UK official critical of anti-Muslim laws

The UK government's independent reviewer of terrorism legislation has expressed concerns about the use of stop and search operations on Muslim citizens by British police.

"Stop and search has a particular community impact and I have been concerned not only about the exercises of police in the past, whether foul or do not foul in the civil liberty agenda, but I have been concerned too about the fact that perhaps this proportion of Muslims have been stopped and searched, which should not have occurred," Lord Alex Carlile told Press TV's Face to Face program last Thursday.

The former Member of Parliament also made clear that "stop and search with the suspicion that someone is a terrorist is perfectly reasonable."

In another part of the interview, Carlile said that a possible ban on Muslim women from wearing burka (the full Islamic face veil) would be a wrong decision.

Last month, some European countries voted for a law that would ban women from wearing burka in public.

"I think banning for burka in Britain would be quite wrong. There are many women in many towns and cities in Britain who wear the burka and they are no less British for it. what I do think is important is that people of all creeds, all religion and non-secular people too, should be able operate in an atmosphere of tolerance with a balanced, not absolutist, human rights legal framework," Carlile added.

Source: PressTV.
Link: http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=125244§ionid=351020601.