Waiter, There's a Jihadi In My Soup

It looks like several more British "moderate Muslims" were close to deciding to "prove themselves," as Miss England says, as 14 men were arrested in a series of overnight raids.

Armed police have arrested 14 men following anti-terror raids in London, including 12 arrests at a restaurant in the Borough area.
Two people were held elsewhere in the city in what police said was an intelligence-led operation.
Police said the arrests were not connected to the alleged transatlantic jet bomb plot or the 7 July attacks.
An Islamic school near Tunbridge Wells has also been searched as part of the same operation.
The Jameah Islameah property, on Catt's Hill near Crowborough, East Sussex, is an Islamic teaching facility for boys aged between 11 and 16.

I'm shocked, shocked that an Islamic school may have been used to help plot terror attacks. And appalled. And verklempt, and I'm not even 100% sure what that word means. Most of those arrested, however, were taken into custody at a local halal Chinese restaurant called The Bridge to China Town. Halal food is, of course, food permissible according to Islamic diet restrictions.

Sadly, you'll note that the BBC is so cowed by the "moderates" among them that they can't even directly mention the fact that these men were British-born Pakistani Muslims, preferring to let you infer the facts for the locational data provided.

Great Britain may yet be saved, but the BBC has already been lost to enemy action.

Posted by: Confederate Yankee at 08:43 AM

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1 Sadly, you'll note that the BBC is so cowed by the "moderates" among them that they can't even directly mention the fact that these men were British-born Pakistani Muslims, preferring to let you infer the facts for the locational data provided.

I don't understand what you're saying. The article clearly says, "The men, who are thought to be mainly young British Muslims of Pakistani origin, . . . ."

Posted by: Redhand at September 02, 2006 10:06 AM (7G9b2)

2 Redhand - the Guardian link provides that description. The BBC-linked article does not.

Posted by: Cindi at September 02, 2006 10:26 AM (asVsU)

3 Redhand, the Guardian article says that. The BBC won't tell you that truth.

Posted by: Confederate Yankee at September 02, 2006 10:26 AM (BTdrY)

4 Your trackback is not working

Posted by: Don Singleton at September 02, 2006 11:18 AM (+Yrlm)

5 OK, I get it.

Posted by: Redhand at September 02, 2006 05:57 PM (7G9b2)

6 The word is ferklempt (I know; I could have sworn it was a v too.) I only know this because my Jewish boyfriend wanted to look up the definition and he couldn't find it under v. One of his relatives set him straight.

It means overcome with emotion, feeling sad, sentimental. It is a catch-all word meant to signify a weepy state.

LOVE this blog. I don't comment very often because most of the time your other posters cover everything I would want to say.

Posted by: FedUp at September 02, 2006 07:10 PM (aMMfm)

7 I'm waiting for GWB to update the "Axis of Evil" to include Great Britain. It will be at the SOTU and Tony Blair will be up in the box next to Laura. GWB will say that England is a house of terror and they are arresting TB. Pan to shot of of Laura (or the twins) holding a gun on the PM as MPs handcuff him and lead him away.

Posted by: matt a at September 05, 2006 10:25 AM (GvAmg)

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