Posted on 07/22/2005 8:37:07 AM PDT by Pikamax
Change foreign policy - top Muslims 22 July 2005
Senior Muslims have warned the Government that it needed to revise British foreign policy if it wants to put an end to the violence.
Dr Azzam Tamimi, from the Muslim Association of Britain, said the country was in real danger and that this would continue so long as British forces remained in Iraq.
He described the July 7 bombings and the attempted attacks in London on Thursday as "horrifying" but said it was not enough to simply unite in condemnation of the bombers.
Dr Tamimi, speaking after a Sky News debate in Birmingham, said: "The latest developments very clearly show this is a very big thing. It's not just a few individuals from Leeds. I think it's time everybody got serious and engaged in an attempt to prevent it. Part of that would be to understand what's going on.
"7/7, 21/7, and God knows what will happen afterwards, our lives are in real danger and it would seem, so long as we are in Iraq and so long as we are contributing to injustices around the world, we will continue to be in real danger.
"Tony Blair has to come out of his state of denial and listen to what the experts have been saying, that our involvement in Iraq is stupid." His comments were echoed by the marketing manager for The Muslim Weekly newspaper.
Shahid Butt said he believed the threat to Britain would reduce if it pulled its troops out of Iraq. He said: "At the end of the day, these things [violent incidents] are going to happen if current British foreign policy continues. There's a lot of rage, there's a lot of anger in the Muslim community.
"We have got to get out of Iraq, it is the crux of the matter. I believe if Tony Blair and George Bush left Iraq and stopped propping up dictatorial regimes in the Muslim world, the threat rate to Britain would come down to nearly zero."
Massoud Shadjareh, chair of the Islamic Human Rights Commission, also called on the Government to take responsibility for creating the "political environment" in which these attacks have happened.
He said: "Now we know this wasn't a one-off, we need to look at ways of addressing the underlying factors that created it. I feel it's urgent to start addressing these before there is further loss of life."
Wanker! They just don't understand us do they?
Here we go!
"Do what we want and we will stop the violence...."
Excuse me!
Arrest them for inciting terrorist acts. Fill the prisons with these murderers.
Show them terrorism, extortion, violence do not work against the government.
Translation: Blackmail
Cave in to our demands or face the bombers.
Hmmmm.....They are stupid.
Is this the moderate voice of Islam?
The UK ragheads look to be setting the agenda these days. Hope the rest of the Brits go along meekly. (sarc)
Terrorists to Britain: Surrender.
Clearly lost in the modern world. This explains the new rules of engagement in London.
I know how to stop the violence.
Close the mosques. Continue shooting muslims who act suspciously. Turn loose the hooligans. Free one way tickets to any Middle East country for muslims.
Time to put panties on their heads!
They are the spokesmen for Terrorism. They are the Gerry Adams of this struggle. They're as disgusting as the bombers. Here's an idea. Get out if you don't like British policy. Go live your life in the benighted backwaters you came from under the terroristic autocrats who you speak for now. If you cannot love a free country, then leave it you scum of the earth.
Get a rope.
I'm sure there are more than a few in the UK that want to bring Neville Chamberlain's umbrella out of storage and "achieve peace in our time."
Muslim leaders to Britain:
"Surrender or die".
I have a suggestion: Get two Brit anti-terrorist cops to hold Dr. Tamimi down while a third shoots him five times in the head. It seemed to do the trick for that fellow earlier today.
How are we supposed to tell the radical muslims from the moderate ones if they all use the same talking points?
One arm of the Islamic Domination Front dicates to its
victims how to avoid violent conflict...
I think Hitler first proposed something like this..
It went something along the lines of...
"If you surrender completely and cease your struggles against
there will be no more bombing...If you Jews surrender without
any struggle we will relocate you all to nice summer villas"
When our leaders allow our enemies to dictate our actions
against them...when we allow our leaders to sell us out to our enemies we are finished as a people as a nation..
imo
Deport them to Pakistan NOW!
Everyone of these clerics should immediately arrested on charges of blackmail and extortion.
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