London Muslim was outraged when I saw the front cover of the Independent this morning on the Tube.
Initially I thought the idea of our dim wits in the Keystone cops handing over the entire data from the personal files of British Muslims studying at UCL had to be an April Fool. Sadly this is no April fool.
The overriding lesson I think Muslims need to accept is we are under the microscope like probably no other community although Catholics in London during the IRA bombing campaign may beg to differ.
Whatever your social class from a neuroscience student to an unemployed youth on a council estate if you are a Muslim and innocent you may end up on a terrorist watch list for the Spooks to subsequently have fun with rendition and water boarding.
British Muslims please wake up and fight for our political salvation because ultimately nobody else will unless your name is Gareth Pierce the human rights lawyer.
My message to the boys in blue and spooks who I know read this blog is you cannot continue to treat us like fifth columnists without expecting a reaction. London Muslim can sense the unrest in our community as our backs are continually being pressed to the wall.
Lets be perfectly clear what is going on. Judges handed down some of the most extreme sentences during the Gaza demonstrations to young Muslims and anyone on that march like I was know what the Police did in the Strand Underpass. The Met, now that Tariq Ghaffaur is out of the way are laying a trap hoping we take the bait presumably during a hot summer in order for them to rush an emergency budget request for extra funding to have new toys before 2012.
Muslims open your eyes and like a black man did in the USA, lets work on a Muslim man or woman taking political control in the UK then holding these out of control charlatans to account. Inshallah our time will also come.