As David has noted the BBC has leapt upon the words of ex-chief Superintendent Dal Babu as he tries to discredit the ‘Prevent’ programme….and there is remarkably little comment on the BBC from people who would say otherwise.
Discrediting the ‘Prevent’programme is the Holy Grail for Islamic extremists, amongst others, and Babu’s words align neatly with their own rhetoric about the programme and do great damage as they give authority and credibility to those extremists.
Here is an example of how such reckless statements can be exploited by those who wish to stir up conflict to ‘divide and rule’….from the Iranian ‘Press TV’….
British state spies on Muslims
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOOWPFfyyiU
I’m uncertain why the thoughts of a copper who retired 2 years ago are so significant. The fact he is a Muslim should raise a few sceptical eyebrows about his motives, ala Baroness Warsi, but the BBC has swallowed his line completely.
Babu’s personnel file stated that..
“This officer is over-racially sensitive”.
And indeed he has almost made a career out of complaining about the alleged lack of diversity in the Police service including the founding of the National Association of Muslim Police.
A classic example of his thinking as to why we need more diversity…
“It’s about having that cultural understanding when you’re planning the firearms operation – do you understand the cultural aspects that might be misinterpreted as being aggression within a particular community?”
“Do you understand when communities are praying on a particular day?”
Who cares? Blow someone up and you’re nicked son! Allah might forgive you but the Met. won’t…however much you pray.
Babu claims that ‘Prevent’ hasn’t prevented Muslims from being radicalised…but how does he know that? It’s difficult to prove a negative and very easy to see the Muslims who do go to the Dark Side, especially when the BBC gives them blanket coverage.
How many people who go to AA or drug rehabilitation come out cured? I’m betting a good many fail to clean up their act whilst many others succeed…would those programmes be judged to have failed because of the few backsliders?
Apart from that Babu’s very own NAMP set up their own mentoring programme for young Muslims, the NAMP Youth Mentoring Scheme….
The project was initially launched in 2007 in Brick Lane and, following its success in this predominantly Bangladeshi community, it was extended in 2008 to the London boroughs of Harrow and Tower Hamlets. The scheme is specifically aimed at engaging with groups of Muslim youths who have been identified for specific reasons such as truancy or behavioural issues.
Has that scheme prevented any Muslim youths from being radicalised? Obviously not judging by his own criteria for ‘Prevent’…..
Mr Babu, who retired from the Metropolitan Police two years ago, said cases like those of the three London schoolgirls who have gone to Syria had caught the authorities unaware.
Why did his own mentoring scheme not prevent those three girls from joining the Jihad? After all he is a Muslim, the NAMP is Muslim and therefore, by his own criteria, with their indepth cultural knowledge and sensitivities, have been able to stop those girls. But they didn’t. The NAMP mentoring scheme failed…is it a ‘Toxic Brand’?
As for Police officers not understanding Islam….you must be kidding…with all the diversity training they get…and fair do’s, they get their training about radicalisation from the very people that would know…..
U.K. Police Trained at Islamic School at Center of Terror Probe
Then there’s stuff like this…
Working with faith communities
A guide for neighbourhood policing teams and partners
Shame the BBC doesn’t look a bit deeper…but then Babu’s narrative is one that fits neatly with their own….Muslims under siege and radicalised because of it.
But then again the BBC has always told us that Islam has no part to play in the radicalisation and motivation for the various jihadis….
Why then is it relevant for police officers to need to know anything about Islam? Surely it is a straight forward matter of good old fashioned police work to find the bad guys.
Muslims have long been in denial about any link between their religion and what is going on…not all Muslims are terrorists, but most terrorists are Muslim these days.
We are told that we shouldn’t be asking Muslims to explain, apologise or otherwise intervene in radicalisation because Islam has nothing to do with events but now we are told that non-Muslims shouldn’t intervene because they don’t know anything about Islam…which kind of leaves no one in charge of tackling the issues if Muslims themselves refuse to accept responsibility and non-Muslims aren’t allowed to.
All of which suits the radicals.
Why isn’t the BBC delving deeper into the issues? Its Rochdale, Rotherham, Derby, Oxford all over again….this time though its the much cherished liberal democracy that’s getting shafted as the BBC looks away due to ‘race sensitivities’…not that Islam is a race…it’s an ideology the same as Fascism, Communism or whatever we get shoved through our doors from the Political Parties in the next month or so.
The Islamic community especially the MCB have bitched about Prevent from day one:
MCB voices concerns against Prevent strategy
Participants of a community briefing organised by the Muslim Council of Britain to review the results of Prevent 2011 strategy have urged the government to initiate programs of community engagement rather than isolating communities in the name of prevention.
MCB’s secretary general Farooq Murad said that Muslims are against all types of violence and terrorism of any kind and as a representative body of the British Muslims the council has always vehemently condemned acts of terrorism. Criticising the previous Labour government for its prevent strategy, he said the program consumed £80 million of the taxpayers money without yielding desired results.
He said the program was aimed at limiting Muslims’ political views in the name of preventing extremism. The current government though had ordered review of the Prevent strategy but report of the review has been awaited for over a year. “The government that seems to continue the Prevent strategy must keep in mind that not even all of our apprehensions have proved correct the strategy has also casted negative impact on the targeted community.”
Mr Murad said that such policies have increased Islamophobia in the country and the Muslims feel alienated from rest of the society. “The government must address Muslim community’s apprehensions in the review and will have to find whether only the Muslims are the problem.”
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The policy should be to prevent Muslims from enetering the UK. And if they are alredy here, not preventing them to leave the UK.
The BBC and the authorities show how much they care, by the amount of fuss they have made over those three ISIS “service” girls that went off to Syria. But they couldn’t be bothered when tens of thousands of young girls were being subjected to brutal gang rape for months,
Damn lost an entire post. in a nutshell the MCB were sidelined by the previous government after being brought in by Blair in which to find out why Muslims wanted to blow up London in 2005. Their answer ‘Get rid of holocaust day as Muslims find it offence
The problem for the MCB was the Labour government took offence at them and cut them off from any further government funding . Since then the bBC has been a cheer leader for the MCB in which to try and get them funded by the taxpayer yet again. Anyway here is the press conference the MCB gave complete with white apologist in Sept 2011 2 months after the prevent strategy came out.
In otherwords the MCB has from day one refused to cooperate with the government in trying to clampdown on Islamic terrorism, unless they are allowed to be brought in on the act (funded of course) and allow them to naturally have their way in dictating British home and foreign policy to their advantage.
Funding cut for extremist groups in terrorism review
The only religion that is causing problems in this country is Islam; Christians, Jews, Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, New Agers etc… none of them to my knowledge cause any difficulties at all. The Left want Islam to replace Christianity and thus have constructed a new social reality in which all criticism of Islam is forbidden.
The left has always seen Christianity as a threat. Whether it was Hungary, Russia or the USSR, Christianity was always seen that way. And with good reason.
And it was also the good Christains of Austria, Serbia, Spain, Poland and France that drove out Islam from Europe. If that hadnt happened, Europe would be Islamic, and Western civilisation would not exist.
Why is it that you lot on here continue to blame everything that’s wrong with the country on anybody apart from Scameron. Is this anti-BBC or pro-Tory! Believe me you aint gonna save this country by voting for that dildo! I thought most intelligent people realized by now that the Lib/Lab/Con should be thrown in to the dustbin of history. This is my final comment the Tories are NOT going to scrap the licence-fee. Just like they’ll never control immigration or get us out of the eu. Scameron is pro-green, pro-eu, pro-Yooman Rights, pro-Muslim, pro-foreign-aid which he ringfenced! He supports a european army as well! He’s even reviving the demented idea of regionalising England! Vote Ukip!
Kicking off with ‘you lot’… never going to end well.
Kicking off with ‘you lot’… never going to end well.
Nice to see that Pounce’s abusive comments (specifically aimed at me, even though I didn’t write the post he was responding to) have been deleted (although they live on in my RSS feed reader). Maybe Biased BBC’s moderators have finally woken up to his behaviour?
Don’t feed the troll