Muslim protester assaults Tony Blair inside Palestinian mosque

"You know, he made his protest and that's fair enough," said Blair. "I think it's important for you guys as well to not always mistake the protest for the general view of the whole population." Of course. The vast, vast majority dearly want peace, eh?

"Protester assails Blair in Palestinian mosque," from Reuters, October 20 (thanks to all who sent this in):

HEBRON, West Bank, Oct 20 (Reuters) - Bodyguards subdued a Palestinian man on Tuesday as he approached Middle East envoy Tony Blair, shouting "You are a terrorist."
The former British prime minister was verbally assailed while visiting an ancient mosque during an official trip to the West Bank city of Hebron.

The protester, carrying a bag, was backed into a corner by guards who tried to shut him up. "He is not welcome in the land of Palestine," the struggling man shouted.

Blair, 56, is envoy for the "Quartet" of powers on the Middle East, comprising the European Union, the United States, Russia and the United Nations.

He gave a tight-lipped smile and a pacifying wave in the general direction of the shouting man, and afterwards played down the incident as a "protest and that's fair enough", but not one that should be viewed as typical of local feelings.

Most Palestinians and Israelis want the conflict "resolved in a peaceful way", he said. They understand "it's not going to be resolved unless we find a way of creating two states, a state of Israel and a state of Palestine side by side in peace."...

And what will prevent that Palestinian state from becoming a new base for the jihad against Israel? Why, nothing.

"You know, he made his protest and that's fair enough," Blair told reporters once the man was removed. "I think it's important for you guys as well to not always mistake the protest for the general view of the whole population," he said.

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25 Comments

Douglas Reed | October 20, 2009 1:30 PM

How appropos. The dhimmi Blair find discovers that all of the cozening of the Islamic world by his regime was for naught.

undaunted | October 20, 2009 1:33 PM

Well, if there actually was a "land of Palestine" in which Blair might not be welcome, I guess the poor Philistine would have had a point. As it is, he's lucky Blair's bodyguards didn't level his stupid karma.

NAKAL | October 20, 2009 1:42 PM

I'd laugh if Blair weren't so stupid. His only saving grace is that the Palis are even 'stupider'......

darcy | October 20, 2009 1:50 PM

HA-HA! Dhimmi Tony Blair assaulted by a Mohammedan!

Hey Blair - LOL! Just what you deserve.

And you see he hasn't learned anything. Still making excuses for the Barbarians he has allowed to take over England.

Tony Blair - You are a schmuck. An incredible schmuck.

Sounder | October 20, 2009 1:51 PM

"You are a terrorist." Pot - Kettle comes to mind.

They understand "it's not going to be resolved unless we find a way of creating two states, a state of Israel and a state of Palestine side by side in peace."

"Find a way"? Now that will be interesting. They need to "find" peace rather than seek it? Sounds like force fitting a otherwise simple concept. Perhaps they could set up a University teaching against jihad? No?

But, we all I know who will be forced to do all the "finding" peace don't we?

The_Gentile | October 20, 2009 2:01 PM

Where’s our relativistic interfaith forum headed now Anthony? Strait into the intolerant arms of islamic discontent based on the supreme adherence to allah?

Finally, he’s getting a taste of reality.

PMK replied to comment from The_Gentile | October 20, 2009 2:16 PM

Tony Blair wouldn't recognize reality if it punched him in the nose.

"He made his protest and that's fair enough."

Nineteen mass murderers "made their protest" eight years ago. DOCTORS did something similar in London a few years ago. Remember that, Tony?

darcy | October 20, 2009 2:21 PM

Oh, I have no sympathy, none whatsoever, for Slave-to-Islam Blair, who is hugely responsible for surrendering England to the Islamic Barbarians. I consider him to be an aide to Hitler, a Goebbels, a Goring, a Himmler.

Gramfan | October 20, 2009 2:49 PM

Actually, I don't blame him. Blair has it coming big time.

After ruining Great Britain he is now on the path to becoming a wealthy man - very typical of left-wing politicians, IMHO.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,26226986-2703,00.html

darcy | October 20, 2009 2:52 PM

Just let me repeat:

HA-HA! So deserved!

epistemology | October 20, 2009 2:56 PM

I used to like Tony Blair a lot, but that's a long time ago. I'm afraid, he's the genuine apologist, even when hanging high on a building crane he'll find some nice words about the beauties of Islam.

Ginro | October 20, 2009 3:05 PM

What Blair has done to the UK, Obama will do to the USA. I'm a pretty straight sort of guy opined Blair. Yeh, sure. Lied repeatedly to the populace, broke all his election promises, oversaw the most corrupt incompetent Government we've ever had...Tony Blair and his wife - champagne socialism at its best.

sheik yer'mami | October 20, 2009 3:42 PM

Who would be more deserving of a good thrashing than this preposterous blow-boy? But no matter how much you ruffle his feathers, it is unlikely that the message gets through.

What does it take to give such people a dose of reality?

Interested | October 20, 2009 4:00 PM

I'd laugh if Blair weren't so stupid.

Stupid he ain't. Wicked, greedy and above all, like so many on the left, hypocritical, yes.

pulsar182 | October 20, 2009 5:17 PM

at least our guy got a shoe thrown at him..

Wellington | October 20, 2009 6:13 PM

Sadly, Tony Blair will almost certainly not learn from this experience. He seems determined, like so many others in the West today, to remain blind respecting Islam's intentions no matter how much hard evidence is conveyed to him to dissuade him from his present take on the Islamic faith. This is the main problem, in microcosm, facing freedom today: not Islam per se, which can be effectively dealt with if properly understood, but deep, I mean profound and lethal, ignorance of Islam itself by those who are not themselves Muslim.

Knowledge is power and knowledge of Islam in the West is still woefully inadequate. Tony Blair, a sophisticated and clever man in so many ways, makes a fine poster boy for the chief problem of our times------continued cluelessness about man's most terrible spiritual interpretation of the universe.

Hugh | October 20, 2009 6:58 PM

The former British prime minister was verbally assailed while visiting an ancient mosque during an official trip to the West Bank city of Hebron."

The "West Bank" city of Hebron is one of the four holy cities in Judaism. The other three are: Jerusalem, Tiberias, Safed. Since we allow the Muslims to prate about how holy Jerusalem is to them, when qua city it is not, but only a site on Temple Mount that an early Umayyad Caliph in Damascus decided should be identified as the "farthest mosque" mentioned -- al-masjid al-aksa -- in the Qur'an as the site from which Muhammad ascended to the Seventh Heaven, and then came back, in the famous "Night Journey" or miraj that he took on his winged steed Al Burak.

Curious, that of all the places in the world to visit a mosque, Blair should choose Hebron -- and what we are told is an "ancient mosque" (just how ancient? built on the ruins of a destroyed synagogue? do tell us a lot more). Does Tony Blair know -- did anyone tell him -- that in 1929, when Great Britain was the Mandatory authority for "Palestine," and when the Arabs were killing the old men, women, and children of Hebron -- every last one who did not manage to escape from Hebron -- the British agent in the area, Cafferata, did nothing, though he knew exactly what was going on. Not a single British soldier arrived to protect the Jews while the butchery continued. And that was the end of an uninterrupted Jewish presence in Hebron that had continued for thousands of years. The Jews finally returned, after the Six-Day War, to their ancient city -- now Arab-occuped Hebron -- and rather than dislodge the Arabs, built a separate area, called Kiryat Arba. For the sake of their own, and for the West's, civilisational coherence and sanity, they must never surrender Hebron. But what does Tony Blair, grabbing ever more of the tens of millions he and his equally greedy wife Cherie have been pocketing since he left office, know or care about such things as "civilisational coherence"?

dumbledoresarmy replied to comment from Hugh | October 20, 2009 7:48 PM

Hugh - well said.

I am disgusted with Reuters. The paragraph that reads "The former British prime minister was verbally assailed while visiting an ancient mosque during an official trip to the West Bank city of Hebron" should have read, in a sane and honest world, "The former British prime minister was insulted by an Arab Muslim while visiting a mosque during an official trip to Hebron in Judea, in the so-called 'west bank'. Hebron is the site of the Tomb of the Patriarchs, one of Judaism's most ancient sacred places".

One wonders whether Tony Blair even thought of asking to visit the Cave of Machpelah.

Just to add to your history lesson, for anyone new to this forum: it should be noted that from 1267 to 1967 the Muslims did not permit *any* Jew to enter the Tomb of the Patriarchs, but only to view it from a distance. That is: for SEVEN HUNDRED YEARS Jews were excluded from the Cave of Machpelah, the place which Jews venerate as the burial place of Abraham and Sarah, Isaac and Rebekah, Jacob and Leah. James Parkes in his book 'Whose Land' writes acerbly about the Muslim appropriation of many Jewish and Christian sanctuaries in the Land...which appropriation often led to the total exclusion henceforward of Jewish and/ or Christian access to same.

Once one knows that little fact, one simply does not believe any local Arab Muslim promises that if they are only given all of Jerusalem to be their trophy capital, they will 'protect' access to the sacred places of Judaism and Christianity that are there.

Muslim supremacism and bullying mean-mindedness only grow the more disgusting, the more one learns of the ways in which these attitudes have been manifested throughout history on three continents.

Styrer | October 20, 2009 9:32 PM

I wonder why Robert is religious at all, after seeing the destruction committed not in a religion's name, but because of religion. And especially because of a particular religion, which is this site's entire raison d'etre.

Blair's conversion from Anglicanism to Catholicism is down to his wife's instructions, and perhaps - just perhaps - because he gets to say a few hail marys, apologise for his war criminality and get total absolution, impossible in his former 'faith'.

So the founder of the 'Tony Blair Faith Foundation' himself is attacked by a fellow believing, credulous idiot who thinks his god's a bit better than Blair's. What else could Blair possibly say here, without damning in one fell swoop the whole point of his religious foundation, than what he did so pathetically say?

What a spectacularly ignorant and pathetic fool, who equally thinks 'Islam is peace'.

At least Robert Spencer doesn't believe that shite. But he's still a theist, I've heard, a Catholic one. Thought he'd be one of us atheists. Wonder what's made him suck up to a celestial dictator so willingly?

Too bad.

Styrer

Hesperado | October 20, 2009 10:48 PM

Blair's final words, while his head is being sawed off by Muslims:

"...tiny minority of extremists... ...tiny minority of extremists... ...tiny minority of extremists... VAST MAJORITY OF MODERATE MUSLIMS... GHHHHHAAAAAAACKKKKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!!..."

R_not | October 20, 2009 11:34 PM

Tony Blair has been nothing but a useful idiot for Islam. This should show all you useful idiots out there that in the end, the same agenda applies to you too - death, conversion or subjugation.

But sometimes they can't wait for an infidel to be called to Islam, or to accept subjugation. And that is ok. A notable Chapter called the Cow in the koran, a verse: 6. As for the Disbelievers, Whether thou warn them or thou warn them not it is all one for them; they believe not.

Un:dhimmi | October 21, 2009 12:04 AM

I wonder if he had that Qur'an he claims to keep with him all the time,. ready to swat any incoming crazy-eyed Mohammedans?

pulsar182 | October 21, 2009 3:04 AM

dry run

jowen | October 21, 2009 4:28 AM

Serves him right. He is a war criminal, if a Muslim had taken part in an invasion and occupation of western country, under the same false pretense and it caused even 1/3 of the carnage and deaths the Iraqi invasion and occupation has caused, none of you hypocritical fascist would complain, you would applaud.

Tommo | October 21, 2009 7:52 AM

For once I'm on the Muslim protesters side. The egomaniac Blair probably thought he wanted his autograph.

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