Britain will have to deal with up to two million Islamic terrorists unless there is an end to 'demonising' of Muslims, the leader of the most influential Muslim organization has said. Treating all Muslims as if they were terrorists will encourage large numbers to become terrorists, Dr Muhammad Abdul Bari said.
The warning from the chief of the Muslim Council of Britain - the grouping that Tony Blair's Government has considered the leading voice for Muslims - came amid rising tensions over the increasingly suspicious attitude to Muslims in the rest of society. Dr Bari declared: "Some police officers and sections of the media are demonizing Muslims, treating them as if they are all terrorists, and that encourages other people to do the same.
"If that deionization continues, then Britain will have to deal with two million Muslim terrorists, 700,000 of them in London.”If you attack a whole community, it becomes despondent and aggressive," he added. The message from Dr Bari appeared to be aimed at muting criticism from police officers and broadcasters and newspapers who have questioned widely-held Muslim attitudes and at police officers who have called for greater surveillance of Muslims.
(The average Muslim response – criticize us and we kill you.)
A series of highly-publicized surveys have shown that a high proportion of people are reluctant to sit next to a Muslim on public transport or would feel unhappy to have a Muslim neighbor.
(I wonder why. Could it be threats like this one from Dr Bari)
Dr Bari said in an interview with the Sunday Telegraph that he did not understand why "the whole of our diverse community" is being criticized. "We want to isolate that bad people and put them in the dock," he said. "But we all have to work together to do that: police, politicians, the media and the Muslim community."
(So, Doctor, how do you intend to work with us by saying you’ll kill us?)
Security profiling at airports "reinforces a negative stereotype", he added. "When the IRA was blowing people up, the entire Catholic population of Britain was not demonised, so why is it happening to the Muslim community?" he asked.
(That’s easy. Because Catholics around the world did not blow up people. Only in Ireland).
But Dr Ghayasuddin Siddiqui of the Muslim Parliament said the responsibility lay on Muslim communities to expose and end the threat. Dr Siddiqui said: "Muslim failure to act robustly against extremist ideology provides ammunition to those who wish to pursue the Neo-con agenda by demonizing Muslims and creating an atmosphere of fear and hatred within society."
(Well! Wahtdaya know! A voice of reason from a brave Muslim. Well said. Good man!)
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