UK Muslim Leader Seethes Over Stopped Plots
Charles Johnson
Fri Feb 2, 2007 at 8:26 am PST • Views: 675
Because the UK is exposing Islamic terror plots to blow airplanes out of the sky and behead innocent people, a Muslim leader says Britain is becoming a police state.
Just like … you guessed it! … Nazi Germany.
A Muslim leader has warned that Britain is moving towards a “police state,” comparing the situation to Nazi Germany after the anti-terror raids in the city of Birmingham this week.
But Mohammad Naseem, chairman of Birmingham’s Central Mosque, urged Muslims to show restraint following the raids, in which nine suspects were arrested over allegations of plotting an “Iraq-style” kidnapping and filmed beheading.
“The country is moving toward a police state. That’s not right. We have to change this,” he said inside the mosque, where some 2,000 Muslims gathered for weekly Friday prayers.
“We can change this for the better by coming together, not by coming apart. .. Remain calm, don’t get angry. Anger is a natural emotion, but Muslims should control it. We must never give way to anger,” he said.
Speaking outside the mosque shortly before the prayer session began, he compared the current situation, and anti-terrorism legislation introduced in Britain in recent years, to Nazi Germany.
“The German people were told the Jews were a threat. The same thing is happening here. The Muslims are now the bogey people,” he said. “It’s a small community. It’s easy to pick on them. That’s what’s being done.”
Note that these people who claim the mantle of victimhood as “the new Jews” are the same ones who deny the Holocaust, and pressure the UK government to cancel Holocaust Remembrance Day.
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