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Universities urged to spy on Muslims
Vikram Dodd
Monday October 16, 2006
The GuardianLecturers and university staff across Britain are to be asked to spy on “Asian-looking” and Muslim students they suspect of involvement in Islamic extremism and supporting terrorist violence, the Guardian has learned.
They will be told to inform on students to special branch because the government believes campuses have become “fertile recruiting grounds” for extremists.The Department for Education has drawn up a series of proposals which are to be sent to universities and other centres of higher education before the end of the year. The 18-page document acknowledges that universities will be anxious about passing information to special branch, for fear it amounts to “collaborating with the ‘secret police'”. It says there will be “concerns about police targeting certain sections of the student population (eg Muslims)”.
Teaching unions and NUS – where the fuck are you? get off your asses and to the barricades: this is not bloody right. I’m too angry to post on the reasons why this is just so bloody wrong and besides, others have done so much more eloquently. I’m too angry to speak just now, let alone type legibly.
The Labour party is showing exactly what it is: a religious extremist, authoritarian party whose leadership has been infiltrated by Catholic zealots. There is no way these people can be impartial on anything regarding Islam while wearing their own religious bigotry on their sleeve so openly.
Parliament is not secular. There are at least 40 members of the Christian Socialist Movement in the House of Lords and the House of Commons, including current and former Cabinet members and the Prime Minister, Tony Blair. Not all are Catholic but there are a preponderance of them in the cabinet. Blair goes to mass, genuflects and is to all intents and purposes a Catholic like his wife. John Reid, Home Secretary, the man in charge of security, policing, anti-terrorism and the prisons, was in the front row at the Pope’s requiem mass at Westminster Cathedral.
The minister in charge of the quaintly named Department of Social Cohesion, the person who’s in charge of policy on religious matters, race relations and gay and women’s rights, is Ruth Kelly, a fanatical Catholic and Opus Dei member.
Imagine she was, rather than a member of Opus Dei , a member of Hizb ut-Tahrir, and it was Catholics in universities she wanted Moslem teachers and students to spy on.
Would we be put up with religious discrimination by the government then? I doubt that sincerely. So why are we putting up with it now? IThat fact that New Labour have the gall to suggest that academics spy on pupils of a particular religion, that they betray them to what are effectively the seret police – that shows how far we’ve come down the road to a religious police state.
The producers of V for Vendetta are starting to look quite prescient.
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