[size=18]Muslim leader assaulted at mosque[/size]A 53-year-old imam has been punched and kicked by a man who entered a mosque in the west end of Glasgow.
Strathclyde Police confirmed that the incident, at the Dawat ul Islam centre, happened at about 1800 BST on Friday.
Mohammed Shamsuddin was taken to the nearby Western Infirmary, but later discharged following treatment.
The suspect is described as white, possibly 35-45 years, approximately 5ft 7 to 5ft 9 tall, of medium build with short greying hair and wearing jeans.
Witnesses to the attack said the suspect verbally abused Imam Shamsuddin before punching and kicking him and then hitting him with a chair and other office equipment.
mam Shamsuddin is originally from Bangladesh and has been leading prayers at the mosque for seven years.
It can hold up to 250 worshippers and is frequented by students and staff at Glasgow University.
The religious leader's attacker fled after being confronted by other worshippers.
Abu Mohammed, who was in the building at the time, said: "I was downstairs getting ready for prayer when I heard a noise coming from upstairs.
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"Me and a few other people went upstairs to see what was going on and we saw the Imam being attacked.
"He had blood pouring down from his face, the attacker saw us and ran away."
Detective Inspector William Little said fortunately the victim's injuries were not serious.
He added: "I would appeal to anyone who may have seen the suspect hanging around the centre prior to the incident or making off afterwards to contact the police."
The mosque CCTV camera was not working at the time.
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Britain seems to be turning intolerant than I thought possible. Am I the only one who is seeing the atmosphere change over the last couple of months?
[color=magenta]Astagfirallah, may Allah bring justice
you aren't the only one seeing the atmosphere changing i think the feelings were always there but with recent events everythng has come to the surface, i have a sneaky suspicion things are gna get worse before they get any better[/color]
[b][color=DeepPink]O you who believe, If you help (in the cause of) Allah, He will help you, and make your foothold firm[/color][color=DeepSkyBlue] {Surah Muhammad7}[/color][/b]
Yes.
You are simply paranoid.
[b][color=indigo]No your not, this has been happening ever since 9/11 and 7/7.
The amount of attacks on the Muslims since those 2 events have risen drastically. [/color][/b]
i wouldn't say `drastically`
but yeah the numbers have increased to about an extra 10%
well that was the statistics i was told a while ago
[color=red]"The best of people are those who live longest and excel in their deeds, whereas the worst of people are those who live longest and corrupt their deeds." [Tirmidhî, Sahîh] [/color]
ever studied the christian history?
plenty of blood and guts in them
if not i suggest u do.
ppl have no right to treat us like crap because we are muslims
[color=red]"The best of people are those who live longest and excel in their deeds, whereas the worst of people are those who live longest and corrupt their deeds." [Tirmidhî, Sahîh] [/color]
I never said or thought that they did. I'm just saying generalizations happen regardless of religion.
[b][color=indigo]Racist dogs.
May Allah give the family Sabr Insha'allah.[/color][/b]
Doesnt it? The attacker was a typical white male, the victim was a bangladeshi ... you people and you're hate crimes... tut tut tut.
Back in BLACK
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O yeah..? :roll:
So what has?[/color][/b]
Islamophobes comfort themselves with the knowledge that Muslims are not a race. Muslims can be white, black, brown, whatever. Therefore attacking Muslims is, technically, not the same as being racist.
If a Muslim is attacked after being indoctrinated with Islamophobia, some people see it as justifiable becuase the attacker was not racist but acting in the interests of a "greater good" - to "resist Islamification/Dhimmitude".
But in this particular case, I suspect the attacker would not have attacked a white Muslim - he wouldn't associate Islam with whites. This is because the induced fear of Islam is based on ignorance (they're different from us and out to get us) and racism (they're not from around here and have big beards). That's why in the US Sikhs were attacked after 9/11 and not Aamish or Mormons.
[b]Attacks on Muslims rise after veils row[/b]
By Jason Bennetto, Ian Herbert and Jeremy Clarke
14 October 2006
Islamophobic attacks have surged in the past month in the wake of controversial remarks by ministers about British Muslims, say campaign groups.
The rise in verbal and physical assaults includes a spate of incidents in which Muslim women have been abused for wearing veils and scarves. They come in the week that the issue was raised by Jack Straw, the Leader of the Commons.
Muslim groups blame part of the rise in incidents, which also include assaults, firebombings and racist e-mails, on comments made by politicians and negative media reporting.
At least six Muslim women have been abused for wearing scarves or veils after Mr Straw said last week that he asks Muslim women who visit his constituency surgeries in Blackburn to remove their veil.
In one incident a Muslim woman aged in her 20s had her hijab or headscarf pulled off her head and thrown to the ground by a young white man while she was at Canning Town Tube station in east London. The attack happened on the same day that a Muslim woman had the veil torn from her face by a white man who uttered racial abuse as she waited at a bus- stop in Liverpool’s Toxteth district. Both incidents occurred last Friday - the day after Mr Straw described the veil as, “a visible statement of separation”.
There were also reports that a young Muslim girl wearing a veil in Mr Straw’s Blackburn constituency was confronted by three youths last Friday night. One allegedly threw a newspaper at her and shouted: “Jack has told you to take off your veil.”
Three days later, a 21-year-old Turkish student told Muslim News that she was standing outside a supermarket in Canterbury, Kent, wearing a hijab when she was verbally abused by a middle-aged white woman. The older woman told her she hated her being in Britain and wanted her to leave.
On the same day in Hackney, east London, a black Muslim woman wearing a veil was getting off a bus when a passenger shouted out: “Why don’t you show your, lovely hair?”
The sixth incident involved a Muslim woman wearing a hijab, who reported that when she got on to the London Underground two men standing next to her deliberately started discussing their support for a ban on veils.
Even before Mr Straw’s remarks police had been receiving complaints of abuse towards Muslim women wearing veils. Police officers in Gloucestershire have investigated two allegations of verbal abuse against veiled Muslim women by white men. No arrests were made.
The British National Party has also sought to exploit the issue and has sent out anti-Islam leaflets that include a photograph of a veiled Muslim woman.
Azad Ali, the chairman of the Muslim Safety Forum, said: “Since the political party conference started we have noticed a rise in Islamophobic attacks. This time last year we did not have so many incidents.
“The [Muslim] community feels that there is always something negative in the news about Muslims.
“What the Government is doing is pushing away the people they need to engage with. We feel very alienated by comments from people such as John Reid. Similar things have come from the Conservative camp.”
The Muslim Safety Forum, the Muslim Council of Britain and the London Muslim Centre, based in Whitechapel, east London, have all reported abusive racial e-mails since the veil issue was raised.
Other pronouncements on ethnicity issues have been followed by instances of racial abuse. Two days after the Home Secretary, John Reid, declared at the Labour Party conference that extremist Muslim “bullies” must be faced down, the Jamia Masjid mosque in Preston came under attack from a gang of white and black youths, who threw bricks at cars while 100 Muslims, attending mosque for Ramadan, worshipped inside. The following day Falkirk’s Islamic centre was set on fire, causing £10,000 damage.
Within 24 hours of that incident, a dairy owned by a Muslim family in Windsor also came under siege. Groups of up to 30 people attacked the Medina Dairy, which has also allegedly been fire bombed. Eight people have been arrested
As Windsor’s racial unrest subsided last Thursday, the story of the Muslim police officer Alexander Omar Basha being excused from duty outside the Israeli embassy also began precipitating racial unrest, according to some Muslim community leaders.
On Saturday a British Asian, as yet unnamed, was left critically ill in hospital following a suspected racist attack outside a supermarket in the Netherhall area of Leicester. A second Asian man was also seriously injured. Leicestershire police believe an altercation took place between the two Asian men, who are friends, and a group of white youths.
A Teesside family were also targeted at the weekend after vandals daubed graffiti on their home. The Joacph family were forced to cut short a holiday when neighbours alerted them to the attack on their home in Saltersgill, Middlesbrough. Slogans, including the words “kill Muslims” and “terrorists live here” were painted on walls and doors. Police have condemned the attack on the Joacphs, who say they are practising Roman Catholics.
Race incidents
* Racist incidents that took place following Jack Straw’s comments
Friday 6 October: Muslim woman had her hijab, or headscarf, pulled off and thrown on the floor by a white man in east London.
Friday 6 October: Muslim woman had her veil snatched from her face in Liverpool.
Friday 6 October: Muslim girl wearing a veil in Mr Straw’s Blackburn constituency was verbally abused by three youths.
Saturday 7 October: Two Asian men were attacked by racists in Leicester, one critically injured.
Sunday 8 October: Racist graffiti was daubed on a house on Teesside.
Monday 9 October: A 21-year-old Turkish woman wearing a hijab was verbally abused by a white woman in Canterbury, Kent.
Monday 9 October. A black Muslim woman wearing a veil was verbally abused in Hackney, east London.
* Racist e-mails to Muslim groups include:
“All Muslim women should be forced to cover their faces - they are the ugliest bastards in the world.”
“Whatever you think you are, you are not welcome in our country any more.”
“I think ugly Muslims should wear the veil and the good ones should not.”
Islamophobic attacks have surged in the past month in the wake of controversial remarks by ministers about British Muslims, say campaign groups.
The rise in verbal and physical assaults includes a spate of incidents in which Muslim women have been abused for wearing veils and scarves. They come in the week that the issue was raised by Jack Straw, the Leader of the Commons.
Muslim groups blame part of the rise in incidents, which also include assaults, firebombings and racist e-mails, on comments made by politicians and negative media reporting.
At least six Muslim women have been abused for wearing scarves or veils after Mr Straw said last week that he asks Muslim women who visit his constituency surgeries in Blackburn to remove their veil.
http://www.therevival.co.uk/?p=689#more-689
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/crime/article1870842.ece
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Ed if you stick a news article on the site ALWAYS give its source.
"For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens 'as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone'" - David Cameron, UK Prime Minister. 13 May 2015.
I guess people gave up on the whole trying to explain Islam properly and correct misconceptons thing.
While we did our bit post-9/11 and thought we'd done enough the Islamophobes never gave up. They kept at it with their blogs, lobbying and media campaigns.
only ugly women wear veils and good ones don't? I'm sure that's something the sun paper would say i mean they respect their women so much they dedicate page three to their daughters and mothers. I'd rather remain ugly and behind a veil thanks!
omg in the westend!! I seriously need to start watching the news....well actually the news has been mainly dominated by the poor polish girl whose body was mutilated and put under the church floorboards (how can a human do something so sickening) then there's the young boy kriss McDonald who was murdered......I am seriously considering moving out of here too much crime here in Glasgow, every day you hear of attacks/murders/kidnappings
you know i never really believed this would happen because i first wore the niqab around 3 years ago and haven't had any problems, but in the past week i've been verbally abused four times regarding the niqab. :?
[size=9]I NEVER WORE IT BECAUSE OF THE TALIBAN, MOTHER. I LIKE THE [b]MODESTY[/b] AND [b]PROTECTION[/b] IT AFFORDS ME FROM THE EYES OF MEN.[/size] [url=http://www.adherents.com/lit/comics/Dust.html]Dust, X-Men[/url]
"Integration" Britain and the continents' answer to the question of multiculturalism and immigration is a failing, possibly failed idea. There needs to be some serious dialogue on how you all are going to live together...
To many people the lines between the two are blurred - esp to those who would resort to vioelnce.
[b][color=indigo]It was oviously a racial attack. You cant always tell who is a muslim by just looking at ther face or by the way they dress.
He could have been a sikh or hindu for that matter.[/color][/b]
I question the whole concept of both multiculturalism and integration.
You'll get multiple cultures just by the fact of unequal distribution of wealth.Just look at Victorian England. Very few immigrants but still you had multiple cultures and that wasn't just about customs it also affected morality. I don't know why people talk about it as if it's a governmnt policy.
I also question the concept of integration because it puts non-white people to a set of standards that white people are not subjected to.Nobody uses a white man's attitudes towards women as a judge of how "British" he is.
There was an announcement at our local mosque yesterday regarding the attack on the imam in glasgow.
A few people from our area have visited him and the imam in hospital has asked people to remember him in our dua's so he has a speedy recovery.
I think I also heard that the police have detained a white man, suspected to be the attacker so this is good news.
May Allah (swt) give him a speedy recovery and inshallah those who did this to him be brought to justice.
A lot of these ignorent pigs have made up there mind about islam
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books like the "prophet of doom" and similar books like that don't exactly help :roll: and they is too popular for my lyking :?
we live `seprate` lives
we always had done
we never had `much` problems B4
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the longer our troops continue the slaughter in Afghanistan and Iraq - the more danger we are in - besides there's too many reports of British and American (especailly American) troops abusing thier position and not doing there job properly - the western media is only vagually highlighting the problem
stmark people have told me that i "look like a Muslim", i cud be anything, almost all muslim that r attacked our brown, `never` do u hear a white muslim or muslimah being attacked.
[color=red]"The best of people are those who live longest and excel in their deeds, whereas the worst of people are those who live longest and corrupt their deeds." [Tirmidhî, Sahîh] [/color]
I disagree. I went from a school where all the main religions had their own assembly once a week, other assemblies throughout the week were educational and not religious in nature and at other times everyone was focused on their studies, games and hobbies and I would say very well integrated, to a school where roughly a third of pupils segregated off into groups speaking foreign languages and made few non-Muslim friends in class while others were also deeply split into swots, rebels and outcasts. I was perhaps one of the outcasts clamouring for acceptance into either of the other camps. The second school was an unhappy place and academic results were inferior. Obviously racial attitudes were not the only factor, but it is a strong example of how success was more readily available in a well-planned and broadly cohesive environment.
[size=10]I feel I'm gonna move on back down south
you know where the water tastes like cherry wine[/size]