Dude should’ve shouted Aloha Snackbar?
A police chief has been forced to apologise for featuring a fake Muslim shouting “Allahu Akbar” in a major counter terrorism training exercise against Isil.
The exercise had depicted a suicide bomber detonating explosives and opening fire in the middle of a busy shopping mall.
But critics claimed the depiction of the terrorist “stereotyped” Muslims during the mock up at the Trafford Centre, near Manchester which was aimed at testing the emergency response to an extremist attack in the wake of ISIS led assaults on Paris and Brussels….
“The scenario for this exercise is based on a suicide attack by extremist Daesh style organization and the scenario writers have centred the circumstances around previous similar attacks of this nature, mirroring details of past events to make the situation as real life as possible for all of those involved.
“However, on reflection we acknowledge that it was unacceptable to use this religious phrase immediately before the mock suicide bombing , which so vocally linked this exercise to Islam. We recognize and apologise for the offence this has caused.”….
Stupid decision by @gmpolice to decide attackers should be seen as Muslim. Maybe that's why Islamophobias gone up 300% in the UK #CTexercise
— Ilyas Nagdee (@ilyas_nagdee) May 10, 2016
Good question. We need to move away from stereotypes if we want to achieve Real learning. A terrorist can be any one https://t.co/vQ3thEGGGn
— Dr Erinma Bell MBE (@ErinmaBell) May 10, 2016
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“A terrorist can be any one”. Yes, but there’s only been one correlation recently. The IRA hasn’t been active. Guy Fawkes or Occupiers wearing his mask haven’t been using C4 in the UK. This is similar to the, we’re all children of immigrants, non-reason, so shut up with your neanderthal observations of what is going on. Used to be that fascists wouldn’t let you speak of anything except the weather. Guess they’ve seen that error.