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Thank you for your
letter dated 11 August and a copy of your fine newspaper including
articles covering my plight.
Thank you for the unbiased and fair manner in which your paper
covered my case and encouraged your readers to write to me. I have
received over 150 letters to date, including several from your
readers. I would like to thank all those who have written to me.
I am in prison today because I committed a crime. But the crime I
committed is not what I am being accused of. The crime that I
committed is that I dared to ask for answers in a silent world. I
dared to seek justice in an unjust world and I dared to search for
the truth in a false world.
The authorities could not accept that they had made a mistake by
torturing me and insulting my religion. They were too proud to
apologise to me. Instead they wanted to make an example out of me
when the physical and emotional scars from my last ordeal have not
even healed yet.
This is the “war on terror”. It is a situation in which innocent,
law abiding members of the public are terrorised in order to satisfy
some political ambitions.
I lived all my life in this country. I obeyed the law, I paid taxes,
I ran for disabled children’s charities and I never usurped anyone’s
rights. In return for all this, they want to extradite me to the US,
the country that invented Guantanamo Bay, Bagram and Abu Ghraib
concentration camps.
They want to extradite me because I have not committed any “crime”
that I can be charged with under British law. If this is not
betrayal, then what is?
I am keeping company with murderers, armed robbers and drug dealers,
who are all better off than me because they will serve fixed
sentences and then be released.
Sometimes I ask myself, “Would I have been better off if I was an
armed robber or drug dealer?”. At least then I would have been
entitled to justice and more rights than being a law abiding British
Muslim.
Justice and the protection of minorities are the pillars of a
democracy. When either of these pillars fall, the democracy crumbles
into the dustbin of history.
Yesterday it was the Irish. Today it is the Muslims.
And tomorrow it will be the leftists, socialists, anti-war and
anti-racism campaigners if this is allowed to continue.
As for myself, I never harmed anyone, or abused anyone, or took
anyone’s rights, or committed any other crime. Therefore I am
confident that God will give me honour, justice and freedom one day,
on the day that he wills.
If anyone wishes to help alleviate my plight, then perhaps they
could write to their MP.
Ask him or her to write to the home secretary, David Blunkett, and
ask him under which law a British citizen can be made to stand trial
or be extradited to a country, a country infamous for human rights
abuses, both at home and abroad.
Alternatively, you could write to the media to keep this issue in
the spotlight.
I would also be grateful if you can give me a free subscription to
your newspaper so I can read it myself and pass it round to other
prisoners.
Thanks again, and keep up the good work.
Source: www.stoppoliceterror.com
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