The official representative body for Muslim police officers in Britain has branded Zionism “one of the manifestations of anti-Muslim hatred,” described the Israel Defence Force as a “Zionist terrorist group” and defended Hamas against “unverified stories about acts of violence.”
This is very far from the first controversy to envelop the National Association of Muslim Police
The inflammatory claims are made by the National Association of Muslim Police (NAMP) in a policy paper on “confronting anti-Muslim hatred,” written by its then vice-president, Khaldoun Kabbani, published on its website last year but not publicised until now.
In the wake of the Henry Nowak scandal, the document will increase concerns that British police are being corrupted from within by extremist identity and grievance politics. It will also raise further worries about the Government’s controversial definition of “anti-Muslim hostility.” The NAMP paper is intended as a contribution to what the term should cover.
NAMP is affiliated to at least 16 of Britain’s 43 police forces and has a formal national role within the police. The College of Policing – the police’s official professional body, an arms-length organisation of the Home Office – praises NAMP as “an important part of policing” which plays “a crucial role in supporting our workforce” and has developed joint guidance with NAMP on matters including prayer and Ramadan. The latter recommends that police give Muslim suspects special treatment, including that “prayer and fasting times should be taken into consideration when planning searches of Muslim homes” and that Muslim suspects in custody be allowed 30 minutes between their fast and interviews.
