Indian Muslims under world security scanner

With the arrest of two Indian Muslim medical doctors, one in the Briton and the other in Australia for the alleged attempt of car bomb attacks on London and Glasgow, ground is being prepared to put under scanner all Indian Muslim medical professionals working in the UK and elsewhere. The British Prime Minister has already announced strengthening of the entry system for the Indian medical professionals, especially for the doctors and other professionals of the Muslim community.

The British security forces arrested 8 persons including two Indian Muslim brothers Sabeel and Kafeel Ahmed.  While the former is a medical doctor working with the British Heal Service, the latter is an aeronautical engineer who entered the British soil in May this year. Australian investigators took into custody one Haneef, another Indian doctor when he was trying to flee the country. All of them are facing interrogation.

The arrests of the Muslim doctors in London and Brisbane sent shivers of insecurity over Muslim communities in India and Prime Minister Man Mohan Singh had to telephone his British counterpart asking not to label the Indian Muslims as terrorists.

Meanwhile, the beefing of security would not be limited to the UK alone but other European countries and the US also would be upgrading their security system for the visitors from the Indian subcontinent in view of the increasing terrorist threat world wide.

This has become clear with the news coming out that some of the arrested persons recently tried to gain entry into the US medical system. Authorities are checking the records whether any Indian Muslim doctor has entered the US soil from India or from Briton in the recent past.