Displacement Of Responsibility Alert: “Welsh muslims say aircraft bomb plot ‘a fake,'” from icWales, with thanks to Nooze:
YOUNG Welsh Muslims have accused the Government of master-minding this week’s plot to blow up transatlantic jets mid-air to justify Tony Blair’s war on terror.
Some followers of Islam have claimed the arrest of more than 20 people on suspicion of scheming to kill thousands of passengers travelling to America using liquid explosives is designed to bolster the Prime Minister’s flagging credibility over the Iraq and Lebanon-Israel crises.
Speaking to Wales On Sunday last night, members of the Cathays Dar-ul-Isra Muslim Community Centre in Cardiff said it was a ploy to reinforce Mr Blair’s alliance with US President George W Bush, who waged war on Saddam Hussein on a discredited claim that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction.
“I believe this so-called plot is all a fabrication aimed at covering up the actions of George Bush and Tony Blair,” said Abdul Ullah, 26. “Sadly, people will believe whatever they are told these days.”
Dr Sam Ben, 29, added: “As far as I can make out, people have been arrested but none have been charged with anything or were caught at the scene of any crime. I believe the whole operation has been a smoke-screen.”
I look forward to Muslim spokesmen like Akbar Ahmed rebuking Ullah and Ben and exhorting the British Muslim community to take responsibility for nurturing “extremists.”