Creating a Climate of Fear

More scaremongering, more hysteria, more Islamophobia.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/terrorism/story/0,,1781844,00.html

If someone can explain the following, I would be very grateful:

a) Why is it necessary to deploy over 500 police officers to arrest 8, perhaps 9 men, in the middle of the night while they are fast asleep? Mind you, it did take 50 to disarm Brian Haw of his placards about the same time of night. It does however explain why when there is a real need for police presence, as in the tragic stabbings in Tooting about a month ago, they are nowhere to be seen.

b) One of the accusations against Sanabel (put aside the links to "terrorism" in Iraq for a moment), which it denies, is that it has links to the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group which strives to overthrow that tinpot dictator Colonel Qadhafi. As is clearly evidenced from Sanabel's accounts available on the Charity Commission's website (http://www.charity-commission.gov.uk/registeredcharities/ScannedAccounts%5CEnds69%5C0001083469_AC_20050228_001_01_E_C.pdf), it is a relief organisation doing amazing work, may Allah protect them.

But even if it is true that Sanabel is assisting the LIFG, what is wrong with this? It is justifiable under international law, under natural law and lets be honest, the West will do it in a few years anyways, with far greater casualties and instability.

Here is yet another example of events around the world which have nothing to do with Britain, pose no threat whatsoever to the British public, the British government or British national security; yet, Britain feels obliged to persecute those suspected of sympathising with their just cause.

Why? Because an attack on one of these governments is an attack on them all. As Muslims, we should remind these governments that we live and die by a similar code.