07 July 2010

The other 7/7 victims: Five years on, British Muslims reveal how the bombings left them angry, ashamed - and afraid

.... Raihan Akhtar complains: 'not only was I a potential target for a suicide bomber from my own community, I was also a potential target for security forces from my own government.'

However, Murtaza Shibli, the book's editor, realistically notes that the experience of being stopped and searched by the London police was a million times better than in Kashmir, where 'many such roadside checks would end up with people disappearing and their subsequent mutilated dead bodies resurfacing on the roadside or recovered from the river, often unrecognisable. [MailOnline] Read more [via Islamophobia Watch]