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Trouble ...07/22/2005 10:28:38 pm
The headline on this AP story says: London Bombings Trouble Muslim Community. That might lead you to think it's a story about how disturbed and horrified British Muslims are by the band of rabid killers who are murdering in their name. Well, not quite.
LONDON (AP) - Muslims gathered uneasily for afternoon prayers Friday, murmuring about fears of a backlash. A bomb threat forced the evacuation of one of London's largest mosques, and someone dumped gasoline near a suicide bomber's home.
A tremor of apprehension shook Britain's Muslim community of 1.6 million Friday after undercover officers on the London subway shot and killed a man described by witnesses as a South Asian.
The shooting followed a series of small bombings Thursday in which four men placed backpacks of explosives on three trains and a bus. The attacks came two weeks after four suicide bombers killed 52 other people on three London subways and a bus.
``We are getting phone calls from quite a lot of Muslims who are distressed about what may be a shoot-to-kill policy,'' said Inayat Bunglawala, Muslim Council of Britain spokesman.
One caller, he said, asked: ``What if I was carrying a rucksack?''
The concern for the victims of the ongoing attempts at mass murder in Britain is palpable, is it not? And so on, in a piece that is absolutely jaw-dropping both for the points that it makes and the complete unawareness of the AP editor about what points are actually being made (reflected in the absurd choice of headline).
Guner Bahadir, sitting in a prayer room for women, said she felt solidarity with Muslims involved in conflicts around the world, and that with Britain's involvement in the Iraq war, she wasn't surprised by the attacks.
``This is the war, and now it is here,'' said the 40-year-old Bahadir, who immigrated from Turkey five years ago. ``They (the West) say they're helping us, but they're not. They're killing us,'' she said. ``We don't need their help.''
Here is a recent Muslim immigrant, one who left her home in Turkey, in an effort (one must assume) to find better opportunities for herself or for her children in England - better, that is, than the ones that were available in her native land. And what message is she delivering to those who have allowed her to make England her adopted home? "They say they're helping us, but they're not. They're killing us. We don't need their help." They are killing us, she says, of her hosts, as the effort to identify remains from the Islamist suicide bombings two weeks ago continues. And on a day when, at the time of writing, at least 45 people have been killed by presumed Islamic terrorists in the Egyptian tourist resort of Sharm el-Sheikh. And six days after an Islamist suicide bombing in Iraq killed nearly 100 people - largely Muslims, of-course.
In London, reality continues to be an optional accessory for many:
A man in his 50s who immigrated from Pakistan said, ``I am certain one day I will be killed. Many of us feel this.'' He declined to be named because he didn't want to stand out in a community he said was already ``being targeted as a scapegoat.''
The community that is producing suicide bombers, failing to organize to stop the cancer within itself, and in many cases, as illustrated here, justifying their actions after the fact is merely a scapegoat, you see. No actual connection to what's going on.
At least one British Muslim that the AP managed to find condemns the bombers:
``This is not Islam,'' Qari Asim, imam of the Makkah mosque in Leeds, insisted during Friday prayers as he condemned ``cowardly'' suicide bombers.
``People are angry at the people who did it,'' he told The Associated Press, referring to the bombings. ``People were living peacefully, and now it's just a tension.''.
But.
But he said police used excessive force in the London subway on Friday.
``They didn't need to shoot him five times. They could have shot him once or twice, maybe in the leg, so that he couldn't get away,'' Asim said.
Right - those sharp-shooting cops could have just winged him and cut a few choice ligaments. Except suicide bombers aren't interested in getting away, are they? They're interested in getting into a crowd, detonating their explosive, and spraying the limbs and blood of innocent people on the walls.
That headline again: London Bombings Trouble Muslim Community.
Addendum: The news that the man who was shot was apparently not a terrorist is tragic, but of-course does not change the facts of what the police believed themselves to be dealing with at the time.
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