More on Qaradawi's attempted return to Britain. A spokesman for Blair said, "It is not enough just to condemn. The Muslim community needs to act. Words, while welcome, are not sufficient." From the Deccan Herald:
British politicians are calling on the ruling Labour government to ban the entry into the UK of a radical Muslim cleric who has praised suicide bombing by Palestinians as “martyrdom in the name of God.”Egyptian-born Yusuf Al-Qardawi is due to address a public meeting in Manchester soon, but his critics say the man who once declared, “Oh God, destroy the usurper Jews, the vile crusaders and infidels”, should be barred from the UK, just as he is barred in the US. Opposition Conservative Party vice chairman Andrew Rossindell, who is leading the calls to block Al-Qardawai’s visit, said, “There has been a lot of tough talk from Mr Blair, but if he was a tough Prime Minister, he would have acted immediately to stop this man from coming into the country. I think Tony Blair should act now.”
Adding her voice to the calls for an entry ban, former Conservative cabinet minister Ann Widdecombe said, “This man would not be allowed in if I was Home secretary. To say he condemns the London attack while advocating suicide bombing in Israel is being mealy-mouthed and just playing with words. There is a moral dimension to this and he should not be allowed to enter the UK.”
The controversy about Al-Qardawi’s forthcoming visit came ahead of Tuesday’s meeting between Mr Blair and leaders of the British Muslim community. Among the items on the agenda were suggestions for Muslim clerics to start preaching only in English and banning the sale of extremist leaflets at book stores and malls near mosques...
In London a spokesman for Blair said, “It is not enough just to condemn. The Muslim community needs to act. Words, while welcome, are not sufficient. We need to have action within the community to take on in a reasoned argument the false propaganda.”
The invitation to meet Mr Blair aroused a mixed response from Muslim community leaders. Inayat Bunglawala of the Muslim Council of Britain said, “Muslim youths are generally underachieving with high rates of unemployment.” “There has been a clear increase in disenchantment,” he added, pointing to a recent think tank report that asserted the Iraq war had made it easier for al-Qaeda to exploit a sense of grievance among the Muslim community. “It’s fair the government should ask itself whether policies such as those involving the Iraq war have contributed to this”, Mr Bunglawala said.
...Another British Muslim leader, Anjem Choudary al-Muhajiroun, said he was against any Muslim leaders meeting Mr Blair. Mr Choudary declared, “The British government wants to show they are on the side of justice whereas in reality the real terrorists are the British regime who have tried to divide the Muslim community into moderates and extremists.
Itching for a fight eh? Does Blair have the cajones? Good luck Britain.
"Among the items on the agenda were suggestions for Muslim clerics to start preaching only in English.."
--- from the posting above
Why? If they are part of that "vast and overwhelming majority" of Muslims who are "decent and law-abiding" what possible harm could their be in their preaching in the native languages of their listeners, or in reading passages from the canonical texts in Arabic, comme il faut?
Could it be that this demand, which was also made by Ataturk, who had the Qur'an translated into Turkish (and a tafsir as well), and is a requirement now enforced in France, points to the obvious: that no one trusts those clerics who minister to the "vast and overwhelming majority" of etcetera...
No, of course we don't trust them. Say so. Explain what's behind this demand. C'mon. Do it.
“It’s fair the government should ask itself whether policies such as those involving the Iraq war have contributed to this."
C'mon! What audience does Mr. Bung speak to? Who's buying such bunk? Liberals? Devout Muslims? Self-hating, brain-dead white leftists?
Someone is. For he, and others, continue to send the same nonsensical messages of denial.
I see that Muhammad Atta's father has finally realized that his boy had more than an insignificant role in 9/11. And he is now proud of his boy's action. And hopes there will be more.
It just never ends.
hey guys..let's go take a peek!!
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002389078_muslimswim.html
Otter, that is so stupid. taping the windows. And that article, it just reeks of multiculturalism. Breeding like rabbits.
You're right reset, that article reeks of multiculturalism.
The women sound like prisoners grateful for the small crumbs of being able to use this swimming facility since their lives are just staying inside the house 24/7 and going to the market and mosque when their husbands mandate it.
And the non-Muslim community leaders and pundits help facilitate this gender apartheid prison-system and then paint a lovely halo of cultural diversity around it, adding insult to injury not only to the Muslim women, but to all of us in the West.
(I'd venture to say that most communities and papers in the US would think and act the way those idiots do)
I just hope that when it's time for the next municipal elections in London, the opposition hauls out the picture of Red Ken in full frontal embrace with Al-Qardawi.
Quoting the article
If Muslim youths are generally underachieving with high rates of unemployment then what is the problem? Is it a war in Iraq? Or is it something about being Muslim?Jesus, by demanding that slaves be freed and working with chisel, plane, and saw, ennobled hard work. Muhammad, by wielding a sword and keeping slaves to do manual work, debased hard work. In this contrast lies the reason for the laziness of Muslim youth. Follow the example of Jesus, or as they call him Isa, not the example of Muhammad.
Quoting the article
If Muslim youths are generally underachieving with high rates of unemployment then what is the problem? Is it a war in Iraq? Or is it something about being Muslim?Jesus, by demanding that slaves be freed and working with chisel, plane, and saw, ennobled hard work. Muhammad, by wielding a sword and keeping slaves to do manual work, debased hard work. In this contrast lies the reason for the laziness of Muslim youth. Follow the example of Jesus, or as they call him Isa, not the example of Muhammad.
Did any of the pressure to ban the visit by Qaradawi come from within the muslim community?
Didn't think so.