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UK police force promotes “Islamophobia Awareness Month” with Islamic State hand signal

Nov 16, 2016 2:09 pm By Robert Spencer

The signal of the index finger held up is, of course, used in myriad contexts, but it has become associated with a declaration of the oneness of Allah and allegiance to the Islamic State. And now we learn that a company linked to Islamic jihadists gave the witless Bedfordshire Police the logo it was using for “Islamophobia Awareness Week.” Coincidence? Unlikely. Muslim Engagement and Development (Mend) must have known: this signal has been known to be a sign of allegiance to the Islamic State for almost as long as there has been an Islamic State. It has been described as the group’s “ubiquitous hand signal.” It strains credulity to think that a Muslim in November 2016 who is upset about “Islamophobia” doesn’t know its significance as a sign of support for the Islamic State.

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“Police force deletes its Twitter posts promoting Islamophobia Awareness Month after using a logo similar to a hand gesture popular with ISIS jihadis,” by Sam Tonkin, Mailonline, November 16, 2016:

A police force has deleted Twitter posts about Islamophobia Awareness Month after users pointed out its logo was similar to a hand gesture popular with ISIS jihadis.

Bedfordshire Police defended its use of the logo by saying it was done ‘in good faith’ in support of a campaign led by Muslim Engagement and Development (Mend).

The force has since confirmed to MailOnline that the logo was produced by Mend, a not-for-profit company accused in the past of having links to extremists.

Bedfordshire Police tweeted its support for the annual campaign yesterday afternoon but removed the offending social media posts today after a public outcry.

However, Mend has since called on the force to reconsider its decision, adding: ‘We would not consider removing symbols such as the crucifix or St George’s cross from use in national campaigns simply because they are frequently abused by far right and Neo Nazi movements.’

The logo features a hand with the index finger pointing upwards, a favoured gesture of followers of ISIS in propaganda photographs.

But Mend say the finger is a common symbol for the letter ‘I’ which represents Islamophobia.

Despite this explanation, hundreds of Twitter and Facebook users pointed out the ISIS connection to Bedfordshire Police, with one accusing the force of ‘naivety’….

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  1. Ricky Joe Black says

    Nov 16, 2016 at 2:12 pm

    I don’t hate the Koran the Koran hates me

    • LR says

      Nov 16, 2016 at 9:59 pm

      Good slogan…

    • John Stefan says

      Nov 17, 2016 at 9:34 pm

      The Qur’an teaches false doctrine, for instance, that it really was not Jesus Who died on the cross and, therefore, were that true, there is no resurrection, etc. There is also the false doctrine that by our works we make heaven possible for ourselves. I hate false doctrine and I hate the Qur’an. It is of the devil. And I also hate the devil the father of lies and of murder and all evil causing many souls to spend eternity in hell because of their rejection of Christ as their God and Saviour.. I love the Muslim, but the Muslim according to the Qur’an and the Hadiths hate me. The devoted Muslim will give me his smiles, but his heart is to curse the infidel. Some Hadith says that.

  2. Veritas says

    Nov 16, 2016 at 2:20 pm

    Used the wrong finger.

    • gravenimage says

      Nov 16, 2016 at 3:13 pm

      Brilliant.

    • LR says

      Nov 16, 2016 at 10:00 pm

      Yep, that’s a good one…

    • Tradiguy says

      Nov 17, 2016 at 2:32 am

      Love it!

    • Aardvark says

      Nov 17, 2016 at 8:25 am

      Yep, my first thought, too!

    • Bob says

      Nov 17, 2016 at 10:10 am

      That used to be, certainly in the 80s, a sign used by evangelical Christians! Once again, the muslims’re usurping other peoples’ intellectual property!

      • gravenimage says

        Nov 17, 2016 at 6:31 pm

        True–I remember devout Christian Brian Wilson, the Giants’ closing pitcher a few years ago, using that sign whenever the team won a game:

        http://grubbyglove.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Brian-Wilsons-Game-Winning-Hand-Gesture1.jpg

        When asked, he said it both meant “Jesus is Lord” and was a shout-out to his dad, who had passed away.

        Just a few years ago, but more innocent times…

  3. Mubarak says

    Nov 16, 2016 at 2:24 pm

    This promotion (by the police force!) is a wonderful ironic indictment of Islam since no other religion is in need of such a treatment – Christianity a case in point.

    • gravenimage says

      Nov 16, 2016 at 3:20 pm

      And yet, Mubarak claims that Christianity demands that we import hordes of Muslims in to the West to rape us, so that we can atone for our sins, real and imagined.

      • Mubarak says

        Nov 16, 2016 at 3:32 pm

        Islam serves a purpose in the overall economy of God. A culture that “pisses” Christ and disfigures the image of God, in which man is made as man and woman, will have its own “piss” sprinkled upon its head *AND ISLAM WILL BE IT.* The Left, especially, is busy with this enterprise of mocking God and it PROVOKES the anger and judgment of God; Muslims, with God’s permission, complementary INVOKES the judgment of their Allah – who is vehemently opposed to the gospel – *AND SHARIAH WILL BE IT.* By these two hands of God, the “miserable house” of the West will increasingly be left to itself desolate.
        It is a frightening subject that doesn’t spur entertainment and I understand it offends many people. —

        • gravenimage says

          Nov 16, 2016 at 4:17 pm

          This entire post from Mubarak is spam that he has posted before. Let’s parse it, shall we?

          Mubarak wrote:

          Islam serves a purpose in the overall economy of God. A culture that “pisses” Christ and disfigures the image of God, in which man is made as man and woman, will have its own “piss” sprinkled upon its head *AND ISLAM WILL BE IT.*
          ……………………………

          Here’s Mubarak, claiming that all of us “filthy Infidels”–including *children*–deserve to be raped by his foul coreligionists because some nitwit almost thirty years ago decided to display a plastic crucifix in urine, and Christians did not put out a Fatwa on him.

          As Mubarak would have it, protests were not enough.

          I have noted before that he does not appear to grasp that Christians *do not* murder people who criticize or mock their faith–only *Islam* demands this barbarism.

          More:

          The Left, especially, is busy with this enterprise of mocking God and it PROVOKES the anger and judgment of God; Muslims, with God’s permission, complementary INVOKES the judgment of their Allah – who is vehemently opposed to the gospel – *AND SHARIAH WILL BE IT.*
          ……………………………

          Here, he is even more explicit than usual that Muslims have *God’s permission* to rape and murder and impose Islamic law on us. How does he know that? Of course, he could not.

          But convincing us that God *wants* us to import Muslims to rape us will assure that we do nothing to resist conquest by Muslims, because we would–supposedly–be violating God’s will if we do anything to protect our children from being raped by Muslims.

          Just think about how *sick that is*.

          And look what he is positing, further–that God wants us to live under brutal Shari’ah law, and that Muslims have his permission to impose it on us.

          How would a society under barbaric Shari’ah law be more just than the society we have now?

          It would not–unless, of course, one is a Muslim and believes that this bloody savagery is what “Allah” has ordained.

          More:

          By these two hands of God, the “miserable house” of the West will increasingly be left to itself desolate.
          ……………………………

          Please note, it is the *Muslim Brotherhood* that has used this term:

          “The process of settlement is a ‘Civilization-Jihadist Process’ with all the word means. The Ikhwan [Muslim Brotherhood] must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and ‘sabotaging’ its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers…”

          http://www.clarionproject.org/Muslim_Brotherhood_Explanatory_Memorandum

          This is the work of the Muslim Brotherhood–not of “God”.

          More:

          It is a frightening subject that doesn’t spur entertainment and I understand it offends many people.
          ……………………………

          How *dare* we be offended by a demand that Muslims be allowed to rape us and our children?

        • G. R. Gunning says

          Nov 16, 2016 at 5:29 pm

          Arrange into a well-known phrase or saying.

        • Champ says

          Nov 16, 2016 at 6:01 pm

          “Mubarak” wrote:

          “Islam serves a purpose in the overall economy of God.”

          ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

          Once again “Mubarak” defines himself as a stealth-jihadist …and in his first sentence, no less!

          Go. Away.

        • Champ says

          Nov 16, 2016 at 6:02 pm

          Brava, Graven! Excellent response to the vile “Mubarak.”

        • vladkoval says

          Nov 16, 2016 at 7:36 pm

          “Islam serves a purpose in the overall economy of God. A culture that “pisses” Christ and disfigures the image of God, in which man is made as man and woman, will have its own “piss” sprinkled upon its head”
          Mubarak, why are you so focused on homosexuality? There are many other sins by the Bible.
          Because you are probably from USA, where now those stupid gay-marriage cerificates are issued?
          Well, as for me I am in a very “homophobic” non-muslim country, such like Ukraine. And believe me, you wouldn’t love it. And Russia too. Actually, this would be the last sin you would be focused on once in Ukraine or Russia. Why God doesn’t reward these countries for their “homophobia”?
          Moreover, recently one Ukrainian politician said: we don’t have problems with muslim immigrants – they just do not want to come into our low life-standards country.
          Would you like to try Ukrainian model of curing the muslim immigration?

        • gravenimage says

          Nov 16, 2016 at 10:20 pm

          Thank you, Champ. 🙂

        • Jay Boo says

          Nov 17, 2016 at 7:43 am

          Mubarak’s first post was quite good.

          Unfortunately, we know all too well that Mubarak will gladly toss out a few rose petals to hide his thorns.

          Like a grape that looks sweet from the outside, but then soon smells rotten as soon as it given a gentle squeeze to release its foul odor hidden inside.

          All granvenimage had to do to reveal this unpleasant troll was to give a gentle squeeze and out came the hidden stench with Mubarak’s second post.

        • Jay Boo says

          Nov 17, 2016 at 11:31 am

          Mubarak’s First Post meaning the one above

          “This promotion (by the police force!) is a wonderful ironic indictment of Islam since no other religion is in need of such a treatment – Christianity a case in point.”

        • A Harris USA says

          Nov 17, 2016 at 12:08 pm

          Hey. Trump is on to your double talk. Remember he has had to deal with the backward culture of Islam in his business, and knows what you practice, including the double talk. So, Islamic practice of lying to infidels, is part or the crap. BTW, so is killing us, and we know it.. I see a new Crusade coming, and this one will be the last one.. You belong in your part of the world, and then you can do what do you best to each other, KILL.

        • gravenimage says

          Nov 17, 2016 at 6:47 pm

          All too true, Jay Boo. It doesn’t take much for the foul Mubarak to reveal himself.

      • Mubarak says

        Nov 16, 2016 at 5:42 pm

        You ascribe to Muslims and their no-God a lot of power,GI. –

        You can “piss Christ” in multiple ways and at any time, not only in museums. –
        It is the God of the Bible who calls the shots and he is not mocked. “Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.”
        I suppose that goes for a people, a nation and a culture also. –
        Islam in the West, in all its editions, is a call to repentance.

        • LR says

          Nov 16, 2016 at 9:51 pm

          “Islam in the West, in all its editions, is a call to repentance”.

          No, it is not. You in your world may believe that, but that delusional belief will NOT stand.

        • gravenimage says

          Nov 16, 2016 at 11:20 pm

          More from Mubarak:

          You ascribe to Muslims and their no-God a lot of power,GI. –
          ………………………………

          No, I don’t. I just see them as a threat, as should every decent person.

          More:

          You can “piss Christ” in multiple ways and at any time, not only in museums. –
          It is the God of the Bible who calls the shots and he is not mocked. “Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.”
          ………………………………

          Uh huh–as though Jesus would have more respect if people were forced to live under brutal Shari’ah law. What absolute crap.

          And note, again, that Mubarak is claiming that God’s solution to being mocked is giving Muslims permission to conquer us–because Muslims are so reverent of God. sarc/off

          The fact is that they only revere the foul “Allah”–does Mubarak think we do not know that?

          Sowing Jihad savagery would not–despite what Mubarak would have us believe–lead to reaping godliness. Unless, of course, his “god” is “Allah”…

          More:

          I suppose that goes for a people, a nation and a culture also. –
          Islam in the West, in all its editions, is a call to repentance.
          ………………………………

          What *absolute claptrap*. Islam does not call for us to repent–it calls for us to *submit*, and to submit to *evil*.

          And Mubarak has said that Christianity demands that we do nothing to resist this evil–that Muslims *raping our children* is God’s will.

          Does any of this sound like a demand from God–or does it sound as though it issues from a rather different source?

          The fact is that they only ones to benefit from our being invaded and conquered by Islam are ravening Muslims themselves.

        • Champ says

          Nov 17, 2016 at 12:02 am

          And Mubarak has said that Christianity demands that we do nothing to resist this evil–that Muslims *raping our children* is God’s will.

          ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

          The repulsive “Mubarak” does NOT speak for the one true God. This sounds more like *allah’s will*, not God’s will. Only a mohammedan would state something so profoundly evil.

        • Cecilia Ellis says

          Nov 17, 2016 at 2:56 am

          Mubarak wrote: “It is the God of the Bible who calls the shots and he is not mocked. ‘Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.'”

          Mubarak, the great majority of Jihad Watch commenters know far more than do I about the subjects of posted articles, as evidenced by their routine excellence in submitting factual replies. While in some few instances, I know as much as one who responds with eloquence, I remain silent, as what has been said is profoundly sufficient. However, there is the rare occurrence that I know far more than one who dares to venture into the realm of responding with duplicitous and irrelevant statements. This is one of those occasions.

          The biblical verse you cite — Galatians 6:7 — absolutely has nothing to do with the contemptuous and vile references you sarcastically attribute to Western democracies or better yet, Sharia non-compliant societies. Rather, this directive was addressed specifically to catechumens, reminding them that they had a responsibility to share with their instructors. In short, each of those receiving instruction to become Christians were obligated to contribute financially — or in some other fashion — to the livelihood of the instructor.

          ………………..

          “Islam in the West, in all its editions, is a call to repentance.”

          Amazingly, Mubarak, you leap from quoting from Scripture, which your Islamic canonical texts say is distorted, to glorifying an Islamic “call to repentance,” a journey that would require non-Muslims to reject virtue and all that is holy, replacing the sacred with an ideology that instead honors violence, murder, rape, theft, perversion, and deceit. That will not happen.

        • Carolyne says

          Nov 17, 2016 at 9:59 am

          Since when did Christianity or its God punish people by association? I don’t think that if there were a Christian God He/She would be so unfair as to hold all responsible for the acts of some. Nonsense.

        • gravenimage says

          Nov 17, 2016 at 6:54 pm

          Fine posts from Champ, Cecilia Ellis, and Carolyn.

          Cecilia, thank you especially for your fine scholarship here.

    • Mubarak says

      Nov 17, 2016 at 7:09 am

      Cecilia Ellis:
      “for whatsoever a man soweth” –
      “a man” is an all inclusive category like “flesh” in the following verse – nothing specific about that. –
      The reactions here are probably due to the fact, that we don’t like to be reminded of a God who judges the earth and calls to repentance, that “I (he) would quickly subdue their (our) enemies, and turn My (his) hand against their (our) adversaries.”
      That’s the recurrent theme of Israel and their G’d and an analogy for Christian countries in our apostasy. —-

      About irrelevant comments: my comment was. “This promotion (by the police force!) is a wonderful ironic indictment of Islam since no other religion is in need of such a treatment – Christianity a case in point.”
      Can you see any relevance to the article in this comment?

      • Cecilia Ellis says

        Nov 17, 2016 at 10:57 am

        Mubarak, your comment to which I replied was posted by you on November 16, 2016 at 5:42 p.m. That complete comment reads as follows:

        “You ascribe to Muslims and their no-God a lot of power,GI. – You can ‘piss Christ’ in multiple ways and at any time, not only in museums. – It is the God of the Bible who calls the shots and he is not mocked. ‘Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.’ I suppose that goes for a people, a nation and a culture also. –
        Islam in the West, in all its editions, is a call to repentance.”

        Note well: I did not reply to the comment you posted some three hours earlier, on November 16, 2016 at 2:24 p.m., which reads as follows:

        “This promotion (by the police force!) is a wonderful ironic indictment of Islam since no other religion is in need of such a treatment – Christianity a case in point.”

        I made no reply to your 2:24 p.m. post for one simple reason: Graven Image had done so already with such erudite clarity that no further comment was necessary. As such, your diversionary tactic has failed.

        Now I will address this two-part comment, posted by you on November 17, 2016 at 7:09 a.m.

        Part One:

        “for whatsoever a man soweth” –. “a man” is an all inclusive category like “flesh” in the following verse – nothing specific about that. – The reactions here are probably due to the fact, that we don’t like to be reminded of a God who judges the earth and calls to repentance, that ‘I he) would quickly subdue their (our) enemies, and turn My (his) hand against their (our) adversaries.’ That’s the recurrent theme of Israel and their G’d and an analogy for Christian countries in our apostasy.”

        The verse you cite — Galatians 6:8 — is an admonition which reiterates that the Christian life is one which relies on internal promptings that find their source in Spirit, not in external observances that dictate the parameters of God’s reach.

        Part Two:

        “About irrelevant comments: my comment was. ‘This promotion (by the police force!) is a wonderful ironic indictment of Islam since no other religion is in need of such a treatment – Christianity a case in point.’
        Can you see any relevance to the article in this comment?”

        No, Mubarak, that is not relevant to the comment to which I replied, as addressed above.

        • gravenimage says

          Nov 17, 2016 at 7:33 pm

          Good post, Cecilia–and thank you for your kind words.

      • gravenimage says

        Nov 17, 2016 at 7:32 pm

        More from Mubarak, this time aimed at Cecilia Ellis:

        Cecilia Ellis:
        “for whatsoever a man soweth” –
        “a man” is an all inclusive category like “flesh” in the following verse – nothing specific about that. –
        ………………………………….

        And what is the foul Mubarak “sowing” here? Why, the idea that God wants us to roll over for the evil of Islam. And what could he possibly hope to “reap” from such a sowing? Just the destruction of the free West and its fall to Islam.

        Luckily, more and more people here are on to his meretricious bs.

        More:

        The reactions here are probably due to the fact, that we don’t like to be reminded of a God who judges the earth and calls to repentance, that “I (he) would quickly subdue their (our) enemies, and turn My (his) hand against their (our) adversaries.”
        ………………………………….

        Uh huh–the idea that the only reason that anyone here rejects Mubarak’s evil bs is because they are uncomfortable with the Christian God.

        But all of this is false–God does not demand that good people roll over for the triumph of evil. Submission to evil is not “repentance”.

        And what has Mubarak demanded we repent of? That we repent for allowing women to attend public celebrations, for allowing them to work and study alongside men, for allowing them out of the house without a Mehram, for allowing lingerie ads, for failing to murder silly “artists” who mock Christianity, for allowing mixed gender youth wrestling, for protesting Muslim rape done in goofy outfits.

        These are all basic Western freedoms, and none of them violate Christian tenets at all.

        What they *do* violate is *Shari’ah law*.

        There are genuine evils in the West, as there are everywhere–but these are not among them. And none of the problems of the West–real or imagined–will be improved by our falling to Islamic conquest. Just the opposite, in fact.

        More:

        That’s the recurrent theme of Israel and their G’d and an analogy for Christian countries in our apostasy. —-
        ………………………………….

        The solution for apostasy has never been to submit to evil–unless that solution is an *Islamic* one, of course.

        More:

        About irrelevant comments: my comment was. “This promotion (by the police force!) is a wonderful ironic indictment of Islam since no other religion is in need of such a treatment – Christianity a case in point.”
        Can you see any relevance to the article in this comment?
        ………………………………….

        This comment was–as Jay Boo noted, above–a reasonable one. Certainly, it is true that Islam is violent, as Christianity is not.

        But Mubarak has done this many times before–slipped in the occasional reasonable post in hopes of lulling good Infidels here into a false sense of security, so that next time he posts lauding Muslims raping small boys or some other horror that we will fail to notice how evil this is.

        This is, in fact, mainstream Taqiyya.

        • Cecilia Ellis says

          Nov 17, 2016 at 11:52 pm

          Graven, outstanding post . . . as always!

  4. cs says

    Nov 16, 2016 at 2:26 pm

    Disgusting.

    • Lanfranc says

      Nov 16, 2016 at 6:12 pm

      All religions are stupid but only Islam is both stupid and obnoxious.

      • JawsV says

        Nov 16, 2016 at 11:02 pm

        No, all religions are not stupid. Christianity is not stupid. I shudder to think what a world of humans would be like without the teachings of Jesus.

        • Champ says

          Nov 16, 2016 at 11:19 pm

          Hear, hear, JawsV!

      • Carolyne says

        Nov 17, 2016 at 10:04 am

        I don’t think all religions are stupid, but I do not believe in any of them. A religion which teaches peace and love of one’s fellow man is not stupid, although I do not believe it to be dictated by some God. Man, from his earliest time, needed to create a creator to explain his world. A number of creators were invented, some in the East, some in the West, but only Islam was a malevolent creation which required that its adherents murder those who would not or did not believe in Allah. And that is stupid, indeed.

  5. Angemon says

    Nov 16, 2016 at 2:26 pm

    Bedfordshire Police defended its use of the logo by saying it was done ‘in good faith’ in support of a campaign led by Muslim Engagement and Development (Mend).

    (…)

    But Mend say the finger is a common symbol for the letter ‘I’ which represents Islamophobia.

    I guess the members of Mend are Mendacious after all…

    Despite this explanation, hundreds of Twitter and Facebook users pointed out the ISIS connection to Bedfordshire Police, with one accusing the force of ‘naivety’

    Well, look on the bright side: the general public called out this BS from the get go. Awareness is spreading, despite the Mend(acious) “anti-islamophobia” campaign.

    • gravenimage says

      Nov 16, 2016 at 4:20 pm

      Yes–I’m glad to see the public calling them out on this.

    • jayell says

      Nov 16, 2016 at 5:46 pm

      “Bedfordshire Police defended its use of the logo by saying it was done ‘in good faith’ in support of a campaign led by Muslim Engagement and Development (Mend)….”

      There’s an old piece of folk wisdom in the UK that casts doubt on the IQ level of the average UK police officer – which probably explains why so many of our shady customers in the UK get away with so much for so long. It might also explain the credulous stupidity of the Bedfordshire police here, being taken for a ride by YET ANOTHER dubious and devious ‘muslim organisation’. Our Friends of the Prophet may not exactly be characterised by their glittering intellectual prowess (sic) , but they’re certainly having a field day with the Buffoons in Blue from Bedfordshire here.

    • gravenimage says

      Nov 16, 2016 at 11:36 pm

      What do we know about Muslim Engagement and Development (Mend)? Nothing good.

      This, from The Telegraph:

      “Muslim group with links to extremists boasts of influencing election”

      A group suspected of being a front for Islamic extremists claims it can control as many as 30 seats in the general election and boasts of acting a “kingmaker”

      http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/general-election-2015/11515630/Muslim-group-with-links-to-extremists-boasts-of-influencing-election.html

      “A front group for Muslim extremists which wants to let British Muslims fight in Syria has boasted that it is ‘negotiating with the Tory and Labour leadership’ to secure some of its demands.”

  6. Judi says

    Nov 16, 2016 at 2:28 pm

    I don’t recall a similar programme being promoted for ‘Antisemitism Awareness Month’. There are far more attacks on Jews and Jewish property in the UK, most of them perpetrated by muslims. It would seem muslims are a protected species here.

  7. Guy Macher says

    Nov 16, 2016 at 2:28 pm

    My parents had Naziphobia. I wish I had thought of the idea of curing them with a Nazi salute. What wonderful ideas continue to flow from the Asylum formerly known as Great Britain!

    • gravenimage says

      Nov 16, 2016 at 4:39 pm

      +1

      • Carolyne says

        Nov 17, 2016 at 10:06 am

        +2

    • G. R. Gunning says

      Nov 16, 2016 at 5:30 pm

      +2

  8. Infidel from Down Under says

    Nov 16, 2016 at 2:29 pm

    ” To Deconstruct and Challenge………………………………………………….”

    I “challenge” the crap that Islam is a peaceful religion

  9. JawsV says

    Nov 16, 2016 at 2:55 pm

    England has gone absolutely nuts. Bonkers.

    • James Wills says

      Nov 17, 2016 at 5:07 am

      It’s worse than mad watch this
      https://youtu.be/mEI0TKkX9_o

  10. DHazard says

    Nov 16, 2016 at 3:01 pm

    Nobody really wants to understand Islam because after reading the first page of the Quran boredom and disgust immediately set in. Even Muslims don’t read it. If it wasn’t for internet videos Muslims wouldn’t know anything at all about Islam. Except for the “scholars”. And the only Muslims who listen to them end up hating everybody and are happy when non-Muslims die. Non-Muslims know more about Islam than most Muslims. If anything there should be a learn what Islam really teaches month. Then Islamophobia would become a positive word, and it’s meaning would change to “a reasonable rejection of the violent, plagiarized cult of Muhammad and it’s irrational followers”. The insult would be to call someone an “Islamopiliac”. Being a Muslim would become an embarrassment, not a source of unwarranted pride and false victimood.

  11. gravenimage says

    Nov 16, 2016 at 3:01 pm

    UK police force promotes “Islamophobia Awareness Month” with Islamic State hand signal
    …………………….

    Oh my God–how can they possibly be unaware of this meaning? Or do they know–and either not care of else endorse it?

    • Damocles Junior says

      Nov 16, 2016 at 3:22 pm

      Perhaps this is little more than yet another insane PR exercise by Head Office under instructions from some very PC Department in Whitehall.

      What to the real police who do the real work on the front line really think of this? I guarantee that they hate it. It possibly causes resignations, requests for transfers (to a white part of the UK) and lots of stress leave including PTSD related mental breakdowns.

      While we all expect to be treated with politeness and dignity when dealing with the police, no police force anywhere can operate effectively while it’s officers have one hand tied behind their backs while the other hand is used to hold the PC manual. In the meantime the Muslim child molesters, delinquent drivers, illegal immigrants and would be terror trainees will just laugh at us and our law enforcement systems.

      • gravenimage says

        Nov 16, 2016 at 4:43 pm

        I’m sure you are right about actual police in Britain hating this. My grandfather was a police superintendent in what is now known as the West Midlands–this was long before Mohammedans infiltrated that beautiful area. He would have been completely dismayed–and angered–by this insanity.

        • Damocles Junior says

          Nov 17, 2016 at 4:48 am

          Yes, I imagine your grandfather served in a time when there was respect for the Force and if the police arrested a suspect for a violent crime including sexual assault they could expect to see the matter go before a court and a very heavy sentence given to the offender. Also I believe if the offender was a “foreigner” this would be reported as such in the newspapers of the day.

        • gravenimage says

          Nov 17, 2016 at 7:38 pm

          Exactly, DJ.

    • Carolyne says

      Nov 17, 2016 at 10:14 am

      Why is it the business of the police in the UK to determine what one feels in one’s heart about Islam?
      I happen to hate Islam, and I believe I have a right to do so. I do not, however have the right to physically harm a Muslim unless he attacks me. It is my understanding that these attacks come mostly from Muslims upon non-Muslims and therein lies the problem, not one’s thoughts on the matter.

      I am the only one who knows what is in my heart and mind and the police will kindly stay out of it.

      • gravenimage says

        Nov 17, 2016 at 7:45 pm

        Hear, hear, Carolyn. This “thought police” stuff is profoundly undemocratic.

  12. Crusades Were Right! says

    Nov 16, 2016 at 3:27 pm

    WAKE UP, BEDFORDSHIRE POLICE!

    (Pun intended)

  13. ECAW says

    Nov 16, 2016 at 3:57 pm

    Poor Mr Plod.

    Will they ever wake up? Possibly not.

    • Damocles Junior says

      Nov 17, 2016 at 4:55 am

      If I remember my Noddy stories correctly Mr Plod seemed to have extensive summary powers to throw any bad guy into jail. I don’t think race let alone Islam was an issue in Enid Blyton’s times. England was so delightfully white and British and the most serious crime was Noddy driving too fast. (For which he got put in jail)
      But I understand Enid Blyton books were banned from school libraries years ago because they were too white. (As in all the characters)

  14. Allan says

    Nov 16, 2016 at 4:15 pm

    This year’s “Islamophobia Awareness Month” involves an interesting coincidence. It just happens to begin on or about the first day of Safar, the second month of the Islamic lunar calendar. This is important for at least two reasons. First, Safar is one of the months in which offensive operations are encouraged (Koran 9:5).

    Wrote Pickthall for Koran9:5: “Then, when the sacred months have passed, slay the idolaters wherever ye find them, and take them (captive), and besiege them, and prepare for them each ambush. But if they repent and establish worship and pay the poor-due, then leave their way free. Lo! Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.”

    Second, Safar means empty or void, as in the homes are emptied of men because they are out hunting for “Islamophobes” to ambush, besiege, capture, and kill pursuant to 9:5. Since it’s still not entirely safe for Muslims to do this in the UK, the next best option is for Muslims to ambush and besiege “idolaters” with smears and self-serving accusations designed to capture nonmuslisms’ thoughts and to kill their courage.

    Perhaps an awareness campaign next year could thwart the MEND’s annual rhetorical aggression. It wouldn’t hurt also to carry out nongovernmental raids to seize the Muslims’ knives, knuckledusters, guns, ammo, bombmaking materials, hand grenades, and so on. Or British men could just go on doing what they usually do during their free time, e.g. getting drunk, watching football, whistling at pretty women, brawling in the street, etc.

  15. J-pal says

    Nov 16, 2016 at 5:56 pm

    Pathetic!

  16. Cecilia Ellis says

    Nov 16, 2016 at 6:20 pm

    An Islamic FGM Awareness Month . . . or perhaps . . . an Islamic “Sexual Emergency” Awareness Month would be more instructive . . .

  17. Byzantium1683 says

    Nov 16, 2016 at 8:20 pm

    One issue with Mends arguement, that they would not ban the crucifix in national campaigns because its sometimes used by far-right or Nazis, is of course that the Crucifix far predates the far-right, and predates nazism by well over 1000 years.

    Then again, considering others actions, I am far from convinced they would avoid banning christian imagery and items like they claim. God knows other groups have tried banning such, particularly in “national campaigns”

  18. davej says

    Nov 16, 2016 at 10:01 pm

    The Islamic one finger gesture means both “We’re number one” and “Up yours kaffirs”.

    Seeing Obama using it, in combination with his “I will side with the Muslims” statement, is profoundly disturbing. Seeing the Police use it is even worse.

    Why don’t they have a ” Jihad awareness” month instead? Which one is actually more dangerous to the British public?

    You can’t quote Churchill but you can be lectured to by the new fascists. Britain is finished.

  19. Mark A says

    Nov 16, 2016 at 11:07 pm

    The PR group Mend, which designed this logo, defended its actions with the statement,

    “‘We would not consider removing symbols such as the crucifix or St George’s cross from use in national campaigns simply because they are frequently abused by far right and Neo Nazi movements.’”

    Why do I get the feeling that this whole thing is a planned set up intended to spark a bogus “controversy” over the Cross of St. George and other traditional British symbols?

    • Baucent says

      Nov 17, 2016 at 5:00 am

      You may be on to something there. Actually I would have thought these Mend people would have been pretty enthusiastic about dumping the Cross of St George. To hear them defend it, sounds phony.

  20. Neville Pearson says

    Nov 17, 2016 at 1:20 am

    There is one law ENGLISH law, as long as the police are upholding that law without biased opinion then that’s fine, but if allowances are being made in favour of religious views then they are breaking English law and must be considered criminals

  21. mortimer says

    Nov 17, 2016 at 1:28 am

    HAS ANYONE IN UK HEARD OF KAFIROPHOBIA???

    The following definition from an Islamic website encourages Moslems to hate the kufaar :

    “Hatred for the sake of Allah, or Al Mu’adaat, this is the opposite of Al Muwalaat (love of Moslems), it is:
    – To Hate
    – To keep distance from
    – To be enemy to
    – To desert
    – To decline to help
    – To disrespect
    – To put down
    – Not to ally with
    – Not to support

    WE HATE ALL THE KUFAAR FOR THE SAKE OF ALLAH, (italics added) and we hate the Munafiqeen (apostates) for the sake of Allah, even those who have not yet left the fold of Islam.”

    The above is the authoritative, normative teaching of Islam.

  22. Tradiguy says

    Nov 17, 2016 at 2:46 am

    When Muslims accept norms of behaviour that have been practiced by Christian societies for millennia, then I will start to feel easier in my bed but until then I will stay vigilant and refuse to be cowed by the utter cowards running today’s police forces. That’s right, you carry on refusing to see reality. Continue to protect those that would celebrate the beheading of a police officer on our streets. They hate us don’t you understand? and all this arse licking won’t change a thing- the government allowed this country of the United Kingdom to be infested with the Mohammedan. The day it did, it injected cancer into the life blood of the country. Now you tell us we are naughty to be worried and upset- go to hell! I give you the finger back!

  23. citycat says

    Nov 17, 2016 at 4:29 am

    @ gravenimage mubarak & co
    “resist ye not evil”-
    Don’t waste time and energy on it.
    Put the time and energy into increasing the good.
    Islam is getting lots of attention that is using infidel time and energy that could be put to more useful work to deal with Islam.
    The leaders and the media are misdirecting the attention energy of the masses, and are messing with the state of mind of the people, and in doing so are wilfully deflecting attention from the truth of Islam’s forthings.

    • gravenimage says

      Nov 17, 2016 at 8:47 pm

      citycat wrote:

      @ gravenimage mubarak & co
      ………………..,…,

      Dear citycat, *please* don’t assume I am an apologist for Islamic savagery like the vile Mubarak–I *am not*.

      Resisting the evil of Islam is of of concern for *all* good Infidels–Christians, Jews, rational Agnostics and Atheists, and every one else of any faith or none–as is affirming everything that is good about our civilized societies.

  24. Baucent says

    Nov 17, 2016 at 4:57 am

    “But Mend say the finger is a common symbol for the letter ‘I’ which represents Islamophobia”

    Well that’s a new one to me. But the more astounding point is what role should the Police play in being an apologist for a religion? If the Bedfordshire Police had come out with a “we are supporting Christian Awareness month” the liberals and rationalists and academics like Richard Dawkins would be howling foul. How dare the Police become an advocate for religion they would say. But as we all know, Islam is not a religion, it’ s a race of people.

    • gravenimage says

      Nov 17, 2016 at 8:57 pm

      Islam is not a race, either.

      • Baucent says

        Nov 18, 2016 at 4:00 am

        You don’t know irony?

  25. Frank Courtney says

    Nov 17, 2016 at 5:06 am

    Why not let Bedfordshire police know what you think:

    General information email: force.control@bedfordshire.pnn.police.uk

    By snail-mail: Customer Services, Bedfordshire Police HQ, Woburn Road, Kempston, Beds. MK43 9AX

    • gravenimage says

      Nov 17, 2016 at 9:00 pm

      Thanks for the link, Frank.

  26. Marty says

    Nov 17, 2016 at 5:19 am

    A phobia is an unjustified fear of something.
    It follows that islamophobia cannot exist for obvious reasons.
    We do not have cancerophobia or pedophileophobia campaigns.
    Bedfordshire contains Luton. one of the nastiest towns in the UK.
    The 7/7 terrorists were based in Luton, for example.
    It has more mosques than churches.

  27. scherado says

    Nov 17, 2016 at 5:48 am

    Perhaps, we should welcome some extra attention to the subject?

    “Be careful what you wish for”; “Be careful what you pray for.”

    I can dream, too.

    • scherado says

      Nov 17, 2016 at 6:03 am

      Curious, FYI, a search on “MEND” gave me, “Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta”, (link):

      //MEND is the most recent, and most renowned, of the large number of militant groups in the Niger Delta,…//

      • scherado says

        Nov 17, 2016 at 7:43 am

        There were a few people on the MEND (UK) facebook page who posted about the symbol of “MEND.”

        f b page-post

      • gravenimage says

        Nov 17, 2016 at 9:01 pm

        I have information on this actual group, above.

  28. Makenomistake says

    Nov 17, 2016 at 6:45 am

    I DESPISE KORAN BECAUSE IT HATES ME.
    MOHAMAD’S KORAN HAS DIVIDED MANKIND. IT COULD NEVER BE ANY GOD’S WORDS.
    THE ONLY VILE BOOK THAT HAS CRIPPLED BILLIONS OF HUMAN BEINGS AND HELD THEM PERMANENTLY CAPTIVE AS MUSLIMS.
    THE KORAN BEING A MALICIOUS DECEPTION IT HAS NO MORAL STANDING IN HUMANITY.
    WE HAVE ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO DO WITH KORAN OR ISLAM.
    HATE IS INGRAINED IN KORAN AND ISLAM.
    ISLAM IS SYNONIMOUS TO HATE AND CRIMINALITY.

    • Marty says

      Nov 17, 2016 at 11:06 am

      You say it all Makenomistake.
      Treating islam as a religion is disingenuois or just ignorant.
      It is a vile ideology that is objectively more evil than Nazism or
      Communism & has threatened civilisation since the Dark Ages.
      Not just for a few decades like Communism & Nazism.

  29. citycat says

    Nov 17, 2016 at 7:27 am

    So many are blagged by the iambic triameter-
    “is LAM o PHO bi A!”
    invented by the muslim brotherhood.
    It might be a good word for like hundreds chanting-
    We’ve GOT
    isLAMoPHObiA!
    isLAMoPHObiA!
    isLAMoPHObiA!
    Could it be ridiculed?
    It needs to be under stood as a non word.
    It is a weapon of war.
    How can it be illegal to have a phobia if thousands are supposed to have it? It’s an awareness of danger, not a phobia. Are the people who propagate this awareness of danger as a phobia stupid or a traitor?
    It is just ridiculous, or are they playing for time for the big take over.

  30. Mirren10 says

    Nov 17, 2016 at 7:41 am

    May I suggest all UK JW readers send the Bedfordshire Police an email, signifying their disgust and contempt, and include the link to the Telegraph article on MEND gravenimage posted, as well as the link to the Breitbart article on muslim migrants who hate Germany ?

    I just did, including copies to the Police complaints commission, and Teresa May. I also sent a copy to my solicitor, just in case they try to have me arrested for ‘hate’ speech. Actually, I wish they would, I **crave** a law suit !

    I will be following up with proper letters.

    comp@bedfordshire.pnn.police.uk;

  31. David says

    Nov 17, 2016 at 7:50 am

    The Police of Britain must be under orders from above: “Help and enable the Muslum TAKE OVER in every way possible!”.
    Perhaps it’s just to “Avoid Bloodshed” during a current election cycle? Or perhaps someone is just gasping for more Saudi money?
    The reason doesn’t really matter. What has happened is Treason. And the British people know it!
    But? The fact that the true Citizens of Britain are just sitting back, and watching this happen is INCOMPREHENSIBLE!
    I think it’s got to do with some sort of mass brainwashing via the TV networks. Under normal circumstances the people themselves would have “Pulled the plug” on this Insanity long, long ago.
    I’ve watched many of the Pat Condell videos. The older folks KNOW what is happening. But anyone under 40 seems numb to it!
    Britain has now got several Millions of muslums! And it’s become an absolute HORROR!
    Let’s not repeat that MISTAKE here!

    • scherado says

      Nov 17, 2016 at 11:22 am

      “But? The fact that the true Citizens of Britain are just sitting back, and watching this happen is INCOMPREHENSIBLE!”

      …
      And when they found our shadows
      Groups ’round the TV sets
      They ran down every lead
      They repeated every test
      They checked out all the data in their lists
      And then the alien anthropologists
      Admitted they were still perplexed
      But on eliminating every other reason
      For our sad demise
      They logged the only explanation left
      This species has amused itself to death
      No tears to cry
      No feelings left
      This species has amused itself to death
      …

      – R.Waters, Amused To Death

  32. Tjhawk says

    Nov 17, 2016 at 9:17 am

    “To deconstruct and challenge some of the stereotypes about Islam and Muslims”

    Should be:

    “To deconstruct Islam and challenge its claims of supremacism and perfection”

    Yes, we need an Islamophobia awareness month to expose this term for the disingenuous fraud that it is.

  33. FYI says

    Nov 17, 2016 at 9:22 am

    M.E.N.D
    A Muslim Exercise in their Nefarious Dissimulation.
    But can MEND stop the MORONS?
    M.o.r.o.n.s
    Muslims On the Rampage over Nothing Special

    • Milo says

      Nov 17, 2016 at 11:06 am

      M.O.R.ON.S., haha, brilliant: “Muslims On the Rampage Over Nothing Special” must remember this.

    • scherado says

      Nov 17, 2016 at 11:24 am

      There’s no reason to make something up: Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta

  34. Carolyne says

    Nov 17, 2016 at 10:17 am

    People of England !!!

    You do not have to hand your country over to barbarians no matter what the police say. Take your beautiful country back from the bought and paid for politicians and become the land of Magna Carta once again.

  35. Milo says

    Nov 17, 2016 at 11:00 am

    Back in the late Sixties & early Seventies, the symbol of the extend index finger ☝?was a sign of being a Christian. It was during this period, The Jesus Movement, that songs like Spirit in the Sky and musicals, such as Godspell and Jesus Christ, Superstar were released. So if the “radical”Muslims wish to adopt a one fingered symbol to depict their faith, might I suggest one far more in keeping with their teachings, the extended middle finger, ??.

  36. Babs says

    Nov 17, 2016 at 3:00 pm

    Oh Lord …. it would be Bedfordshire Police again, wouldn’t it? The same police force which allowed itself to be proudly photographed with Salafists for their “We Stand Together Campaign”, see http://morningmail.org/muslims-stand-together-with-police/ , and had on its advisory panel a Jew-hate filled idiot who happened to have an MBE, until he was rumbled and Beds Police was forced to sack him.

  37. Eyes open says

    Nov 17, 2016 at 7:49 pm

    What about having an Islamic Jihad awareness month.

  38. Frank J. Verderber says

    Nov 17, 2016 at 9:33 pm

    This is another devilish example of British psychology control. They know full well that modern Christians use that signage to denote Jesus Christ is the only one or the only way. See: http://galatiansfour.blogspot.com/2012/08/an-early-symbol-of-jesus-movement.html – for an example of index finger signs used by contemporary Christian youths. The object of the Chatham House minions is to steal the sign as they did the rainbow. Now Christians can’t use that sign without saying,”I am aware of Islamophobia.” – which means they are being manipulated into signing Islam is good, and Christ is not.

    Fight back – British Christians should wear the “dot over the n” on their shirts and sleeves. It is the Arabic symbol, which is short for a “Nazarene” [a Christian].

    A pox be upon the British agents of Satan!

    Frank Verderber
    Massachusetts

  39. epistemology says

    Nov 17, 2016 at 9:40 pm

    Islamophobia is the sane reaction of every freedom lover to Islam, it’s a must in the civilized world. No civilization can live in peace with Islam.

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