[Mb-civic] Blair Acts Against Muslim 'Fringe' - Washington Post

[William Swiggard]

<>Blair Acts Against Muslim 'Fringe'
Some See Measures As a Threat to Rights

By Kevin Sullivan and Mary Jordan
Washington Post Foreign Service
Saturday, August 6, 2005; Page A01

LONDON, Aug. 5 -- Prime Minister Tony Blair outlined fundamental changes 
in British policy and law Friday aimed at reining in what he called the 
"fanatical fringe" of the country's 2 million Muslims following last 
month's deadly train and bus bombings.

The measures, some of them effective immediately and others requiring 
approval by Parliament, include deporting people involved with radical 
Web sites, shutting down places of worship seen as "fomenting 
extremism," and criminalizing speech deemed to justify or incite terrorism.

"Let no one be in any doubt," Blair said in a nationally televised news 
conference. "The rules of the game are changing."

His program comes in response to growing public sentiment here that 
Britain has allowed itself to become a breeding ground for extremist 
Muslims from around the world, putting not only Britain at risk, but 
other nations as well.


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