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"No to double standards"! Exactly! The Archdhimmi of Canterbury, in calling for Islamic law in Britain, was calling for double standards -- Islamic laws for Muslims, secular laws for everyone else. Those who opposed him were standing up for equal citizenship and equal rights -- exactly what these groups profess to want. And keeping out Qaradawi? I would hope that if the Mayor of London wanted to bring in a Presbyterian proponent of suicide terror, that he would be kept out also -- equal rights for all!
And what about the bugging of Sadiq Khan? His "jailed constituent" is accused of running a website that raised funds of the Taliban and Chechen jihadists. I'd be fine with any member of Parliament, Muslim or non-Muslim, being bugged when he visits constituents who are plotting the mass murder of innocent people and their subjugation under a draconian legal system that would deny them equality of rights. How would that be? Equal rights for all!
"Muslim groups prepare for Downing Street protest," from Independent Television News (thanks to Jeffrey Imm):
Muslim groups are preparing to stage a demonstration outside Downing Street after what they describe as a week of "bias, prejudice, xenophobia and even borderline racism".It has been organised by the British Muslim Initiative (BMI) and supported by 20 other Muslim groups including the Muslim Council of Britain and British Muslim Forum.
They are calling for equal rights under the slogan: Yes to equal citizenship, No to double standards.
The BMI have said the demonstration is a response to the past week's events including the controversy provoked by the Archbishop of Canterbury's comments that adoption of some aspects of Islamic sharia law in the UK seem "unavoidable".
It is also protesting over the Home Office's rejection of Egyptian-born, controversial scholar Yusuf al-Qaradawi's visa application to enter the UK.
The revelation that counter-terrorism officers had secretly recorded discussions between MP Sadiq Khan and a jailed constituent has also led to angry reactions from Muslims.
A BMI statement said the three events "provide further evidence of bias, prejudice, xenophobia and even borderline racism rampant in wide corners of the media as well as in the corridors of government."
BMI spokesman Anas Altikriti said: "It all gives out a message that Muslims can never be trusted and any discourse must be banned and no-one, not even the esteemed Archbishop of Canterbury, can say anything about Muslims.
"This vigil is about all Muslims coming together and asking to be treated as equal citizen with rights. And at the same time we are calling for issues to do with Muslims to be dealt with fairness and balance."
Posted by Robert at February 16, 2008 1:38 PM
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It's far from lost on the average British citizen that this lot have everything to say when it comes to their 'rights' being violated, but very little to say when nutters from their own communities, or fellow Muslims across the globe, engage in acts of intimidation or terrorism.
Lovely, isn't it.
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at February 16, 2008 2:08 PM
*Borderline* racism?!?!?! Oh my G-d, the horror, the horror!
Posted by: Gary Rosen at February 16, 2008 2:09 PM
"Muslims to protest "bias, prejudice, xenophobia and even borderline racism"
Oh really. Isn't that a bit disingenuous? The linked image below is kinda hard to erase from ones memory.
http://kafircanada.blogspot.com/2007/10/everyone-believes-theyre-on-side-of.html
Posted by: Sounder at February 16, 2008 2:23 PM
Of course, the problem here is that although their protest is full of stupid invective, they have a legal case:
As long as Beth Din has the force of law in the UK and the USA, there is a case for legalizing shari'a law for Muslims in either country.
That's why Beth Din has to go.
Well, that's one reason, and there are others as it's highly discriminatory and male-biased.
But the main reason is that as long as Beth Din has the force of law it will be used as a way to get shari'a instituted, and in fact EVERY major assertion of "discrimination" with regard to the denial of shari'a as having force of law has Beth Din as its justification.
Posted by: Morgaan Sinclair at February 16, 2008 2:28 PM
Oh there is bias and prejudice in the UK all right, but not in the direction these idiots claim it is.
The first trial in the case of the 16 Asian men that attacked a white schoolboy with a hammer on school premises last January has just finished, but the outcome has not been made public. Just imagine the outcry and publicity if this had been 16 white men attacking an Asian schoolboy! The MSM have almost completely ignored this case, and the only coverage I can find is on the local newspaper's web site here: www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/hammerattacktrial/
Even there it is referred to as "the sickening hammer attack" or similar, I have never seen it referred to as a racist attack. But if the perpetrators had been white, we all know that it would have been yet more proof of "endemic and institutionalised racism going right to the core of Britain, blah, blah, blah". The attack was even filmed on a mobile phone, but I do not believe the footage has ever been shown, again imagine if the races had been reversed (think Rodney King).
Double standards? You bet.
Posted by: Paul at February 16, 2008 2:33 PM
They are calling for equal rights under the slogan: Yes to equal citizenship, No to double standards.
You have to laugh at their outright gall. Equal citizenship? No double standards? Have any of them ever looked in a mirror or in their own "sacred" book? Take that message to Saudi Arabia and see what it gets you.
Islam is all about double standards.
Posted by: PMK at February 16, 2008 2:37 PM
Oh, please! STFU!
Posted by: darcy at February 16, 2008 2:46 PM
Muslim groups are preparing to stage a demonstration outside Downing Street after what they describe as a week of "bias, prejudice, xenophobia and even borderline racism".
"borderline racism" -- heavens to Murgatroyd, not that too! Saints preserve us!
How hilarious that Moslems, of all people, think they should protest after only a week of this. They've been practicing "bias, prejudice, xenophobia and [a lot worse than borderline] racism" for nearly 1400 YEARS.
at February 16, 2008 2:52 PM
I think these demonstrating Muslims should not put up with how they're treated any longer and leave England immediately for fairer Muslim countries. That'll show 'em.
Posted by: FM at February 16, 2008 2:58 PM
Note to Muslims: Want to be treated equally? Then, act like the other citizens of your adopted country.
Posted by: Abscedere at February 16, 2008 3:01 PM
muslims are for equal rights? lol, tell that to their women.
Posted by: precept at February 16, 2008 3:03 PM
A BMI statement said the three events "provide further evidence of bias, prejudice, xenophobia and even borderline racism rampant in wide corners of the media as well as in the corridors of government."
Islam is not a race, Abdul.
BMI spokesman Anas Altikriti said: "It all gives out a message that Muslims can never be trusted
Well, ahem ahem, Muslims can never be trusted since they have allah's permision to lie to the unbelievers (taqqiyah).
and any discourse must be banned and no-one, not even the esteemed Archbishop of Canterbury, can say anything about Muslims.ArchDhimmi can say whatever he wants (it's called freedom of speach, Abdul). HOwever, those who disagree with the archdhimmi have the God given right to criticize him. Notice that neither the archdhimmi nor those who disagree with him responded to criticism with death threats, like Muslims usually do.
"This vigil is about all Muslims coming together and asking to be treated as equal citizen with rights.Just like non-Muslims are treated in lands occupied by Muslims?
And at the same time we are calling for issues to do with Muslims to be dealt with fairness and balance."Translation: We don't want to hear, read or see anything that offends our precious religion. Posted by: Crusader
at February 16, 2008 3:18 PM
The UK has cameras all over the place. It should be fairly easy to see who's doing the protesting against moderation, civilization and rule-of-law. Round them all up and ship 'em back to Crapistan.
They want acceptance, approval, and toleration for their barbaric "religion" (= totalitarian conspiracy for world-domination)? They want to live under the dictates of Islamic law (= Sharia)? They want to go watch lashings, stonings, and amputations in the name of their bloody Allah? They want to be free to marry 9-year-olds? Tell 'em to get the frack out of the civilized world and go back to whatever Holy Hell they came from; or pick from one of the other delightful Islamic Paradises where Megalo-Mohammed is considered to be the Perfect Man, Worthy of Emulation by All.
Get 'em out of here. And vote the treasonous twits who encouraged this Islamic inundation out of office. Heck, deport THEM (the architects of this failed social experiment) to Crapistan, too!
Posted by: A_Nonny_Mouse at February 16, 2008 3:48 PM
" . . . we are calling for issues to do with Muslims to be dealt with fairness and balance."
Let's have fairness and balance, by all means. How about we treat Moslems in the West in the same manner that Christians (and Jews, Hindus, Bahais, etc.) are treated in such Islamic wonderlands as Egypt, Saudi Arabis, Iran, Pakistan, and Malaysia? That sounds fair and balanced to me.
at February 16, 2008 5:24 PM
Can someone point me out where is the racism in criticizing religion and islam in especial?
/Sarcasm on
Then, anyone who has ANYTHING against atheism is a racist too... Done, Iran and Saudi Arabia and other racist countries are full of racists because they don't allow christians, buddhits and atheists freely.
/Sarcasm off
See.. ? :P We can play the racist card aswell!
at February 16, 2008 5:51 PM
"I think these demonstrating Muslims should not put up with how they're treated any longer and leave England immediately for fairer Muslim countries." --posted by FM
Oh yes! Leave immediately for your Moslem countries! Goodbye!
Posted by: darcy at February 16, 2008 6:59 PM
Here is a slogan they can put on their placards when they demonstrate which I think sums up their demands perfectly...
"All British citizens should be treated equally, but british muslims should be treated more equally than others.
Oink oink."
at February 16, 2008 7:01 PM
Get 'em out of here. And vote the treasonous twits who encouraged this Islamic inundation out of office. Heck, deport THEM (the architects of this failed social experiment) to Crapistan, too!
Posted by: A_Nonny_Mouse at February 16, 2008 3:48 PM
Agreed. And vote Enoch Powell as a national hero!
at February 16, 2008 7:01 PM
Morgaan Sinclair has one thing wrong. The Bet Din, or religious court, of the Jewish religion has no force of law anywhere in the USA. Not even in the most "ethnically pure" Jewish areas of New York State. Marriage, divorce, inheritance, birth and death certificates, are the sole province of the State.
"Racism" is not about religion. It is about intra-species differences in the color of one's skin and the differences in eye shape. Islam, according to the Quran, will accept members of any segment of humanity. Oh, but yes, the Arabs are primus inter pares, but that isn't "racism" now is it???
The loose slinging about of the term "racism" when one really means religious discrimination or discrimination based on ones' religious beliefs is a demonstration of the ignorance of ones' understanding of the meaning of basic English. Of course the whole point is to use the term for PC intimidation.
Posted by: spinoneone at February 16, 2008 7:11 PM
Of course the whole point is to use the term for PC intimidation.
Posted by: spinoneone at February 16, 2008 7:11 PM
Exactly. Don't be intimidated by Barbarians and PC imbeciles.
at February 16, 2008 7:22 PM
give'm an inch and they'll...
Posted by: Silly Allah at February 16, 2008 7:49 PM
*ALL* non-muslims are 'guilty' people - in the eyes of devout muslims.
This is what muslims are being taught by their clerics.
Muslims have rights, 'guilty' people have none.
Muslims *assume* [and insist] that they are 'righteous' [because they believe in Allah's way], non-muslims are 'guilty' [for their dis-belief].
Muslims demand 'respect' [*fear*] from all non-muslims.
http://members.dodo.com.au/~wtt626/comeinpeace.html#the_guilty_designation_attributed_to_non-muslims
at February 16, 2008 9:43 PM
from my previous post....
-----'Muslims demand 'respect' [*fear*] from all non-muslims.'
When non-muslims do not show muslims respect, they [non-muslims] are *insulting* muslims.
And thereby, they are insulting ISLAM, and Allah.
And therefore, the violence, and indignation.
You see, the muslim violence, and indignation is all 'righteous'.
It is you non-muslims who bear all of the blame.
[....to their mind]
at February 16, 2008 10:13 PM
If Muslims want fairness and to be treated equally, then they need to leave their mosque at home and submit to the secular ruling law in Great Britain (and any other western country where they may live, for that matter)
Posted by: abad at February 17, 2008 12:03 AM
Wonder of the coming demonstration will look anything like this one?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axgxyrBB31Y
Danish embassy, London, Feb. 3, 2006. Well worth a look (and a listen).
Posted by: Papa Whiskey at February 17, 2008 12:10 AM
Edited version:
...And at the same time we are calling for issues to do with Muslims to be dealt with fairness and balance."
To a Muslim, the definition of "fairness" and "balance" is just as suspect as the Muslim definition of "innocent". How does a Muslim "balance" his social life between males and females? How does a Muslim "balance" his friends between fellow Muslims and infidels? How does a Muslim "balance" his diet between pork and beef?
Posted by: Xero G at February 17, 2008 12:51 AM
No to double standards. all we have to do is look at the Koran and sharia law, and we see that there is a definite double standard between Muslims and people of the book. This cult is all about double standards
Posted by: doglover at February 17, 2008 1:42 AM
Morgaan writes:
'As long as Beth Din has the force of law in the UK and the USA, there is a case for legalizing shari'a law for Muslims in either country.'
Beth Din courts have no force of law in the UK, and as a poster has said above, in the USA either.
In the UK the adherence to any judgements they may issue is purely voluntary.
It does not affect people's rights according to civil law and the UK courts would not uphold any Beth Din judgement if an appellant took their case to the civil courts.
It is like a private cricket club drawing up rules for its own members.
Posted by: devorgilla at February 17, 2008 11:36 AM
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