The Guardian report on a protest campaign launched by British Muslims.
Hundreds of mosques have launched a protest campaign against the treatment of British Muslims arrested as part of the “war on terror”.
Amid rising anger in Muslim communities in London and other major cities, those who attended Friday prayers at mosques throughout London were urged to bombard the home secretary, David Blunkett… with letters of complaint about what they consider their loss of human rights.
My question is this: Why have we not heard of one mosque-launched protest campaign decrying the spilling of innocent blood in Islamic terrorist attacks? That is by far a more serious human rights problem.
But there’s more questions arising from this article.
Aafreen Khan, a spokeswoman for the Muslim Public Affairs Committee, added: “Out of 500 arrests since September 11, only 77 have been charged and two convicted.
Only? 77 out of 500 is over 15%. That seems like a large percentage to me. In any event, how else are you going to find the terrorists and those who finance them? It is unfortunate that they are found predominantly in one religious community, but perhaps if the community were unequivocal in their condemnation of terrorism, they would not be under suspicion.
