MarketNeutral
8th April 2010, 12:43 PM
http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0408/uk-troops-trained-firing-replica-mosques/
A political and religious uproar has erupted in Great Britain over news that the British Army trained troops for the Afghanistan mission by having them fire on replica mosques.
A British Muslim group is demanding that the UK military immediately disband seven replica mosques built on an army firing range in northern England.
The flat cut-outs were appear to have been placed as the targets at the Bellerby firing range at the British Army's Catterick Garrison in the north of England.
The Bradford Council of Mosques, a local umbrella group of Muslim organizations, accused the British Army of reinforcing negative stereotypes about Muslims.
"What angers me very much is that we are conditioning the young British to say that mosques are a place where you are going to find danger and a place to target," said Ishtiaq Ahmed of the BCM, as quoted at BBC News.
A political and religious uproar has erupted in Great Britain over news that the British Army trained troops for the Afghanistan mission by having them fire on replica mosques.
A British Muslim group is demanding that the UK military immediately disband seven replica mosques built on an army firing range in northern England.
The flat cut-outs were appear to have been placed as the targets at the Bellerby firing range at the British Army's Catterick Garrison in the north of England.
The Bradford Council of Mosques, a local umbrella group of Muslim organizations, accused the British Army of reinforcing negative stereotypes about Muslims.
"What angers me very much is that we are conditioning the young British to say that mosques are a place where you are going to find danger and a place to target," said Ishtiaq Ahmed of the BCM, as quoted at BBC News.