UK: Police Worried Commemoration of "Munich Massacre" may Offend Muslims During London Olympics.....

Another source of concern, the 2012 Olympics coincides with Ramadan.....

Specialist advice is being given to Scotland Yard on how to reduce tensions between police and Muslims during the London Olympics because of growing concerns about the Games clashing with the holy month of Ramadan, when Muslims fast during the day, The Times has learnt.

Experts will also warn the Metropolitan Police to ensure that the planned commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the massacre of Israeli athletes by Palestinian terrorists at the Munich Games does not offend local and travelling Muslims.

The recommendations have been made by inter-faith advisers to Scotland Yard, where antiterrorism police are preparing to combat any possible Islamic terrorist threat to the Games.

Community tensions in the lead-up to the games have already been raised by a controversial Muslim movement, Tablighi Jamaat, which plans to build Britain’s largest mosque and Islamic complex near the 2012 Olympic stadium site.

Michael Mumisa, an Islamic scholar, and one of four experts hired by Scotland Yard who began training the police this week on inter-faith issues, said that the commemoration of the 11 Israeli athletes, killed by Palestinian militants from the Black September Organisation at the 1972 Munich Games, could become a national security threat if it was not managed properly and was perceived by Muslims to be “hijacking” the Games.

Edward Kessler, executive director of the Woolfe Institute, which deals with inter-faith dialogue, teaching and research, said that police needed to have a “minimum level of faith literacy” to help them deal with religious issues during the London Games. Dr Kessler said: “During Ramadan you’re going to have a lot of tired, hungry, less evenly tempered people because they haven’t eaten for 18 hours.”

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Comments

[Elric66]

“During Ramadan you’re going to have a lot of tired, hungry, less evenly tempered people because they haven’t eaten for 18 hours.”

Bonus they are Muslim

[Airedale]

No medals for muslims during Ramadon...or are the games to be rescheduled around that also ?

[JDAM]

What a mess, who the fuck cares what they think, they weren't the ones who got slaughtered!

[Poopyhead]

Why should the Koranists be offended? Isn't the commemoration intended to lionize the palestinian freedom fighters striking a heroic blow for their freedom by killing a couple of Zionist spies?

[Paul M]

Three words 'FUCK THE MOOSELIMS !!!

[Paul M]

Fuck the Mooselims !!!

[Battlecat]

Britain is building a megamosque for these monsters, and now we can't commemorate the victims of their Olympics murder spree because it might offend them? Did it ever occur to the Brits that the entire Muslim world sends very few athletes to the Olympics? Perhaps we can stop pandering to these religious primates and get on with the games? I'm tired of the whole world being held hostage to preemptive apologies for what *might* offend fanatic Muslims.

[Paul M]

Sorry about the double-post - or maybe not :-)

[pulsar182]

as I recall, the Palistinian terrorists were heroes to the other Muslims....and they still are revered in Islam lore...

[Jigger]

Talk about the perfect storm, Londonistan, Mega-Mosque, coincides with Ramabomb, commemorate Munich.

I see a storm on the horizon.

[Mullah Lodabullah]

A comment for The Times not to publish ...

Britain has abandoned faith in Jesus Christ, and replaced it
with "inter-faith dialogue" and "faith literacy” in an attempt
to pander to false gods and false prophets. It is reaping what
it has sown.

[Mullah Lodabullah]

* Specialist advice is being given to Scotland Yard on how to re..
..move any remaining balls the farce might have, in the unlikely
event any will be found.

[Joseph]

Richard Kerbaj, the reporter of the Times article, is not to be trusted. He is an Australian journalist with a well-known reputation for fear-mongering and manufacturing stories. I would be very surprised if these experts are not his lastest victims. I doubt very much the authenticity of his reports.

[MARY_ANNE]

AUSTRALIAN JOURNALIST RICHARD KERBAJ EXPOSED IN LONDON!!

The respected London paper THE JEWISH CHRONICLES (JC) has discredited RICHARD KERBAJ'S TIMES ARTICLE ON RAMADAN AND THE OLYMPICS:

Leon Symons
October 30, 2008

Allegations that a police trainer has labelled a proposed commemoration of the Munich Olympics massacre at the 2012 London Olympics “a security threat” have been vehemently denied.

[WOOLF INSTITUTE’S] executive Director Edward Kessler, said: “Sheikh Mumisa’s words have been twisted in a way that is not accurate. I know what was said because I was there throughout the course. We were very unhappy with what appeared because it did not reflect the course that the officers took.

“We are not experts in terrorism, we are experts in faith and interfaith and that’s what they were here to learn. It was a very positive programme which dealt with subjects including antisemitism and Islamophobia.”……

Alex Goldberg, chief executive of the London Jewish Forum, said that any commemoration would be “up to the families of those who died, with the Israel Olympic Association and, ultimately, the International Olympic Committee to decide what it will be”.

ALSO SEE THE FOLLOWING:

LONDON METROPOLITAN POLICE DISCREDIT RICHARD KERBAJ’S FALSE REPORT (LONDON NEWS RADIO STATION - SUNRISE RADIO)

MET POLICE DENY OLYMPIC TERROR FEARS
DATE: 29.10.08
Updated: 10:29

The Met Police have rejected a national newspaper’s claims that Ramadan coinciding with the 2012 Olympics has increased the security threat.

It has also now been reported that the Times’ claim that an Islamic scholar allegedly warned the paper that the timing of the games could create a security threat is unfounded.

It has now emerged that Sheikh Michael Mumisa, a respected Cambridge Scholar, said nothing of the sort and warned that journalists must act responsibly.

Chief Inspector Andy Goldstone from the Met Police Olympic Security Directorate agrees there should not be a problem.


ALSO SEE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE FROM THE ORGANISATION OF "MEDIA WORKERS AGAINST THE WAR":

By Dave Crouch
Dog-whistle journalism: The Times, Ramadan and the London Olympics
Grumpy Muslims in 2012 Olympics terror shock! When Muslims are feeling tired and hungry during Ramadan they present a terrorist danger, alleges the Times.
The story is so pathetic that it barely warrants serious discussion. But it’s there in the Times. On page 4. And the article is typical of so much media reporting of Islam.
The paper published this “news” item on October 27 under the headline “Police warned of Ramadan tension during 2012 Games”.
The story claimed that Scotland Yard was concerned that the 2012 Olympics in London would “clash” with Ramadan, making it harder to “reduce tensions between Muslims and police” during the Games.

Instead of offering any proof, however, that a religious festival could present a problem for police, the Times article switched in its second paragraph to speculation about terrorism. The 40th anniversary of the shoot-out at the Munich Olympics – in which 9 Israeli hostages died after they were taken hostage by Palestinians – meant there was an “Islamic terrorist threat” to the 2012 Games, the paper said.

Only then did the story returned to Ramadan and the London Olympics. It quoted the head of the highly respected Woolf Institute of Abrahamic Faiths that the police would need some basic training to deal with religious issues that might arise during the Games: “During Ramadan you’re going to have a lot of tired, hungry, less evenly tempered people because they haven’t eaten for 18 hours.”

The implication is clear: tired, hungry Muslims are more likely to lose their temper and… commit a terrorist attack on the Games.
MWAW contacted Dr Ed Kessler, head of the Woolf Institute. He wrote back that he was “very unhappy” with the Times article, which “failed to depict the conversation” that he had had with the paper’s reporter. He said it was “sensationalism of the worst kind” and was “inaccurate in its reporting about the Olympics, Ramadan and the proposed Munich commemoration”.
Dr Kessler has written to the Times to complain, but the paper has yet to publish his letter.

The Times’ method is clear: take a bit of flimsy information from the police, slap on some unrelated speculation about terrorism, throw in a quote – torn out of context – from a respected source to make the piece appear reasonable, and let the reader draw their own racist conclusions. The article is constructed to make it appear that fasting during Ramadan makes Muslims more likely to commit a terrorist atrocity.

This is dog-whistle reporting: the article is couched in reasonable language but sends out a clear message that Islam is dangerous.
It is because of reporting of this kind that MWAW is holding its conference this year on Islamophobia.

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