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…..
Then there’s stuff like this…
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.