In Brexit-Era London, a Mosque Sits Between Two Types of Hate<br />" he said he told her, "and you are giving us nothing!" Sixteen days after the London Bridge attack, a man driving a van plowed over Muslims leaving a mosque in North London.<br />that This is a one-way street where we are giving you information,<br />We have got our country back.’ " "That is code for: Barking<br />and Dagenham will go back to what it was in the 1950s — predominantly white — which of course is not going to happen." Before his arrest last year, the jihadist recruiter Mr. Choudary sometimes attended prayers at Al Madina.<br />So when a police officer turned up to press for information — "community cohesion is a<br />two-way street," the officer told Mr. Siddique pointedly — he nearly threw her out.<br />The program requires teachers, social workers and other government employees to notify a local coordinator — typically a former police officer — about<br />any Muslim who matches a checklist of "warning signs." British Muslims often accuse the program of targeting them for domestic surveillance.<br />Colleagues sometimes called him by an ethnic slur for Pakistanis, while one senior officer nicknamed him "Osama bin Laden."<br />"It was abhorrent, we would say now," said Gary Copson, a retired London police commander who praised Mr. Siddique’s work.<br />Asim Khan, a Pakistan-born financial adviser who clashed with Mr. Harris at a public hearing over a Muslim community center, said, "He is<br />trying to do what he believes will protect his people." "We are trying to tell him, ‘Hey, we are the same people,’ " Mr. Khan continued.<br />" Mr. Siddique said. that We had ladies who were called ‘terrorists’ or ‘Paki,’ or told to go home,
