The British Member of House of Lords, Lord Nazir Ahmed of Rotherham has opposed the proposed 42-day detention without any charge under Terrorism Act and said the move will further alienate young British Muslims. He warned the Labour MPs of marginal seats who voted in favour of proposed law saying that there was only one community that will suffer alone if the law was adopted', he said.
'I am a Labour loyalist but I will remind people to remember the MPs who vote for the 42-day detention rule when they look for votes in marginal constituencies' he added. 'It seems targeting the Muslim community is the easy way they have found to show their supremacy once again', he said in a statement.
Lord Ahmed also said that the Government had taken a U-turn on the 10p tax, on super-casino and fuel duty however wants to punish the Muslim communities further by introducing these horrific measures.
Further, he said that 'the Commissioner for Human Rights, Council of Europe, was absolutely right to remind the British Government that the UK already has Draconian anti-terror laws where people are held for 28-days without any charge. 'This is the longest detention period within the democratic world and new measures would put our Government in a parallel state to dictatorship that uses oppressive measures against its own people. If introduced, the new measures will inevitably demean the Habeas Corpus principles embedded within the Magna Carta', he argued.
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