Comments on: Muslim demo in London. No trouble. http://www.blogistan.co.uk/blog/mt.php/2005/05/30/muslim_demo_in_london_no_trouble Politics, tech and media issues from a Muslim perspective Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:32:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: The Sharpener » “Roddle Twaddle” and the Bakri affair http://www.blogistan.co.uk/blog/mt.php/2005/05/30/muslim_demo_in_london_no_trouble#comment-5313 The Sharpener » “Roddle Twaddle” and the Bakri affair Sun, 14 Aug 2005 22:08:41 +0000 http://www.blogistan.co.uk/ijwp/mt.php/2005/05/30/muslim_demo_in_london_no_trouble#comment-5313 [...] His presence has been so damaging that I have heard it suggested on many occasions that he is an agent provocateur. I first heard this suggestion well before 9/11, but this impression was reinforced by what took place in May: a group of his followers turned up at a demonstration outside the US embassy and chanted bellicose anti-American slogans. The media reported that such slogans were chanted at a demo at which the likes of Martin Mubanga, the former Guantanamo detainee, spoke, without mentioning that the people chanting the slogans were from a group which pronounced the organisers of the demo as being “very close to becoming munafiqeen (hypocrites)”. I found all of this out when I asked about the incident at a subsequent demonstration in Whitehall organised by the same people, and people wondered why OBM was getting away with his outrageous behaviour when the likes of Abu Hamza and Abdullah Faisal had not. Discussion of him on one traditional Muslim forum I regularly visit was not friendly; the news of his plans to have a heart operation on the NHS was greeted with surprise from one contributor that he had a heart! [...] […] His presence has been so damaging that I have heard it suggested on many occasions that he is an agent provocateur. I first heard this suggestion well before 9/11, but this impression was reinforced by what took place in May: a group of his followers turned up at a demonstration outside the US embassy and chanted bellicose anti-American slogans. The media reported that such slogans were chanted at a demo at which the likes of Martin Mubanga, the former Guantanamo detainee, spoke, without mentioning that the people chanting the slogans were from a group which pronounced the organisers of the demo as being “very close to becoming munafiqeen (hypocrites)”. I found all of this out when I asked about the incident at a subsequent demonstration in Whitehall organised by the same people, and people wondered why OBM was getting away with his outrageous behaviour when the likes of Abu Hamza and Abdullah Faisal had not. Discussion of him on one traditional Muslim forum I regularly visit was not friendly; the news of his plans to have a heart operation on the NHS was greeted with surprise from one contributor that he had a heart! […]

]]> By: Shamil http://www.blogistan.co.uk/blog/mt.php/2005/05/30/muslim_demo_in_london_no_trouble#comment-5312 Shamil Wed, 01 Jun 2005 12:06:34 +0000 http://www.blogistan.co.uk/ijwp/mt.php/2005/05/30/muslim_demo_in_london_no_trouble#comment-5312 Check out Phillip's article from May 20th on Irshad Manji. Apparently she thinks Manji is going to "neutralise the forces of secularism". I hope everyone else appreciates the irony of a conservative strongly backing a liberal just for their anti-islam stance. Check out Phillip’s article from May 20th on Irshad Manji.

Apparently she thinks Manji is going to “neutralise the forces of secularism”.

I hope everyone else appreciates the irony of a conservative strongly backing a liberal just for their anti-islam stance.

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