Decent, law-abiding Muslims seem keen to cooperate with the authorities, but you can see how hundreds of apparently baseless arrests would put them off.
I'm disturbed by the frequent suggestion that it's the Muslim community's own fault that its innocent members are being arrested. To draw a very rough analogy, while most men are not rapists, almost all sexual assaults are committed by men; but when bad police work puts an innocent man in jail, the blame attaches to the police, not to men as a whole.
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Date: 2006-08-15 12:01 am (UTC)I'm disturbed by the frequent suggestion that it's the Muslim community's own fault that its innocent members are being arrested. To draw a very rough analogy, while most men are not rapists, almost all sexual assaults are committed by men; but when bad police work puts an innocent man in jail, the blame attaches to the police, not to men as a whole.