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6/9/2006 6:43:00 PM GMT
 

British Muslims are angry at police treatment, saying that they’re being unjustly targeted in the fight against terrorism, AFP reported.

Muslims’ anger was fueled after last Friday’s raid on a house in the Forest Gate area of east London in which two UK Muslim brothers were arrested, one of whom was shot.

Both men have been detained without charge, and investigators failed to find evidence of any suspect or criminal activity.

"People in the community are angry about the raid, they are angry about the shooting, they are angry about the lack of evidence and they are angry that the two men have been detained for so long without charge," John Rees, national secretary of the anti-Iraq war political party Respect, told AFP.

Rees also drew comparisons between Friday's raid and the bungled police shooting of an innocent Brazilian man following the July 7 attacks on London.

"There is, at the very least, the gravest possible grounds for concern and the most pressing need for people to voice their misgivings if two innocent people are shot by the police in the same city in less than 12 months," he told Muslims at a meeting in a community center near the brothers’ house.

Pressure group “Stop Political Terror” is also organizing a demonstration on Sunday afternoon to protest Friday’s raid.

"The purpose is to unite and make sure we get the message that no one should use this as an opportunity to divide our wonderful and very colourful community," said lawyer Abdurahman Jafar, who is involved in the rally.

Ridley, a patron of Stop Political Terror, criticized the government for its “flawed information gathering”.

"From today until this 'terroristisation' of the Muslim community is stopped immediately I believe all Muslims should withdraw their support” for the police, she said.

Ahmed Khan, a 47-year-old delivery man originally from Pakistan, said he no longer trusts London's Metropolitan Police. "I have very little faith in them," he said.