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JewKids harrash old muslim lady for two years, pol
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05/12/05 at 09:06:32
Police accused of ignoring threats from Jewish youths

By Elham Asaad Buaras

An elderly Muslim woman who says pupils from her neighbouring Orthodox Jewish boy’s private school subjected her to a relentless two-year ordeal of verbal physical threat, has lambasted the Stoke Newington Police for “ignoring her complaints in fear of upsetting the Jewish offenders.”
Speaking to The Muslim News, Mariam Hafesji, who is single and in her 60s, says she was left “exhausted by Stoke Newington police” refusal to take her complaints seriously. Hafesji, a practising Muslim, and wears the hijab, said she had lived in her house in Bethune Road, Stamford Hill, London, for the past 22 years, but for the past two years, “I have become a prisoner in my own home. I can’t go outside the garden in the summer, I can’t open the windows. I had to endure verbal abuse and physical threat inside and outside of my home. There is 6 meters separating me from the school. When I leave the house I have to hear “Pakis” chants and “Palestine we will kill you.”
After three attempts to contact the school, where Hafesji said, “the door was slammed in my face rudely,” she was left with no choice but to get in contact with the police.
“I contacted the police on May 9, 2002, when the abuse became severe and more threatening. Two white ladies who were passing-by actually witnessed the harassment. Both ladies waited with me for the police to arrive.”
Despite having two independent witnesses to collaborate her version of events, Hafesji says the police “completely ignored me. They did not even try to take my statement or of the two ladies.”
However, the family says that over the two years of repeated calls, meetings with the police, independent witnesses, video evidence of criminal damage and harassment, the police refused to open a criminal investigation and each time the family approached the police, it was dismissed as a “civil dispute”.
Hafesji’s family were left to provide the evidence themselves when the police refused to install CCTV camera for “logistical reasons”. With the help of her son, she managed to capture images of the threats and taunts on her with her own hand held camcorder camera. The disturbing images reveal a group of boys, all wearing their black uniforms, gathering next to her gate and whilst making sounds, in one disturbing picture, one of the boys is captured making a hand to throat gesture.
When Hafesji family eventually lodged a complaint to the police, they were told they had lost the complaint. When the family asked why the complaint was “lost”, the police never replied.
Police negligence has led the family to believe Islampohobia had a part to play in the way their complaints were handled. “Can you imagine for a second what would happen if the roles were reversed - if it was Muslim youths harassing a Jewish lady living on her own? I tell you what would have happened. They (the police) would have solved the problem there and then.”
The family say their attempts to stop the terror through community mediation, repeated attempts to do this with the school, met with silence.
Hafesji’s son, Shahid Achhala told The Muslim News, “Previous to this case both communities had enjoyed excellent community relations for the last three decades resolving any issues through grass root level mediation. Whilst one can only speculate why the police were negligent in their duty of care, this case has highlighted anti-Muslim prejudice, in the UK. This is institutionalised and attacks on the community are sanctioned at the highest level.”
Hafesji said, “If this had been a secular private British school embarking on a campaign of hate, terror and criminal damage against a white elderly neighbour, there would be an inquiry into how the school was being run, there would also be calls for the resignation of the school’s board as well as the launch of a criminal investigation.”
Founding member of a local organisation, Muslim Jewish Forum, Ismail Amaan, said, “Members of the Jewish community that favour peaceful relations with their Muslim neighbours in Stamford Hill have made genuine attempts to intervene in this case, and have privately condemned the actions of the school. However, the rogue elements continued their orchestrated campaign of intimidation against Mrs Hafesji, and we had no option but to advise her and her family to seek redress through the police.
“The biggest disappointment in this case has been the failure of the police to take action and to treat the case as a serious hate crime, therefore implicitly allowing the intimidation to continue. The actions of one private Jewish school has the potential to really upset the good relations between Muslims and Jews in the area that have been established, and this is my greatest fear.”
The family are keen to point out that the fault does not lie with the Jewish community but on the police’s failure to serve and protect communities regardless of faith, race and class.
Talmud Tohra School denied its pupils were involved. The school’s Principal, Rabbi Rottenburgh insisted to The Muslim News that “my school has nothing to do with the dispute.”
Spokesperson for Hackney Police told The Muslim News, “Officers from the Community Safety Unit, Hackney Borough Police, are carrying out an investigation following reports from a local resident that she is being racially harassed by youths from a nearby school. As part of the investigation a number of youths have been arrested and inquiries continue. A complaint against police has been lodged and is being investigated. The school assisted in identifying the suspects after attempts were made to involve the school over a period of time.”
Despite the police’s reassurance that an investigation is underway, Hafesji remains critical of any chance convictions “I feel like nothing is going to be done, I have no confidence in the police now,” said Hafesji.

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The Gang that were arrested were released on police bail to give them time to get away, one is now in known to be in Israel.
For people who think being active in politics will help us in this: The son of this lady is a local counciler! It didn't help him or his mother. When the kids were videotaped doing what they did, their school decided to ignore it, the police said they lost the tape each time they were given it, and the media refused to play it. only one news paper showed the story and a Muslim TV Channel showed the tape resulting in the phonelines of that police station being jamed, they only acted after direct action.
Nothing is going to happen to the kids or the School that allowed them to do it.
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