Sir Ian Blair seizes sword from terrorists unarmed and alone

Yahoo ran a wonderful story last week “London Police Chief Reaches Out to Muslims”
Sir Ian Blair appealed to Muslims to join the police but then went on to explain somewhat paradoxically "It is not the police, it is not the intelligence services who will defeat terrorism, it is communities who will defeat terrorism." Metropolitan Police Commission Ian Blair told a gathering at the Minhaj-ul-Quran Mosque.

"We've got nearly a million Muslims in London ... I've only got 300 Muslim police officers in London. I'm afraid that's not good enough.”

"I need your mothers and your fathers, your brothers and your sisters, your sons and your daughters."

Blair urged the Muslim community to change its attitude toward radical clerics such as Abu Hamza al-Masri, who is in prison awaiting trial for allegedly encouraging the murder of Jews and other non-Muslims, and Syrian-born Sheikh Omar Bakri Mohammad, spiritual leader of the radical Muslim movement Al-Muhajiroun.

"You're going to have move away from the very understandable position that lunatics like Bakri and Hamza are just lunatics and they're not important," Blair said.

“We have to find ways in which we identify the young men and sometimes women who are vulnerable to extremism. That is a great challenge."

Blair said there was "nothing wrong with being a fundamentalist Muslim," or a fundamentalist of another faith.

"The key issue is the slide into extremism," he said…. Which to many listening probably includes calling people who represent dissenting voices, .. er .. “lunatics”. Of course it may require a lawyer to explain why the Chief of the Metropolitan Police finds it necessary to describe the defendent in a current court case a "lunatic" or if it might be considered to be seen as prejudicial to the defendents case.

Curiously this story was illustrated with picture of Sir Ian visiting the Sikh community at Gurdwara Dasmesh Darbar on the same day.

True to form he has been seduced by political correctness to wear (wholly inappropriately, a turban and so look a complete twat). He is pictured holding the "Kirpan" which is a sign of justice and it was presented to him to help fight the injustices in London. it was presented to him by (left to right:) Harjinder Singh and Gurdeep Singh. (AP Photo / Edmond Terakopian, PA)

A very profitable day all round for our Top Cop…. It shows how he really has his finger on the pulse of multi - cultural, multi - faith Britain. Does he, I ask myself, suggest to the Archbishops those of their flock who call for lady Bishops, or the introduction of gay marriage by the Church, ..er ..”lunatics”.

Does he perhaps suggest to the Roman Catholic heirachy , that those of their followers who object to abortion are "lunatics" ?

I am delighted that the Police in London are led my a man of such vision, tact, understanding and subtlety of expression.