23 January 2010

Terror threat will get worse, warns Government adviser

.... He urged the Government to introduce the controversial policy of 'passenger profiling' - singling out particular groups for security checks at airports or other transport hubs - in order to combat the threat posed from Islamist extremists. "The stakes are too high to worry about my individual rights," he said. "What about the right not to be bombed?"

However, Mr Wahhab, who owns the Roast restaurant in London and is chairman of the Department for Work and Pensions ethnic minority advisory group, stressed that it is vital that young Muslims are given a sense of hope if they are to be less vulnerable to the lure of extremism. [telegraph.co.uk] Read more