read the article published in the sun dated 30 november 2008 titled enemy within how it aims at spreading hatred against the muslims. i made a complaint against it and urge all other who feel the same to make a complaint to the press complaints commission.

http://www.georgegalloway.com/

Calls for investigation after 'baseless' claims

ASIANIMAGE - Mon, 01 Dec 2008

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Respect MP George Galloway and the party's leader, Cllr Salma Yaqoob, have called for an urgent investigation by the Press Complaints Commission into newspaper claims the Mumbai terrorsits hailed from Britain.

"In the midst of the unfolding tragedy in Mumbai," says Galloway, "A large section of the British press disgraced itself by publishing as fact the baseless claim that some of the terrorists responsible hailed from Britain.

"On Saturday morning [29 November] the Times, Telegraph, Sun, Mirror, Express and Star all prominently reported at least some of the terrorists were British Pakistanis. The number was reported as between two and seven, and the cities they were said to hail from were variously Bradford, Leeds and Hartlepool.

"But on that same day the British government and its agencies strongly rejected any claim that British nationals were responsible. So too have the Indian authorities.

"The press, however, has cast a pall of suspicion over the Pakistani populations of these three cities. Potentially most damaging is the impact on Hartlepool. The Asian, and Pakistani, population there is very small. They have been made more vulnerable still by reckless claims that someone from their midst was part of committing this atrocity.

"Predictably, there was no apology of correction on these titles' websites or in their sister publications. So Salma Yaqoob and I have written today to the Press Complaints Commission asking them to investigate as a matter of urgency this flagrant breach of clause one of their code of practice, on accuracy."

Salma Yaqoob, who comes from Bradford and is a councillor in Birmingham, added, "Incendiary reporting like this threatens to bring deeper division and mistrust between the varied parts of our community. It has made British Pakistanis in places such as Bradford feel vulnerable and scapegoated.

"The world is rightly calling for the Indian and Pakistani governments to tread carefully in their response to this terrorist attack. If it's right not to inflame feelings and communal hatred in the sub-continent, then it's surely right for the British media not to do the same at home."