Re: Brit Police point Guns at head of 12 year-old Muslim boy
Funny what just a little investigation can turn up. Turns out this “story” in the “Muslim News” is nearly a word for word copy of a similar article published by the highly left wing reporter Vikram Dodd. Now anybody who has ever considered college plagiarism can recognize certain passages are identical, and certain passages are slightly changed from version to version. Now Vikram Dodd is about as far away from a “neutral” reporter as one can get. Most of the published articles are of the highly charged quasi-tabloid fare that most Muslims and leftys seem to enjoy. The Muslim News article was published on the 26th, the Guardain on the 28th. Very peculiar.
Here is the Guardian article:
Armed police ‘pushed elderly Muslim woman’
Vikram Dodd
Thursday July 28, 2005
The Guardian
A Muslim woman suffered a suspected heart attack after plain-clothes armed police allegedly pushed her when she tried to shield her grandson from guns they were pointing at him.
Kadija Hassan, 74, was in hospital yesterday after being taken ill on Friday.
She had been walking with her daughter Aziza, 39, and 12-year-old grandson from their west London home to a mosque when they were confronted. Aziza said: “Three undercover police jumped out with guns. They were shouting ‘put your hands up, against the wall, face the wall’. The … men had guns and were pointing them at my son’s head. My mum put her arm towards my son, and they pushed her against the wall.”
Mrs Hassan, who does not want her son named, added: “My mum began to breathe very heavily, and police called an ambulance.”
She says she was kept in a police station for eight hours. Scotland Yard said it would investigate.
**Mrs Hassan says police asked her about her former husband, Abbi Omar, who they thought might be linked to the men suspected of last week’s failed suicide attacks in London.
She said Mr Omar, 41, of Tulse Hill, south London, had visited on July 15 to say goodbye to the children because he was going abroad. He said he would be back in Britain on July 24 but has been uncontactable since.
The family flat, where he stayed occasionally, was raided by police last Friday. Mrs Hassan and the three children were allowed to return yesterday.**
Inayat Bunglawala of the Muslim Council of Britain said the incident would “not go down well in the Muslim community … The family should not be made to suffer for what the ex husband may or may not have done”.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1537458,00.html
Here is the Muslim News article:
Guns pointed at head of 12 year-old Muslim boy
By Elham Asaad Buaras
An elderly Somali Muslim woman suffered a minor heart attack after under cover armed police allegedly pushed her when she tried to shield her grandson from guns they were pointing at him. 12-year-old Ahmed told The Muslim News, “I was in shock when it all happened. Three men jumped out of the car screamed, ‘stop’ and pointed the gun at me. That’s when my grandmother stepped in, but she was pushed away by one of the men. Then she collapsed.”
Ahmed said the whole street was cordoned off as paramedics tended to his grandmother who was “panting heavily on the floor” during that time. Ahmed was separated from his mother who was taken away and told to change into “a white outfit”.
“It was only when another officer started to question me that I knew they were police. He asked me ‘where’s your dad?’ And, ‘who lives in your house?’ I was alone when he questioned me.”
“I think about what happened to me a lot, I don’t go out and don’t feel the same. I was shocked before but now I’m angry at the way the police treated us.”
Khadijah Hassan, 74, was taken to hospital after she was pushed by the police on Friday July 22. She was walking with her daughter, Aziza, 39, and 12-year-old grandson, Ahmed Omar, from their west London home to a local mosque in Harrow Road, London, when they were confronted by armed plain clothes police.
Aziza related to The Muslim News the incident: “Three undercover police jumped out with guns. They were shouting ‘put your hands up, against the wall, face the wall.’ They pointed the gun at my son’s head. When my mum put her arm around my son they pushed her against the wall. She walks with a stick. She can’t control her balance. The stick fell down and she fell in the corner. She started breathing very heavily. It is then that the police called an ambulance.”
Aziza, who has two other children aged nine and 10, said she was still in a state of shock. She said, “I was shaking, I couldn’t control it. It’s a horrible feeling. Always innocent people pay the price. It’s really horrible.”
***She was kept in a police station for eight hours, where she was questioned on the whereabouts of her former husband, Abbi Omar, suspected of being linked to the July 21, botched terror bombings. *
Omar of Tulse Hill, south London, had visited his family on July 15, to say goodbye to the children because he was going abroad. He said he would be back in Britain on July 24, but has been un-contactable since. Police raided the family flat, where he stayed occasionally, on the same day. **Muslim Council of Britain, spokesman, Inayat Bunglawala, told The Muslim News the incident would not “go down well in the Muslim community…the family should not be made to suffer for what the ex husband may or may not have done.” **
Speaking to The Muslim News at her hospital bed in St Mary’s Hospital, Paddington, London, an emotional Khadijah said she felt “great pain in her chest” when she was “pushed by officers.” Khadijah was discharged from hospital on Saturday August 6.
Aziza said the police’s behaviour has resulted in the family being left housebound, “I’ve been really scared, I don’t feel I can come out just yet. We’ve done nothing wrong but I really fear a backlash. My friends do my shopping for me now.”
She said the incident had destroyed her faith in the police. “They have to do these things but why didn’t they come and knock on the door and look in the house?”
“I just want to stay in peace. I just want to respect the law in the country. I want to be one of the British people,” she said.
The family insist they have not had an apology or an explanation into the incident. Aziza has been in contact with her solicitor and is being advised to take legal action against the police. A spokesperson for the police told The Muslim News, “We find media reports into the incident disturbing, we have yet to receive a complaint but we will be looking into the matter.”
http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/paper/index.php?article=2066
