Brian Parker has become the target of the appeasement brigade in Pendle Lancashire, why? because he has dared to speak out, he has signed a circular that states Muslims are responsible for the Herion trade in his area.

Needless to say he has now been villified and calls for him to stand down have been made, it is quite clear that the people who are now villifying him have not understood the nature of the statement that Muslims are responsible for the growth of Heroin use not only in Pendle but nationwide.

Of course we have non Muslims in the UK who deal in Heroin, that is undeniable but the fact remains that it is Islamic countries that produce the greatest amount of Heroin, it is Islamic countries that facillitate the bulk of the trafficking therefore it follows that these countries, being Islamic, Muslims are the people growing, selling and trafficking the drug to the UK and rest of the world..

 Our own Government actually identifies the Major producing and trafficking countries they are as follows:

 Major Heroin Producing and Trafficking Countries

 Afghanistan

The breakdown of governance in Afghanistan during more than 20 years of civil conflict created the conditions within which it became the world’s leading supplier of opiates in the 1990s. Whilst over 90% of the heroin trafficked into Europe in recent years has originated in Afghanistan, Afghan opium production is no longer just an issue for the West: opiate addiction rates are rising in neighbouring countries and increasingly in Afghanistan itself.

The defeat of the Taliban following the 11 September 2001 attacks in the USA has given the international community an opportunity to work with the new Afghan authorities to overcome the dependence of the Afghan economy and society on drugs.

The Afghan authorities responded quickly to international concern about the 2002 harvest by issuing a ban on drugs production and subsequently carried out an eradication programme which, according to Afghan estimates, resulted in 17,300 hectares of the crop being destroyed between April and June 2002. If it had been harvested, this area would have produced about 80 tonnes of heroin, 2-3 times the annual average UK consumption level. This would be worth approximately £5 billion at UK street prices.

But eradication alone will not solve Afghanistan’s drugs problem. The sustained elimination of opium cultivation will only be achieved once Afghan farmers have alternative forms of licit livelihood, and issues such as the reconstruction of infrastructure, effective law enforcement, security and good governance are successfully addressed.

At the Geneva meeting on security sector reform in April 2002, donors agreed that the UK should lead on co-ordinating international anti-narcotics assistance to support Afghanistan's fight against drugs. Afghanistan's National Drug Control Strategy, which came into effect on 19 May 2003, provides the framework for our assistance. The strategy is based upon the following key principles: improved drugs law enforcement; promoting alternative livelihoods for poppy farmers; capacity building for Afghan drugs institutions; and public awareness campaigns/treatment programmes to help reduce demand.

The UK has committed £70 million pounds over the next three years to support implementation of the Afghan National Drug Control Strategy. We are also deploying additional personnel to Kabul to advise and support Afghan ministries involved with co-ordination and implementation. Projects funded to date include:

a series of counter-narcotics training courses for the Afghan police. The training included sessions on basic investigation and intelligence techniques, drug testing and recognition, evidence gathering, legislation and human rights.

a UNODC project aimed at raising drug awareness among returning Afghan refugees in Iran. The programme presents information on the risks and consequences of drug cultivation, processing, trafficking and abuse. A number of media (radio, video, and pamphlets) are being used to convey messages.

funding for 'New Home, New Life', a BBC Afghan education project. Through the storylines of this radio drama, the Afghan population are informed about the socio-economic, political, health and legal problems associated with illicit drugs and about the choices open to farmers to enable them to ensure their futures

Pakistan

Pakistan no longer has any significant opium production (5 tonnes in 2001, down from 181 tonnes in 1992), but remains a major smuggling route for Afghan opiates. It borders the main poppy growing regions of Afghanistan (Helmand and Nangarhar). Opiates are trafficked through Pakistan to Iran and Europe. Pakistan is also a major transit country for acetic anhydride, the chemical precursor used to process opium into heroin.

Operational co-operation between UK and Pakistani law enforcement agencies has proved effective and has been reinforced with generous drugs related assistance. We have provided bilateral support to the Anti-Narcotics Force largely in the form of training and communications equipment. We have also contributed to multilateral assistance work, mostly via UNODC.

Turkey

Turkey is a key transit and heroin processing country for opiates en route to the UK from Afghanistan. Up to 80% of heroin used in the UK is believed to transit through Turkey. We are working to strengthen operational co-operation with Turkish law enforcement agencies and are developing a range of bilateral assistance initiatives as well as providing support to a UNODC project which aims to assess the extent of drug abuse in Turkey.

The Turkish government, with assistance from UNODC, has established the Turkish International Academy against Drugs and Organised Crime (TADOC) as a regional training facility for law enforcement officers from Turkey and countries in the region. The aim is to improve the professionalism, skills and capacity of law enforcement agencies, and to promote co-operation between law enforcement agencies in the region. Effectively trained and professional law enforcement in this region should lead to increased disruption of trafficking close to source. The FCO contributed funds to TADOC through UNODC.

Iran

Lying between Afghanistan and Turkey, Iran is a key transit country for drug traffickers. Iran makes vigorous efforts to tackle the drugs trade and has the world’s highest seizure levels. Iranian law enforcement agencies have been involved in violent skirmishes with traffickers along its border with Afghanistan for more than twenty years. These skirmishes have claimed the lives of more than 3100 law enforcement officers. Iran has invested about $250 million in border reinforcements, but long stretches of border remain porous.

The UK has provided more than £3.6 million for anti-drugs assistance to Iran since 1998, largely via UNODC (for law enforcement capacity building, demand reduction, public awareness and legal assistance programmes), but also through bilateral programmes (including the provision of night vision equipment, GPS, and customs training). Iran has historically been the leading recipient of UK anti-drugs assistance. The UK and Iran have also run joint training for colleagues from Afghanistan.

Central Asia

There is only very small-scale cultivation of opium poppy in Central Asia, but successful drug control in Afghanistan could lead eventually to displacement of cultivation into remoter areas where law enforcement is more limited.

Opiates are trafficked out of Afghanistan to Central Asia and Russia (where demand has risen rapidly). Tajikistan is a major transit route. Opiates are also trafficked through Turkmenistan to Turkey via the Caucasus or Iran. There was no hard evidence that large quantities of opiates trafficked on these routes are destined for Western Europe and the UK.

UNODC is involved in drug control projects throughout the region including assisting in the establishment of drug control agencies, strengthening border controls and law enforcement capacity building. Due to difficulties in securing donor finance some of these projects have been scaled down.

The UK has funded a variety of bilateral assistance and UNODC projects in the Central Asian region in recent years, £240,000 is for the construction of a covered search facility on the Turkmen-Afghan border - and £250,000 for anti-drugs training and equipment for the five Central Asian republics.

The Balkans

The Balkan Route is the main transit route for drugs entering Europe from South West Asia. The UK has supported a joint UNODC/EU programme to strengthen law enforcement in Bulgaria, Romania and Macedonia and has provided bilateral assistance to a number of countries.

The FCO is set to fund the secondment of a customs adviser to Romania and is leading a twinning project in Romania to assist the government there in the fight against police corruption.

The FCO also contributed to a UNODC project aimed at developing intelligence capacities in the region.

Calls for the Muslim to apologise for this evil trade have been derided, well they would be wouldn't they after all the Muslim and Islam must not be seen as anything but good and wholesome.

The poor deluded people who are making all this noise are not Muslims(unless they are converts) and this demonstrates the ridiculous situation we are now in, Muslims do not have to do their own protesting, the willing idiots in the UK will do it for them, as a result of this the Muslim is in the position of being able to say that they are not the ones complaining or causing unrest or being culpable for anything.

The Stockholm Syndrome comes to mind

The term Stockholm Syndrome was coined by the criminologist and psychiatrist Nils Bejerot, who assisted the police during the robbery, and referred to the syndrome in a news broadcast.

 Other uses

Loyalty to a more powerful abuser — in spite of the danger that this loyalty puts the victim in — is common among victims of domestic abuse, battered partners and child abuse (dependent children). In many instances the victims choose to remain loyal to their abuser, and choose not to leave him or her, even when they are offered a safe placement in foster homes or safe houses. This unhealthy type of mental phenomenon is also known as Trauma-Bonding or Bonding-to-the-Perpetrator. This syndrome was described by psychoanalysts of the object relations theory school (see Fairbairn) as the phenomenon of psychological identification with the more powerful abuser. A variant of Stockholm Syndrome includes cases of abusive parents and abusive siblings in which the victim, even after entering adulthood, still justifies the family abuse.

 

Psychoanalytic explanations

According to the psychoanalytic view of the syndrome, the tendency might well be the result of employing the strategy evolved by newborn babies to form an emotional attachment to the nearest powerful adult in order to maximize the probability that this adult will enable — at the very least — the survival of the child, if not also prove to be a good parental figure. This syndrome is considered a prime example for the defense mechanism of identification.[1]

 

Sociological explanation

Based on the capital theory by Pierre Bourdieu, five forms of capital from the economic to the symbolic are constantly fought over in the society. Social actions amount to capital which can be used for power in various fields of social interaction. This power depends on violently preventing others from accessing capital and it is the opposite to a non-violent social action, where the capitals are used to increase the capital possessed by others. In the marxist class theory, capital is essential for self-realization. It has been proposed that traditions maintain the class society and forms of capitalist violence. In a hostage situation, these traditions are by-passed in a way which may allow an unforeseen action from a lower class person to gain capital. As personal interests are in conflict with the traditional culture, this lapse of tradition provides to the victims an independent forum where they interpret the actions of the abductor outside traditional norms and relate to the abductor in a compassionate way. This may lead to the need of assuring that the powerfully felt struggle for social equality of the abductor succeeds. This need may be accompanied by a sense of security, which exists between a loyal person and the abductor. this explanation can be linked to the psychologist Aymon Hamdi.

To my mind the stockholm syndrome fits well, it also fits the vast majority of our Government