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News of the World // contact Maz

posted by NoBorders | 06.06.2006 02:35 | Anti-racism | Migration

The vigilante journalist who arrested 70 'illegal' immigrants has uncovered another 'scandal' about asylum seekers, inviting his readers to join in the witch hunt:'Do you know a scandal Maz (Mazher Mahmood) should investigate? If so call him on 020 7782 4402 or email  maz@notw.co.uk'
Perhaps we should contact him, just to let him know what we think of him and his articles. As the Colnbrook detainees have done already.

Mazher Mahmood, the journalist turned vigilante who rounded up 70 'illegal' immigtrants and brought them to Colnbrook detention centre has published another article on the News of the World , exposing some East London solicitors who, according to him, teach their clients how to fabricate stories in order to fool Immigration. One jounalist woman posing as an illegal entrant has been allegedly instructed by a solicitor to apply for asylum, make up a story of rape and violence from her husband, and watch a porn film to get a better idea of what to say in her asylum intreview. Morale of the story: these asylum seekers are in fact economic migrants, who are telling the most elaborated and repulsive lies in order to deceive. At foot of the article the readers are invited to join in the man hunt:

'Do you know a scandal Maz (Mazher Mahmood) should investigate? If so call him on 020 7782 4402 or email  maz@notw.co.uk'


Here is what the Colnbrook detainees wrote to 'Maz':

Dear Mr. Mahmood,

We, the detainees of Colnbrook Detention Centre think that you are a gutless, incompetent bully, and together with your editors and newspapers pick on foreigners because they are a soft target. You do not represent the real views of the common UK nationals, but rather, you have been misleading the general public with your unfair, ill-informed partial news for years. You have influenced the way this government perceives it should deal with refugees and asylum, by presenting it as incompetent, to make it adopt inhuman policies against people who have fled their countries of origin for one reason or another. This has led to refugees not seeking asylum with the authorities, for fear of being detained and removed to countries where their lives would be in danger. This has in turn pushed those refugees to provide for their survival by being exploited to work long hours for very low pay (such as the ones you helped catch), for those very fears.

From your name, I can tell that you are a descendant of immigrants. In your quest to further your career, to please your bosses, to embarrass the government, and for whatever other selfish motives you may have in taking advantage of foreigners in the UK, we wonder how you sleep at night. You should reconsider your position by educating yourself on refugees, asylum seekers and immigrants' issues before you unfairly target them. You should go back to your roots and stop thinking that you are better than any other foreigners just because you hold British citizenship.

Well done for doing none of your business, and encouraging vigilanteism. You would be very much at home with the BNP and Migrant Watch, Mr. Mazer Mahmood (News of the World) for your Nazi-like work of spreading hate and kidnapping people to detention centres ( UK concentration camps). Print this in your hate paper if you have the spine!

Read below and enlighten your ignorant self.



Victims of Intolerance! - 'Asylum Madness' in the UK

'The Sun, Daily Mail, Daily Express, Daily Star and their three Sunday stablemates - *News of the World, Mail on Sunday and Express on Sunday,' slammed by UNHCR report


"Ill-informed or sloppy journalists or editors are one thing: they can always be better informed. A media organization that deliberately pursues an agenda which is applied to all its contents - not just the editorials and opinion columns, but also the news coverage - is something altogether more deadly."


UNHCR have published their quarterly 'Refugees' magazine, this issue 'examines the phenomenon of intolerance in many parts of the world and exposes the myths and misperceptions that give rise to it.'

António Guterres UN High Commissioner for Refugee in the introduction says: "In some countries, deliberate attempts to dehumanise asylum seekers are continuing, always presenting them as menacing statistics, as criminals and bringers of disease, or as some other form of generalised abstract aberration that is easy to hate,"

"In an increasing number of countries, asylum seekers - and the refugees among them - have become a tool for political demagogues, or have been turned into faceless bogeymen by an unscrupulous popular press. "

The report devotes two pages to the media in the UK, reprinted below:

 http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/publ/opendoc.pdf?tbl=PUBL&i

posted by NoBorders

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