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"I don't think you can minimize the adverse impact of events like those of the last week," said Grieve.
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CAIRO – British lawmakers warned that anti-terror police raids risk to harm relations with the Muslim minority in the country, The Independent reported on Thursday, June 8.
"I don't think you can minimize the adverse impact of events like those of the last week," Dominic Grieve, the Conservative home affairs spokesman, told a Westminster launch of a commission on Islamophobia combat.
"If somebody has their door kicked down at four in the morning it sends out a very negative impression about the nature of our society."
He said if the raids turned out to be mistaken Muslims would feel "confronted and embattled."
Two British Muslims, Mohammed Abdul Kahar, 23, his brother Abul Koyair, 20, have been arrested on suspicion of involvement in a terrorist plot, charges which they have vehemently denied.
Senior counter-terrorism officials told the Guardian on Tuesday, June 6, that the intelligence that led to the high-profile raid was wrong and based on a single apparently uncorroborated source.
The Independent reported on Tuesday June 6, that many angry Muslims were considering to leave Britain feeling no longer safe following the high-profile raid.
Shameful
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"Police and the intelligence services have lost all credibility," said Siddique
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Muslim community leaders and lawmakers were also infuriated.
"It has been an absolute disaster, it's shameful... Police and the intelligence services have lost all credibility," said Ghayasuddin Siddique, leader of the Muslim parliament of Britain.
The Muslim Parliament is an NGO whose purpose is to debate, campaign and lobby on issues concerning the Muslim minority in Britain, estimated at some 1.8 million.
Sadiq Khan, a Muslim Labour MP, said the police needed to reflect on the downside of their activities.
"There's a concern about the willingness of the community to volunteer information [to the police] if their neighbor, someone down the road, their son has been treated unfairly."
The neighbors of the Muslim arrestees accused London's Metropolitan Police of serious human rights violations including the handcuffing of a grandmother.
The family, whose members were questioned by police for twelve hours before being released without charge, are considering legal action.
"At this stage, we are getting reports about residents living under the police presence who have allegedly faced some harassment from police," said a spokeswoman for the Newham Monitoring Project (NMP).
She said the claims were being investigated by the NMP before the possibility of lodging a formal complaints with the Metropolitan Police.
British police have already endured almost a year of harsh criticism, including accusations of a cover-up, since officers gunned down an unarmed Brazilian on a subway train suspecting him to be a bomber
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