UK - Met scheme aims to identify Muslim extremists

The Guardian reports.

"Scotland Yard has drawn up plans for a "safety foundation" which would identify extremists within Muslim communities across the UK and which could be up and running within six months. The project is the brainchild of Tarique Ghaffur, Britain's most senior Muslim officer, who is an assistant commissioner at Scotland Yard. He suggests the foundation will identify and combat extremism and act as a thinktank analysing "the dynamics of disaffection"."

But according to the government, terrorism has nothing to do with one community. As for "analysing the dynamics of disaffection", you might want to start with the Saudi backed Wahabis operating in Britain, especially at our universities.

Isn't this racial profiling?

"It would also ask countries such as Pakistan to monitor young British Muslims travelling in groups. One aim would to be to "debrief some of these young people academically or theologically".

But there is much more to worry about in Mr Ghaffur's statements. He "estimates that less than 1% of the Muslim community is prey to extremism" and "there is a "frightening aggression" among some young Muslims, born from factors including anger at foreign policy." Several reports, including some from the Met itself put that figure much higher, in double digits in fact. Mr Ghaffur is in serious denial if he thinks foreign policy is to blame, it may be used as a propaganda tool but the root causes of Islamic terrorism are based in ideology - not what we do but who we are. Worse still Mr Ghaffur "urged politicians not to speak of a war against terrorism, but instead a battle against criminals. "When you use the language of terrorism, people switch off." When you don't identify the enemy that's attacking you, you lose.