On May 22nd, Lee Rigby was attacked and killed in Woolwich. The attackers were shot and taken into custody. The wheels of UK justice are in motion. However, that is not enough for people. Instead of waiting for the courts to deliver sentences against the attackers, the public has taken it upon themselves to vent their anger onto innocent Muslims! The public are outraged with the killing of Lee Rigby, seen at large as being an innocent victim – what of the many innocent Muslims who have since been attacked by the public – 150 attacks in 3 days? Where is your justice in those cases? Where is the media and where is the Prime Minister, who made such a sobering and sensitive statement following the death of Lee Rigby?
This is a clear sign that UK society look at Muslims as being the worst of people and have no hesitation in abusing, bullying and oppressing Muslims living peacefully in this country. This is the result of years of victimisation against Muslims in the media, the international war on terror and the rise of fascist and racist movements like the EDL and BNP.
Here are news stories of how the UK has reacted against Muslims, following the death of just one man.
The following is a disturbing account of a racist case in Manchester, UK. Here, a mother, drunk and looking after two children, delivers racist abuse on a Muslim, in front of her kids, stamping on his head. This is an example of some of the lowest in society benefiting from a court system that is unfair and unjust. Her sentence was very light compared to the weight of her actions. Compare this with the heavy sentences of those who took part in the London riots in 2011, where people stole and damaged property – but when it comes to abusing and physically assaulting a Muslim, that’s a lesser crime, according to the UK legal system.
Taken from digitaljournal.com and written by John Thomad Didymus (link to his article):
Watch nursing mother Amanda Lowe launch racist attack on ‘Paki’
Manchester – CCTV caught the moment a drunk mother Amanda Lowe, 26, launched an unprovoked attack on a Pakistani Khuram Nisar, stamping on his head in the presence of her eight-year-old and four-month-old children, calling her victim “f*****g Paki” and “terrorist.”
However, in spite of the shocking violence, a Manchester Crown Court allowed her to walk free on Friday.
The Sun reports that the judge freed Lowe in spite of previous convictions, saying that sending her to jail would have a negative impact on her children. Lowe has two children and was pregnant with a third when she appeared in court.
The CCTV footage shows her at about 8.15 p.m. on May 21 this year, pushing a pram that carried her four-month-old baby. The footage shows her leaving her children several yards behind to join her boyfriend Wesley Earls, 26, and cousin Daniel Wray, 21, in an attack on Nisar. According to The Sun, Lowe had called Nisar a “f****** Paki” and a “terrorist.” When Nisar told Lowe’s boyfriend Wesley, to “control his woman,” Wesley and Wray approached him and punched him to the ground. Lowe then joined in the attack, kicking Nisar, who had fallen to the ground, repeatedly in the face and head before she returned to her children.
According to The Mirror, Nisar was passing through Piccadilly Gardens in Manchester City on his way home from work when the incident happened. Piccadilly Gardens was crowded with people enjoying the evening sunshine when Lowe, who had been drinking alcohol with her companions, began shouting abuse at Nisar.
The Daily Mail reports that the disturbing footage was released by the Crown Prosecution Service. The incident happened in the presence of several bystanders who were unable to intervene. The group inflicted bruise and cuts on Nisar’s head and body.
The fact that the case was Lowe’s fourth conviction in six years has sparked a controversy with many saying that letting her walk free reinforces the impression that she can attack “foreigners” with impunity and get away with it. Her body language and action as she returns to the pram shows she was pleased and impressed with her action. She even demonstrates to a friend how she assaulted Nisar by swinging her legs as she pushes her baby girl along in the pram.
The Daily Mail reports that Lowe and her companions were arrested in Oldham Street 20 minutes after the attack. According to the Daily Mail, Judge Lindsey Kushner QC, told Lowe of Rochdale Road, Blackley, Manchester, that she was spared jail only because of the potential consequences to her children. The judge said: “Your record is terrible for violence given that you are 26 years of age. The damage you are doing to your children… seeing you drunk, the risk you put them at… is disgraceful. Somebody who behaves like that when they are drunk I would think you have to keep a very careful eye on as a mother. Kids who have mothers who behave like you end up behaving like you. That damage starts from when they are tiny. People have been killed and maimed through being kicked in the head.”
Lowe admitted to a “charge of racially aggravated assault occasioning bodily harm.” She was given a 12-month sentence suspended for two years and an order to attend a program for female offenders. The conviction is her fourth in six years. She and her companions have 21 previous convictions between them.
The Huffington Post reports that Earls, of Old Market Street, Blackley, Manchester; Lowe, of Rochdale Road, also Blackley, and Wray, of Ludlow Avenue, Salford were each given a 12-month jail sentence, suspended for two years, and a two-year supervision order. However, when the court was told that Wray had failed to comply with a previous supervision order, the Judge warned them it was their last chance and that they would go to jail if they offended again.
According to The Sun, the judge commented on the CCTV facility, saying: “It is fantastic to have this CCTV footage. It is good to see the events as they happened because they are horrifying when you see them.” He added: “I think all of you can think yourselves lucky. She (Lowe) was in that state in charge of two children. That in itself is a criminal offence – drunk in charge of a child. It is disgraceful. How irresponsible can you get? You could easily have been dealing with a care case here.”
Complete injustice!
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During Ramadan and fasting, it’s Sunnah to break your fast with dates. However, there is a campaign to boycott certain dates because the manufacturers are either directly or indirectly responsible and supporting the illegal occupation of Palestine the oppression of the Palestinians. By buying their dates, you will be helping to continue the occupation of Muslim lands in Palestine.
This Ramadan, Don’t Break your Fast with an Israeli Date
Ramadan is a time of year when we remember those who are less fortunate than ourselves. It would be an affront if at such a time we helped support oppression
Every year, Israel exports millions of pounds worth of dates to the world, which many people unknowingly buy and use to break their fasts. These dates are grown in illegal settlements in the West Bank and the Jordan Valley, on land that has been stolen from Palestinians. By buying these dates, we are in fact helping Israel to continue its occupation and oppression of the Palestinian people.
For this reason, Friends of Al Aqsa will again be launching the ‘Check the Label’ Campaign.
Volunteer Ambassador
Volunteer to be an ambassador for the Check the Label Campaign in your area. This will mean you will help promote the campaign in your area. This will include distributing leaflets, speaking to shop owners, setting up stalls and much more. become an Ambassador and order your free literature to help spread the word.
Check The Label
Most of the major supermarkets will stock dates produced in Israel, West Bank and the Jordan Valley. Dates produced in the West Bank and the Jordan Valley are from Illegal Israeli Settlements and should also be boycotted.
Making Money from the Occupation
Dates were Israel’s leading fruit export, most of which come to Europe
The total income for Israel from dates in a year is approximately €80 million.
You can order your FREE Check The Label literature here
The Palestinian Call for Boycott Divestment and Sanctions
Inspired by the struggle of South Africans against apartheid and in the spirit of international solidarity, moral consistency and resistance to injustice and oppression,
We, representatives of Palestinian civil society, call upon international civil society organizations and people of conscience all over the world to impose broad boycotts and implement divestment initiatives against Israel similar to those applied to South Africa in the apartheid era. We appeal to you to pressure your respective states to impose embargoes and sanctions against Israel. We also invite conscientious Israelis to support this Call, for the sake of justice and genuine peace.
These non-violent punitive measures should be maintained until Israel meets its obligation to recognize the Palestinian peoples inalienable right to self-determination and fully complies with the precepts of international law by:
Ending its occupation and colonization of all Arab lands and dismantling the Wall;
Recognizing the fundamental rights of the Arab-Palestinian citizens of Israel to full equality; and
Respecting, protecting and promoting the rights of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes and properties as stipulated in UN resolution 194.
Israelis will claim that Palestinians are allowed to work on the land of these settlers and therefore they are provided with jobs and a boycott will harm them. In actual fact, these Palestinians are employed for paltry wages, and they are required to do the back-breaking work that the Israeli settlers will not do themselves. This means the Israeli settlers reap the rewards for the harvests while doing very little of the work themselves.
Palestinian children are employed by these settlers, and they are forced to work long hours under a hot baking sun for small sums of money. This exploitation means that these children miss out on an education.
Alternatives to Israeli Dates
There are plenty of varieties of dates from various other countries to break your fast. However if you would like Medjoul dates from Palestine and help the Palestinian farmers they are available from YAFFA. YAFFA source there dates from Palestine and FOA are helping YAFFA distribute dates this Ramadhan.
Stage 1 – Contact and inform the wholesalers and shops.
Stage 2 – Contact and inform consumers.
Stage One
FOA have sent letters to over 1000 wholesalers and shops but we need your help to add the personal touch as that is the best method to encourage people to join the campaign.
There are 6 steps to this stage. We would like you to:
Preparation:
If you can try and involve family and friends in the campaign.
Order Check the Label posters and postcards from dates@checkthelabel.org.uk so you can put poster up on shop windows and leave postcards on the counter (with permission)
Method:
Identify the wholesalers, importers and shops in your area hand deliver the wholesaler/shop letters supplied by FOA. Inform them about Israeli human rights abuses (you can give them of FOA leaflets).
Tell wholesalers and shop owners about the concept of boycotting and how it has worked e.g. South Africa. Ask them to boycott dates from Israel, West Bank and the Jordan Valley. Explain West Bank and Jordan Valley are illegally occupied and buying dates from there would mean they are supporting the occupation of Palestine.
Let them know that they can buy dates from many other countries, but if they want to buy medjoul dates from Palestine they can contact medjoul@checkthelabel.org.uk, (+44) (0)116 2125 441 or Zaytoun on (+44) (0)207 609 5699
Keep in touch with the shops that you have approached and continue to encourage and support them to join the campaign.
Write down addresses of shops which agree to support the campaign so we can write a letter to them to thank them for their support.
Take pictures of the campaign and keep head office updated on your work in your locality.
Stage Two
Most of the people we have approached during the Check the Label campaign did not know dates are from Israel and also did not know that dates labelled West Bank or the Jordan Valley should also be Boycotted. Once they were told, the overwhelming majority of people were happy to join the boycott.
Boycott is about people power. We need your help to inform people they should ‘Check the Label’ and boycott dates from Israel, West Bank and Jordan Valley.
Preparation:
If you can try and involve family and friends in the campaign.
Order Check the Label posters and postcards from here so you can put poster up on shop windows and leave postcards on the counter (with permission).
Method:
Identify Mosques and Community Centres in your area and hand deliver the Mosque/organisation letter supplied by FOA. Inform them about Israeli human rights abuses (you can give them of FOA leaflets).
Tell the mosque/ community centre contact about the concept of boycotting and how it has worked e.g. South Africa. Ask them to boycott dates from Israel, West Bank and the Jordan Valley. Explain West Bank and Jordan Valley are illegally occupied and buying dates from there would mean they are supporting the occupation of Palestine.
Ask them if you can leave leaflets at the entrance and put up a poster
Organise a time with friends and family to distribute outside the mosque after prayers, especially after Friday prayers.
Let FOA know when you are planning to distribute outside mosques so we can try and co-ordinate with other volunteers.
Contact your local newspaper and your local radio Ramadhan to let them know what is happening. Take photos when it is appropriate and send updates to info@checkthelabel.org.uk
Ramadan is the 9th month of the Islamic calendar. It is during this month that the Shayateen are locked away in chains, that the first verses of the Qur’an were revealed and Laylat-ul-Qadr is to be found:
‘The month of Ramadan, in which was revealed the Qur’an, a guidance for mankind and clear proofs for the guidance and the criterion (between what is right and wrong)’ Surat Al-Baqarah v185
‘Verily! We have sent it (the Qur’an) down in Laylat-ul-Qadr (the Night of Decree). And what will make you know what the Night of Decree is? The Night of Decree is better than one thousand months..’ Surat Al-Qadr, v1-3
‘When the month of Ramadan arrives, the doors of Heaven are opened, the doors of Hell are closed and the devils put under chains.’ [Bukhari and Muslim]
Benefits of Fasting and Ramadan
Allah Commanded us to fast. It’s the one deed that is purely for Allah alone. And the benefits of fasting are many:
The Prophet (pbuh) said that Allah said: ‘The Fast is for Me and I will give the reward for it, as he (the one who observes the fast) leaves his sexual desire, food and drink for My Sake. Fasting is a screen (from hell), and there are two moments of pleasure (moments of happiness or joys) for a fasting person, one at the time of breaking his fast and the other at the time when he will meet his Lord. And the smell of the mouth of a fasting person is better in Allah’s Sight than the smell of musk.’ [Bukhari]
Allah declared: ‘O you have believed! Fasting is prescribed for you as it was ordained for those before you, so that you may become Al-Muttaqoon (the pious).’ Surat Al-Baqarah v183
‘Whoever observes (fasts) during the month of Ramadan out of sincere faith and hoping to attain Allah’s Rewards, then all his past sins will be forgiven.’ [Bukhari & Muslim]
Abu Ayyoob al-Ansaari narrated that the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said, “Whoever fasts Ramadaan then follows it with six days of Shawwaal, it will be like fasting for a lifetime.” [Sahih Muslim]
The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said, “Whoever fasts Ramadaan, a month is like ten months, and fasting six days after al-Fitr will complete the year.” [Ahmad]
‘Allah’s Messenger (pbuh) said: My nation is given 5 privileges in the month of Ramadan that no nation was given before:
The khaloof (odour of the mouth of a fasting person) is sweeter in the sight of Allah than the fragrance of musk
The angels keep praying to Allah to forgive the fasting people until they break their fast
Allah decorates Paradise every day saying to it ‘My righteous slaves are about to be comforted of their burdens and sufferings and enter you’
The Shayateen are chained during this month
Sins of the believers are forgiven by the last night of Ramadan. [Muslim]
This was posted on YouTube on 6th October 2011. It’s very brutal and wiped away any smiles on my face, any feelings of happiness or feeling comfortable on my sofa.
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Just when you think that an attack has taken place that DOESN’T link to Muslims, it’s been revealed that Anders Behring Breivik, the man behind the bombing in Oslo and the massacre at a youth camp in Norway, had links to the English Defence League (EDL) and carried anti-Muslim views.
Clearly the hatred which is being carried by people like Anders, knows no bounds and can be unleashed against innocent people. In this case, 93 people have been killed. Anders appeared briefly on YouTube, in a 12-minute anti-Muslims video called Knights Templar 2083. He was against Muslim immigration into the country and it seems that his attacks were directed at the policies of the Norwegian government.
We are all threatened by hatred like this. It gets bottled up and eventually needs to be vented somewhere, usually at the expense of other people. It’s time to stamp out this hatred and groups that nurture and feed off this. Freedom of speech is a nice idea but not when it results in tragedies like Norway. Hate needs to be kept in check and any group which is propogating the hatred of Muslims and Islam needs to be dealt with and stopped, fairly and legally. It’s not good enough for governments to sit back and allow this to happen. Unless they want it to happen?
Speak out against groups like this, against terrorists like Anders Behring Breivik. The problem isn’t Islam. It’s anti-Islam.
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Yet again, Jack Straw, former home secretary and MP for Blackburn, is causing a stir and offending Muslims across the UK.
In 2006 Jack Straw, then the Leader of the House of Commons, created uproar by asking Muslim women to take off their niqabs when addressing him. Asked whether he would prefer veils to be abolished completely, Straw said: “Yes. It needs to be made clear I am not talking about being prescriptive but with all the caveats, yes, I would rather.” [Source]. The arrogance of the man! Now, on 8th January 2011, this former government minister and jew, has openly attacked the integrity of Pakistani men.
After two Pakistani men were jailed for raping and abusing girls in Derby, Jack Straw made a sweeping statement, racially stereotyping Pakistani men as preying on white women! The judge in the Derby case said that the races of the victims and their abusers was coincidental – a fact that Jack Straw has blatantly ignored in his insensitive and condemning comments on the Pakistani community.
Jack Straw said: “Pakistanis, let’s be clear, are not the only people who commit sexual offences, and overwhelmingly the sex offenders’ wings of prisons are full of white sex offenders.
“But there is a specific problem which involves Pakistani heritage men… who target vulnerable young white girls.
“We need to get the Pakistani community to think much more clearly about why this is going on and to be more open about the problems that are leading to a number of Pakistani heritage men thinking it is OK to target white girls in this way.” [see BBC website]
It seems that Jack Straw is leading the charge against Muslims and our communities. He has labelled all Pakistani men as being immoral and as sexual predators lusting after white women. He focused heavily on Pakistani men and hardly mentioned other races. This is Britain, where inter-racial relationships are commonplace but for some reason, according to Mr. Straw, it’s a big no no for Pakistani men. Out of the rapes and abuses against white women in the UK, do Pakistanis represent the largest number of offenders? Are Pakistanis the only men who go after white women? The answer is simply NO! And to label an entire race in this way is completely and utterly wrong and unjust.
Jack Straw is a Member of Parliament representing Blackburn, which has a sizeable Pakistani community – how dare he misrepresent his constituents in this manner! And there is a lesson here for those Muslims in Blackburn who voted in Jack Straw! Clearly there should be calls for an apology from Mr. Straw and for him to step down from such a public position. Where are his statements on white men preying on white women, or asian women, or black women? Where are his statements on black men preying on white women? He has made a statement that is completely unfair to Pakistanis and Muslims, demonising and unfair to men and women of all races and cultures.
There is bad and good in all communities and religions, so why single out Pakistanis? This is no different to the way the Black community in the UK was singled out in the 70s and 80s – the racism that is being displayed by this Member of Parliament is disgusting! He may as well join the BNP. Do not men of other colours and faiths not prey on women and girls?
Another point is maybe Mr. Straw should not be talking in such a racist manner when his own brother was convicted for sexual assault on a 16 year old girl. See this article by the Independent newspaper. Obviously Mr. Straw knows how damaging such a conviction is, not only for the accused but for the accused’s family. So does this mean that Jack Straw will openly say that White men are sexual predators, preying on young women from all races?? Such a hypocritical view being displayed here by Mr. Straw, considering his history.
WHAT’S ISLAMOPHOBIA GOT TO DO WITH PAKISTANIS?
So why connect this incident with Islamophobia? Jack Straw is clearly talking about Paksitani men, not Islam, so why am I putting the two together?
The reason I am doing this is because the public will be doing this. A sizeable proportion of the Muslims in this country are Pakistani and the public do not see Pakistanis as being different to Muslims. To them, Pakistanis are Muslims and Muslims are Pakistanis. This is the general public image of Islam in the UK, even though Muslims are from every race and colour and culture. If you asked a member of the public in the UK to describe a typical Muslim man, what would they come up with? A black man? A white man? Not likely. A Pakistani looking man? More likely.
So Jack Straw’s attack on Pakistani men, rightly or wrongly, is an attack also on Muslims. People don’t see the two as being separate and different, so for all intents and purposes, it’s an attack on both. And any attack on Muslims is Islamophobia in action! Anyone with Jack Straw’s political background will be well aware of this.
What’s the real purpose of this outburst by Jack Straw? Is his jewish heritage playing a role here? Don’t forget he was against the niqaab and was one of the first high profile figures in the UK to speak out against the niqaab – and look what happened after that! People felt more brave to speak out against the niqaab and it has become one of the campaign messages for fascist and racist groups like the BNP (British National Party) and EDL (English Defence League). People feel it is OK to attack Muslims and Islam and have no fear in doing so. Not once are they questioning whether their attacks are founded in truth or stereotype, whether their attacks are driven by fear or sound reasoning and understanding of the issues.
Now that Jack Straw, a high profile figure in UK politics, has made such comments, what is to come? More attacks on the Pakistani community? More reasons to make the community feel isolated, picked on and demonised? Is this an underhand campaign to drive out Muslims from the UK?
Stand up against this man and his comments! Don’t let him influence the rest of UK politics and the general public with his distorted opinions and views.
I keep hearing about the atrocities that are committed by the Israelis against the Palestinians. Let us not forget that this is a cycle of violence that keeps repeating. Those who have tuned in, in the past year, to the oppression of the Jews on the Palestinians, need to realise how much wrong has been done over the last 50 years and more. This conflict has been going on for far too long and there have been many more Palestinians who have been butchered, murdered, raped, harmed, attacked and humiliated than you can imagine. Palestinians have been persecuted again and again, day after day, for over 50 years.
Of course, the Israelis are not without complaint too. They too have had their people killed and attacked over the years. But nowhere near as many as the Palestinians. And neither have the Jews been subjected to rape, humiliation, the loss of their homes, the loss of their children in abundance. The jews do not live in poverty but the Palestinians do. The jews are hiding behind armour and tanks and artillery, which is the envy of the world. The Palestinians cannot match them for weapons and defences. So yes, the jews have complaints too. But not on the same scale although to listen to them, you would think that they are defenceless victims and are being oppressed and humuliated and hounded by the Palestinians.
This is not true. And there is one story that keeps coming back to my mind. Something the world witnessed, condemned and then walked away, doing nothing about it.
That is the story of Muhammad Al-Durrah. The pictures that were captured by a French journalist and sent across the world. Which proved who was the aggressor – the Israelis.
Muhammad Al-Durrah
Muhammad Al-Durrah was only 12 years old when both he and his father, Jamal Al-Durrah, were caught in gunfire from the Israeli forces. For 45 mins, his father tried to shield him from the bullets and cried out for the shooting to stop. They weren’t armed. They weren’t causing any disturbance or even attacking the Israelis. The Israelis, who WERE the aggressors didn’t listen. They didn’t heed the pleas from the father. They didn’t care about the frightened and innocent boy.
Instead, they shot him dead. Four Israeli bullets, sponsored and supplied by the likes of the US and the UK, hit Muhammad Al-Durrah. They killed him.
You can read about this story and nothing that I have said contradicts what is already out there. Here’s one example by the BBC news:
The images above are haunting. But let them be a reminder to you of what happens against the Palestinians. Let it be a reminder that the Israelis have the firepower to exact revenge and indiscriminate brutality against innocent children. And they do not hesitate in doing so. This conflict is not an equal one. The Israelis have always shown and flexed their military might. To them, Palestinian life, even those who are innocent, has no value.
Muslims – you need to help stop this oppression which the Palestinians face each and every day. We are ONE UMMAH! Not separate countries and states.
Non-Muslims – many of you have already spoken out against these atrocities and the blatant disregard for human rights by the Israelis and their governments and the countries that support them. Please continue to do this. This is injustice at the highest level but plain for all to see.
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Surprise! Surprise! Surprise! Those idiots are at it again!
Creating mischief, mayhem, fear and ignorance wherever they go! They are ruffians, troublemakers, bigots, the dregs of society!
They are the EDL – the notorious English Defence League.
You may have heard of them. If you haven’t be warned – they spread nothing but hatred and supremacy in favour of ‘British’ people; meaning ‘white’ people (even though they have their token Indian member!! Poor guy, doesn’t even know when he’s being used!). The EDL is an ANTI-ISLAM, ANTI-MUSLIM group, full of louts and thugs and football hooligans. They have been campaigning across the country and caused upheaval, stress in communities, created divides amongst peaceful people, and spread fear and hatred of Islam and Muslims wherever they have gone. They verbally abuse and attack Muslim men, women and children. They hold nothing sacred except their own Nazi-like, supremacy values. They supported the burning of the Qur’an, the banning of the burka, the ridicule of our Muslim women, attack our Masjids and caused fights within the towns and cities that they have visited.
Does the EDL represent you? Is this the kind of behaviour you want to be known for? If so, SHAME ON YOU!
The EDL are holding demonstrations on Saturday 27th November 2010 in Preston, Peterborough and Nuneaton as well. They made a surprise visit to Wolverhampton, last week on Saturday 20th November 2010 and were quickly dispatched by the Police. Stall holders in Preston have already said that they will be closed during the demonstration by the EDL – look at the fear that is spreading with the very mention of this facist, extremist, right wing group!
I commend the Muslims and non-Muslims who actually do turn up and demonstrate AGAINST the EDL. I commend the Hope Not Hate campaign and the United Against Facism group, who are actually doing a lot of leg work against the EDL.
How much more of this despicable and disgusting behaviour do we have to put up with – all in the name of Freedom of Speech??? If a Muslim cleric was chanting the kind of things that the EDL chant, he would have been arrested, locked up and sent to Guantanamo Bay under terrorist charges. Just look at the double standards on portray here for all to see.
Where’s the terrorist squad now? Why aren’t they doing something about the EDL and keeping our streets safe from them? Why aren’t there any sentences and court cases brought against EDL members who incite hatred and violence in each and every demonstration they have held? Why? Why? Why?
If the roles were reversed and it was Muslims who were holding demonstrations, we probably wouldn’t even get THAT far! We would probably have all been arrested and banged up in a cell, awaiting an unfair court trial with no definite date of release, with no word to our families of our whereabouts, with an extremely stiff sentence for doing nothing more than speaking. That’s what would have happened to Muslims under the terrorist laws of this country.
So why don’t these laws apply to the English Defence League? From where I see it, they do apply but the authorities are choosing not to do anything about it. Where’s the justice in this? There isn’t any when it comes to Muslims.
Everyone is quick to jump whenever anyone even squeaks something anti-semetic! Everyone is quick to condemn whenever there’s anything said against the ’6 million jews killed in the second world war’. Why isn’t the same being applied to Anti-Islam, Anti-Muslim groups like the English Defence League, the National Front, the British National Party?
Do you not see the hypocrisy here?
It’s time Muslims, non-Muslims, those who would see and support justice, started to stand up and stand against this behaviour. And I’m not talking only about the EDL and groups like them. I’m talking about the Government, the Police authorities, the Home Office, the judicial system – all of these have a hand in being fair to the citizens of this country and yet, by allowing the antics of the EDL to continue, they are clearly showing where their priorities lie and where Muslims sit in all of this – Muslims are being made out to be the third class citizens of this country.
We are NOT third class citizens. We work as hard as everyone else, we contribute as much as everyone else, we pay our taxes as much as everyone else, we make mistakes and commit crimes as much as everyone else. BUT we are NOT beneath everyone else!
Enough of the double standards! Enough of the hypocrisy!
Some of you will by now be familiar with my blogs on the terrorist activities of the EDL (English Defence League). If not, I will list the links at the bottom of this post but there’s a wealth of information about the EDL on the web.
So the EDL came to Leicester on Saturday 9th October 2010 and, again, were sent packing by the locals and those who came to defend the communities and stood up against the evil ways of the EDL. Yes, there’s no other way to describe the EDL – they are EVIL (Evil Defence League). In Leicester, as they did in Bradford on August 28th 2010, the EDL protestors threw smoke bombs at the police. Some also ran away from the protest area and ended up clashing with Asian youths.
Reports about the EDL’s despicable behaviour in Leicester:
IT’S TIME THE EDL WERE STOPPED FROM PROTESTING AND INCITING HATRED AND TROUBLE
Wherever the EDL have gone, they have caused trouble for those communities, stirred up and incited hatred and caused damage to community relations, insulted people and their religion, and caused mayhem. On top of that, it costs the UK taxpayer millions (yes, millions) in policing, preparing for the EDL protests and then trying to bring peace and order to these communities after the EDL have left. The Bradford protest preparations alone are amounting into millions of pounds (if you’re not convinced, send in a Freedom of Information request to Bradford Council or West Yorkshire Police). This level of disruption should not be allowed to continue. There is a line to be drawn between protesting peacefully and inciting hatred and violence. The EDL have proven time and time again that they are not peaceful, they are violent. They do not promote peace but incite hatred towards Muslims.
How many times does the Home Secretary have to ban a march by the EDL? Why even impose a ban unless there was the threat of violence, of public safety being at risk? This is ridiculous! There is a limit to freedom of speech and the EDL have crossed it time and time again. It’s time that the government banned groups like the EDL and the BNP (British National Party), or even arrested them for inciting hatred. You cannot allow freedom of speech when that speech clearly leads to people taking up violence to drive out and persecute others. Or is that we turn a blind eye when Muslims are persecuted?
With the new terrorism laws, there have been a number of Muslim clerics who have been arrested for inciting hatred – some have even been deported from the UK. This was done on very little evidence. Now here is the EDL, inciting hatred, clearly racist and demonstrating with violence – many a video on YouTube testifies to the violent and extreme nature of the EDL. There is more evidence here than was used against Muslims in the ‘fight against terrorism’. What about the terrorism of the EDL? There is much concern about the issue of home-grown terrorists in the UK. Well, wake up everyone, EDL members are your terrorists and your extremists and your fundamentalists!
Why is there a double standard by the government here? Does the government actually agree with the EDL’s actions? Are they secretly happy to allow the EDL to go from city to city, from town to town, from community to community, spreading their hatred of the Muslims? If they aren’t, then why aren’t they taking the same action against these terrorists, that they do against ‘Muslim terrorists’? What’s their excuse this time?
29th May 2010 – EDL in Newcastle
1st May 2010 -EDL in Aylesbury
3rd April 2010 – EDL in Dudley
20th March 2010 – EDL in Bolton
23rd January 201 – EDL in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent
5th December 2009 – EDL in Nottingham
31st October 2009 – EDL in Leeds
10th October 2009 – EDL in Manchester
11th September 2009 – Against Harrow masjid
4th July 2009 – EDL in Birmingham
24th May 2009 – EDL in Luton
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The English Defence League (EDL) – a racist, terrorist and islamophobic activist group, full of thugs and fallouts from society – has been going round the UK, stirring up communities (both Muslim and non-Muslim) and spreading hatred. They came to Bradford on Saturday 28th August, trying to recreate the riots of nine years ago, trying to stir up trouble and leave the city in stress and turmoil. The opposite happened.
The people of Bradford, Muslims and non-Muslims, people from other cities and towns, coming from as far as London and Cardiff and Scotland, showed the EDL where to go. They sent a message to the EDL to leave Bradford alone, leave the Muslims alone, leave the communities alone – there’s no room for hatred in the city! The EDL were outnumbered, Muslim youths did not riot, non-Muslims stood firm as well and EDL were exposed to be racist, bigoted, mindless trash.
The EDL were sent packing from Bradford – a failed campaign! But now they are trying to cause trouble in Leicester on 9th October. These poor souls will just never learn. So we need to continue to send them a message! And keep sending them that message, wherever they go!
Stand up against the EDL and protest – peacefully and do not get drawn in by the hatred spread by the EDL. Have strong slogans against the EDL. Tell them they are not part of a tolerant British Society and have no room here in the UK – so maybe they should leave!
Oh Muslim Brothers and Sisters! You need to start Standing Up 4 Islam and being more organised in tackling, peacefully, the likes of the English Defence League, the BNP and other haters of Islam and Muslims. Don’t leave the hard work to others – after all, this is YOUR religion and it is YOU who is being targeted, YOUR SISTER who is being targeted, YOUR BROTHER who is being targeted, YOUR PARENTS who are being targeted, YOUR CHILDREN who are being targeted.
If you do not Stand Up 4 Islam and allow this hatred to spread, then you allow people to become brave enough to attack innocents (see my post on 13-year old boys attack Muslim schoolgirl). Is that what you want to allow to happen?
Stand up against those who spread hate against Islam and Muslims! Stand Up 4 Islam!
ms and non-Muslims, people from other cities and towns, coming from as far as London and Cardiff and Scotland, showed the EDL where to go. They sent a message to the EDL to leave Bradford alone, leave the Muslims alone, leave the communities alone – there’s no room for hatred in the city! The EDL were outnumbered, Muslim youths did not riot, non-Muslims stood firm as well and EDL were exposed to be racist, bigoted, mindless trash.
