Arif Syed of Crawley mosque not having his collar felt in this picture.
From the Brighton Argus. Bold text is the original article and my comments are in plain text.
“Tensions “are high” among the Muslim community in Crawley following reports up to five properties are being searched in relation to the suspected Crawley suicide bomber.
Police and South East Counter Terrorism officers have been at a second property in Langley Green this morning (Thursday) in what is believed to be part of the inquiry.
South East Counter Terrorism officers are understood to be at a home in St Joan Close, just around the corner from the property where Abdul Waheed Majid and his family lived in Martyrs Avenue.”
Majid may be the ‘suspected’ suicide bomber, but there ain’t really a lot left of him to put on trial is there. If he’s blown himself up in Aleppo, and he went out to Syria to fight Jihad then the use of the word ‘suspected’ is a little bit over cautious in my view. ‘Tensions are high’ is code for ‘the Muslims of Crawley are getting a bit worried about the police investigating what could be a network of Jihadis and jihadi supporters or at least people who turned a blind eye to Jihad. Maybe the local Islamic community are worried about what the police may find?
“Counter terrorism officers searched his home yesterday (Wednesday) in connection with a suicide bombing in the Syrian city of Aleppo last week, which he is suspected of carrying out.”
This raises the possibility that evidence obtained at the home of the suicide bomber may have indicated other addresses in the Crawley area that may need to be searched.
“Now a spokesman for the Muslim community in Crawley has said more properties are thought to be being searched today.
Arif Syed, chairman of Crawley Mosque and a spokesman for the town’s Muslim community, said: “As I understand there is one property being searched in Langley Drive, one in St Joans Close, but I’m also being told that there will be further searches carried out.
“These people are being kicked out of their homes and the police have the audacity to ask us to house them at the mosque while they carry out their searches.”
Well Mr Islamic Spokesman Syed, maybe, just maybe if members of your community didn’t go to Syria to kill Christians and heterodox Muslims, behead our soldiers in the street, bomb our tube trains and buses and call for sedition, then maybe you wouldn’t be targeted for searches like these.
“It’s a witchhunt. The public are going ballistic.
“The Muslim community are absolutely outraged by this – tensions are very high.”
Note the subtle and not so subtle threat of violence in that statement from Mr Islamic Spokesman Syed. How else are we to read the phrases ‘public going ballistic’ and ‘tensions are very high’?
“They are all friends of Mr Majeed, I’m a friend of Mr Majeed, this is such a tight-knit community here.”
I think Mr Syed you may have some questions to answer sunshine about your associations with Majeed and what you knew about his activities and attitudes.
“We are all set to meet tomorrow at the mosque and I already know that the temperature will be high.”
Again another threat of public disturbance, at least it certainly sounds like one to me. I can’t help shake the feeling that this case could expose the fact that Majeed may not have been working alone for Jihad and that he may have had support from members of the local Islamic community. The defensiveness and blame shifting that Mr Syed seems to be engaged with is instructive, he appears to have fallen back onto the ‘poor Muslims’ line that we saw trotted out by Muslim groups after the Jihadist murder of Fusileer Lee Rigby. In May 2013.
I’ve saved the comments from the local newspaper as a below the line comment, just in case the Brighton Argus takes ‘Islamo-fright’ and caves into demands for censorship of the comment column. There are some choice Islamo-sceptic comments including:
They are outraged? I’ve heard it all now.
“I’m outraged that we have ‘alleged’ suicide bombers living among us, but let’s not bother to find out if any of his ‘close knit’ mates have similar plans in case one of them gets outraged eh? “
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““They are all friends of Mr Majeed, I’m a friend of Mr Majeed, this is such a tight-knit community here. ”
Really then I suggest the police search the Mosque immediately. After all it wouldn’t be the first time one of these so called relegious buildings have been used to radicalise Jihadist recruits.
“The Muslim community are absolutely outraged by this – tensions are very high. ” Well that sounds very much like incitement to violence to me! If the BNP or EDL used similar language their feet wouldn’t touch the ground.
If the Muslim community doesn’t like the way we do business in our country feel free to clear off to an Islamic Sharia paradise. There are plenty of them. “
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Original Brighton Argus story
Many thanks to Furor Teutonicus for alerting me to this story.
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2:47pm Thu 13 Feb 14
john5001 says…
wonder who put the suspect package in brighton .and a few weeks back they tried to cut the head off that shoreham man
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2:58pm Thu 13 Feb 14
Alan G Skinner says…
The “Muslim community” are outraged by this? Outraged by what exactly the Police doing there job? If a “British” citizen is suspected of committing a terrorist act, whether it be abroad or in the UK, surely any civilised, law abiding citizen would want the Police and security services to leave no stone unturned in the relentless pursuit of the truth and justice. Martyrs Avenue???
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3:04pm Thu 13 Feb 14
BiggerH says…
to be fair, Muslims do tend to get worked up about lots of things.
Perhaps if they smiled more, the view the world has about them may change.
just saying……
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3:56pm Thu 13 Feb 14
juleshove says…
As the chairman of the Mosque has said he was friends with Mr Wajid ( a terrorist ) and other people in the Muslim community were also his close friends, it’s hardly surprising the police need to check their houses as well is it.
Not sure why their outraged or even surprised. Perhaps the Muslim community in Crawley would be better directing their outrage at what Mr Wajid apparently did. That is murdering people.
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4:07pm Thu 13 Feb 14
Indigatio says…
If this reporting is correct this guy needs to rethink his attitude!
Quote:- “They are all friends of Mr Majeed, I’m a friend of Mr Majeed, this is such a tight-knit community here”.
Majeed is a proven terrorist, having been friends or not they should condemn his actions. They should also offer their full support to the Police.
True muslims, and I have a lot of Muslim friends, would distance themselves from such a person as Majeed.
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4:53pm Thu 13 Feb 14
Brighton1000 says…
Its not been proven it was him yet has it? Muslims are a peace loving religion, I feel sorry for them that they all get branded in this way. It must be awful, I wouldnt like to be instantly branded a terrorist because of my religion.
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5:20pm Thu 13 Feb 14
melee says…
They are outraged? I’ve heard it all now.
I’m outraged that we have ‘alleged’ suicide bombers living among us, but let’s not bother to find out if any of his ‘close knit’ mates have similar plans in case one of them gets outraged eh?
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5:21pm Thu 13 Feb 14
Alan G Skinner says…
Brighton1000 wrote:
Its not been proven it was him yet has it? Muslims are a peace loving religion, I feel sorry for them that they all get branded in this way. It must be awful, I wouldnt like to be instantly branded a terrorist because of my religion.
Hmmm. Iraq. Afghanistan. Egypt. Libya. Syria. Interesting that most of the worlds conflicts are currently in countries that are predominantly “Peace loving”. It’s also a shame that allied forces have to keep interviening to stem the flow of blood of those who dare to be different, free. Interesting that some “British” “peace loving” people feel the need to travel across the world align themselves with terrorists to attack and destabilise a legitimate, moderate country like Syria.
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5:45pm Thu 13 Feb 14
Ouseler says…
Quite right Mr Syed, it’s an absolute disgrace having your homes raided. If I were you, as their leader, I would encourage my followers to emigrate and not stay to be treated like this..
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6:04pm Thu 13 Feb 14
angrymonkey says…
was he friends with the lot wanting to blow up the blue water shops to?
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6:11pm Thu 13 Feb 14
LJB says…
I’m curious to know does he really live in ‘Martyrs Avenue’ in the Muslim district or is this the local nickname of the street? If so it’s kind of uncanny!.. wouldn’t want to live there..
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7:35pm Thu 13 Feb 14
Maxwell’s Ghost says…
It’s more uncanny that the same house has produced two murdering perverts.
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11:42pm Thu 13 Feb 14
notaconspiracy says…
I’m surprised that the spokesman for Islam thinks the temperature will be high tomorrow, all scientific forecasts suggest otherwise.
We shall see…
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1:12am Fri 14 Feb 14
STEVEN P MOORE says…
“They are all friends of Mr Majeed, I’m a friend of Mr Majeed, this is such a tight-knit community here. ”
Really then I suggest the police search the Mosque immediately. After all it wouldn’t be the first time one of these so called relegious buildings have been used to radicalise Jihadist recruits.
“The Muslim community are absolutely outraged by this – tensions are very high. ” Well that sounds very much like incitement to violence to me! If the BNP or EDL used similar language their feet wouldn’t touch the ground.
If the Muslim community doesn’t like the way we do business in our country feel free to clear off to an Islamic Sharia paradise. There are plenty of them.
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9:07am Fri 14 Feb 14
Skidrow says…
Us infidels are in an invidious position – intervene as we did in Iraq & Afghanistan and get slagged off for doing so or leave them to it a la Syria and get slagged off for doing so. As for the audacity of the coppers asking for a mosque to be used as shelter for Muslims, well, what will they think of next? Saying prayers there?
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“Going Ballistic”? I would contend that the late (and frankly unlamented) Mr Majeed probably did go somewhat ballistic when he turned himself into a human Hiroshima. Police and security services are supposed to investigate threats and let us be honest, the main suspects are not Baptists or Methodists so they are rather more likely to take an interest in the Mosques and those who were his close associates than Methodists etc.
With a characteristic example of the muslims’ congenital addiction to bare-faced lying, a theatrically ‘bemused’ neighbour of Majeed claimed, on ITV news, that he’d gone to Syria for ‘humanitarian reasons’. Beyond parody.
‘Theatrically bemused’ what a lovely and very apt phrase to describe the lying Islamics of Crawley. Only an idiot would not believe that there was Jihad being planned in and by the Islamic community of Crawley. They have the bloody chutzpah to say ‘we know nothing’. Unbelievable, literally.