Bully for Hazel Blears
Hazel Blears, a British Home Office Minister, has taken the rational, though unpopular, position that British Muslims should get used to the fact that people of "Islamic appearance" will be stopped and searched more often than, say, a gaggle of blue-haired grannies from Yorkshire.
"The threat is most likely to come from those people associated with an extreme form of Islam, or who are falsely hiding behind Islam," Blears stated to MPs on the Home Affairs Committee.
While this may strike some readers as mere common sense -- "Oh, right, we're in a pitched battle against Islamic Fundamentalists, so it would only follow that law enforcement would scrutinize Muslims applying for asylum or looking for Visa entry to the country" -- her comments have, of course, raised the hackles of the Terrorism Apologists Islamic Human Rights Commission, who are more than happy to describe her statements as "outrageous" and "irresponsible", but yet still can't be bothered to show anything but indifference to Muslim women being murdered in so called 'Honor Killings' and Muslim children being indoctrinated into racial hatred in British Muslim schools.
Massoud Shadjareh, the Chairman of the Islamic Human Rights Commission (an oxymoron, if I've ever heard one), accused Ms. Blears of "playing an Islamophobia card" rather than admit that the Muslim population in general has suffered severe damage to its reputation for refusing to distance themselves from their more violent and radical members.
I keep wondering when the Muslim Martin Luther will finally show up and nail a declaration of reformation to the Mosque doors. The clock is ticking . . .