Foreign Affairs
UK Police Ignored Extremist Muslim Cops, Feared Politically Correct Backlash
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London’s Metropolitan Police turned its cheek on complaints of Islamic extremism to avoid looking Islamophobic, one former officer says.
Javaria Saeed, a Muslim herself, told her leadership about a fellow officer advocating female genital mutilation and the use of Sharia courts to settle domestic violence disputes.
Saeed was an officer at the ‘Scottland Yard,’ the headquarters for London Metropolitan police. She contends that the department ignored her and “refused to properly investigate because they were afraid of being called Islamophobic and racist.”
While the agency looked the other way, Saeed faced criticism from other Muslim officers for refusing to cover herself with a veil. She was “better off at home looking after her husband,” said one of her colleagues.
Saeed says her superior’s political correctness drove her to leave the department.
Cautiousness for social backlash appears to be an ongoing trend for policing in Europe, raising questions about their ability to tackle domestic terrorism.
The European Union hammered Belgium for its loose airport security just weeks before the Brussels terror attack. Belgium had been failing to search travelers coming from high-risk countries such as Algeria, Tunisia and Turkey despite a significant number of them passing through Syria.
Germany, which brought in over one million refugees last year, has struggled to balance a welcoming attitude with law and order.
Officers in Cologne, Germany were allegedly told to remove the word “rape” from their reports after scores of sexual assaults were committed by predominately Muslim culprits on New Years Eve. Despite witnesses saying they saw mobs of Arab and North African refugees committing violent acts in the streets, Cologne police issued a statement New Years Day saying they had a “peaceful New Year’s Eve,” LA Times reported.
The cover up led to the resignation of Cologne’s police chief who was accused of trying to hide that asylum-seekers were behind the attacks.
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