at his Forest Road flat while listening to the
radio.

Surveillance teams watched him buy materials and instruct others as
he travelled around East London in the final days of the conspiracy.

For his foot soldiers, he drew on long-standing friends, associates
from mosques and others apparently referred by overseas Al Qaeda
godfathers.

Tanvir Hussain

Abdulla Ahmed
Ali's acolyte and right-hand man, Hussain was a loyal and enthusiastic participant in the operation.

He spent hours with the ringleader at the Forest Road bomb factory adapting and experimenting with soft drinks bottles.

It was this evidence that forced him, like Abdulla Ahmed Ali and Sarwar, to admit to conspiring to cause explosions.

Tanvir Hussain also recorded a suicide video which he intended to be aired following his death

Following several years at college experimenting with drink, drugs and girls, Hussain worked in a sexual health clinic.

In 2005 the keen sportsman reinvented himself as a devout Muslim after entering into an arranged marriage.

Hussain was caught on a bug discussing popular holiday destinations for British travellers with Abdulla Ahmed Ali.

The two men applied for fast-track passports after deliberately losing their originals, which contained Pakistani visas.

Hussain was also overheard counting up to 18, but it remains hotly
disputed whether he was referring to participants in the plot or bombs.

He was also followed by surveillance teams as he bought essential items for the plot, including surgical needles and syringes.

In his suicide video, Hussain bragged that he wished he could come back
and kill others until people realise they 'don't mess with the Muslims'.

Assad Ali Sarwar

Plot 'quartermaster', university drop-out Sarwar was a bumbling fool bizarrely handed the crucial role of bomb plot chemist.

Labelled 'Mr Bean', a 'plonker' and 'one of life's losers' by his
own barrister, Sarwar was nevertheless a key member of the conspiracy.

With no qualifications, no job prospects and never having had a
girlfriend, the terrorist conspiracy was an opportunity for him to
shine.

Using his parent's High Wycombe home as a base, he was responsible for amassing the components for the liquid bottle bombs.

Sarwar was the main link man with terrorist bosses overseas,
repeatedly using public telephone boxes and anonymous email accounts to
conceal his tracks.

He amassed martial arts and body building DVDs to sell on eBay, but
surveillance teams dubbed him 'rich food' because of his love of
takeaways.

After quitting his earth sciences degree at Brunel University
because he could not cope, Sarwar worked in Asda and as a postman in
his hometown.

He travelled to Pakistan with co-defendant Umar Islam following the
2005 earthquake and met Ali before returning home with his deadly plans.

Although investigators insisted Sarwar was an ambitious terrorist, his methods were not always top grade.

Computer experts found he researched 'how to dig a hole' on Google
before heading out to conceal his hydrogen peroxide stash, something he
was not able to find again.

He created a complex false identity to use a South Wales chemical
supplier, but allowed his face to be caught on a speed camera as he
drove home.

In the witness box Sarwar could not resist showing off his knowledge of
complex bomb-making formulas, despite insisting he was a dim-witted
foot soldier.

And asked on his arrest if there was anything dangerous in his ramshackle car, Sarwar replied: 'Only the handbrake.'

Officers found the camcorder used to record the martyrdom videos, and two of the recordings, in the boot.

Within hours they would find chilling details of potential targets hidden at his home.

Overnight liquid ban

After the men were arrested in August 2006, restrictions on liquids were
brought into place overnight, causing immediate chaos and lengthy
delays for travellers at airports across the country.

The terror alert caused chaos at Britain's airports as strict rules were immediately introduced.

Overnight ban: A passenger throws away his bottle of water before going through customs in August 2006

Body
searches intensified, adding to queues and delays. Mothers were forced
to taste their own baby's bottled milk and prams were X-rayed.
Motorists had to put car keys attached to electronic fobs into the
hold.

Since then, a new generation of screening machines
that can detect fluids have been bought by airport operator BAA. But
suspect containers then have to be given further examination.

The
liquids ban is likely to stay in place until there is a machine that
can not only monitor all liquids, but do so without causing lengthy
delays, which experts predict will take five years.

The
bomb plot has cost the aviation industry an estimated £200million, with
BAA alone spending £75million on a further 2,500 security guards.

London Mayor blasted for asking Brits to fast like Muslims during Ramadan

The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, has been criticized for asking Brits to fast for a day so they would know what it is like to be a Muslim.

Johnson said people should starve themselves from dawn until dusk during Ramadan and then end their fast during a visit to their local mosque.

Steve Uncles, South East chairman of the English Democrats, blasted Johnson's comments. He said: "The indigenous culture of this country is based on Christianity and Paganism. Of course, as an open and tolerant society, if people want to practise other religions then good luck to them.

But the state should not be funding them because otherwise we will lose our culture." Johnson, 45, was visiting the East London Mosque and London Muslim Centre when he made these comments, the Daily Star reported.

"Whether it's in theatre, comedy, sports, music or politics, Muslims are challenging the traditional stereotypes and showing that they are, and want to be, a part of the mainstream community.

"That's why I urge people, particularly during Ramadan, to find out more about Islam, increase your understanding and learning, even fast for a day with your Muslim neighbour and break your fast at the local mosque," Johnson said.He added: "There are valuable lessons that people of all backgrounds can learn from Islam, such as the importance of community spirit, family ties, compassion and helping those less fortunate, all of which lie at the heart of the teachings of Ramadan."

Bradford man assaulted girl from age of 9 to 12

A 26-year-old man has been jailed for 15 years for brutally raping and sexually abusing a vulnerable young girl.

Shakeel Ahmed, who came to the UK from Pakistan in 2003 when he married a Bradford woman, was led to the cells at Bradford Crown Court in handcuffs.

Judge Jonathan Durham Hall QC told him: “You are guilty of the persistent and sordid abuse and assault of a young girl you groomed until the point when you forcefully and brutally raped her.”

Ahmed, who lived in Thornbury, Bradford, fled to Scotland out of shame or fear after abusing the child when she was aged between nine and 12, the judge said.

The jury found Ahmed guilty of twice raping the girl and eight offences of sexually assaulting her. He was cleared of two allegations of indecent assault.

The judge said it was a horrifying case. Ahmed began preying on the girl after his wife gave birth to their first child.

She was abused repeatedly and persistently from the age of nine.

Ahmed told her she would be killed by family members if she told anyone.

She told police he played a game pretending they were married and putting a scarf on her head before sexually assaulting her.

In May last year, she finally plucked up the courage to tell a school friend and a learning mentor after Ahmed had left Bradford.

West Yorkshire Police arrested him in Ballater in Aberdeenshire where he worked as a waiter.
The judge branded Ahmed “arrogant, callous, uncaring and indifferent”.

He dumped his wife, although one of his children was dying, and then put up a ludicrous defence in court.
The judge said Ahmed would stop at nothing to avoid the consequences of his actions.

Man Injured as 'Asian' Gang Attacks Bus with Rocks...

A MAN was left bleeding after a gang of Asian youths attacked a bus in Savile Town.

Yobs targeted the Thornhill-bound Arriva bus as it pulled away from a stop in Savile Road late on Saturday night.

It was the second successive night the Thornhill bus had been attacked.The passenger who was injured, a man aged 56, told how stones smashed windows on both sides of the bus.

The attack happened at 11pm opposite the BP garage.The man, who is white and a local businessman, rushed off the bus to chase the youths, bleeding from a cut to his face.“They told me not to come shouting in their area,” he said. “I told them it was my area as well. I was born and bred in Dewsbury.“There were other Asians around and they said what happened was wrong and it would be sorted.“I don’t want to scare people but they have to know what is going on.”The man said there were about a dozen people on the bus including an elderly woman and a father with children.

“It was like a war zone,” said the injured man who was with his wife.“When the stones hit the windows it was like explosions going off or machine gun fire.

Everybody ducked but I wanted to see what was going on.”Police attended and an ambulance was called before the bus was taken away.The man said he had been told a bus had been attacked the previous night and police were supposed to have been shadowing the Saturday service.

However the bus was running early.Two weeks ago The Press reported how three white boys, one aged 12 and two aged 14, were set upon by a gang of Asian youths nearby.The teenagers were confronted and asked why they were walking through Savile Town.

One boy was struck on the side of the head, causing his ear to bleed.A spokesman for Dewsbury police confirmed that two passengers were hurt and a bus damaged.Sgt Sarah Baker, of the Dewsbury and Mirfield Neighbourhood Policing Team, said patrols would be stepped up in the area.

She added: “We take these sorts of incidents very seriously and we will thoroughly investigate and bring the people responsible to court.”

Family Hires Hitman to 'Take Care' of Westernized Daughter...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1210799/My-mother-hired-hitman-kill-The-shocking-story-Muslim-woman-parents-disapproved-Western-lifestyle.html

Missing Bradford sex offender found

A CONVICTED sex offender who absconded from a Yorkshire hospital while on unsupervised leave was today found by police in Liverpool.

Mohammed Rafiq Passwala was discovered by officers working for West Yorkshire Police's Homicide and Major Enquiry Team and was detained under the Mental Health Act.

Passwala, 53 and from Bradford, had been branded a danger to women and young children. He was convicted of sex offences in 1996. He had not been seen since last Thursday when he left Fieldhead Hospital in Wakefield.

Only minutes before his recapture, police issued CCTV pictures of Passwala, in traditional Asian dress, at Dewsbury bus station.Police established that after leaving the hospital, he took a taxi to Dewsbury and then caught a bus to Leeds city centre.

When news of his escape was revealed, Conservative MP Philip Davies (Shipley), said: "It is completely unacceptable that someone who is clearly acknowledged as dangerous should be given any form of unsupervised leave. "I do not know why this man has not been properly supervised at all times and I have no idea how they could have allowed this to happen.

"The priority should always be the safety of the public. Whatever the reason was I don't think there's a good enough excuse to give him any form of unsupervised leave. People are now at risk." Senior Bradford councillor Chris Greaves, (Con., Wharfedale), added: "No doubt some well-meaning psychiatrist who has his or her head firmly in the clouds is responsible. I thought the idea of psychiatric hospitals was that they were places of secure accommodation."

Hate Crime Hoax - BNP Kidnapping Story Falls Apart...

THE Muslim community leader who claimed he had been kidnapped by two men and dumped in Epping Forest has been arrested on suspicion of perverting the course of justice,

Noor Ramjanally, of Valley Hill, Loughton, had alleged last week that two men abducted him from his flat and forced him into a 4x4 at knifepoint.

He said they drove him to Epping Forest in the boot of the vehicle before taking him out and telling him to stop the Muslim prayer services he had begun at Murray Hall in March.

Today (September 3), Mr Ramjanally has been arrested and is being questioned at Harlow police station.

A spokesman for Essex Police said: “A man has been arrested in connection with an ongoing police investigation into an alleged abduction in West Essex.

“Police were contacted on Monday August 24 by a man who stated that he had been abducted from his home in the Valley Hill area of Loughton.

“On Thursday September 3, police arrested a 36 year-old man from the town on suspicion of perverting the course of justice.”

Here is the original Guardian story, before Ramjanally was exposed as a liar. But now he has been arrested, his claims apparently fabricated out of whole cloth.

Why would he fabricate a "hate crime" against himself? For the same reason that the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), an unindicted co-conspirator in a Hamas funding case, has claimed that "anti-Muslim hate crimes" have risen sharply in the U.S. since 9/11. In fact, the rate of such crimes has actually dropped.

Ramjanally and CAIR know well that victimhood is big business: insofar as they can claim protected victim status for Muslims in the U.K. and the U.S., they can deflect unwanted scrutiny and any critical examination of how jihadists use Islamic texts and teachings to justify violence and supremacism.

That's most likely why, like Ramjanally here, CAIR and others have not hesitated to stoop even to fabricating "hate crimes." They want and need hate crimes against Muslims, because they can use them for political points and as weapons to intimidate people into remaining silent about the jihad threat.

Muslim Rapes Two 13-Year-Old Girls at a Church...

A 22-year-old man who raped two 13-year-old girls in his car after supplying them with alcohol has been jailed for 14 years.

Ali offered the two girls a lift before giving them vodka and raping them.
Munshur Ali, from Hyde in Greater Manchester, asked his victims for directions and began chatting with them before offering the young girls a lift.

Ali drove the girls to an off licence in Stockport and bought them a bottle of vodka to drink.
He then took them to a church and raped the pair twice in the back of his car.

While passing sentence, Judge Peter Larkin said: "You subjected these two vulnerable, naive 13-year-olds to a terrifying ordeal."

The judge described the 22-year-old as "devious and manipulative".

He said: "Not only have you made serious and deeply unpleasant allegations against the two girls, you also concocted a defence to fit the prosecution evidence against you."

I think he was a sly, evil person... and he went out on this evening knowing that his intention was to get vulnerable girls into his car and rape them.Detective Constable Lindsey Morgan
The girls' mothers, who cannot be named for legal reasons, told Sky News their children were just too trusting.

"We are absolutely devastated," one mother said.

"To any other young girls, I just want to say if you are going out - stay with a group... And never get into anyone's car."

The second mother said: "It's easy to say don't drink, but it's part of growing up. And it's so easy to get hold of alcohol now - I think the Government needs to crack down on that.

"They are not the same children now. He didn't show any remorse at court, joking with his friends. It's disgusting."

Speaking outside court, Detective Constable Lindsey Morgan said: "Both the girls have basically lost their innocent childhood, and they are traumatised by what's happened to them."

When asked about Munshur Ali she commented: "I think he was a sly, evil person... and he went out on this evening knowing that his intention was to get vulnerable girls into his car and rape them."

THE ISLAMIC ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM..

Interesting interview here on the issue of the booming British population.

Is it me or does Mr Humphyrs entirely miss the central issue - namely that the predominant reason for a booming UK population is due to "foreign born" mothers (Mostly Muslims) having way above replacement level birth rates whist the indigenous population birth-rate falls below replacement level.

I found this a curious interview in the fine BBC tradition of ignoring the Islamic elephant in the room. Across the European Nations, the birth-rates of the indigenous people is below population replacement level, with Spain being perhaps the lowest in the world. (Perhaps the real tragedy of Andalusia awaits?)This devastating demographic is sidelined in BBC coverage of this topic and instead Humphyrs witters on about us having 2.5 children as if we were back in the 1960's.

I would like to see the BBC tackle the more substantive aspects to this topic but suggest they would run a mile from doing so lest it offend certain multiculti sensitivities.

'Muslims Rule Bradford,' Stabbing Victim Told...

Rehman, 18, shouted racial abuse as 51-year-old Ronald O'Connor walked to a shop for a loaf of bread, near the gates of Lister Park, Manningham, last December.

Leeds Crown Court heard that Rehman shouted: "Manningham belongs to Muslims. We dont want whites. We rule Bradford. We are going to get you out."

His victim tried to get in the shop, but Rehman ran towards him and stabbed him twice in the upper arm with a four to five-inch bladed knife.

Rehman, of Manningham, tried to slash Mr O'Connor's face and the victim also had the palms of his hands slashed as he tried to defend himself.

Richard Gioserano, prosecuting, said: "Rehman was swinging at him over and over again with the knife. Mr O'Connor was in great pain and in fear, literally, of his life."

He ran into the shop, police were called and Rehman was arrested outside.

Mr O'Connor had to have surgery at Bradford Royal Infirmary for a deep laceration to his palm while he also suffered lacerations to his fingers and two incisions to his upper arm with apparent nerve damage.

Rehman and two friends, Amar Farooq and Tanveer Hussain, committed a series of robberies only hours after Rehman appeared at court for a preliminary hearing in March.

The trio were drinking heavily at the time of the attacks and the robberies targeted children on their way home from school.

During the callous street muggings some of the youngsters were threatened with being stabbed, though no knife was seen.

A 15-year-old schoolboy who was making his way home at 3pm on 4 March, was grabbed from behind, punched in the face and had his iPod and mobile phone stolen.

A group of three more pupils, two boys and a girl aged 14 and 15, who saw the attack were the next victims.

Hussain asked to borrow a mobile phone and when all three said they didn't have one, Farooq said: "You have 10 seconds to give me your valuable stuff or I will stab you all."

The girl ran off and Farooq grabbed one boy shoving him against a wall while the other two stole £1.10 from the other boy, said Mr Gioserano.

Their next victim was an 11-year-old boy.

Jonathan Devlin, defending, said there were no explanations or excuses for the offences other than drink.

All three pleaded guilty to three robberies and Rehman pleaded guilty to wounding with intent in connection with the Manningham incident.

Rehman was sent to youth custody for five years while Hussain, 23, of Manningham, and Farooq, 25, of Garlington, were jailed for 30 months.

The judge, Recorder David Bradshaw, told Rehman he had committed an unprovoked attack on an innocent man causing horrendous injuries.

He said: "I am satisfied it was accompanied by racial abuse and seemed to have a racial motive."

19-Year-Old Muslim Charged in Stabbing Spree...

A teenager was due to appear before magistrates today, charged with seven counts of attempted murder following several stabbings in Keighley town centre.

Raheem Nawaz, 19, of Keighley, was charged on Saturday night in connection with two incidents, one in Victoria Road at about 10.30pm last Thursday, and the other outside The Livery Rooms pub in North Street about two hours later.

A 24-year-old man was stabbed in the first incident and seven people were injured in the second.

Two people were last night still receiving treatment at Airedale Hospital including a 44-year-old woman, who suffered the most serious injuries and was described as being in a serious but stable condition.

The 24-year-old man was also described as being in a stable condition. A 26-year-old woman, who had also been detained for treatment at Airedale Hospital, was discharged on Saturday.
The knifeman is believed to have walked into Keighley town centre after the first incident before attacking a crowd outside the Wetherspoons-owned Livery Rooms pub at about 12.30am on Friday.

Bradford Councillor Zafar Ali said: “My heart goes out to the innocent victims and their families and I hope they have a speedy recovery.”

Nawaz was due to appear before magistrates in Bingley at 10am today.

The incidents are being investigated by officers in the Homicide and Major Enquiry Unit of West Yorkshire Police led by Detective Superintendent Steve Payne.

Muslims Bite Off Father's Ear in 'Racist' Attack...

A DAD-of-four who had his ear bitten off in a racist attack in Woking town centre has said he will be ‘disfigured for life’.

The 40-year-old victim was set upon by a group of about 10 men – some of whom are believed to be Asian – when he tried to step in to stop an argument in the early hours of Sunday, August 2.

He had been on a night out with friends and was going to catch a taxi when he saw the row. But when he intervened, he was dragged into the middle of the road, and had part of his ear bitten off by one of the men.

Police are now looking for the men involved in the attack at about 3.20am in Broadway, Woking. They have released pictures of people they want to talk to The victim said: “I am disfigured for life. They can’t re-attach part of an ear because of the human saliva on it. A human bite is worse than a dog bite and is dirtier than a toilet seat with all the bacteria.

“I was in hospital for four days. It is starting to heal nicely, but it will never be the same again.”
Three men have been arrested and bailed – a 25-year-old from Woking, a 25-year-old from Harrow and a 22-year-old from Woking. They are due to return to Woking police station on October 4.

Woking Neighbourhood Inspector Lynette Shanks said of the violence: “This was a senseless, unprovoked attack on a man who was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Surrey Police will not tolerate such racist violence on the streets.”

A week later, early on Sunday, August 9, another man suffered ear injuries in a fight outside a sandwich shop in Chertsey Road. Police say the incidents are not linked, but anyone with information on either incident should contact them on 0845 125 2222.

Man in burqa with gun and axe steals $243,000 in designer watches

Police are searching for a burqa-clad man who helped steal designer watches worth £150,000 in an armed robbery yesterday.

The man and two accomplices, armed with a handgun and an axe, burst into Michael Jones Jewellers on the High Street in Banbury, Oxfordshire, at about 2.20pm.

They threatened four members of staff, a man and three women, with their weapons before making off with Rolex, Cartier and Breitling watches....

The incident is the latest in a spate of 'burqa robberies' where thieves conceal their identity with the full-body garment typically worn by Muslim women....

Brandishing a knife, he threatens the two women staff before making off with an undisclosed amount of cash.
The robbery in Luton came six weeks after a similar incident in nearby Dunstable and, this week, a £150,000 raid on a jeweller's in Banbury, Oxfordshire.
Police are investigating the possibility the crimes are linked.

The knife-wielding robber targets Thomson travel agency in London during a spate of violent crimes committed by men dressed in burkhas

The first incident happened on July 7 - the fourth anniversary of the 2005 terrorist bombings in London.

A man in a burkha, which left only his eyes visible, walked into First Choice Travel in Dunstable. After threatening two women staff he took the cash and escaped through the back door at 10.15am.

On August 16, a burkha-clad man made off with a 'large amount of cash' from the Thomson travel shop in Luton.

Then, on Tuesday, a man wearing a burkha and two accomplices, who wore dark clothes and had their faces covered, stole £150,000-worth of Rolex, Cartier and Breitling watches from jeweller Michael Jones in Banbury.

They threatened four members of staff with a knife and an axe at 2.30pm before escaping in a black Audi estate driven by a fourth man. The car was found abandoned. The robbers are believed to be Asian.

Bedfordshire Police said they were 'keeping an open mind' about whether the crimes were linked. They want to trace two women who went into the Thomson shop in Luton during the robbery but left because staff had been told to say it was closed.

Thames Valley Police, which covers Banbury, refused to deny the incidents involved the same man.

Detective Inspector Steve Duffy said: 'Thankfully nobody was injured during the robbery but obviously staff have been left very shaken by what happened.'

There have been growing concerns over the use of burkhas and other Muslim clothing to conceal criminals' identities.

Somali Mustaf Jama, one of the armed gang that shot dead PC Sharon Beshenivsky in Bradford, reportedly escaped from Britain after hiding his face behind a traditional Muslim woman's niqab and using his sister's passport.

And a man and woman made off with £200,000 of jewellery from a London store in 2002 after concealing their identities with burkhas.

Street Jihad - 10 Muslims Batter Brit & wife - Leave shoeprint on his face

THIS is the battered face of Rob Hughes, who was left with the imprint of a trainer on his forehead and nose following a vicious gang attack.

Mr Hughes and his wife were set upon by 10 thugs as they waited for a taxi in Castlemere Street, Deeplish, Rochdale at about midnight last Saturday.

Trouble flared after the couple, who were standing on opposite sides of the street, began arguing about booking a taxi.

As they were doing so a car pulled over and the driver warned them to stop shouting in his street.

The man then returned with the three passengers followed by another car full of men, who jumped out and ran at Rob, 38, knocking him to the floor and kicking and punching his face.

More men then came running down the street to join in the attack as Mr Hughes crawled across the road to try and escape.

His terrified wife, 37, shouted at them to stop, but one of the men turned on her punching her in the face and knocking one of her teeth through her lip.

Then one of the thugs shouted to the gang to leave saying 'if we don't stop we're going to kill him'
The violent attack was over in minutes, but Mr Hughes has been left with blurred vision in his right eye and an abrasion across his eyeball.

He had two black eyes and a swollen nose with a footprint running from his forehead across the bridge of his nose and two chipped teeth.

He had also sustained cuts and bruises to his knees and elbows as he crawled across the floor to try and escape his attackers.

Mr Hughes, of Milnrow, said: "I think they were just looking for an argument.

"A group of them were congregated somewhere and the driver pulled up to get them, within three seconds they've all piled on to me - obviously there was intent. I knew I was going to get a hiding.

"The first thing that crossed my mind is that I hope none of these have got a knife.

"I fell on to my knees and hands and crawled along, I just thought if I stop down here I'm not going to get up again.

"It seemed to go on for ages, my jacket was ripped to smithereens, but they didn't take anything - they didn't want to rob me.

"I know this does happen a lot, but nothing like this has happened to us before, I think we were just in the wrong place at the wrong time.

"In hindsight I'm more mad that they hit a women, I'm really glad I didn't see my wife get punched.

"I consider myself lucky to get out of it like I have."

A Greater Manchester Police spokesman said: "Shortly before midnight on Saturday 15 August 2009, a 38-year-old man and 37-year-old woman were assaulted by a group of about 10 men on Castlemere Street, Deeplish.

"The offenders are all described as Asian. The man and woman suffered facial injuries.

"Inquiries are continuing."

Another sickening instance of typical Modus Operandi for muslim thugs who frequently travel in packs in order to use their numbers to boost their gutless 'courage' to prey upon primarily lone victims or - as in this case - couples.

For other instances (far from complete) go to:

MUSLIM THUGS CONTINUE TO TAKE OVER EAST END LONDON

DISABLED ELDERLY MAN LATEST VICTIM OF BRITAIN'S "STREET JIHAD"

12 & 13 YR. OLD PAPERBOY BROTHERS ATTACKED & BEATEN BY MUSLIM GANG

MUSLIM STREET JIHAD LEAVES BRITISH MAN BRAIN DAMAGED

MUSLIM GANG USES IRON PIPES AND CLUBS TO BLUDGEON 14 YR OLD ENGLISH BOY

RACIST MUSLIM GANGS ATTACK & RAPE BRITISH WOMEN

POLICE HUNT THUGS IN FAITH HATE ATTACK AGAINST CLERGYMAN

2nd LONDON EAST END PRIEST ATTACKED & BEATEN BY MUSLIMS

An overdraft? That'll be £200 at Lloyds TSB (but only £15 if you're a Muslim)

Many Lloyds TSB customers are being hit with charges of up to £200 a month if they go into the red - while Muslims who use the bank are only being charged £15.

The part-nationalised bank has been accused of religious discrimination over the disparity between overdraft charges on its standard current account and its Islamic account.

The Islamic account was set up by the high street bank to attract Muslim customers by allowing them to keep faithful to their religion.

Sharia law does not permit the payment of interest so the 'typical' Islamic account at Lloyds TSB has been set up without an overdraft facility.

Other rules: No interest is charged on Islamic accounts, while customers with a normal account are hit with charges of up to £200

If a Muslim customer who has insufficient funds in the account tries to make a payment, it is blocked and a 'return item fee' is charged.

However, on some Islamic accounts such a payment is authorised and an 'unplanned overdraft fee' of £15 is then levied.

The bank says this is a management fee, not a payment of interest, so does not contradict Sharia law.

Meanwhile, customers with standard current accounts who go into the red by at least £100 without authorisation are hit with an 'unplanned overdraft fee' of £20 a day for a maximum of ten days. This could mean a customer has to pay £200 in one month.

The Islamic account is available to all customers at Lloyds TSB. In theory, anyone who does not need a permanent overdraft facility could switch to this account to avoid being hit by interest charges for going into the red.

The disparity between the two accounts emerged after the bank sent its customers a booklet this month explaining its charges.

Graham Milne, a customer and chartered accountant from Norham, Northumberland, said difference in fees was tantamount to 'religious discrimination'.

He added: 'This means that all the non-Islamic account holders are subsidising those with such an account. It strikes me as something which is bordering on illegal.

'One cannot help feeling the organisation is bending over backwards to help Muslims to the detriment of everybody else.

'The man in the street would say this is a form of theft. Whether you call it a management fee or an interest fee, it makes no odds because they mean the same thing.'

In the past few years, millions of customers at all the major high street banks have demanded the return of money which has been taken from their account in various forms of bank charges.
Many got their money, or the majority of it, back. A test case - designed to rule if such charges are illegal - is going through the House of Lords.

A Lloyds TSB spokesman said: 'The Islamic current account is for customers who cannot receive credit or debit interest due to their religious beliefs.

'All of our Islamic accounts comply with Islamic law and are available to anyone regardless of background or faith.

'These accounts are structured differently to our traditional accounts and are designed to help prevent a customer slipping into the red. A comparison with the overdraft charging structure on other accounts is meaningless.'

Earlier this month, it emerged that losses at Lloyds had escalated to £13.4billion - largely due to the reckless lending of Halifax Bank of Scotland, which it bought for £9.6billion in January.

The disastrous merger led to a £17billion taxpayer bail-out. The newly-formed Lloyds Banking Group is 43 per cent owned by the taxpayer.

Anti-terror cash spent on football coaching and fashion shows

More than £4million from Britain’s counter-terrorism budget is being spent on projects including football coaching and fashion shows for young people 'at risk of becoming terrorists'.

The money, from funds allocated to de-radicalise young Muslims, includes £129,000 to a theatre company, £79,000 for sports coaching, £20,000 for fashion courses and £20,000 on art workshops.

Last night the handouts were criticised by the Conservatives, who demanded proof that taking potential terrorists on trips to the theatre was a good use of taxpayers’ money.
The disclosure comes just weeks after the country’s most senior anti-terror officer, Scotland Yard’s Assistant Commissioner John Yates, warned he would be forced to cut staff because of a shortage of money.

Shadow Home Secretary Chris Grayling said an analysis of the grants handed out by the Preventing Violent Extremism Community Leadership Fund – which will spend £4.1 million over the next two years – suggested that at least £2 million was being wasted on ‘tenuous’ projects.

Most of the recipients are in traditionally Labour-supporting areas such as Birmingham, West Yorkshire and East London. They include:

The Khayaal Theatre Company, which got £129,541 to put on two plays which ‘address the issues of radicalisation and extremism as they manifest themselves in families and communities’.

Bold Creative, which will receive £179,000 over three years in order to ‘roll out Tagmap TV... an internet-based resource tool that encourages debate and discussion among young people’.

Local Leagues Limited, which received £79,440 for a ‘programme of sports coaching and local competitions as preventative and diversionary activities for Muslim young people’.

Dervish Arts, which got £20,000 ‘to deliver their arts-based workshops with young people and Muslim women’.

Three Faiths Forum, which received £20,000 ‘to allow young Muslim women to use exploration of clothing and fashion to construct their own sense of Britishness’.

Mr Grayling said: ‘Branding these projects as “preventing extremism” is counter-productive. It stereotypes British Muslims as potential terrorists.

Insurance Fraud Ringleaders Stage 92 Crashes...

A 'PHANTOM' driver made a fraudulent insurance claim over a crash when he was not even at the wheel, a jury has heard.Rashid Shaikh, 29, claimed to have been driving a black Audi A6 when it was hit by a Volvo at a roundabout on the A34 near Cheadle, Manchester Crown Court was told.

But the jury at his trial heard the car was really being driven by another man called Mohammed Patel, who earned tens of thousands of pounds in a complex 'crash for cash' scam.William Baker, prosecuting, said Patel, 24, earned £46,000 by staging 92 crashes on the north west's roads over three years.

Shaikh, of Victoria Road, Dewsbury, denies being involved in a conspiracy to commit fraud.Mr Baker said: "Between 2005 and 2008, Mohammed Patel staged over 90 road traffic accidents on roundabouts in the north west."He braked hard and stopped suddenly so that the car behind him could not avoid a collision. Some of them just touched it so the damage was very slight and nobody was injured. They all walked away.

Injuries "That was done so that other people like Rashid Shaikh could then make false insurance claims for injuries."The court was told that Shaikh and two other men submitted fraudulent insurance claims following the Audi crash at 3pm on October 25, 2005.Patel gave Shaikh's details to the Volvo driver when it ran into the back of the Audi, it was alleged.The Audi's owner - Iqbal Khan, 49, of Argo Street, Bolton - claimed more than £5,000 for the damage, it was said.

His son Ershad Khan, 22, also from Argo Street, Bolton, claimed to have been a passenger. He and Shaikh claimed for whiplash.It is claimed Shaikh conspired with Iqbal and Ershad Khan and Mohammed Patel to defraud the insurance firm.The Volvo driver's insurance firm set aside more than £20,000 to cover the three claims. But the company began an investigation after it became concerned all three, which were made through a Bolton-based claims' management firm, might be fake.Iqbal Khan hired a replacement VW Golf at the same time as the crash, the court was told.

Damage An engineer who went to look at the Audi believed it had been backed into a post so that 'thousands of pounds' of damage could be claimed, even though it was seen being driven away hardly damaged after the crash.Mr Baker said: "The prosecution case is that Rashid Shaikh agreed with Ershad and Iqbal Khan to make a fraudulent insurance claim for injuries suffered in an accident that he had never been involved in.

His defence is somebody else used his details without his knowledge."Mr Baker said: "The offences came to light after staff working in an office noticed there were a lot of collisions outside. "They began to pay attention to the collisions and saw it was the same man driving these cars, Mohammed Patel."Shaikh denies one count of conspiracy to defraud between January 2005 and June last year.Patel, 24, of Nottingham Drive, Bolton, earlier pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit fraud as well as a string of motoring offences.

Mother Stabbed to Death in Front of Child...

A terrified seven-year-old girl dialled 999 and told the operator: 'A man is trying to kill my mummy', a court has heard.

Aisha Bibi saw her mother Rabina, 34, stabbed 14 times in the neck, chest and back by Iranian Zakarya Rezaie, the jury was told.

Warwick Crown Court heard a recording of the 999 call in which Aisha said: 'He's my mummy's friend and he is trying to kill her with a knife.'

The operator asked what her mother's injuries were and Aisha replied: 'She's bleeding everywhere'.

Rezaie, 29, from Cardiff, denies murder, claiming he was provoked into killing Miss Bibi after she told him their relationship was over.

The court heard that minutes after the killing he handed himself into police and claimed he had been overcome by 'some sort of severe madness' after she attacked him with a penknife.

Miss Bibi, whose arranged marriage broke down six years ago, met Rezaie when he worked in a shop in Coventry and they had a brief relationship. But when she began seeing another man he became jealous and started pestering her. On September 3 last year he forced his way into her home in Foleshill, Coventry.

Prosecutor Rachel Brand, QC, said: 'This is a case of a man who couldn't accept the word "no". He couldn't accept it because he was clearly infatuated.'

The court heard that when Rezaie began banging on Miss Bibi's front door she called police - but rang back five minutes later to say he had left again.

In fact, Miss Brand told the court, Rezaie was already inside and had forced her to tell police he had gone.

The third call to police, from Aisha, came 26 minutes later.

Miss Brand said: 'The police found the little girl in the front room, crying. In the middle room they found Rabina Bibi on the floor.'

Yesterday, Rabina's neighbour recalled the moment she heard Aisha screaming for help.

Leigh Nesbeth, 34, told the court she was on Facebook when she heard screaming coming from Ms Bibi's house.

She said: 'I heard Aisha screaming 'mum don't, mum don't' and then more screaming. It was unusual for me to hear Aisha scream like that.

'I thought Sharon (Rabina's nickname) was telling Aisha off.'

The court also heard evidence from Ms Bibi's brother, Leaka Khan, 37, who got a desperate phone call just minutes before she was killed.

He told the court: 'My mobile phone went and I saw her name come up. I said 'hello' but there was just a shuffling noise like something was being moved around and then I heard Rabina say 'get off me, get off me'.

'I thought she had rang me by mistake so I hung up and rang back to have a go at her for wasting the credit on her phone but it went straight to answerphone.'

At one stage of yesterday's hearing Rezaie collapsed in the court and needed medical assistance.
Ms Bibi was so worried about her safety she bought a security camera which she installed at her home.
On the night of the killing, Rezaie - who was granted temporary permission to stay in the country last year - travelled to Coventry from Cardiff by train and knocked on Ms Bibi's door but she refused to let him in

When he began banging on her front door at 7.36pm she called the police for help but five minutes later she rang back saying he had left.

Miss Brand told the court that in fact Rezaie had forced his way into Ms Bibi's home and had ordered her to tell the police he had gone away.

But 26 minutes later, at 8.07pm, the police received a third call from the house.

Miss Brand said: 'The caller was Rabina's seven-year-old daughter.

'She asked for the police to come because she said a man named Jackie was trying to kill her mummy with a knife.

'It was an emotional call, made by a small child.

'She then told the police operator the man was leaving, and indeed he can be seen leaving [on the security camera footage] while the child was still on the phone.

'The police were there as soon as they could. In the house they found the little girl in the front room crying. In the middle room they found Rabina Bibi on the floor.'

Ms Bibi suffered stab wounds to her neck which penetrated the carotid artery and jugular vein, as well as knife wounds which had penetrated her lungs and liver.

The Independent Police Complaints Commission has launched an investigation into the case because Ms Bibi made a 999 call just minutes before the killing.

The trial continues.

World's first Muslim superheroes, the 99, are headed for British television screens

Named the 99, as each possesses one of Allah's 99 attributes, the characters include a burka-clad woman named Batina the Hidden and a Saudi Arabian Hulk-type man named Jabbar the Powerful.

They have proved a hit from Morocco to Indonesia and were recently named as one of the top 20 trends sweeping the world by Forbes magazine.

Now they are being brought to British television by Endemol, the production company behind Big Brother, with a mission to instill Islamic values in children across all faiths.

Until now, the superhero market has been dominated by the likes of Batman, Spiderman and Superman who have typically limited their crime-fighting abilities to America and the Western world.
They were created by Dr Naif al-Mutawa, a clinical psychologist from Kuwait, who felt Muslim children needed a new set of heroes to look up to, to counter jihadist role models.

“It hit me that the stories I was hearing were from men who grew up believing that their leader, Saddam, was a hero, a role model — only to one day be tortured by him,” he told The Times. “I decided the Arab world needed better role models.”

However, despite being called the 99, there will never be a full cast of 99 superheroes since it is forbidden to depict all Allah's attributes

Dr al-Mutawa hopes the cartoons will have a universal appeal.

He said: “It is based on attributes such as generosity and mercy. These are not things that Islam has a monopoly over.”

Terror raid students to leave UK

Two Pakistani students arrested over an alleged terror plot are to fly home after deciding to leave the UK voluntarily, their solicitor has said.

Abdul Khan, 26, and Shoaib Khan, 27, were among 12 people held by police after raids in north-west England in April, but the pair were never charged.

The Home Office tried to deport them, saying they remained a security threat.

The men decided to leave after being denied bail while appealing against deportation, their solicitor said.

The appeal was due to be heard by the Special Immigration Appeals Commission (Siac) in March next year.

The men's solicitor, Amjad Malik, said his clients would leave on an evening flight to Islamabad on Friday night.

'Ramadan approaching'

The pair, who are Category A prisoners at HMP Manchester, were "devastated" by the decision to deny them bail, he said, and could no longer face further incarceration.

"They realised that they are going to remain in custody for another 10 months when they haven't committed any crime - that amounts to a sentence of three years," Mr Malik said.

"Also, Ramadan is coming nearer and they are not happy with the facilities in place in prison, so they wish to spend their Eid [Muslim festival for the end of the fasting month, due on 20 September] with their families in Pakistan."

He added that the men would be allowed to continue their UK studies from Pakistan.

Abdul Wahab Khan, from Tank, in the North West Frontier, was studying for a masters degree in computer studies at John Moores University in Liverpool.

Shoaib Khan, from Narowal in the Punjab, was taking an accountancy course at Kaplan Financial, which has training centres across the UK.

Mr Malik said the UK Border Agency, part of the Home Office, had withdrawn its "intention to deport" orders to allow his two clients to return home.

'Visa irregularities'

Twelve students were arrested in the terror raids in Manchester and Liverpool as part of Operation Pathway, with three subsequently released.

The Home Office is attempting to deport two others, Sultan Sher and Janus Khan, who are in immigration detention, on the grounds of visa irregularities after dropping claims that they posed a threat to national security.

Five more, referred to only as VE, UF, ZA, YB and XC, are to appear before Siac for their deportation appeal hearing on March 10. \

Last week, Mr Justice Mitting ruled that Abdul Khan and Shoaib Khan, along with three others who applied for bail, should be held in custody until then.

Evidence passed to the tribunal claimed one of the men, who cannot be identified, exchanged e-mails with an associate of al-Qaeda.

MI5 analysis also suggested girls' names were used as code for bomb ingredients and that the mention of a wedding hinted at a planned attack.

The Home Office has refused to comment.

"Burkinis" for non-Muslims scrapped at British pool

An update on this story. "Swimming pool's dress code for non-Muslims is scrapped,"

A London council has backtracked on rules forcing swimmers to cover up at a public pool to avoid offending Muslims.

Croydon council has removed the guidelines from its website after being criticised for barring non-Muslims if they refused to comply with the dress code.

They were put in place for weekend swimming sessions for Muslims at Thornton Heath Leisure Centre despite a general ban on wearing T-shirts in the pool.

The council's online statement read: "During special Muslim sessions, male costumes must cover the body from the navel to the knee and females must be covered from the neck to the ankles and wrists."

Croydon Mosque and Islamic Centre praised the rules but said it would never have asked for them.

Trustee Shuaib Yusaf said: "If it was designated as a Muslim session to encourage Muslim women to come along, to that extent I could see a degree of merit in it."

Here's a thought. A lot of new Islamic centers have appeared in the U.K. Shouldn't they take up the cause of providing Sharia-compliant recreational facilities?

Malcolm Wicks, Labour MP for Croydon North, said asking non-Muslims to dress up to swim was not fair: "I just hope some common sense can prevail here."

That'd be nice.

"Islamic Awakening" website cheers British casualties in Afghanistan

A government spokeswoman said: "The role of the internet in radicalisation is an area of concern." The role of canonical Islamic texts... not so much.

British Muslim fanatics sparked fresh fury last night by praising Taliban “heroes” for sending our troops back from Afghanistan in body bags.

Dozens of homegrown “jihadis” have posted website messages cheering last weekend’s carnage in Helmand province that saw Britain’s death toll rise to 204 soldiers.

Last night there were calls by senior politicians for the Home Office to crack down on the hate-filled rants that will distress even further the relatives of troops who gave their lives fighting the Taliban.

The shameful website involved stoked up hatred as it emerged that one of two soldiers killed trying to save their mortally wounded commander had recently got married before deploying to Afghanistan.

The commander had got engaged while home on leave in June.

The tragedies were revealed yesterday as the Ministry of Defence named the three soldiers, all from 2nd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, who died on Sunday.

The gloating jihadi website, Islamic Awakening, is a forum for Islamic extremism, prompting a slew of vile attacks on the efforts of British troops to rescue Afghanistan from the grip of fundamentalists.

As soon as Western policymakers pin down who the "moderates" are -- the Shi'ite family law that just went into effect is another reminder of that problem.

The first messages were posted within minutes of the news of the latest outrage in Helmand on Sunday.

“Isma’eel”, said: “Man, they really are dropping like flies over there lol [laugh out loud].”
Another, calling himself “AbuJunayd”, said: “Inshallah [God-willing] the more the kuffs [non-Muslims] deploy, the more the bros will send em back in body bags, or crutches or with serious psychological problems.”

“Waziri” said: “By command of Allah, the invading forces will be forced to withdraw humiliated and defeated by a group of men who between them do not possess even one transport helicopter.”

“Noorah”, said: “They are really getting whooped. Don’t know how they think they can win.”

Senior Tory MP Patrick Mercer, chairman of the Commons counter-terrorism committee and a former Army officer, said: “It’s deeply distasteful and clearly the last thing that relatives of the dead want to see or hear.”

Last night the Daily Express informed the Office for Security and Counter Terrorism at the Home Office of the website’s content.

A spokeswoman said: “The role of the internet in radicalisation is an area of concern to Government.”

MP storms out of Muslim constituents' wedding after he was segregated from his wife

A Government minister today told how he and his wife walked out of a Muslim wedding after being segregated into male and female areas.

Labour MP Jim Fitzpatrick, the minister for food and farming, said the strictly-enforced rule threatened community cohesion in the heavily Muslim area of Whitechapel, East London.

Mr Fitzpatrick, 57, said he and his GP wife Sheila have attended many mosque weddings before but have never witnessed such an arrangement.

And he fears the growing trend is due to the influence of the Islamic Forum of Europe, proponents of Shariah law, who have links to the wedding venue.

'We've been attending Muslim weddings together for years but only recently has this strict line been taken, he said.

'The segregation of men and women didn’t used to be as much of a strong feature.
'But it is an indication of the stricter application of rules that is taking place that didn’t exist before.

'We left so as not to cause offence.'

The MP for nearby Poplar and Canning Town, added: ‘It is a disappointment. I think the stranglehold influence of the IFE is present more than ever before.

‘We are trying to build social cohesion in a community but this is not the way forward.’

The wedding between two members of his constituency took place on Sunday at the London Muslim Centre – part of the East London Mosque.

Mr Fitzpatrick said they had no idea they would be separated and when it became clear that his wife would be forced to sit in a different hall, they walked out.

It is a popular venue for community weddings but rules state all ceremonies must be held in accordance of Sahriah law, the Islamic code

It states: ‘Wedding hire at the LMC is only available for Islamic weddings.

‘Hirers should ensure they require a wedding that complies with Islamic Shariah in which there is no free mixing between sexes and where proper Islamic dress code and etiquettes are observed.

‘When both halls are booked for a wedding, women must use the Hajja Um Aref Hall (first floor) and men must use the Main Hall (ground floor)

Spokesman Mohammed Shakir said: ‘We are saddened to read that Jim Fitzpatrick MP did not like the arrangements at a wedding he attended with his wife at the London Muslim Centre.

‘Segregated weddings have always been popular in the Muslim community; the London Muslim Centre has facilitated them for over five years.

‘It is part of the attraction for Muslim families so they can celebrate their happy day in a religious atmosphere, a custom which is also found in other religious traditions represented in Britain.

‘We have always allowed non-Muslim guests to be seated together without segregation, but this is entirely at the discretion of the families who have hired the halls.'

He refused to comment on the suggestion that the IFE had influenced the centre, but a member of staff at the centre next to the East London mosque said they were surprised by Mr Fitzpatrick's comments.

He added: ‘It's just not true. We have our own policies.’

Mr Fitzgerald and his wife have been involved in the Muslim community for many years including a visit to Bangladesh with the World Health Organisation last year.

But the politician says he has been growing increasingly concerned about the divisive influence of ‘hardline’ Islamic influences in the area.

The Islamic Forum of Europe, is described as ‘moderate’ group with headquarters at the London Muslim Centre but with branches across the continent.

The organization was widely credited with George Galloway’s election victory in 2005.

Tuhel Ahmed, a spokesman for the Islamic Forum of Europe said: ‘How we influenced the private arrangements of this wedding is beyond me.

‘I cannot see what the link Mr Fitzpatrick is making here.

‘This was a personal choice of the bride and groom. How they choose to seat people and conduct their wedding is entirely up to them.

‘He and his wife were invited to a wedding and if they have a problem with the arrangements then my advice is don’t attend.

‘This is the first time an MP has criticised us as an organization.

‘To suggest we are hardline and responsible for damaging community cohesion is utterly ridiculous.

‘He is simply mistaken and silly to blame an organization for an individual’s wedding choices.

‘Labour is in complete disarray, maybe Mr Fitzgerald is worried about the election next year.
‘It’s yet another case of “let’s just blame the Muslims”.’

Mother of Three Killed by Muslim Road Racers...

A car dealer who killed a 'hard working mother of three' in a hit and run was branded callous and despicable by the judge who jailed him.

Atif Faiz was driving at twice the speed limit in a road race with another car, when he knocked down Amanda Bailey on a clear, cold winter night, Burnley Crown Court heard.

Rafhan Sarwar, one of the three passengers, described his friend's 'stupid heavy driving' as 'red lining every gear', prosecutor Timothy Brennand told the court.


Atif Faiz, 23, was sentenced to three years in jail for death by dangerous driving, after killing Amanda Bailey as she crossed the road.

Mr Brennand said the Astra was six seconds behind another car, and that both were going at a 'grossly excessive speed'.

He said: 'Witnesses described the vehicles as accelerating hard. One pedestrian had to take evasive action to avoid being hit.'

The other driver of the car managed to drive in front of Faiz, and sped past Ms Bailey, 33.
But the Morrisons supermarket shop assistant - who was on maternity leave - thought it was safe to cross and was half-way over the street when Faiz bore down on her at 60mph.

She was hit on Leeds Road, Nelson, Lancashire, at 11.50pm on February 11 this year and died shortly afterwards.
Mr Brennand said: 'There's some evidence the car attempted to swerve just before the incident but whatever evasive action was taken was too little, too late.'

Faiz and his companions failed to call an ambulance or stop at the scene, he said.

Mr Brennand said that 'none of them demonstrated any humanity or compassion' and branded their flight from the scene and subsequent silence during police questioning as 'shameful'.
The court heard that passenger Mohammed Tehseen Zaman, 19, confessed to two friends that he had been involved in a hit and run.

Another one of the passengers, Mohammed Zaheer Rashid, returned to the scene to find out what the police knew.

Mr Brennand said the group were returning from Huddersfield, where they had bought a car for Mohammed Tehseen Zaman's father.

He said Ms Bailey, whose daughters are aged 11 months, three and 13, was well-liked.

Mr Brennand said: 'She was well known, well respected, a hard working mother-of-three.'
Faiz, who has a six-week old child, pleaded guilty to causing death by dangerous driving.

The 23-year-old, of Leeds Road, Nelson, was jailed for three years. He also received a consecutive four-month sentence for assaulting a man in July last year.

Zaman, also of Leeds Road, was sentenced to 16 months in a young offenders' institution after pleading guilty to perverting the course of justice.

Judge Beverley Lunt told Faiz: 'Any human being who could treat another so callously can only be described as despicable.'

She added: 'If you have any conscience, you should be haunted every day of your life by what you have done and the hurt you have caused.'

Mohammed Zaheer Rashid, 24, of Burns Street, and Rafhan Sarwar, 19, of Charles Street, both Nelson, who pleaded not guilty to causing death by dangerous driving and conspiracy to pervert the course of justice, were discharged by Judge Lunt.

She told them: 'You acted dishonourably in this case and will have to live with the shame and with everyone knowing you acted with no honour for the rest of your lives.'

Ms Bailey's mother, Joan Smith, 53, who is raising her daughter's children, criticised the sentence.

Speaking outside court, she said: 'Three years for a life is not justice. I'm really disgusted.

'I feel sorry for them (the defendants) because if I put myself in their position I think I'd be frightened and panic but I'd never have left the body in the road, I wouldn't do that to a dog or a cat so I wouldn't do it to a human being.'

Detective Inspector Pete Broome, from Lancashire Police's major investigation team, said: 'Faiz's actions that night led to the death of a young woman who had so much to live for.

'His actions have not only left three young children without a mother, but a mother and father without their much loved daughter.

'This case highlights the stupidity of reckless, break-neck speeding, which played a huge part in this tragic incident. The terrible consequences of this collision should serve as a strong warning to people not to do this.'

Elizabeth Reed, division crown prosecutor for Burnley, said: 'This case serves as a reminder of the terrible consequences of driving in such a reckless way that other people's lives are endangered.'

British Muslims Outnumbering Christians at Christian Schools...

Christian pupils are now outnumbered by Muslims at Roman Catholic schools in some parts of England.

A survey has found 24 Catholic primary schools in the North West and the Midlands teach a minority of churchgoing children.

Fewer than one in 10 children are Catholic at one school in Birmingham, while the Church is ending its involvement with a similar establishment in Blackburn.

Overall, Catholics make up 73.34 per cent of pupils at the 2,300 schools linked to the denomination across England and Wales.

But The Tablet, a weekly Catholic magazine, found that in Oldham, Blackburn, Wolverhampton and Birmingham there has been a sharp decline in the proportion of Catholics being educated in local faith schools.

At English Martyrs in Sparkhill, Birmingham, just 36 of the 410 pupils are Catholic while the vast majority are Muslim.

At Sacred Heart Primary in Salford, there are only seven Catholic pupils and moves are under way to remove it from the diocese’s jurisdiction.

Canon Anthony McBride said: “It seems that, for some reason, many Catholic parents in Sacred Heart parish have, over a number of years, ceased to support their school.”

An inspection by the diocese in 2007 said the situation was “seriously affecting the school’s ability to provide a traditional Catholic education”.

Most of the non-Catholic parents let their children attend assemblies although a church visit led to “friction”.

Last year the Catholic Education Service said Catholic schools should provide multi-faith prayer rooms for Muslim, Jewish, Hindu and Sikh students.

It also suggested bathrooms should be adapted to accommodate ritual cleansing.

The British taxpayer funded POPULATION JIHAD continues at warp speed.

Suspect banned from UK for good

Mahmoud Abu Rideh was flown to a secret Middle Eastern country last week.

Home Secretary Alan Johnson slapped an exclusion order on Rideh, who has spent the past eight years in jail or on a control order.

The bearded Palestinian was among 17 men arrested shortly after the 9/11 attacks in 2001.

The then Home Secretary David Blunkett described him as "an active supporter of various international terrorist groups, including those with links to Osama Bin Laden's networks".

He was first held at Belmarsh top-security prison in South East London but then transferred to Broadmoor secure psychiatric hospital because of his fragile mental health.

He was later the subject of a control order under the Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005.

The Sun knows where Rideh was flown last week but has agreed to keep the location secret for security reasons.

We’ll ease up on Muslim fanatics

LABOUR slammed the brakes on its war against violent extremism yesterday - amid fears it had upset Muslim voters.

Millions spent preventing Asian kids becoming terrorists will now be used to tackle right-wing racists in WHITE areas.

Community cohesion minister Shahid Malik admitted he was softening his stance because Muslims felt stigmatised.

But a former Labour aide called the move a "dangerous dilution" of the Government's counter-terrorism strategy.

Tories branded it a shameless bid to win back Muslim voters who deserted Labour over Iraq and Afghanistan.

More than £45million a year has been spent on measures to prevent Al-Qaeda recruiting young Muslims in the UK.

It included action to break up Islamic ghettos and stop university hate preachers.

But Mr Malik, the first British-born Muslim MP, yesterday unveiled plans to broaden the scope of the campaign.

He announced: "We shall be putting a renewed focus on resisting right-wing racist extremism. We cannot dismiss or underestimate the threat."

Mr Malik told Sky News: "You speak to any Muslim in this country and they are as opposed as you and I are to extremism and terrorism.

"The frustration is they are constantly linked with terrorism as a community as a whole."

His action contrasts with the tough stance of ex-minister Hazel Blears. She broke links with Muslim groups that failed to denounce extremists.

Her adviser Paul Richards said: "The good work by Hazel is being undone in the name of political correctness."

Former shadow home secretary David Davis said: "This has been watered down for purely political reasons. Labour has always seen Muslim voters as its own property."

Doctor cleared of Glasgow bomb plot works in NHS hospital after Home Office dropped bid to deport him

Dr Mohammed Asha, 28, started work in a casualty ward after the Home Office withdrew a long-standing bid to deport him.

He was acquitted of conspiracy to murder and cause explosions, but officials had wanted to kick him out of the UK on the grounds that he was still a threat to national security.

The Jordanian neurologist works at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital in Shropshire as Dr Jamil - his middle name.

He was arrested on the day of a suicide bomb attack on Glasgow Airport in 2007.

At the time, he worked for the University Hospital of North Staffordshire in Stoke-on-Trent.

Dr Asha spent a year on remand before being cleared by a jury at London's Woolwich Crown Court last year.

His solicitor said the father-of-one was determined to resume his career in the NHS.

'Mohammed Asha always said he was innocent and was not a threat to national security. Now, finally, he has been entirely vindicated,' Tayab Ali said.

'Hopefully he can now get back to his position before June 30, which was offering help and support to people in the UK by being an NHS doctor.'

But a security source told The Sun that although Dr Asha was cleared by a jury, 'serious doubts remained about his continued presence in this country'.

'That was why the Home Office wanted to deport him,' the source told the newspaper.

The hospital has confirmed that Dr Asha began working for The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust after the Government dropped its deportation application.

Trust chief executive Tom Taylor said: 'Dr Mohammed Jamil Asha is a very capable young doctor and we are very pleased that he is continuing his training in our hospitals.

'It is important to remember that he has been proven innocent and the Government had withdrawn its application for deportation before he returned to the trust last week.

'We hope everyone will judge him on the basis of his medical skills, and respect his and our wishes to let him continue his training in peace.'

Dr Asha was tried alongside British-born Iraqi doctor Bilal Abdulla, who was jailed for at least 32 years for plotting to murder hundreds of civilians in terrorist car bomb attacks on London and Glasgow.

The prosecution alleged Dr Asha was the financier and supporter of the Glasgow airport terror cell.

He admitted knowing Abdulla and Indian engineering student Kafeel Ahmed, 28, who died from burns sustained during the 2007 Glasgow attack, but he claimed they betrayed him.

The court heard that Dr Asha had given money to both Abdulla and Ahmed, and extremist material was found on the doctor's laptop. But he said he did not know the £1,300 he lent to Abdulla was to rent and buy cars and bomb-making equipment.

When Abdulla was convicted of conspiracy to cause explosions and conspiracy to murder, and Dr Asha was cleared, the two men embraced in the dock.

The case against him was due to be heard by the Special Immigration Appeals Commission in October, but was withdrawn last week.

Dr Asha hopes his family can join him again in the UK after they were forced back to Jordan upon his arrest.

Asylum Seekers Sentenced for 'Terrifying' Gang Rape...

TWO asylum seekers who forced a teenage girl off the street and subjected her to a sustained and 'terrifying' rape ordeal had their sentences raised by the Court of Appeal.

Judges in London agreed with the Attorney General, Baroness Scotland, that five-year custodial terms imposed on Mohammed Ali and Alik Madi were too short.They added a further two years to each of their sentences.The pair, who lived in a hostel in Rochdale, Lancashire, attacked their victim in the town after spotting her as she made her way home alone at night.

They followed her, grabbed and overpowered her. During the ordeal the struggling girl managed to run away, but they pursued her and raped her after dragging her into bushes.After pleading guilty to rape Ali. a Kashmiri national, and Madi, from Algeria, who both claim to be 18, were each sentenced at Bolton Crown Court in February to five years in a young offenders' institution.

But it was successfully argued on behalf of the Attorney General that because of the aggravating features of a 'most grave offence' - including the fact that it was a 'double stranger rape' on a vulnerable victim - the original terms were unduly lenient.The sentences were increased by Lord Justice Goldring, sitting with two other judges.

Demographic time bomb: millions of Muslim immigrants will change Europe beyond recognition, and almost no policymakers are talking about it

And those who are talking about it are smeared and vilified as racists and bigots. When a nuclear-powered Islamic Republic of France threatens the U.S., however, some Americans may come to regret the ease with which they swallowed and even propagated defamation and lies about anti-jihad European politicians such as Geert Wilders.

"Muslim Europe: the demographic time bomb transforming our continent," by Adrian Michaels in the Telegraph,

Britain and the rest of the European Union are ignoring a demographic time bomb: a recent rush into the EU by migrants, including millions of Muslims, will change the continent beyond recognition over the next two decades, and almost no policy-makers are talking about it.

The numbers are startling. Only 3.2 per cent of Spain's population was foreign-born in 1998. In 2007 it was 13.4 per cent. Europe's Muslim population has more than doubled in the past 30 years and will have doubled again by 2015.

In Brussels, the top seven baby boys' names recently were Mohamed, Adam, Rayan, Ayoub, Mehdi, Amine and Hamza.

Europe's low white birth rate, coupled with faster multiplying migrants, will change fundamentally what we take to mean by European culture and society.

The altered population mix has far-reaching implications for education, housing, welfare, labour, the arts and everything in between. It could have a critical impact on foreign policy: a study was submitted to the US Air Force on how America's relationship with Europe might evolve. Yet EU officials admit that these issues are not receiving the attention they deserve.

Jerome Vignon, the director for employment and social affairs at the European Commission, said that the focus of those running the EU had been on asylum seekers and the control of migration rather than the integration of those already in the bloc. "It has certainly been underestimatede_SLps [sic] there is a general rhetoric that social integration of migrants should be given as much importance as monitoring the inflow of migrants." But, he said, the rhetoric had rarely led to policy.

The countries of the EU have long histories of welcoming migrants, but in recent years two significant trends have emerged. Migrants have come increasingly from outside developed economies, and they have come in accelerating numbers.

The growing Muslim population is of particular interest. This is not because Muslims are the only immigrants coming into the EU in large numbers; there are plenty of entrants from all points of the compass.

But Muslims represent a particular set of issues beyond the fact that atrocities have been committed in the West in the name of Islam.

America's Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, part of the non-partisan Pew Research Center, said in a report: "These [EU] countries possess deep historical, cultural, religious and linguistic traditions. Injecting hundreds of thousands, and in some cases millions, of people who look, speak and act differently into these settings often makes for a difficult social fit."...

How dramatic are the population changes? Everyone is aware that certain neighbourhoods of certain cities in Europe are becoming more Muslim, and that the change is gathering pace. But raw details are hard to come by as the data is sensitive: many countries in the EU do not collect population statistics by religion.

EU numbers on general immigration tell a story on their own. In the latter years of the 20th century, the 27 countries of the EU attracted half a million more people a year than left. "Since 2002, however," the latest EU report says, "net migration into the EU has roughly tripled to between 1.6 million and two million people per year."

The increased pace has made a nonsense of previous forecasts. In 2004 the EU thought its population would decline by 16 million by 2050. Now it thinks it will increase by 10 million by 2060. Britain is expected to become the most populous EU country by 2060, with 77 million inhabitants. Right now it has 20 million fewer people than Germany. Italy's population was expected to fall precipitously; now it is predicted to stay flat.

The study for the US Air Force by Leon Perkowski in 2006 found that there were at least 15 million Muslims in the EU, and possibly as many as 23 million.

They are not uniformly distributed, of course. According to the US's Migration Policy Institute, residents of Muslim faith will account for more than 20 per cent of the EU population by 2050 but already do so in a number of cities. Whites will be in a minority in Birmingham by 2026, says Christopher Caldwell, an American journalist, and even sooner in Leicester.

Another forecast holds that Muslims could outnumber non-Muslims in France and perhaps in all of western Europe by mid-century. Austria was 90 per cent Catholic in the 20th century but Islam could be the majority religion among Austrians aged under 15 by 2050, says Mr Caldwell.

Projected growth rates are a disputed area. Birth rates can be difficult to predict and migrant numbers can ebb and flow. But Karoly Lorant, a Hungarian economist who wrote a paper for the European Parliament, calculates that Muslims already make up 25 per cent of the population in Marseilles and Rotterdam, 20 per cent in Malmo, 15 per cent in Brussels and Birmingham and 10 per cent in London, Paris and Copenhagen.

Recent polls have tended to show that the feared radicalisation of Europe's Muslims has not occurred. That gives hope that the newcomers will integrate successfully. Nonetheless, second and third generations of Muslims show signs of being harder to integrate than their parents.

Policy Exchange, a British study group, found that more than 70 per cent of Muslims over 55 felt that they had as much in common with non-Muslims as Muslims. But this fell to 62 per cent of 16-24 year-olds.

The population changes are stirring unease on the ground. Europeans often tell pollsters that they have had enough immigration, but politicians largely avoid debate.

France banned the wearing of the hijab veil in schools and stopped the wearing of large crosses and the yarmulke too, so making it harder to argue that the law was aimed solely at Muslims.

Britain has strengthened its laws on religious hatred. But these are generally isolated pieces of legislation.

Into the void has stepped a resurgent group of extreme-Right political parties, among them the British National Party, which gained two seats at recent elections to the European Parliament. Geert Wilders, the Dutch politician who speaks against Islam and was banned this year from entering Britain, has led opinion polls in Holland.

The Pew Forum identified the mainstream silence in 2005: "The fact that [extreme parties] have risen to prominence at all speaks poorly about the state and quality of the immigration debate. [Scholars] have argued that European elites have yet to fully grapple with the broader issues of race and identity surrounding Muslims and other groups for fear of being seen as politically incorrect."

The starting point should be greater discussion of integration. Does it matter at all? Yes, claims Mr Vignon at the European Commission. Without it, polarisation and ghettoes can result. "It's bad because it creates antagonism. It antagonises poor people against other poor people: people with low educational attainment feel threatened," he says.

The EU says employment rates for non-EU nationals are lower than for nationals, which holds back economic advancement and integration. One important reason for this is a lack of language skills. The Migration Policy Institute says that, in 2007, 28 per cent of children born in England and Wales had at least one foreign-born parent. That rose to 54 per cent in London.

Overall in 2008, 14.4 per cent of children in primary schools had a language other than English as their first language.

Muslims, who are a hugely diverse group, have so far shown little inclination to organise politically on lines of race or religion. But that does not mean their voices are being ignored.

Germany started to reform its voting laws 10 years ago, granting certain franchise rights to the large Turkish population. It would be odd if that did not alter the country's stance on Turkey's application to join the EU. Mr Perkowski's study says: "Faced with rapidly growing, disenfranchised and increasingly politically empowered Muslim populations within the borders of some of its oldest and strongest allies, the US could be faced with ever stronger challenges to its Middle East foreign policies."

Demography will force politicians to confront these issues sooner rather than later. Recently, some have started to nudge the debate along. Angel Gurría, the OECD secretary-general, said in June: "Migration is not a tap that can be turned on and off at will. We need fair and effective migration and integration policies; policies that work and adjust to both good economic times and bad ones."

That is not the core of the problem. The core of the problem is that they have a ready-made system of laws and customs that they consider superior to the laws and customs of Europe, and are ready to replace the one with the other. And their system denies freedom of speech and conscience, as well as equality of rights for women and non-Muslims. As such, all free people should be fighting against it.

A fifth of European Union will be Muslim by 2050

Saudi imam who called Jews "scum, rats, pigs, monkeys" speaks in London -- Geert Wilders still barred

Geert Wilders, an international champion of free speech, is barred from Britain, but a Jew-hating Islamic supremacist is just fine with UK authorities.

Absurd Britannia Alert: "Anti-Semitic Saudi chief imam feted in London: Senior cleric of Mecca's Grand Mosque speaks at East London Mosque," from Peter Tatchell, Green Party parliamentary candidate for Oxford East, August 4

Despite his sectarian, racist incitements that Jews are "scum...rats...pigs and monkeys," the chief cleric of the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Sheikh Abdul Rahman al Sudais, has been welcomed and invited to preach at the East London mosque in Whitechapel tonight, Tuesday evening, 4 August 2009.

Al-Sudais, who has close ties to the Saudi elite, has also insulted Christians and Hindus, referring disparagingly to Christians as "cross-worshippers" and Hindus as "idol worshippers".
He has been banned from Canada for his anti-Semitism.

The chairman of the East London mosque is Muhammad Abdul Bari. He is also the leader of the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB).

Although the MCB has condemned anti-Semitism, it has previously declined to criticise the anti-Semitism of al-Sudais and has continued to support him despite his anti-Jewish tirade.

"Al-Sudais has stoked religious sectarianism and anti-Jewish racism. He has never expressed any regret," said human rights campaigner, Peter Tatchell, who is urging the East London mosque and the MCB to publicly condemn al-Sudais's "shameful prejudice."

"As a condition for him being allowed to preach, the East London mosque and MCB should insist that al-Sudais apologise for his anti-Semitism and publicly state his opposition to hatred, discrimination and violence against Jewish people.

"The East London mosque received $US1m from the Saudis towards its new London Muslim Centre. The mosque's links to Saudi Arabia go back many years, according to the BBC.

"I don't understand why the Home Secretary is allowing al-Sudais into Britain, given that similar hate preachers have been banned. Is it because of the close business links between the British and Saudi establishments? " queried Mr Tatchell.

"Al-Sudais was appointed imam of the Grand Mosque by the royal leaders of the pro-western Saudi dictatorship. His continuing tenure as chief imam is a damning indictment of the Saudi regime's toleration of anti-Semitism.

"I am surprised that the Jewish community in Britain has not kicked up a big fuss about him coming to Britain," said Mr Tatchell....

Tatchell has many quotes from Al-Sudais establishing his antisemitism.

East London Advertiser: Thousands pack streets of East End to see Mecca imam at prayer

IPT News: Saudi Cleric’s London Sermon Draws Fire– “Abdul Rahman al-Sudais is the chief cleric at Mecca’s Grand Mosque.”– “He has disparaged Jews as ‘monkeys and pigs,’ Christians as ‘cross worshippers’ and Hindus as ‘idol worshippers’”

East London Advertiser: Fury at East London mosque inviting Mecca imam
al-Sudais sermon in Mecca:“Yesterday’s Jews are evil predecessors and today’s Jews are worse successors…They are…the worst of mankind. Allaah cursed them and cast His wrath upon them. He turned some of them to monkeys and pigs and worshippers of creatures… History of Jews is full of deception, trickery, rebellion, oppression, evil and corruption. They always seek to cause mischief on the earth and Allaah loves not the mischief-makers…They always think of betrayal and trick; and injustice and aggression run in their veins. They want only corruption and harming others.”

Daily Telegraph reports: “In Mecca two years ago, al Sudais described Jews as ’scum of the earth,’ ‘rats of the world’ and ‘monkeys and pigs who should be annihilated’”

– BBC reports: “Sheikh Abdur-Rahman Al-Sudais, Imam, Ka’ba, Mecca, Saudi Arabia: The history of Islam is the best testament to how different communities can live together in peace and harmony. Muslims must exemplify the true image of Islam in their interaction with other communities.”– “John Ware: Sheikh Sudais is a leading Imam from the great mosque in Mecca, Islam’s holiest city.”– “He had one voice for his Western audience - another for his followers in Saudi. Sheikh Abdur-Rahman Al-Sudais: The worst … of the enemies of Islam are those… whom he… made monkeys and pigs, the aggressive Jews and oppressive Zionists and those that follow them: the callers of the trinity and the cross worshippers… those influenced by the rottenness of their ideas, and the poison of their cultures the followers of secularism… How can we talk sweetly when the Hindus and the idol worshippers indulge in their overwhelming hatred against our brothers… in Muslim Kashmir…”– “John Ware: The East London mosque received $1m from the Saudis towards their new centre. The mosque’s links to Saudi go back many years.”

– Wikipedia on Abdul Rahman Al-Sudais