A small group of young men from al-Muhajiroun (or Muhajigoons, the Voice, the Ears and Eyes of the Morons) yesterday caused a commotion at a parade in Luton by soldiers returning from Iraq. The banners read “Butchers of Basra” and “Anglian soldiers, go to Hell” (the soldiers were from the Royal Anglian Regiment”. The BBC described the protest as an “anti-war protest”, but it was plain from the men’s appearance and the nature of their banners (they are always shouting “go to hell”) which group they are from. For the record, these boys do not take part in real anti-war demonstrations. They called RESPECT “kafir hypocrites”, accused Stop Political Terror of being “very close to becoming” hypocrites, and have been known to turn up at real Muslim demonstrations and shout their own slogans rather than actually participating in the demo.
As one might expect, there were not that many Muslims shown in the BBC’s footage turning out to welcome the soldiers back. It’s your right not to care for them, of course, but you could do it the same way all the other Muslims in Luton did, which is simply not to turn up at the parade. After the shootings of soldiers in Northern Ireland last week (by the “Real IRA”, a splinter group from the Provisional IRA which rejects the peace process and which carried out the Omagh bombing in 1998), a demonstration like this was particularly inappropriate.
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I have to disagree, although I think the placards were stupid, the overal message still rings true. The British government is a terrorist state, it has condoned torture (Binyam and others) and is in an illegal war right which began on false pretences. So they, the idiotic al-Muhajiroun, may have a point in this case. Yes it is embarassing for Muslims, but the UK government and its soldiers/military need to be taken to account for their war crimes.
Not everyone likes they way they protest, but who else is really protesting against the war/occupation still?
Inappropriate to demonstrate, perhaps. but also inappropriate to have a march through the town. The invasion of Iraq may not have been Britain’s unfinest hour, even in living memor. The bases of the war were manifestly unjustified and the war was carried out brutally and the attempts to impose peace afterwards were astoundingly incompetent and brutal. British soldiers tortured Iraqi civilians to death. No-one can take pride in a wasted war.
These people are lucky to be in a country which allows freedom os speech and not like pakistan etc. Trouble is brewing and the british people are getting angry with these fanatics.
Even the Today programme on Radio 4 was referring to them as “Muslim demonstrators”, so I guess they and their friends continue to win in their demented social engineering.
Worse still, they brought in some semi-illiterate to the R4 programme who stuck up for them because of “the right to protest” overlooking how damaging and dangerous it was for the police to allow them breach the peace.
Had it not been a more civilised crowd who shouted them out instead, those savages with the topman jackets would have been brutally attacked.
We may find the opinions objectionable but we must protect their rights to free speech.
As’salamu Aleikum,
I have watched once members of this group on BBC world, and to be honest, I don’t understand why they were giving platform to speak. They are clearly troublemakers and at best agent provocateurs.
As-Salaamu ‘alaikum,
gess: that’s exactly the conclusion drawn by a lot of Muslims. However, the UK government did not allow OBM back into the country when he begged to come back during the attack on Lebanon in 2006. What is more likely is that the media love them because they give them an easy sensation. OBM could always find a mic when he needed one when he lived in Britain and nowadays so can Anjem and his goons.
The demonstrators looked like obvious candidates for arrest for conduct liable to cause a breach of the peace. After all, they did cause a breach of the peace an had to be protected. At the least, you’d expect they’d be bound over for their future behaviour.
Muhaju-GOON?
lol
Br Yusuf - you missed out the ‘Al’ in the title. I just wouldnt like them to get mixed up with the real Muhajiroon that emigrated with the Prophet peace be upon him, in search engines etc.
I concur with Gess, the Muhajigoons are agent provocateurs. These same charlatans showed up to disrupt the Danish hate cartoon protests and were given the lions share of the press coverage as if they represented the average protester. Anti-Muslim fanatics love these idiots.
well, well, well. Look what we have here: Swilling beer, smoking dope and leering at porn, the other side of hate preacher ‘Andy’ Choudary
Druggie, ignorant, and see how malevolent and wicked he is. Porn and drugs tend to damage brains, and that answered by questions as to why this man had no sympathy at all for the people whose name he was abusing; simple sick man and should be prescribed olanzapine to put him to sleep mode.
Drugs, booze, and porn are what the reds and lefties consume in quantity as part of their unhealthy decadent lifestyles.