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Monday, 05 May 2008
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nampIn an unctuous article in March's Jane's Police Review entitled "Million Miles from Reality", the Chairman of the National Association of Muslim Police (UK), Zaheer Ahmad, lamented about how the first ACPO conference on counter-terrorism in Brighton in February, whilst inviting the likes of Ed Husain and Maajid Nawaz from the Quilliam Foundation, failed to deliver an invitation to his organisation.

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 National Association of Muslim Police (NAMP) was launched at British Transport Police HQ in London on Wednesday the 11th of July 2007.
In a press release by the Jamaat-e-Islami linked Muslim Council of Britain, NAMP was described as "representing Muslim Police Officers and Staff through out the United Kingdom and providing a national voice for existing Associations of Muslim Police organisations. The Islamist Dr Bari from the Muslim Council of Britain opened the launch and said "Muslims in the police service are essential and provide a valuable service to all sections of the community".

The organisation's key objectives are stated as:

1. Identify the safety and security needs of Muslim Police officers and staff in the UK.
2. Support Recruitment, Retention and Progression within the service of Muslim officers and staff.
3. Build trust and confidence to enhance the quality of service to Muslim communities.
4. Positively encourage the recognition and value Muslim officers and staff bring to the Police service
5. Assist in policy development with relation to policing policies and including but not limited to internal employment, anti terrorism and community cohesion.

One can understand why such a group with MCB links would be left off most guest lists, let alone an ACPO conference on counter terrorism. Indeed, its supporters within the police force seem limited - Commander Richard Gargini (national co-ordinator for community engagement) attended the group's launch but, representing ACPO, responded to Ahmad's piece stating that "Ed Husain is a significant figure in the (counter terror) debate".

Zaheer Ahmad and his worthless NAMP are part of Britain's problem with extreme Islamism and are certainly not part of the solution. They are subversive, seek to use Britain's laws on diversity against the police force to disrupt it, prey on the force's politically correct soft underbelly and promote Islamism - they are nothing short of a waste of police time. Muslim police officers who subscribe to NAMP are mistaken or in the force for the wrong reasons.

Certainly, Britain's police force must engage with the Muslim community to help counter terrorism and surely Muslim police officers are useful in explaining to British Muslim communities how British law works for one and all. But ACPO was right to block these Islamists out and right again to refer to the significance of Ed Husain - for he alone has achieved more in one year of speaking out against extreme Islamism in Britain than organisations of Taqiyya  like the MCB or NAMP will achieve in a hundred generations of living in Britain.

British police - stamp on Namp.




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