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OUR FEELINGS ABOUT SOME OF THE ANTI-TERRORISM MEASURES As citizens of the United Kingdom, our group of Brighton & Hove Muslim Women alongside other peace and justice loving people of Britain, feel the need to communicate our view regarding some of the new anti-terrorism measures in the aftermath of the appalling London bombings of 7/7/2005. The British Muslim community as a whole has always been a law-abiding community. and all its endeavours to create a more just society have been entirely peaceful. We fear that recent events are being exploited by some sections in society to demonise legitimate Islamic and much fought for British values and beliefs, and subsequently lay the foundations of what could become an authoritarian police state. If your history lessons have never captured your imagination we hope that the list below will refresh your memory. Those of you, reading this post and thinking that a drift towards authoritarianism is an exaggeration, we kindly ask you, to look ag...