Monday 4 January 2010

"They Shall Not Pass."

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Above: hundreds of people line the streets of Wootton Bassett as coffins carrying the repatriated dead service men and women from Afghanistan pass through.

Islam4UK, an Islamic group linked to the extremist organisation Al-Muhajiroun is planning a march through Wootton Bassett in the coming weeks in memory of Muslims, "‘murdered in the name of democracy and freedom’. There's something quite ironic there.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

it's a very emotive area... I'm a pacifist too - every day another soldier dies and I feel sad for their families but how many hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqi women & children have died at our hands... many of them muslim?
of course, the MOD's figures are substantially less... my favourite site www.medialens.com which cuts through the bull is well worth a look

meanwhile, we are still incensed by the death of one little girl in PdL. Maybe it's easier to focus on the singular. I hope her parents are tormented for the rest of their days for what they've done to her and in her name... shame on them.

AnnaEsse said...

True, Anonymous, there are thousands of civilians killed, but Islam4UK does not have any need to choose Wootton Bassett for their march. There are many other places they could choose, especially places in the UK that have a high Muslim population, where they are more likely to be supported and welcomed. They could always take themselves off to the scene of the events and march through the streets of Afghan cities.

AnnaEsse said...

Still thinking about this Anonymous, wouldn't it make more sense for Islam4UK to do their march in support of Muslims killed in the conflict if they marched through a Muslim area? The people of Wootton Bassett turn out simply because that is on the route taken by the coffins of dead UK service personnel. Islam4UK's choosing that location is about confrontation. If it were just about honouring the dead, they'd choose a more appropriate place.

Anonymous said...

it's not just about honouring their dead - it's highlighting the hundred thousand that have been murdered by our bombs...

the things is, I'm not sure I approve of the march either... all marches seem to do is encourage extremism and antagonize the opposition - which I suppose is part of the aim

I'm so despondent at our involvement in 2 wars that have done nothing more than murder innocents and perpetuate terrorism... the whitewash enquiry that is currently taking place beggars belief. I love the fact that our MP's hopeless argument is that "no one knew what would happen after (illegally) invading" - I was on one of the marches at Trafalgar Square and a million plus people knew then we'd be entering another Viet Nam style war so why didn't our politicians?

I want to thank you again, Anna for you fabulous Truth Of The Lie translations... I pray that Amaral's case re-opens the enquiry and lifts the ban on his important book

AnnaEsse said...

Anonymous, I feel as you do about those wars, but I also feel strongly that Anjem Choudary just stirs up hatred and he should be stopped.

As for those wars again, it looks as though Obama is hell-bent on invading the Yemen now. God help the ordinary folks of that country too. Several embassies in Yemen have closed and this may signal preparations for invasion.