[Slonopotam845]

Notice how the police do nothing! I saw this protest at the troops returning on the news today. Disgusting! Surely this protest was offensive, inflamatory, and ammounting to an incitement to violence/disturbing the peace??

Those animals should have been driven back forcibly, and their posters taken from them and destroyed. Any resistance to the police should have been dealt with harshly. What is our country coming to?

I'm sure if someone produced an Israeli flag they would have had it swiftly confiscated, for 'fear of causing violence'!

[Fegasderty]

I am hopefully that things are changing. There was also that anti-sharia rallly on the 7Th there that drew 600 people.

I didn't hear about that. I doubt it would have made the mainstream news because it would be seen as singling out Muslims and, according to them, would result in Islamophobia.

[Lillie_Steins]

Do you think, though, that the number of protestors might be a glimmer of hope?

Luton is a fairly high-density Muslim community and is considered to be one of the most worrying areas in the UK in terms of extremist agitation. Hizb ut-Tahrir have had meetings there, too.

The fact that there were 20 young men means that almost everyone in their community stayed away. That's got to be a poke in the eye for their esteemed leaders, no?

I do applaud the Council and Mayor Lakhbir Singh - they must have realised that the parade might be deemed contentious to some members of the community but they went ahead with it. Given the politically correct, health and safety lunacy that prevails amongst so many authorities, many would have cancelled.

[brraverishhh]

An extract from the above article (a quote from one of the protestors) reads:

It read 'Muhammad said :"He among you who sees a munkar (evil) should change it with his hand. If he can not do that , then with his tongue(by speaking out against it)".'

It finished with the words:' We urge the Muslims of Luton not to stay silent against these murderers of Muslim men, women and children and to do what we as Muslims have been obliged to do and speak against an open evil.'


The thing I can never quite understand is why the thousands killed by Saddam Hussein wasn't seen as a 'munkar'

Or why terrorist bombers who target innocent civilians aren't seen as 'munkar'

A much earlier post on this forum listed the numbers of Palestinians killed or ethinically cleansed by their Arab brothers - which amounted to thousands.....why is that not 'munkar' too?

These double-standards are just bewildering.

[TorryJens]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7935679.stm

Anti-War protesters - what a hoot!