Presumably it will not bear his name because if it did, it would, in the words of MP Nick Raynsford, attract “undesirable interest from extremists.” There is no telling which “extremists” Raynsford had in mind. Did he mean Islamic jihadists and supremacists who might see a memorial to a victim of jihad violence as an insult to Islam, and target it (and anyone who happened to be nearby) for more jihad violence? Or did he mean “right-wing extremists” who would use it as a rallying point for those who objected to the abject surrender of Britain to those same Islamic jihadists and supremacists? Could be either one, or both. In either case, here is yet more surrender from Abject Britannia.
“Lee Rigby memorial will not bear his name,” BBC, October 23, 2014:
A memorial for Lee Rigby will not feature the murdered soldier’s name, it has been revealed.
Greenwich Council said a stone would be placed in St George’s Chapel garden, opposite Woolwich Barracks where Fusilier Rigby was based.
The council, which said its plan had the backing of the soldier’s family, said the memorial would pay tribute to all fallen servicemen and woman.
Fusilier Rigby was murdered on 22 May 2013 by two Muslim converts.
The council said it had worked with the Rigby family to agree on a suitable memorial.
In a statement, a council spokesperson said: “The stone would be inscribed ‘to mark Woolwich’s history as a barracks town and to commemorate all those servicemen and women who have served or lived in Woolwich and who have given their lives in the service of their country’.”
In addition to the stone, a scroll will be held in Woolwich Town Hall listing the names of those commemorated….
Earlier this year the council rejected calls for a memorial, despite thousands of people signing an online petition for the soldier to be given a permanent remembrance site in Woolwich.
Local MP Nick Raynsford said at the time a memorial would attract “undesirable interest from extremists”.
Salah says
Is the U.K. finally waking up? will the U.S. follow suit?
http://www.theblaze.com/blog/2014/10/24/will-the-u-s-follow-britains-lead-and-investigate-the-muslim-brotherhood/
Budvarakbar says
Doesn’t look like it – if they do not put his name on it — kinda like the islamist MoBroHood puke in the WH banning use of the words islam and terrorism — just “workplace violence” don’cha know — or Canadians claiming they won’t be intimidated while in the same breath banning the military wearing their uniforms in public!
Western Canadian says
The uniform wearing, is up in the air at the moment, as it has been in other countries, such as Australia. Yes, they should be in uniform. And heavily armed.
Bill Richards says
The Australian Military were advised (ordered) not to wear their uniforms in public four weeks ago. The order includes the removal of even the military issued watch.
The order was issued as a result of an unprovoked attack where the soldier came out on top.
jewdog says
Let’s emulate the Japanese and keep Muslims out as much as possible. Japan only has about 10k Muslims in a population of 127M. Then we won’t have to hide in our own countries.
Aardvark says
That’s still far too many for any civilised country.
I want ALL mohammedans to be removed from the West.
Roderick MacUalraig says
Yes
William says
When does one proclaim a once living body dead? When it no longer breathes, or when it begins decomposing?
When does one proclaim a once living culture dead? When it no longer functions as such, or when alien enemies begin consuming it?
Forthfaran says
Sadly ,Britain started to die by degrees after WW2. The Socialist governments,particularly Wilson in the 1960s and Blair and Brown from 1997 gleefully and spitefully speeded the process. All that remains is the last death rattle;then the nailing down of the coffin lid.
Colin Jones says
Enoch Powell proved rather prophetic on this one although he was only considering the West Indians. He would be turning in his grave with the Muslim infestation.
As regards uniformed defence personnel I have a suggestion; let them wear burqas and that would really confuse the issue.
As for Britain not acknowledging Lee Rigby’s name on the memorial they indeed are really now living in a state of dhimmitude with a so called political representative from the locality not wishing to offend the Muslims leading by example. A craven coward worthy of a white feather or two.
tpellow says
As ‘Jihadwatch’ knows, the ever-present (and still imported) threat of Islamic jihad violence, makes it second nature for dhimmified UK political class to self-censor and appease Islamic interests.
gravenimage says
UK: Memorial for soldier Lee Rigby, beheaded by jihadists, will not bear his name
Presumably it will not bear his name because if it did, it would, in the words of MP Nick Raynsford, attract “undesirable interest from extremists.”
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*Sickening”. The dhimmitude continues even after Lee Rigby’s savage murder.
More:
“The stone would be inscribed ‘to mark Woolwich’s history as a barracks town and to commemorate all those servicemen and women who have served or lived in Woolwich and who have given their lives in the service of their country’.”
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Don’t these dhimmis realize that even this generalized memorial is apt to attract “undesirable interest from extremists”, as well? Lee Rigby was not singled out for beheading as an individual, but precisely because he was a British serviceperson stationed at Woolwich.
Why have a memorial at all? Perhaps a plaque extolling Muslims’ contributions to British culture might be more apt at this point…sarc/off
This cringing dhimmitude just amplifies the atrocity, and is bound to further embolden the next pious Jihadists who want to behead a British soldier.
This enabling of the enemy while flinching from even mentioning Lee Rigby’s name is nothing but a slap in the face to all those serving at Woolwich—or anywhere in Britain—and their families and supporters.
Ekster says
Indeed a slap in the face. Better they don’t put any memorial at all than one without a name. This is an insult to Lee Rigby’s family. The poor guy was savagely butchered by bloodthirsty barbarians but officials are too afraid of them and rather succumb to them.
MacUalraig says
Indeed, shame. Deep shame.
Wolfgang says
Sad a once great nation that was the birthplace to Magna Carta and the Western nations and brought great men like Sir William Blackstone and others into the light has slid down the path of Islam and political correctness, there must be hundreds of thousands of Brits who are too angry and upset with this, sadly I strongly believe England is lost, it has almost reached the point of no return.
Two reasons, the lefties you have over there and the stench of fear coming from those at the top, Cameron et al, know the score, but won’t do anything to stop the slide downhill because they value their own slimy skins more than the people’s wish’s , my father used to say:
” Politicians are like babies nappies…….they STINK and need to be changed often “
dumbledoresarmy says
A smarter approach would have been to go right ahead, make a prominent memorial – with his name on it! – and then…lie in wait till the inevitable mohammedan would-be vandalisers turned up.
Use it as a bug-catcher, so to speak.
Sam says
I know UK administration is doing the selling of its people to a sick idealogy. Still, I am having difficulty in feeling sorry for british folks. Can’t they rise up?
Budvarakbar says
We got some RISING up to do on this side of the pond! — US has no room to speak after electing the MoBroHood – 12th Imam – Mahdi – to POTUS – twice!
Wolfgang says
@Sam
Rise up and do what ?…………….great idea in theory, no one is going to rise up anywhere in the West, three simple reasons.
1. Fear of getting the 2am SWAT team courtesy of DHS ( or its UK equivalent ).
2. No one wants to be odd man out and go first.
3. There is no morality left in any given Western population that adheres to a God given standard.
Remember this great quote…..
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?… The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If…if…We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation…. We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I rest my case.
Greyhound Fancier says
That’s why Solzhenytsin is great! Well said!
dumbledoresarmy says
You write – “There is no morality left in any given Western population that adheres to a God given standard.”
NONE? Not in *anyone*? No-one?
THAT is defeatism on steroids. A recipe for despair and the paralysis of despair.
Why don’t you just stop visiting this website, then?…after all, it appears you’ve already decided that Mr Spencer and Brigitte Gabriel and all the thousands of people in ACT for America (more joining every day) and Geert Wilders and all those who vote for him and Paul Weston and Gavin Boby and the many, many Britons who post here – and many others – are ALL wasting their time, totally wasting their time?
Britain is not dead, not by a long chalk. Awareness is spreading fast, at ground level. People *are* getting together and speaking up. The more they do it, the more they will do it.
http://www.newenglishreview.org/blog_direct_link.cfm/blog_id/57044
If Paul Weston (of Liberty GB) and Gavin Boby (of the Law and Freedom Foundation) persevere, I think they are in with a chance.
Wolfgang says
@DDA
Hey never said I was given up ! ……..geez !…….grab a hold there !
Wolfgang says
@DDA
BTW, England ALLOWED itself to be disarmed, as did Australia, before you want to rip into me, consider that a people so inclined CANNOT have their freedoms chipped and taken away without their active assent to what is going on, and yes ,you may have noticed that in the USA people are alarmed at the anti freedom bills brought before congress and the anti firearm owning stance of Obumbler, frankly ALL people HAVE a right to protect themselves, no matter where they live , but you know what ? it takes a very ,very brave and courageous man to passively resist tyranny and yes when needed stand up and say no more !, I am prepared to lose my life for liberty sake, are you ? I have been on the line , shot at and shot back for my country, so DONT ever call me a coward or quitter , I don’t see many Brits willing to do that. Not all will roll over true, but far too many will. I put that quote in there about Solzhenitsyn, because he said MOST people will do nothing .
Bill Richards says
@Wolfgang, referring to your point about ‘god’, uhm, whose ‘god’? There are so many different brands of ‘one true god(s)’ in the world that the word is meaningless.
WHilst the Judeo-Christian cults disagree with each other, but unlike the various muslim sects, at least they don’t sever your head for disagreeing with them.
Wolfgang says
@ Bill Richards
Which G-d ? …………….lol easy answer !….. the G-d of the Bible !. JHVH, (or YHWH)
All the rest are fakes…….or stone idols that do not speak or hear.
Your words…………” WHilst the Judeo-Christian cults disagree with each other ”
cults ?, you must be either a moral relativist or atheist ?
There are 300 prophecies in the Old Testament about the coming Messiah. So much for a cult ha ?
You say Christianity is a cult along with Judaism ?…….OK , prove from your assertion that is correct ?
btw Judaism and Christianity both have the same G-d.
Dave J says
The corrosive and insidious influence of Islam: Soldiers cannot wear their uniforms in THEIR OWN COUNTRY, those struck down cannot have a gravestone with their name on it.
I like the idea of rat traps – surveill the likely extremist acting out sites, then arrest them en masse.
The only alternative to resistance is to give up now – which many government officials have apparently already done.
dumbledoresarmy says
I had the same idea as you, re “rat traps”. Only *I* thought of this memorial as a potential “bug catcher” (or bug zapper, so to speak, or “fly paper”).
If there are churches or synagogues that have already attracted negative Mohammedan attention, they need to be “staked out”, so that the *next* lot of mohammedans who try anything, get a very sudden and nasty surprise.
And beyond that, I think the other option is “sting ops”. We KNOW that in and around Muslim-infested areas in many parts of the West, Mohammedan mobsters are starting to regularly attack first responders (ambulance, police, fire crew), unislamically-dressed females, gay couples or individuals, dog walkers, people who are drinking alcohol, persons carrying Bibles and gospel leaflets, and persons visibly identifiable as Jewish. Soooo…why not conduct multiple “sting ops”, with “bait” consisting of items fitting those descriptions…and when the mohammedan mobsters try to take the “bait”, BOOM, down comes the hammer?
Jen says
They should have sting ops. Give them a nasty surprise. Just like they surprise their victims with their ghastly acts of violence. It will further help to further destroy the reputation of their “religion” when more and more people realise that it isn’t simply a rare occurrence among Muslims to make dirty plots to harm non-Muslims. More like an everyday thing. The more bad press, the better.
Wolfgang says
**** for the record I have worked with servicemen from UK, Australia , Canada and other countries and found them professional soldiers to a man. *****
To all the retired soldiers they get my total respect.
Arthur says
A memorial crafted to forever not remember a soldier who died for his country?
A scroll hidden away so that its names cannot be seen? Is this shame?
By stripping the identity of those who served, do we not deface them?
A monument to denial?
Forever stands the monument of shame by and for those cowards who would not honor their bravest by name.
Alice says
The Brits are quaking in their boots.
citycat says
No, not quaking, not quaking at all. Government’s in the way.
ApolloSpeaks says
THE TOMB OF THE KNOWN UNNAMABLE SOLDIER
Now I’ve heard everything.
http://www.apollospeaks.com
Michael Copeland says
“We don’t want your mega-mosque. This is an English town”, said Parliamentary candidate Jayda Fransen, for Britain First, to muslims in Rochester.
Britain First’s facebook page received 41,500 “likes” in two days.
England is not dead. Cameron, May, Clegg and others do not speak for the British people.
Watch this space.
Lisa says
Have you noticed the press are referring to them & the guys who did the attacks in Canada & the US “muslim converts”. It’s as though they are placing the blame on people who convert to the vile ideology rather than those born into it. Is this the new rationale for the violence that the dhimmis are now going to use. That they are not really muslim & it has nothing to do with islam!!!!!!!!!!
brtzg says
Great Britain has changed its name to Coward Britain.
Louis says
I once saw a Hollywood film called “How The West Was Won”Men and women who stood up to the plate with courage, honour and conviction. Now we have politically correct complacency and cowardice, and this is the “How The West Was Lost”.
Starring, Cameron, Clegg et al.
mortimer says
How long must we live in fear of offending jihadists?
bobm says
you cowardly shites; ( that’s footy talk for shits)……Every time you cringe from these islamists as you do….you give another piece of your nation to them … and your soul to darkness.
fair_dinkum says
disgrace..the pc level is at critical.
what an insult..to all British service people.