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06/26/2008: "UK Metropolitan police force faces race claims from Muslim police chief"
Britain's most senior Muslim police officer is preparing to sue his own force for racial discrimination. Assistant commissioner Tarique Ghaffur is expected to issue formal proceedings, taking Scotland Yard to an employment tribunal, imminently.
He is known to have been opposed to the proposal to extend detention of terrorism suspects without charge to 42 days, an idea championed by the Met commissioner, Sir Ian Blair.
Those close to Ghaffur say he felt increasingly sidelined and undermined and was unhappy that his contract was not extended by more than a year.
If as expected Ghaffur sues his force it will send shockwaves among ethnic minority officers across the entire police service. He has mentored many, and the prospect of the country's most senior Muslim officers claiming the police are prejudiced at a time when counter-terrorism officers are trying to increase the trust British Muslim communities have in officers, will be nothing less than damaging. Ghaffur angered some colleagues when he gave evidence in the criminal trial of fellow Met officer Ali Dizaei who was later cleared of corruption charges.
[ This looks like a concerted effort by Muslims to undermine the British state. The opposition to 42 days detention initiative is inevitable from Muslims, although it is supposed to be targetted only at fundamentalists amongst them. It seems that the more moderate Muslims may have deeper sympathies with fundamentalists than they publicly admit to. This is no surprise - Islam is meaningful to them and gives them ethnic cohesion while establishing their ambitions for dominance in a foreign land. Yet more proof of the failure of pluralism. ]
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/jun/26/police.race