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UK Warned Over “Nazi Style” Attitude Towards Muslims

By Manila Ryce
Published Monday, November 12th, 2007, 3:58 am
Filed under: Society/Culture: Civil Unrest, Human Rights, World: Europe, Society/Culture: Religion, Terrorism, World Issues, Society/Culture: Racism, Society/Culture

Muhammad Abdul Bari of the Muslim Council of Britain said on Saturday that there is “a disproportionate amount of discussion” about Muslims in the UK which creates an atmosphere of “suspicion and unease”. He likened the climate of fear against Muslims to that in Nazi Germany. “Every society has to be really careful so the situation doesn’t lead us to a time when people’s minds can be poisoned as they were in the 1930s.”

Bari continued, “What you had in the 1930s was all sorts of popular fictions were spread about the Jewish community that they were responsible for all ills that were occurring to Germany. They were made into folk-devils and I think there is a danger that the word ‘Muslim’ in the UK is becoming synonymous with bad news.” According to a 2001 census, there are about 1.6 million Muslims in the UK out of an overall population of around 60 million.

Abul Bari also criticized Jonathan Evans, head of the M15 (the UK’s domestic intelligence agency), for recent comments which he felt were “creating a scare in the community and wider society”. Evans had earlier claimed that there were 2,000 people living in the UK who posed a terrorism-related danger, and said that organizations like al-Qaeda were targeting Britain’s children.

Bari further criticized the very language used by officials. He said it is inappropriate to describe people as “Islamic terrorists,” as officials never called the Irish Republican Army (IRA) “Catholic terrorists”.

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4 Responses to “UK Warned Over “Nazi Style” Attitude Towards Muslims”

  1. This is a ridiculous ploy to create an injustice where there isn’t one. Muhammad Abdul Bari incorrectly states that the government is being racist in its reports. If what the government says is true then in no way can it be considered racist. If he was a Muslim and also a terrorist than it’s not a stretch to say Muslim terrorists.

    John
    11/12/07 at 3:45 pm

  2. @John
    I do believe you’ve missed the point. Why even mention that a suspect is Muslim? The largest terrorist caches in the West have been found at the homes of white Anglo-Saxon Protestants. When was the last time you heard an official refer to someone as a “Protestant Terrorist”? The reason for mentioning the religion of a suspect is a purely xenophobic one.

    Manila Ryce
    11/12/07 at 3:56 pm

  3. Thank you for posting this. It’s great to hear a voice of dissent on this issue.

    Sam
    11/12/07 at 4:00 pm

  4. I think that consciously or not, Muslims are called out. And that it is often very conscious. These are dark and dangerous times with so much time projecting evil out and not any introspective, intelligent or peace breeding behavior to balance it it out.

    FranIAm
    11/12/07 at 9:59 pm

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