Additionally, there is a racist element in Malaysia's constitution. All ethnic Malays are said to be Muslim. At the age of 12, each person in Malaysia is issued with an identity card - called MyKad - upon which the person's religion and race are listed. And all Malays are automatically said to be Muslims.

The problems are made worse by the racism of Malaysia's ruling party - UMNO. This party has ruled in a coalition since Malaysia became independent in 1957. After race riots in 1969, the party has actively promoted a racist policy of "ketuanan Melayu" which gives job preferences and privileges to Malays and Muslims above other racial/religious groups.

In the history of modern Malaysia, the only person who was allowed to leave Islam was an 89-year old widow called Nyonya Tahir. She had married a Chinese Buddhist man in 1936 when she was aged 20. She became a Buddhist. Her choice to become a Buddhist was made long before the Malaysian constitution was written. Nyonya had tried repeatedly to have the National Registration Department (NRD) change her status to "Buddhist".

"The World Tamil Movement (WTM) followed the directives of the LTTE Operations Manual, which dictates that the foreign branches must establish contact with parliamentarians and political figures of all levels of government in order to advance their cause," Canadian Police Corporal Shirley Davermann wrote in the affidavit. Police uncovered the operations manual in a 2006 raid on WTM properties.

Dated April 1, the affidavit supported a federal application to seize the World Tamil Movement's Montreal headquarters as well as its bank accounts, saying the assets were being used to finance terrorism. (The Canadian government listed the Tamil Tigers as a terrorist group in 2006.) The affidavit describes the WTM as a "foreign branch" of the LTTE.

The annual Martyrs Day celebrations held in Montreal typically feature dozens of mock tombstones dedicated to fallen Tamil Tigers and militaristic banners.

At last December's event, children were photographed wearing LTTE T-shirts and one young boy in military garb was shown brandishing a fake weapon.

The inclusion of Tamil-Canadian children in ceremonies celebrating the Tigers represents another prong of the group's plan for its foreign branches, as discovered in a document seized by the RCMP. An account of a 2004 training workshop held in Sri Lanka attended by Canadian Tamil activists, it describes a speech given by Mr. Prabhakaran, the Tiger leader.

"He strongly suggested that everyone has to believe in the absolute victory, and he explained that the younger generation that lives abroad must be taken in, for the freedom battle," according to the affidavit.

The Canadian police also interviewed five Tamil witnesses, whose identities are blacked out in the affidavit. The five described being forced to agree to make regular payments to support the LTTE before they could enter territory controlled by the Tigers on trips back to Sri Lanka. The forms authorizing monthly withdrawals from the witnesses' bank accounts were brought back to Canada by Thanasegaram Chandrasegaram, a WTM fundraiser, the Canadian Police alleges.

Furthermore, Ahmad had harsh words for senior police officers. Ahmad stated: "It seems that some of our most senior officers have been seduced by Mr (Ed) Husain's celebrity status and have been taken in by the stereotypical image of Islam he portrays in his book ("The Islamist"). This is an image they probably feel comfortable with, but is a million miles from reality. Mr Husain has few supporters within the Muslim Community."

Ahmad's main point betrays his group's Islamist agenda: "We regularly hear senior police officers say ‘Communities defeat terrorism'. The police service needs to live this phrase and not allow it to be a convenient strapline without demonstrating a true commitment to it. We must make full use of the skills and knowledge of our Muslim officers and staff, and not be swayed by such dramatic headlines as ‘Four Brit Al Qaeda Cops' (News of the World, 9 March)."

The threat of a nuclear attack on the tea-loving UK in the 1950s caused concern over the supply of tea, top-secret documents which have now been released expose.

Government officials planning food supplies said the tea position would be "very serious" after a nuclear war. "It would be wrong to consider that even 1oz per head per week could be ensured," they stated.

The papers were released under the Freedom of Information Act by the National Archives at Kew in Surrey, England. The documents said a nuclear conflict would result in the loss of three-quarters of tea stocks. For Brits used to turning to tea as other nationals might seek air to breathe, this would be a national disaster beyond comparison.

One Government paper from April 1955 said: "The advent of thermonuclear weapons... has presented us with a new and much more difficult set of food defence problems."