Muslims commit a disproportionate number of terror attacks, but that is largely obscured today by the propaganda myth that “white supremacists” actually constitute a bigger threat. Cage is a pro-jihad group, supporting the late jihad mastermind Anwar al-Awlaki and even hosting talks by him. They also once featured as a speaker the imam Shakeel Begg, who has said that it was “inspiring to be amongst some of our brothers who made hijra in the path of Allah, who made jihad in the path of Allah, who suffered in the path of Allah, our brothers from Guantanamo Bay. May Allah have mercy upon them, may Allah accept all their good deeds and all their fasting especially in the month of Ramadan, and may Allah grant them jannah [Paradise].” It’s a sign of how far gone Britain really is that an outfit so unsavory as Cage would be the darling of the trendy Left, and be showered with donations from Leftists who despise their own nation and heritage, while foes of jihad terror are demonized, marginalized, and banned from the country.
Meanwhile, the effect of this admitted “anecdotal evidence” about the supposedly “Islamophobic” treatment of Muslims in British airports will have the effect of making security officials afraid to detain Muslims for any reasons. This will clear away a key obstacle for jihad terrorists, and result in the deaths of more Infidels in shattered, staggering, dhimmi Britain.
“Detention of Muslims at UK ports and airports ‘structural Islamophobia,'” by Dan Sabbagh, Guardian, August 20, 2019 (thanks to Paul):
Muslims are being detained at ports and airports for up to six hours by law enforcement using controversial counter-terrorism powers so disproportionately that the practice has become Islamophobic, according to human rights group Cage.
The organisation added there is growing anecdotal evidence that Muslim women are being forced to remove their headscarves when stopped, even though the rate that such stops lead to a conviction is 0.007%, according to Cage’s analysis of 420,000 incidences.
Cage said it had made a compliant to the policing regulator, the Independent Office for Police Conduct, on behalf of 10 people, and had written to MPs on the all-party group on British Muslims to spell out the extent of its concerns with so-called schedule 7 stops.
In the letter, Adnan Siddiqui, the director of Cage, said that tens of thousands of people were being subject to “suspicionless stops” and that “the practice is a manifestation of structural Islamophobia, which is experienced as harassment”.
One Briton, Omer, who asked only to be identified by his first name, told the Guardian he had been stopped 40 times when returning to the UK since 2005 but has never been convicted of any offence.
Omer said: “I get stopped 95% of the time, coming back from Belgium, France and Italy.” He said he had become so fed up with being repeatedly questioned he often used one-word answers to reply.
A former medical professional, Omer was stopped at Heathrow returning from Lahore, Pakistan, after a flight in which he had helped a teenager having a fit. But on leaving the plane he was nevertheless questioned. “This is a law that is almost impossible to beat.”
Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act 2000 allows people to be detained at the border for up to six hours if law enforcement is concerned they could be engaged in terrorist activities. Detainees have no right to silence, must surrender their phones, computers and passwords and provide fingerprints and DNA on request.
One of Cage’s complaints is that the Home Office does not respond to freedom of information requests breaking down the number of people stopped by their religion. But a study conducted by Cambridge University researchers in 2014 concluded 88% of those stopped were Muslim….