Albino Muslim Family Terrorized After Daughter Marries Christian...

A FAMILY of albino Muslims in Coventry are being terrorised by bigots because their daughter married a man from another religion.

The so-called “honour” retribution has included smashed windows at their Edgwick home, vandalised cars and death threats.

Now, head of the family Aslam Parvez has made a plea to the culprits to end the hatred.

“We’re a good family and have done nothing wrong yet we’re being punished in the name of honour,” he said.

'We may be forced to flee city'

THE head of a Coventry family of albino Muslims has pleaded for an end to a campaign of “honour”
harassment which began after his daughter married outside the faith.

The Parvez-Akhtar family, of Edgwick, has been subjected to vicious attacks because eldest daughter Naseem wed a Christian.

House windows have been smashed, their cars vandalised and they receive constant hate mail.

Aslam Parvez, aged 53, blames members of the Muslim community who believe the family have been dishonoured by his daughter’s marriage.

He contacted the Telegraph to issue a public appeal in a desperate bid to make the culprits stop.

“We’re a good family and have done nothing wrong yet we’re being punished in the name of honour,” he said.

The hate campaign started five months ago when a national magazine published an article on albinos which featured Naseem, who no longer lives in Coventry and has little contact with her family.

It revealed how she has married a Christian, goes to church and is expecting her second child with her husband.

Mr Parvez says copies of the article were quickly spread maliciously, and were posted on walls near their house and through the doors of Muslim homes in the community.

Mr Parvez says he has received numerous death threats and has spent hundreds of pounds installing security cameras around his house.

He has now stopped going to mosque and says he may be forced to flee the city with his wife Shameem Akhtar, 55, three sons Mohammed, 17, Haider, 28, Gulam, 30, and daughters Muqadas, 26 and Musarat, 19.

Mosque Teacher Beats Unruly Children with Pipe...

A mosque teacher assaulted four pupils, including one with learning difficulties, with a two-foot long pipe because they were misbehaving in class.

A court heard the Accrington mosque had a written policy which urged staff to make sure the welfare of children was paramount and calling for them to be protected from abuse.

Married father-of-eight Ibrahim Yusuf, 52, of Preston New Road, Blackburn, pleaded guilty to four charges of assault. He was bailed for the preparation of a pre-sentence report.

Philippa White, prosecuting, said part of the incident at the Grimshaw Street mosque had been captured on CCTV, which showed Yusuf striking two of the boys, aged 11.

She said the boys’ teacher left them alone and there was some ‘minor misbehaviour.’ The defendant was teaching in another part of the mosque and saw and heard what was going on,” said Mrs White.

“He came over carrying a thin, flexible pole. As he walked among the children he hit four of them with the stick.”

She said one was hit on the arm and another on the lower back.

One boy was clearly upset when his mum collected him at 7pm and he had a red mark on his back.

When he was interviewed by police Yusuf said he had gone over to control the children and accepted he had a piece of plastic overflow pipe in his hand which he used as a “teaching aid”.

He said pupils often made complaints against mosque teachers to get out of going to classes but was aware punishment should be through exclusion or detention.

Bernard Horne, defending, said: “He does accept that he went into this classroom to get the children to stop misbehaving.

He also accepts he was waving this pipe around and it struck four of the children. The pipe is used as a pointing stick and to tap on the desk to get the attention of his class.

“There has never been any previous complaint about his behaviour towards the children and how he conducts himself. He has the ongoing support of the mosque and is very highly regarded in the community.”

He said Yusuf had been a mosque teacher for 36 years, the last 10 years at the Grimshaw Street mosque.

The mosque chairman Mr Sardar Ali defended Yusuf, insisting he was “the best teacher at the mosque”.

Mr Ali said: “He was holding the pipe but he was only using it to scare the children to behave.

He didn't hit them hard, he just tapped them, but all the teachers know that you can't hit them as that is against policy.

“If he’s not banned or cautioned then he will come back.

He can teach the Qu’ran by heart to the children.”

Hyndburn deputy council leader Munsif Dad said:

“Obviously it’s very inappropriate to hit anybody, particularly a child. This sort of attitude is totally unacceptable in any form.

“For an individual with that sort of experience it's unfortunate that he’s got himself in that situation.

“All mosques are professionally run to provide a facility for the Muslim community and the wider community in general and helping to build those bridges.

“Incidents like this happen very, very rarely and I don't think in that context it will affect the community."

Girl of 17 plied white teenagers with vodka then forced them into sex with gangs of Asian men

Stephanie Knight, then 17, told the pair they were going clubbing but instead plied them with vodka and drugs before forcing them to have sex with ‘her boys’.

After persuading them into her car she was heard to say ‘got them’ over her mobile phone as they travelled to a derelict house.

The two 16-year-old victims were then subjected to an appalling ordeal in which both were threatened and subjected to vile sex attacks.

The case is the latest featuring Asian sex attackers who preyed on vulnerable young white girls. A damning report published recently revealed one in four men accused of street grooming young girls for sex is Asian.

Politicians and police have repeatedly clashed over how best to tackle what some suspect is a potentially incendiary hidden crime wave.

Jack Straw, former home secretary, has accused some Pakistani men in Britain of seeing white girls as ‘easy meat’ for sexual abuse.

Knight, now aged 19, sobbed as she was convicted of conspiracy to rape at Burnley Crown Court yesterday.

At the time she was in council care and had taken the victims to a supermarket car park where they drank vodka and coke and smoked drugs in December 2009.

One girl later said she was ‘feeling smashed’ and the other said that on a scale of one to ten of drunkenness she rated a ten.

They were then taken to a dark and empty terraced house in Accrington, Lancashire, with no electricity where one of the attackers once lived.

Knight threatened one girl and ordered her to perform a sex act on one man before holding her back as the other girl screamed for help as she was raped nearby.

As the screaming continued, she told the girl her friend would suffer even more if she did not comply and said ‘she is chilling with my boys’.

The second girl was pulled into a number of rooms by the men who took turns to rape her throughout the night. One man used a wardrobe to barricade her inside.

Both girls were then raped again as one of the men, whose partner was due to give birth at the time, drove them home to Blackburn. He threatened them with a knife.

Three men, brothers Amjad Hussain, 34, and Shahid Hussain, 37, and their cousin father-of-four Tanveer Butt, 39, were all convicted of rape.

The victims had only known Knight for a week and had not met any of their attackers before, the court heard.

Knight, who has been in care since the age of 11, first met Amjad Hussain when he pulled up in his car beside her six months earlier and asked for her number.

They went on to have a sexual relationship and Knight, who said she fell in love with him, also performed sex acts on his brother and cousin.

Following the arrest of the defendants, one of  the victims was asked by police what she knew of Knight. She replied: ‘She hangs around with a load of Asian lads.’

Knight had been left traumatised after witnessing a man being kicked to death three months earlier. 

Friends said Asian men would lavish her with attention, pay for her meals and take her for rides in their cars.

One source said she was ‘plasticine in their hands’ and had been living on the streets and sofas for six months before the rapes.

The Hussain brothers, who argued the sex was consensual, shouted that they were innocent as they were led from the dock on their conviction.

Judge Beverley Lunt warned the men they will receive ‘long prison sentences’.

The report into street grooming was ordered after the ring-leaders of a Derby gang, which subjected a string of vulnerable girls to sex attacks, were jailed earlier this year. 

Several police forces have investigations currently going on into gangs suspected of abusing young girls.

It found 2,379 offenders are suspected of attempting to lure vulnerable victims, often using drugs and alcohol, over the past three years.

A disproportionate 28 per cent of them were found to be Asian, in those cases where ethnicity was recorded.


 The ethnic group makes up just 6 per cent of the UK population.

Convicted: The trio protested their innocence but were found guilty of their parts in the girls' horrific ordeal

In the Derby case, a gang of nine men cruised the streets of the town, picking victims who they plied with vodka and cocaine before attacking them.

Children’s Minister Tim Loughton has suggested that closed Asian communities have turned a blind eye to child sex grooming by gangs of men. 

He said criminals had escaped detection because of attitudes within their communities as well as political correctness and racial sensitivities of the authorities.

In January, Mr Straw urged the Pakistani community to think about the problem of young men targeting vulnerable young white girls.

He said: ‘These young men are fizzing and popping with testosterone, they want some outlet for that, but Pakistani-heritage girls are off limits and they are expected to marry a Pakistani girl from Pakistan, typically.

‘So they seek other avenues and see these young women, white girls who are vulnerable, some of them in care, who they think are easy meat.’

The Government will publish an action plan in the autumn, detailing how it will respond to concerns about child sexual exploitation.

Amjad Hussain, of Accrington, Shahid Hussain, of Rochdale, and Butt, of Rochdale, were all convicted of rape and other sexual offences. They and Knight will all be sentenced at Preston Crown Court on September 2.


Teenager who lured girls into house to be raped by Asian gang is jailed for seven years

Clueless driver failed test five times so asked his friend to take it for him - who also messed it up

Dim-witted Hadi Mohammed, 28, and Derbas Hamed, 25, cheated the test system and were both jailed after admitting the fraud.

Gloucester Crown Court heard that Hamed, a qualified driver, turned up at the test centre in the city pretending to be Mohammed.

Jailed: Derbas Hamed (left) and Hadi Mohammed (right) 

But suspicions were immediately aroused when he arrived driving his own car without 'L' plates and without anyone else in the vehicle.

He then took the test in Mohammed's name and failed 'in a spectacular fashion', making 16 driving mistakes in the process.

Ex-Iraqi-police officer Mohammed was jailed for two months and father-of-two Hamed, who has a previous conviction for fraud after he impersonated someone else for a driving theory test, was sent to prison for three months.

Both men, from Bristol, pleaded guilty to fraud by false representation, and were jailed by Recorder Michael De Navarro QC.

Rosie Walsh, prosecuting, said Mohammed claimed he had been too tired to take the test, and so hatched a plan with his friend as he was receiving a lift to the test centre.

Giles Nelson, defending Mohammed, added: 'It was an extremely unsophisticated fraud, ridiculously unsophisticated and amateurish.

Lloyd Jenkins, defending Hamed, said his client had 'realised what he was doing was wrong so he deliberately failed the test in a spectacular fashion' with 16 driving faults.

'He got nowhere near succeeding and is thoroughly ashamed. Since coming to this country from Iraq he is desperate to find work and needs a driving licence.'

Recorder Mr De Navarro told both defendants: 'This is a very serious offence and had you both been successful a completely unqualified driver and not a very good one at that would have been let loose on the roads.

'This would have meant a danger to other road-users and only a custodial sentence is justified. I do not accept Mr Hamed's contention that he failed the test deliberately.'

Store's food mistake upsets Muslim mum

SUPERMARKET Morrisons has apologised after a Muslim family bought a tuna salad which contained ham.

The family from Carlton bought two pasta salads which were labelled as tuna salads from Morrisons in Netherfield last month.

But when they got home they discovered it was a ham salad.

It is against the family's religion to eat meat from a pig. The mum-of-two in the family, who did not want to be identified, complained to Morrisons about the mis-labelled food.

She said: "My children and I have never eaten ham before so we didn't know what it looked like. But we realised straight away that it was not tuna in the salad and my children were very distraught."

She also said she was unhappy with the response she received from Morrisons.

She said: "I received a £15 gift voucher as an apology but this is not enough. Morrisons need to realise the damage they have done. If food is mis-labelled, people could have allergic reactions when picking produce they think is safe to eat."

A spokesperson for Morissons said: "We are aware our customers may wish to avoid certain foods for religious reasons and we take correct labelling very seriously. We were very sorry to learn that this customer was sold an incorrectly labelled product and have offered our sincerest apologies.

"We will ensure extra vigilance with regard to the correct labelling of these products.''

Government drugs counsellor jailed for running heroin empire

A Government drugs counsellor who became a key player in a multi-million-pound heroin smuggling operation after falling on hard times has been jailed.

Law graduate Mahfooz Ahmed, of Halifax, West Yorkshire, was a respected figure who carried out research for the Government into substance abuse and even visited schools to talk about the dangers of drugs.

However he became embroiled in drug dealing after getting into financial difficulty, suffering a catastrophic fall from grace.

When customs officers found heroin worth £1.36million in a suitcase he had been carrying, 

Ahmed became a fugitive and went on the run for five years, committing further offences while he was a wanted man.

He eventually became the subject of a European Arrest Warrant over his involvement in a major conspiracy to smuggle the class A drug from Turkey into Britain via mainland Europe.

The scale of Ahmed's decline was revealed at Leeds Crown Court where he was jailed for 12 years after admitting possession of heroin with intent to supply.

Prosecutor Paul Valder told the court Ahmed, who also worked on behalf of the Department of Health in taxpayer-funded schemes to help tackle social problems caused by drugs, came to the authorities' attention in March 2005.

An accomplice of Ahmed's, who has not been identified, dropped a suitcase containing 50 blocks of high-purity heroin in a Halifax street and fled after he spotted customs officers. Minutes earlier, the man had been travelling in a Skoda driven by Ahmed.

The court heard police had been carrying out an undercover investigation targeting one of Ahmed's associates, suspected criminal Babar Hussain, whose whereabouts remain unknown.

Customs officers later searched Ahmed's home and found mobile phone records which eventually linked him to other drug dealers.

Officers also found that he and Hussain had taken several flights to and from Amsterdam during the latter half of 2004, with Ahmed usually paying.

Ahmed remained at large until October last year when he was arrested in a supermarket car park in north London. At the time he was wanted by police in Belgium for offences committed between September 2007 and March 2009.

In November 2009 a court in Brussels had sentenced him to five years in prison in his absence after hearing he had been a conduit on behalf of a dealer organising shipments of heroin worth 11m pounds from Turkey to the UK via the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg.

Two shipments contained a total of 144kg of heroin - about 12 times as much as that recovered in the suitcase in Halifax.

From June 2000 until September 2001, Ahmed had worked as a project co-ordinator on behalf of the Department of Health and the University of Central Lancashire, researching drug use in parts of Halifax among minority groups.

At the time, he said: 'I hope I can contribute to the fight against drug misuse.'

He graduated in accountancy and law in 2000 and his first job was as a community drugs worker in 2001 where he compiled the report on the needs of drugs users in Halifax's Asian community.

He said at the time: 'We want to raise awareness of the dangers of drugs around this part of Halifax and I will be writing a report with recommendations on how the problem can be tackled.

'I will be talking to people on the streets, finding out the scale of the problem, and what help drug users do get.' 

Recorder Jonathan Bennett, sentencing, told Ahmed it was 'appalling' that he had been willing to become involved in the drugs trade after seeing its effects first hand.

He said: 'You went into schools, motivating young people, telling them about drugs and the effect they were going to have on their community.'

Louise Wilson, defending Ahmed, said he knew he had been 'immensely stupid' and had brought shame on his family.

Ahmed claimed he had run away because he had been threatened and feared for his life.

Malcolm Bragg, assistant director of the UK Border Agency, said: 'Drug smuggling is a vile business that exploits the misery of others for an easy profit. Heroin destroys the lives not only of users, but also their families and the surrounding community.'

Muslim Boys gang are 'planning massive attack' at Belmarsh prison in revenge for Osama bin Laden killing

GOVERNORS at Britain’s top terror jail believe al-Qaeda extremists are planning a major attack as payback for Osama bin Laden’s death.

Security has been stepped up to “unprecedented” levels at Belmarsh prison after warnings that the Muslim Boys gang is plotting a revenge mission. A 15-strong riot squad in stab-proof vests has hidden around the jail’s chapel during Muslim prayers on Fridays in case of an attack.

Another team of officers has been on standby ready to assist.

Inmates refused to return to their cells and a source says “staff very nearly lost control of the jail”.

Prisoners on House Block One, which includes 39 terror suspects, added to the tension by staging a mass show of defiance on Friday.

The standoff was only ended when officers brandished batons and demanded a retreat as they marched towards the prisoners.

The source said: “It’s a powder keg waiting to go off.

“There are concerns it will take an officer’s death before the Muslim Boys are tackled seriously.

“The levels of security being employed are unprecedented.Management are worried the Muslim Boys are planning an incident in Bin Laden’s honour on a scale never seen before.

“Security around the past three Friday prayers has been massive.”

The prayers at the Category A prison in South-East London are attended by high profile terror figures including hook-handed preacher of hate Abu Hamza.

The Muslim Boys, a splinter group of al-Qaeda, are thought to have been plotting since Bin Laden was killed by US troops in May