UK: Muslim student arrested at Birmingham Airport on suspicion of misunderstanding Islam

Posted by Robert on December 20, 2011 8:07 AM

A "terrorist document." The mind reels. What could that be? A document detailing a jihad plot? Or a document inciting to terrorism? Was he perhaps carrying a holy book that exhorts believers to hate, subjugate and kill the infidel -- you know, [1] like the Bhagavad Gita?

"Foreign student, 22, arrested at Brimingham Airport on suspicion of 'carrying terrorist document,'" by Damien Gayle for the [2] Daily Mail, December 20 (thanks to Paul):

A 22-year-old student was arrested last night at Birmingham Airport on suspicion of carrying with him a terrorist document.

Police seized the Pakistani national - who lives and studies in the UK - after he got off a flight from Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates.

A West Midlands Police spokesman said he was held on suspicion of being in possession of a document likely to be of use to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism.

Last night he was being questioned by officers from West Midlands Police's Counter Terrorism Unit....


Article printed from Jihad Watch: http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/12/uk-muslim-student-arrested-at-birmingham-airport-on-suspicion-of-misunderstanding-islam.html

URLs in this post:
[1] http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/12/russian-court-mulling-ban-on-extremist-holy-book-that-incites-to-violence-the-bhagavad-gita.html
[2] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2076603/Foreign-student-22-arrested-Brimingham-Airport-suspicion-carrying-terrorist-document.html