Muslims shocked but sceptical over terror plot

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http://www.irishexaminer.com/breaking/story.asp?j=234403745&p=z344x46x8&n=234404688&x=

Muslims shocked but sceptical over terror plot

Muslim groups today reacted with a mixture of shock and scepticism at the announcement by police that they had broken up a major terrorist plot to bomb airliners.

Khurshid Ahmed, a member of the Commission for Racial Equality in Birmingham where some of arrests took place, expressed relief that an attack had been foiled.

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However Fahad Ansari of the Islamic Human Rights Commission said that many Muslims would be sceptical about the police statement.

In the past high profile arrests – such as the Forest Gate raid or the alleged plot to bomb Old Trafford football stadium – had failed to produce any evidence of terrorist activity.

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He suggested that the raids could even have been timed to distract attention from the criticisms of the British government’s stance on the Lebanon crisis.