Quagmire?
Posted on 10/02/2006 1:03:08 PM PDT by Republicain
A teenager was stabbed when hundreds of people became involved in a battle on the streets of Preston. Trouble centred on the Jamea Masjid mosque in Clarendon Street, Avenham, for more than four hours last night (Sunday) and led to a massive policing operation.
Preston's police chief said the problems were triggered by local youths throwing stones at cars belonging to people attending the mosque.
This sparked a response from around 200 people inside the mosque who came out to defend those under attack.
It resulted in one 16-year-old Asian youth being stabbed in the arm, but ambulance crews were turned back as the police felt it was too dangerous for them to enter the scene.
Fighting continued into the early hours and led to police requiring back-up from officers as far away as Lancaster and Burnley.
Chief Supt Mike Barton, divisional commander for the area, said more than 100 officers were deployed and he was treating the incident as race-related.
He said: "Some people I spoke to at the mosque insisted it wasn't racial but I think some people at the mosque believe it was.
"Until we actually find the offenders and speak to them, and because some people believe it to be racial, then that's how we'll treat it."
Insp Simon Hayes, force incident manager for Lancashire Police, described the incident as "community tension" with youths on the streets in a "confrontational mood".
He said: "As a result of that, there was a high-level policing operation to reassure the public and disperse these groups.
"There was no major disorder or serious incident."
Ilyas Desail, of the Jamea mosque on Clarendon Street, said: "It is not a mosque issue, it is a community issue.
"It is the month of Ramadan and that is the only reason the mosque has been brought into this.
"We are all upset by this, everyone is upset. No one is going to be happy with the tarnishing of such great efforts we have made in Preston in the past 40 years."
A mother-of-three, 33, from Clarendon Street, said: "It's getting ridiculous and for the past two nights there's been fighting."
Its a quagmire! The Brits need to pull out of Lancaster now!
Huh.
Whoa.
"Triggered by" -- actually, People who have had it with Islam and the ROP and a bunch of baloney that's been coming down for the last 20 years.
I think the chickens are coming home to roost. First the guys in Australia who stood up to the gangs roaming the beaches. Then the Pope and the Prime Minister of Australia. Now this. People are not buying the CAIR diversity baloney. (Not to lump the Pope with street gangs ....)
Something in it is SO RIGHT.
Just the beginning, I bet.
Quagmire?
Be interesting to see if this spreads tonite.
This may be off-point but I just returned from London. On the way to the airport, there were at least three huge billboards on the highway (M4?) that read, "Has anything good ever come from America?". There was no credit on the billboard. I came very close to tears although the cab driver didn't notice.
I guess Great Britain has chosen sides on the war with Fascism.
I thought it was a political ideology like Marxism and Nazism.
So did I.
Like besides British ass? It's that bad over there?
Nam Vet
This is a strange article. 200 people poured out (one stabbed) and there is no description of the perps throwing rocks (and presumably armed with a knife).
Was this 1, 10, 50 youths? Male, female, mixed? What race?
I recall reading recently of brawls between blacks, primarily of Caribbean descent, and "Asians" (often Brit press code for people of Pakistani extraction) in another English city. I wonder if that's what this is.
Joh 1:45-46 GNB
(45) Philip found Nathanael and told him, "We have found the one whom Moses wrote about in the book of the Law and whom the prophets also wrote about. He is Jesus son of Joseph, from Nazareth."
(46) "Can anything good come from Nazareth?" Nathanael asked. "Come and see," answered Philip.
What needs to be done, is that we need a British John Howard who will basically say, either accept our values or get the hell out.
Regards, Ivan
""Asians" (often Brit press code for people of Pakistani extraction)""
Pakistani, Indian or Bangladeshi normally. It's not 'press code' though, it's common usage.
Shouldn't we try to understand the rock-throwers? Find out what their grievances are and establish a dialouge? The police action seems so unilateral...
;-)
I only know London people and they all seem to hate Americans and Jews. I know people outside of London are different: I just never seem to get to meet them. What really bothers me is that due to business concerns, I keep having to give my dollars to the London economy...
""Has anything good ever come from America?""
Has ANYTHING GOOD EVER come from Islam?
I wonder if they were Chavs?
It's a campaign for a new TV show, yet to be aired, highlighting the good and bad of American Television that has landed on our shores.
That's all.
They must define things differently over there. When was the last time we had a riot of any proportion? The Rodney King incident?
Well, the press is supposed to prize accuracy. I don't know whether or not non-Muslim "Indians" (Sikhs, Hindus, whatever) do a lot of street brawling, but if they do I've never read about it. If that is the case then simply referring to "Asians" omits information the reader may find useful.
Thank you, but my heart is still breaking over that billboard.
It only took 50 odd years for the Brits to forget the blood, sweat and treasure America spent to keep that nation free. The sad thing is that if they were attacked in a major way we would come to their aid again, in spite of their hate.
Hmmm. Looks like a bit of a jihad against jihadists is a' brewin'.
Producter must be owned by Cox, who does the same sort of billboard media blitz stuff.
Tensions have been building between whites and Pakistanis over the past year in Preston. It is more about economics than it is religion.
"but my heart is still breaking over that billboard."
Mad is better than sad, ma'am.
"If that is the case then simply referring to "Asians" omits information the reader may find useful."
No more than 'black', 'white' etc. I imagine the information came from the police in any case.
Sorry, it doesn't wash. The billboards are very big, with huge white lettering against a black background, posted for people returning to Heathrow Airport. No one on the billboard takes credit for the ad.
It's disgusting whether it's done by a tv organization or some left wing group.
..if ya think about the last 10 years you'll see where your problem lies. If you don't address the "problem" and enforce British law, rock throwing and near riot, will seem like a mere "touch up" to use a British phrase.
Doogle
Chinese?
Japanese?
Korean?
Indian?
Nepalese?
Vietnamese?
Thai?
Indonesian?
Cambodian?
Turkish?
Burmese?
Laotian?
Lebanese?
Siberian?
Mongolian?
Tibetan?
If they mean Muslim - why not just say Muslim?
""Has anything good ever come from America?""
About 60 some odd years ago America made it possible for them to exist and hate us today.
Could we have made a mistake back then?
You can put up with some morons advertising telly.
Regards, Ivan
Hundreds of Muslims against hundreds of Muslims in England during Ramadan. ...interesting. The vague nature of statements to avoid details to be published to the "Arab world" and to the USA are also interesting.
I was watching that silly show "The Weakest Link" while in London. A question came up about the Marshall Plan (I'm not making this up!) but not one person knew what it was.
Just for the record, I don't think Great Britain benefitted from the Marshall Plan; am I right?
I read somewhere they were showing Oprah and Jerry Springer in the UK. What an embarassment.
Rather like having your neighbors over for dinner and your creepy Uncle shows up drunk and sobbing over his failed marriage.
Ivan, as I've said before, there is no CREDIT on the billboard. There is no way for a tourist to understand that this is some tv promotion - and, sorry, an anti-American one at that!
If I saw something like that about the British on the way to JFK airport, I'd be equally saddened and outraged. But we would never do that.
A little, but only after Roosevelt drained the British treasury in the preceding years.
"Preston's police chief said the problems were triggered by local youths throwing stones at cars belonging to people attending the mosque."
Looks like Preston's police chief is out of touch with local and global current events. Lest he would know that the trouble wasn't triggered by the "local youths."
and I bet they got it all on those fancy police cameras.
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