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This newspaper, presumably based in Pakistan, seems to think that the British media is encouraging hate crimes against Muslims by reporting on the trial of terrorists attempting another tube massacre (21/7).
Despite the claims in the first two paragraphs, there was no mass backlash against Muslims in the UK after 7/7 and 21/7. If there had been the article might have been able to provide some details, which it doesn't. If there were, perhaps some blame might be apportioned to the terrorists themselves, but apparantly not according to this outlet. How dare the evil racist British media report on terrorism!
Muslims fear hate attacks as trial of failed suicide bombers gets under way
By Rauf Klasra
LONDON: The Muslims living in Britain, particularly from Pakistan, fear for revival of hate crimes, as an aggressive British media starts reporting of a high profile trial of six Muslim suicide bombers, who had plotted to kill hundreds of commuters by exploding bombs after the 7/7 blasts.
The Muslims here fear that the wide publicity of the “horrible inside details” of the case might revive attacks on the Muslim as it happened after the 7/7 bombings in 2005. Mostly the Pakistanis become the targets of hate attacks, whenever, a terrorist plot is unfolded and “intriguing links of the terrorist are traced to Pakistan”.
Details of a foiled plot were divulged for first time, when the trial of the six accused began the other day. These bombers had vowed in a London mosque to bomb the innocent Londoners but did not detonate the bombs due to luck of passengers.
The proceedings of the case were the lead story in the British media. On Tuesday, the scenes of drama and terror on the London Underground — as panic-stricken passengers fled from one of the alleged 21/7 bombers — were shown to the jury at Woolwich Crown Court, the trial is under way. A CCTV footage showed Ramzi Mohammed trying to make a failed attempt to detonate his rucksack bomb on a train just outside Oval Tube station.
The pictures showed the 25-year-old, Ramzi boarding the busy train with a rucksack, and deliberately turning with his back towards a woman and her child before detonating the bomb on July 21, 2005, exactly two weeks after the 7/7 bombings. Panic ensued as passengers desperately tried to flee the scene. The driver of the train, which was travelling from Stockwell to Oval on the Northern Line, however, carried on until he reached an open platform.
The one-minute footage also showed a fireman, Angus Campbell, tried to remonstrate with the alleged attacker. It reveals Ramzi and Campbell alone in the carriage at 12.26pm. At one point, Ramzi dropped the rucksack to the ground and pointed at it repeatedly, pretending he had no idea what was happening.
The scene was described to the court by prosecutor Nigel Sweeney. “He was wearing a hooded top with the words ‘New York’ across the chest, no doubt not a coincidence but intended to refer to the events of 9/11,” Sweeney told the court before screening of the footage.
“As he waited to board the train a fellow traveller noticed that he appeared to be whispering to himself, He boarded the second carriage of the train. The carriage was quite full. He stood. He left his fingerprint on one of the yellow poles in the carriage,” Sweeney said.
“Amongst those ... in the carriage with him was a woman called Nadia, who had her small child with her in a buggy, and a fireman called Angus Campbell. Whilst the train was in the tunnel between the stations, (Ramzi) Mohammed turned so that his rucksack was facing mother and child, and fired the bomb. As we now know, the detonator fired but the main charge did not and, as you will see, people fled from the carriage in panic. Campbell, the fireman, was made of firmer stuff and he remained and remonstrated with Mohammed. Mohammed said: ‘What’s the matter? It was wasn’t me, it was that,’ pointing to the rucksack. He placed the rucksack on the floor of the carriage. No doubt the best he could do, being surprised to find himself alive,” Sweeny added.
Despite the claims in the first two paragraphs, there was no mass backlash against Muslims in the UK after 7/7 and 21/7. If there had been the article might have been able to provide some details, which it doesn't. If there were, perhaps some blame might be apportioned to the terrorists themselves, but apparantly not according to this outlet. How dare the evil racist British media report on terrorism!
Muslims fear hate attacks as trial of failed suicide bombers gets under way
By Rauf Klasra
LONDON: The Muslims living in Britain, particularly from Pakistan, fear for revival of hate crimes, as an aggressive British media starts reporting of a high profile trial of six Muslim suicide bombers, who had plotted to kill hundreds of commuters by exploding bombs after the 7/7 blasts.
The Muslims here fear that the wide publicity of the “horrible inside details” of the case might revive attacks on the Muslim as it happened after the 7/7 bombings in 2005. Mostly the Pakistanis become the targets of hate attacks, whenever, a terrorist plot is unfolded and “intriguing links of the terrorist are traced to Pakistan”.
Details of a foiled plot were divulged for first time, when the trial of the six accused began the other day. These bombers had vowed in a London mosque to bomb the innocent Londoners but did not detonate the bombs due to luck of passengers.
The proceedings of the case were the lead story in the British media. On Tuesday, the scenes of drama and terror on the London Underground — as panic-stricken passengers fled from one of the alleged 21/7 bombers — were shown to the jury at Woolwich Crown Court, the trial is under way. A CCTV footage showed Ramzi Mohammed trying to make a failed attempt to detonate his rucksack bomb on a train just outside Oval Tube station.
The pictures showed the 25-year-old, Ramzi boarding the busy train with a rucksack, and deliberately turning with his back towards a woman and her child before detonating the bomb on July 21, 2005, exactly two weeks after the 7/7 bombings. Panic ensued as passengers desperately tried to flee the scene. The driver of the train, which was travelling from Stockwell to Oval on the Northern Line, however, carried on until he reached an open platform.
The one-minute footage also showed a fireman, Angus Campbell, tried to remonstrate with the alleged attacker. It reveals Ramzi and Campbell alone in the carriage at 12.26pm. At one point, Ramzi dropped the rucksack to the ground and pointed at it repeatedly, pretending he had no idea what was happening.
The scene was described to the court by prosecutor Nigel Sweeney. “He was wearing a hooded top with the words ‘New York’ across the chest, no doubt not a coincidence but intended to refer to the events of 9/11,” Sweeney told the court before screening of the footage.
“As he waited to board the train a fellow traveller noticed that he appeared to be whispering to himself, He boarded the second carriage of the train. The carriage was quite full. He stood. He left his fingerprint on one of the yellow poles in the carriage,” Sweeney said.
“Amongst those ... in the carriage with him was a woman called Nadia, who had her small child with her in a buggy, and a fireman called Angus Campbell. Whilst the train was in the tunnel between the stations, (Ramzi) Mohammed turned so that his rucksack was facing mother and child, and fired the bomb. As we now know, the detonator fired but the main charge did not and, as you will see, people fled from the carriage in panic. Campbell, the fireman, was made of firmer stuff and he remained and remonstrated with Mohammed. Mohammed said: ‘What’s the matter? It was wasn’t me, it was that,’ pointing to the rucksack. He placed the rucksack on the floor of the carriage. No doubt the best he could do, being surprised to find himself alive,” Sweeny added.
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