The chair of the Bradford committee is accused of making “inflammatory” remarks after speaking out about an Islamist attack on a synagogue.

The chair of a police oversight committee was removed from her position after, during a meeting concerning an antisemitic terrorist attack, she complained that police officers were avoiding discussion of the “obvious problem” of Islamist extremism, writes The Telegraph.

Following the attack on a synagogue in Manchester in October last year, the woman accused West Yorkshire Police of attempting to appease Muslims rather than focusing on the Jewish community.

The terrorist attack, carried out by the Syrian Jihad Al-Shamie (35) outside the Heaton Park Synagogue in Crumpsall in October, took place while Jews around the world were observing Yom Kippur – the holiest day in the Jewish calendar.

Two people were killed and several others injured; the terrorist was also shot dead by police. Al-Shamie had, moreover, recently been released on bail after being arrested on suspicion of rape.

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The woman, a retired academic in her sixties, was removed as chair of Bradford’s hate crime scrutiny panel because of her “divisive and inflammatory” remarks. Muslim police officers who attended the meeting had lodged complaints.

Prior to this, she had been accused of “hate speech” for defending the right to criticise the Prophet Muhammad.

The letter informing her that she had been removed from the security panel “sounded like a threat”, she told the newspaper. According to a police leader, the complainants had demanded her personal details.

She suggested that the letter had been written “for the Muslim men who complained, to get him to make me shut up – and he did what they asked”.

West Yorkshire Police disputes her version of events and says that she was dismissed because her “comments did not demonstrate impartiality”.

The woman is now demanding a formal apology from Sir John Robins, the Chief Constable of West Yorkshire, and is receiving assistance and support from the Free Speech Union.

Lord Young, who founded the Free Speech Union, said that the police were “more concerned with protecting the feelings of Muslim community leaders than protecting Jews from terrorist attacks”.

Among the allegations made against the woman was that she refused to report a caller to the police for a hate crime because he had said that he believed Muhammad was a paedophile, since he married Aisha when she was six years old and consummated the marriage three years later.

This is, moreover, stated in several of the hadiths and is practised by Muslims in many countries to this day.

Sahih al-Bukhari, which is regarded as the most reliable collection of hadiths, explicitly states in several narrations (including Hadith No. 5134) that Muhammad married her when she was six years old and that the marriage was consummated when she was nine.

She is also said to have stated that Muslims have no difficulty using the term “infidel”.

Following the terrorist attack on the synagogue in October 2025, the woman attended a meeting convened to discuss how West Yorkshire Police should respond.

The woman believed that too much of the meeting was devoted to discussing the needs of Muslims rather than concentrating on the needs of the Jewish community, which had been the target of the terrorism carried out by an Islamist.

This is a well-known trend in the West, which is quick to portray perpetrators as victims if they are Muslims or other non-Western immigrants, as we have just experienced here in Norway following the violence in Bergen on 17 May.

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But when this woman wanted an open discussion about the threat posed by Islamist terrorists, she was informed after the meeting that she had been stripped of her leadership position because she had not acted impartially in her role as chair.

The Manchester area ought, surely, to have a police force willing to discuss such threats, particularly after the terrorist attack on a concert arena on 22 May 2017, in which 22 people were killed, several of them children. On that occasion as well, the terrorist was Muslim.

Islam means submission to the demands of Allah. Have we ended up in a situation where large sections of our so-called leaders in Western Europe appear to think that this is a good idea?