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Sharia UK: Police sought names of people who bought Charlie Hebdo

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charlie hebdo post massacreThey apologized, but only because they were caught. Their explanation doesn’t make any sense: “Following the terrorism incident in Paris, France on 7 January 2015, Wiltshire police undertook an assessment of community tensions across the county. As part of this work, local sector policing teams were asked to be mindful of business premises, in particular newsagents who may be distributing the Charlie Hebdo magazine and to consider that these shops may be vulnerable.” How does getting the names of those who bought Charlie Hebdo make newsagents less vulnerable? Were British authorities intending to provide protection to the individuals who bought the magazine? That would be the only way the request for their names could make sense in terms of protecting the public, but they don’t say anything about any such plan. Also, if this were all about protecting the public, why did they apologize at all?

That leaves only one other possible explanation: the police sought the names of those who bought Charlie Hebdo intending to target them in some way — place them on a list of potential “Islamophobes,” or put them under surveillance, or do something, whatever it may have been, to harass them for exercising their freedom of speech in a way that offended Muslims.

Sharia Britannia Update: “UK police force apologises for taking details of Charlie Hebdo readers,” by Josh Halliday, the Guardian, February 9, 2015 (thanks to Jules):

A British police force has apologised after an officer told a newsagent to hand over details of customers who purchased copies of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in the wake of the Paris terror attacks.

Wiltshire police confirmed that one of their officers visited a newsagent in Corsham, Wiltshire, to ask for the names of four customers who ordered the commemorative “survivors’ issue” of the magazine.

The incident came to light when Anne Keat, 77, who bought the special issue from that newsagent, wrote a letter to the Guardian to warn people that wearing badges emblazoned with “Je suis Charlie” may attract police interest.

In the letter, which was published on Monday, Keat wrote: “Your offer of commemorative badges in support of journalistic freedom highlighting Je suis Charlie prompts me to suggest a degree of caution following my experience. Tongue in cheek, I asked my helpful newsagents to obtain a copy of the edition of Charlie Hebdo issued after the dreadful massacre in Paris, if indeed a copy was ever available in north Wiltshire.

“To my surprise, a copy arrived last Wednesday week and although the standard of content in no way matches that of the Guardian I will cherish it. However, two days later a member of Her Majesty’s police service visited said newsagent, requesting the names of the four customers who had purchased Charlie Hebdo. So beware, your badges may attract police interest in your customers.”

In a statement, Wiltshire police apologised to “the members of the public who may be affected by this” and said they had deleted the details from their system.

A spokeswoman said: “Following the terrorism incident in Paris, France on 7 January 2015, Wiltshire police undertook an assessment of community tensions across the county. As part of this work, local sector policing teams were asked to be mindful of business premises, in particular newsagents who may be distributing the Charlie Hebdo magazine and to consider that these shops may be vulnerable.

“There was no specific threat nationally and nothing to suggest newsagents in particular would be vulnerable.”

She continued: “A police officer visited a local shop and post office in Corsham to make an assessment of community tensions and, if appropriate, encourage the newsagent’s owner to be vigilant. During this conversation the officer requested information about subscribers to the Charlie Hebdo magazine.

“Wiltshire police would like to apologise to the members of public who may be affected by this. Information relating to this specific incident has been permanently and securely disposed of.

“Wiltshire police are confident that the police officer’s intention was purely around enhancing public safety and ensuring that the newsagent was advised appropriately.”

It is understood that the officer involved has been given a “word of advice” but will not face disciplinary action. The force said it had received no complaints about the incident….

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  2. While British police are nowhere to be seen during Islamic anti-freedom of speech demo,
    they use repressive measures against supporters of Hebdo free speech victims.

    • Just like the Mafia 60 years ago. Just like drug kingpins in Mexico today. Nothing new except Islam is a religion of and for the same kinds of criminals.

  4. While British police are nowhere to be seen during Islamic anti-freedom of speech demo,

    they use repressive measures against supporters of Hebdo free speech victims.

  5. I imagine the leftist authorities in the UK want to compile of those deemed to be ‘islamamophobic’.

    I hope if UKIP can come to power they put an end to this PC insanity

  6. Maybe its in anticipation of the day when Muslims control everything in the UK, so the Muslims will know who to arrest and kill. The prospects are chilling, I see nothing positive coming from such a list. How about a list of every Muslim who called for violence? Gather their names, and deport their asses- even if they are UK born, strip them of citizenship and send them to their choice of fascists Islamic shitholes

  7. My money is on the policeman making the list of charlie-hebdo buyers being a mohammedan.

    • I thought exactly the same thing. I’ll wait and see if any properties in Wiltshire are attacked.

    • I believe there are 2 options here: or a conscious dhimmi, meaning a self hating Kufar, or a goat abuser, how about that?

    • Nacazo, that’s what I was thinking.

      I wonder if they’ll ever let us know his name?

      If he is a Muslim, then he deserves more than just a “word of advice”. I don’t see any logical reason to take the details of people who bought the magazine, and apparently the officer decided to do that off his own bat. But it would make sense if he were an Islamist who aimed to do mischief. So if he *is* a Muslim, that raises a big red flag over his head.

  8. Very sinister indeed. Tying it in to the former story about extra resources being required by the UK police to deal with the increasing number of terror plots, they’d save plenty of dough by ending this sureptitious surveilance of citizens loyal to the (former at least) British value of freedom of speech and targeting it instead at the enemies of freedom. What in heaven’s name is happening to the UK?

    • “What in heaven’s name is happening to the UK”?

      what is happening, is that EVERY aspect of British society is being infiltrated by the Muslim 5th column.

      Muslims have slithered into schools, local government, national government, the police, hospitals, the military, banking. EVERY social structure in Britain has been penetrated by this Muslim 5th column. They have most probably also penetrated the British intelligence services, as translators, advisers et al.

      The Jihadist master plan to destroy democratic societies from within, is accelerating year on year.

  9. Good by to reason,good by to freedom of speech,good by to freedom of thought,good by freedom of religion,good by to western beliefs and all in the name of multi cultural relations.

    • One of the comments to that article says: “mickscylla, middlesbrough, United Kingdom, 4 hours ago

      This didn’t only happen in Wiltshire. I know for a fact it happened in Teesside. I know of a Newsagent who scattered the Police when getting a similar visit.”

      Q1. Are there any more?
      Q2. How did police know which newsagent/s to target? (Did they have a distribution list and, if so, who gave it to them?)

  12. It just gets weirder and weirder. I can see why a commenter in another thread said, “Sometimes it feels like living in a lunatic asylum.”

  13. Did the police disclose who this police officer was – a Muslims(Asian) or a native Brit? This disclosure will say a lot about the police force.

    • Yes, that could be VERY interesting! It’s amazing how all these oh-so-desirable ‘Prophet’ -worshipping officers can be so creative when they interpret the rules in the way that THEY seem to think fit – usually not in quite the way WE would think to ‘fair’ and ‘reasonable’, ‘professional’, ‘proper’, or even ‘legal’. There was Ali Desai of the Met, promoted way above his level of integrity, who thought behaving like a out-and-out thug was somehow commensurate with the dignity of the British police (but probably par for course where HE came from). Then there was the ‘officer’ outside an east London tube station who persuaded a distressed female NOT to press charges when she had been sexually assaulted by a group of 6-8 muslim men “because she would have to stand up in court and testify against them”. Then there’s PC Ali in Rotherham who tried to get off with one of the sex abuse victims!!!

  14. The Koran and the Hadith are documents advocating and propagating a Muslim genocidal agenda against all non-Muslims.

    Does HMS (Her Muslim Service) Police collect all the names of those who acquire or possess a copy of the Koran or the Hadith, where the associated risks to the general public are clear and present?

  15. It would seem that George Orwell knew his countrymen all too well.

    “This England, which was wont to conquer others, hath made a shameful conquest of itself.”

    — Shakespeare, “Richard II,” Act 2, Scene 1

  16. “That England, which was wont to conquer others, hath made a shameful conquest of itself.”

    — Richard II, Act 2, Scene 1

  17. ”It is understood that the officer involved has been given a “word of advice” but will not face disciplinary action. The force said it had received no complaints about the incident….”

    I will bet a huge sum of money, the ‘officer involved’ is a member of the muslim police association. ( or a dhimmi leftard PC/MC moron) Of course he won’t be disciplined; that would be ‘islamophobic’, and ‘raaacist’ !

    • I have ordered a copy from my local newsagent; I can’t **wait** for some plod scumbag to come to my door.

    • And the word of advice will probably be: “be a little more circumspect in future and don’t get caught”.

  19. Once the police cease to ruled by law – the whole country ceases to be ruled by law.

    We in Britain reached that point years ago.

  23. “.. a member of Her Majesty’s police service..”
    The year is 2015. It appears that Britain still has trouble adjusting their calendar.

  24. Are the police also eager to see who reads which websites, and where they live?

    For the readers’ “own security”, of course…

    • If that’s the case, poor Rezali… A shia frequenting JihadWatch? Sucks to be him 😀

  25. Reminds me of the list of names the Nazis compiled of every British citizen that would be executed had Germany ever carried out a full invasion and occupation of the UK

  26. ”Sharia UK: Police sought names of people who bought Charlie Hebdo”

    “Hope has two beautiful daughters. Their names are Anger and Courage; anger at the way things are, and courage to see that they do not remain the way they are.”

    -St. Augustine of Hippo

  27. I guess these people are easier to go after than gangs of ‘Asian’
    child rapists. When I first saw the first words of the article “Sharia
    UK : Police…”, I thought I saw “Sharia Police : UK…” for a second.
    Though my eyes were playing tricks on me, they inadvertently gave
    me much insight into the rest of the article.

  28. Sharia UK: Police sought names of people who bought Charlie Hebdo
    …………………………

    For a split second I misread this and thought it was threatening Muslims trying to get the names of those who had bought Charlie Hebdo.

    But this is in its own way *worse*.

    Now, it might have been a Mohammedan who has inveigled his way onto the police force—terrifying enough—but from what others here have noted, it does not sound as though this was an isolated incident.

    Instead, it sounds like it *was policy*.

    My local magazine shop was able to get some copies of Charlie Hebdo from their distributor—and, yes, to make sure they could contact those who wanted a copy, they took down both the names and phone numbers of those interested. I’m sure that information would have provided a ready list, if not of “Islamophobes”—I doubt many here are that knowledgeable—then at least of those who support freedom of speech and oppose thuggery.

    The police should be *applauding* such people.

    I never found out exactly how many were on this list—nor should I have!—but I know there were *scores* of people. When I ran into one of the few genuine Anti-Jihadists I know locally—”Tom”—I told him the magazine shop was trying to get copies. He wound up buying ten copies, at ten dollars a pop, to give out to family and friends.

    There was also a small bookshop in Berkeley—one that usually deals in gardening books, of all things—that also got in copies of Charlie Hebdo. Coincidentally, they are just up the street from the little art house theater that was brave enough to show the movie The Interview, which was threatened by North Korea and abandoned by the major film distributors. I saw the movie there the day after Christmas.

    Charlie Hebdo usually has a run of well under 500,000 copies—and they printed *over five million* of their latest issue. I’ve heard they’re considering a second print run.

    Some of this is just curiosity, no doubt—but most of it is a big *f*ck you* to those who try to violently shut down our freedom of speech.

    Kudos to all brave Britons who bought issues, and to the brave newsagents who carried them. *This* is the lesson the police should be taking here.

    Je Suis Charlie!

    • Did they have to show photo ID when ordering a copy? If they could surely put down any name – even “Joe Bloggs”… as for phone number – here in England you can buy a simcard from any newsagent’s, with no personal details required. Not a big deal… not sure how it works across the Pond though.

      • No—no one had to show ID, and I don’t imagine anyone cared about what number you left, as long as they could use it to let customers know when the copies were available. This is not unusual—they do this all the time for less politically charged situations. Last time they called me before this was to let me know they had copies of the Oxford American music issue in.

        For myself, I’m a regular there, and several of the clerks know my name. I figured the magazine shop was taking a greater risk in carrying Charlie Hebdo than individual customers did in ordering individual copies.

  29. Unbelievable! More evidence of widening the “terror threat” so not to stereotype muslims. So little old ladies are just as much a treat as hate preachers like Choudary…well that’s fair init?

  30. Well why aren’t they checking up who’s been buying copies of “Goat Quarterly” then? Or”Under age Brides”….bloody hypocrites.

  31. The officer in question, obviously, was Muslim. I’d bet you a buffalo nickel.

  33. Now reported in the Guardian (11 Feb 2015) that police from “several” British police forces (Wiltshire, Wales and Cheshire) questioned newsagents.

    In the Cheshire incident, the newsagent “…had a phone call from the police, saying they’d been told that he had been selling and advertising Charlie Hebdo in his shop. He replied that this was untrue: he had supplied in total one copy, concealed, to a customer who was a French lecturer.”

    One copy, not on public display — and the police knew… Chances are that the police informant is in the magazine supply chain or in academia.

    http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/feb/10/police-several-forces-seek-details-charlie-hebdo-readers

  34. A bit of good news This sharia4belgium piece of garbage got 12 years, should have gotten 30 and not that many years ago when Europe was still ruled by men he would be dead. I wonder if 12 years receiving a steady stream of followers while you plot jihad from your prison cell and your 4 wives are entitled to conjugal visits and you get a stipend for the commissary on the dime of the dhimmi tax payers. I am sure after his 12 years of extended vacation when he is released into a Europe with a 40 % Muslim population he will be elected right away to the new true believers party that is running away with every election throughout the EU. It comes down to numbers. If they had any sense he would be in solitary and not permitted to have a single word he utters for the next 12 years to be printed.

  35. I’m a serving police officer (Kelly not my real name). UK police forces maintain a comprehensive database of all potential and actual ‘islamophobes.’ Attempting to obtain names of purchasers of Charlie Hebdo magazine is merely an extension of this intelligence gathering programme..

    UK police forces are actually pro-Labour, pro-Muslim, and very much anti-white, anti-English, and anti-Christian. They’re only arresting potential Muslim terrorists because they’ve had orders from the Home Office to do so. These orders are not always carried out. Recall the son of the Rotherham Muslim councillor who was deported to Britain from Turkey after trying to join Isil? Police have covered that up. To the police, white Christian english population are the potential terrorists. Currently, police forces are attempting to criminalise the indigenous population any way they can, while Muslims essentially can do what they want with impunity.

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