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The Iconoclast
Tuesday, 13 May 2008
Six months after he nearly killed an Arsenal supporter, police ask, Have you seen this man?
This description and CCTV picture of the man wanted for a serious knife attack has just been released to the Hackney Gazette by the local police, nearly 6 months after the event. This comes after what passes for a description (a youth) of the man witnessed murdering 16 year old altar boy Jimmy Mizen in the local bakers on Saturday morning only being released today, with the information that he is believed to have absconded to Northern Cyprus already.
Police are hunting a Muslim man seen running into a Mosque shortly after he is suspected of stabbing a football fan.
The suspect is seen going up the steps of Finsbury Park Mosque (them again) moments after the brutal attack in Blackstock Road.  So why wasn’t the Mosque sealed and searched immediately?
They are offering a £10,000 reward to find the thug who left the Arsenal fan with a five inch gash across his face. Detectives say the attack last year could have killed the 38-year-old from Hertfordshire. . . The victim was rushed to the Whittington Hospital in Highgate where doctors fought to save his life. . . will be scarred for life.
The attack happened on Saturday, November 24, after the Arsenal versus Wigan game at the Emirates stadium. Three men in their thirties were walking home along Blackstock Road when one of them accidentally bumped into the suspect. Suddenly, the suspect slashed at one of the three men across the face with a weapon causing a deep cut.
The suspect on CCTV
. . . Islington CID, said . . . The area was very busy at the time of the attack so there should be numerous witnesses.  "People's memories might be triggered by the fact Arsenal were playing Wigan that day”.
The suspect is of Asian or Arabic appearance, in his late twenties, about six foot tall, with a beard and short hair. He was wearing traditional Muslim dress.
Posted on 7:08 AM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
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13 May 2008
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When playing "tag" as a child (a.k.a. "tiggy", "chasey", etc.), we also had a "home" base (usually someone's stairs in front of their house) where, if you reached it, you were immune from being "it".

Similarly, Dar al-Islam acts as "home" base for Muslims.  And, just as an embassy is considered part of the sovereign nation of the resident regardless of the hosting country, mosques can also give immunity from being tagged "it".

How many times have we read about police escorting an, uh, Asian youth, who asks to pray?  He goes in, the police wait outside, whoops, where'd he go?  I thought you had him? Oops. "Not it".

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