http://www.arabtimesonline.com/arabtimes/world/Viewdet.asp?ID=8611&cat=a
Radical Islam taught in mosque schools; Victim mentality leaves some Muslims vulnerable to extremism: British bishop LONDON (AP): A Church of England bishop said in an interview published Sunday that radical Islam is being taught in mosque schools across Britain. The Pakistani-born bishop of Rochester, Michael Nazir-Ali, also said he believes Muslims are sometimes vulnerable to such teachings because they have developed a victim mentality. "Their complaint often boils down to the position that it is always right to intervene when Muslims are victims, as in Bosnia or Kosovo, and always wrong when the Muslims are the oppressors or terrorists, as with the Taleban or in Iraq," Nazir-Ali said in an interview with The Sunday Times of London. "Given the world view that has given rise to such grievances, there can never be sufficient appeasement, and new demands will continue to be made," he said. He said that a failure to counter these beliefs had allowed radical Islam to flourish in Britain and that stricter checks should be introduced to exclude extremist clerics from the country. "The two main causes of the present situation (rising extremism) are fundamentalist imams and material on the Internet," he said. The bishop said checks on imams' qualifications, their knowledge of the English language, and their understanding of British life and culture should be imposed to filter out extremists. Nazir-Ali, 57, was born a Catholic in Karachi, Pakistan, after his father converted from Islam to Christianity. Nazir-Ali later converted to Protestantism at age 20, moved to Britain in the 1980s and became a bishop at age 35. Nazir-Ali, who said he believes the Christian faith has been fully intermingled with British values while Islam has not, also joined the debate in England about whether Muslim women should be allowed to wear full face veils in places such as work. He joined officials such as former Foreign Secretary Jack Straw who say veils are not suitable in some circumstances. "I can see nothing in Islam that prescribes the wearing of a full-face veil. In the supermarket, those at the cash tills need to be recognized. Teaching is another context in which society requires recognition and identification," he said. Muhammad Abdul Bari, secretary-general of the Muslim Council of Britain, told The Sunday Times that the bishop's comments were not "very helpful for community relationships." +++ -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
