‘Get them off the street’ Muslim leader demands terror glorifiers are immediately detained
MUSLIMS glorifying terrorist attacks need to be immediately locked up, according to the leader of a Muslim organisation.
By CHRIS CAMPBELL
Express.co.uk
Tue, Jun 6, 2017
Mohammed Shafiq, chief executive of the Ramadhan Foundation, said those voicing support for extremism were out in public “hurling their abuse”.
Mr Shafiq added the police and terrorist prevention agencies should step in to put an end to the “glorification” of “barbaric acts” and not leave it to Muslim communities.
Speaking on the Today programme on BBC Radio 4, he said terrorist sympathisers should not be left to “roam our streets”.
He said: “You can’t point the finger at the Muslim community as the Prime Minister did and say we Muslims are too tolerant of Islamic extremism when actually it’s the society and its the agencies that are there to protect us from these terrorists are allowing these terrorist to roam our streets.
“They’re out there. They’ve been outside mosques, they’ve been out there outside Edgware Road and other parts of the country hurling their abuse.”
Asked if Muslims who hurl that abuse should be “locked up”, he added: “If you glorify terrorism, if you glorify the barbaric crimes which Isis have been involved in then the law should take its course and you should be held accountable.”
The number of potential UK-based terrorists on the radar of the British security services is as high as 23,000, it has emerged.
The figure is more than six times the figure previously released by the Home Office at the time of last month’s Manchester bombing.
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