UK threat level raised

[Hom3r]

Originally Posted by richard s

Probably every Muslim dwelling in the UK will be under scrutiny/surveillance.

Originally Posted by Russ

http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/about-ons/...013/index.html With 2.7 million Muslims in the UK, going on an average of a mother, father and child that would be around 900,000 households. Just how much personnel do you think the secret service has?

What they do is this (Tin foil hat time)

Every phone call, email, text etc is monitored and keywords trigger alerts and agencies then check out the people invloved.

[TheDaddy]

Originally Posted by Hom3r

What they do is this (Tin foil hat time)

Every phone call, email, text etc is monitored and keywords trigger alerts and agencies then check out the people invloved.

Rubber dingy rapids

[Stuart]

Originally Posted by Taf

There was a distinct lack of "obvious muslims" in the market this morning. That made me a bit twitchy as my military training said that is often a sign that someone is up to no good and the word had gone out in their community.

Possibly. However, while I don't mean to go against your training, is it not also possible that a lot of muslims are expecting an increase in prejudice, even if it's just people looking uncomfortable around them, and they are trying to avoid that?