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Extremists 'are targeting children'
Telegraph, UK ^

Posted on 09/15/2001 10:31:56 AM PDT by milestogo

Extremists 'are targeting children'
(Filed: 15/09/2001)

A SCHOOL librarian who witnessed Muslim pupils in their classroom celebrating the terrorist atrocities in America said she believes that fundamentalists peddling an extreme form of Islam are deliberately targeting Asian children in Britain.

The librarian said the 15-year-old pupils cheered and chanted anti-American slogans when one of their classmates walked into the room during registration, punching the air and shouting about the attacks. "I was sickened," she said. "I thought, 'Dear God, how can they behave like this?'."

The librarian asked not to be named for fear of reprisals against her and her Home Counties school, which has mainly Muslim pupils and where there have been vicious assaults, threats and arson. "I was with an Indian member of staff. Because she is a Hindu they despise her as well.

"She said to me, 'I cannot bear to watch this', and we closed the door, leaving them with their teacher who said nothing. She has been told by the head teacher that it is better not to interfere.

"So instead of the school being able to take a moral lead and to use the attacks as a means of having a discussion about values and rights and wrongs, we have to let it pass unremarked. It is heart-breaking. I have decided to leave the school because I feel absolutely powerless."

The librarian, who has worked at the comprehensive school for two years, said: "About 95 per cent of the 560 pupils are of Muslin origin." Most originate from three villages in the disputed Mirpur region of Kashmir on India's border with Pakistan. Large numbers have settled in the school's catchment area.

"It is like a parallel universe. They have created a Kashmiri ghetto, and the children are not allowed to adopt any western values or customs.

"Some of the children are a real worry. We have pupils who will come up to you and smile sweetly and say something in Urdu. Later you discover that they have called you a bitch.

"But most of them are decent kids and so are their families. Yet whereas Indian children are encouraged at school, the Pakistanis are not.

"They watch only Pakistani programmes on cable or satellite. Their mothers never learn to speak English. The girls are treated as second class and all are sent home to marry their first cousins in pre-arranged weddings. They receive no support in their studies.

"If we interfere we are called racists. Yet they hate Sikhs with a vengeance, they hate Hindus and Afro-Caribbeans, and they don't much like us either. They will go Sikh-bashing at the weekend.

"When I have offered advice to a Muslim girl who came to me and said, 'Please miss, I don't want to get married', I am not supposed to offer her any help. I am not meant to say, 'You are in Britain. This is a free country. You don't have to do anything against your will.' "

The librarian said that although parents actively resisted any assimilation - packing children off to Kashmir if they showed signs of becoming westernised - she did not believe that the scenes she witnessed in the classroom were inspired in the home.

"Most are not sophisticated enough for that. Other forces are at work, maybe through their Muslim youth leaders and out on the streets. We recently had Islamic literature circulating that was deeply offensive.

"Islam is being peddled to these kids. They are told to hate the West, and America in particular. These children are victims, growing up in a country they are forbidden to become a part of and encouraged to despise the people they live amongst."


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1 posted on 09/15/2001 10:31:56 AM PDT by milestogo
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To: milestogo
If I lived in any European country with a large Muslim population, I would be very worried.
2 posted on 09/15/2001 10:38:56 AM PDT by independentmind
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To: independentmind
The US has 6 million muslims. I think we should be worried too. I would support sending all visa holders back to their home countries.
3 posted on 09/15/2001 10:44:12 AM PDT by Gladwin
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To: Gladwin
I live in New Jersey, parts of which are filled with Muslims. You do not need to tell me to be worried.
4 posted on 09/15/2001 10:47:28 AM PDT by independentmind
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To: milestogo
The Serbs don't look so bad now, do they?
6 posted on 09/15/2001 10:50:32 AM PDT by Hildy
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To: Hildy
The kids werent born with the hatred. They were taught to hate. Its really sad.
7 posted on 09/15/2001 10:51:42 AM PDT by milestogo
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To: freedom_from_socialism
Bye bye...

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8 posted on 09/15/2001 10:53:34 AM PDT by Lurker
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To: milestogo
...sent home to marry their first cousins in pre-arranged weddings.

So many questions are answered by the above.

9 posted on 09/15/2001 10:54:03 AM PDT by Senator Pardek
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To: milestogo
With the hatred being so widespread in the Moslem world, it becomes very easy to find highly skilled people for these terror attacks. This is very bad because they could poison the water supply, or blow up gas mains. I still think the solution is to send all visa holders to their home countries. Current American citizens who are Moslem are hopefully assimilated. But if one of their ranks did participate in terror, the situation in this country would get very bad.
10 posted on 09/15/2001 10:59:19 AM PDT by Gladwin
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To: milestogo
I think it's time to realize that the extremeist muslims are as dangerous as Hilter was to the survival of all nations. No one is excluded. Perhaps this will get the Chinese to stop selling them the arms they need.
11 posted on 09/15/2001 11:01:39 AM PDT by Aggie Mama
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To: Aggie Mama
Perhaps this will get the Chinese to stop selling them the arms they need.

The Chinese are expansionist. They worry about Islam, but they are perfectly willing to "ride the tiger" for a while. The Russians, on the other hand, have bigger Muslim worries, and they SHOULD be worrying about the Chinese. They are our natural allies in this.

12 posted on 09/15/2001 11:17:27 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: milestogo
The ones who run are terrorists.

The ones who stand still are well disciplined terrorists!

13 posted on 09/15/2001 1:24:49 PM PDT by Hitlerys uterus
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To: Senator Pardek
There's a West Virginia joke in there somewhere...
14 posted on 09/15/2001 1:34:08 PM PDT by Skip Ripley
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To: Hildy
Unfortunately Americans never learned the role of the Serbs, the Russians, going back to the Tatars, in preventing the continent of Europe from falling under Islamic rule.

Multiculturalism, racism, bigotry, tolerance, hegemonists are all code words designed to neuter Western society from asserting itself and continue its dominance of the age. This is the culture war exposed in all its nakedness. Not a pretty sight.

15 posted on 09/15/2001 1:56:08 PM PDT by Hostage
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To: Gladwin
The US has 6 million muslims. I think we should be worried too. I would support sending all visa holders back to their home countries.

And if just one in a thousand is willing to make trouble, that's 6,000 incidents. And making trouble need not involve death, or even be a serious crime. While I decline to go into specifics, think of the mischief that could occur if such a plan were pursued.

16 posted on 09/15/2001 2:04:31 PM PDT by neutrino (neutrino)
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To: neutrino
And the other thing too is that we have an open border with Canada. It seems like Canada lets terrorists in to their country because they know the terrorists aren't going to hurt them! Perhaps it is time to have strict controls on our borders with Canada.

Also, there is so much danger to ordinary citizens from people with bad intentions. Think about all the damage one person could do - my examples in a previous post are only the beginning.

Democracy is a difficult system of government because it depends on good people. When extremists like these Muslim terrorists infiltrate our society and uses our good nature against us, it threatens our democracy. People will use this incident to try and take away our liberties - other articles have made this clear. For example, internet wiretapping is being talked about, but it is not clear that would have prevented this attack. These men knew each other in their home countries, and came here as a terrorist unit. Stopping them at the border and turning them away could have prevented this. It would have been the best way of preventing this.

Since we don't know the intentions of visa holders currently in this country, they should be sent back to their home countries. We should also attack the leaders and propagandists in the Arab world. They are poisoning the hearts of their people, in an attempt to hold on to power. We should also declare war on the governments of Syria, Iraq, and Iran because of their continuing support of terrorists. Their governments should be replaced, much like occupied Germany and Japan.

If we don't do this, the next incident could kill hundreds of thousands, not five thousand. Think nuclear, biological, or chemical weapons.

17 posted on 09/15/2001 4:10:52 PM PDT by Gladwin
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