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The Free Tommy demo and the Muslim bus driver

Jul 16, 2018 9:32 am By Joshua Winston

Saturday’s Free Tommy Robinson rally in Whitehall in London was another heavily attended get-together. The speakers weren’t as bombastic, flamboyant, or as well-known as speakers from previous events, but you can’t have the same people all of the time. People have busy diaries and schedules, and it’s a good thing that the organizers are bringing in such a wide variety of speakers from across Europe, Australia and the States, all of whom have different messages and point of views to put across. The day passed peacefully. The mood was hopeful, jubilant and merry. The weather was glorious, and families had brought their children along to enjoy the day. It was the perfect day for the mainstream media to capture a whole host of wonderful images, and to show the world that Tommy supporters are simply everyday people and not a bunch of thugs. But it’s no surprise that they didn’t do this.

When the festivities came to a close, the crowd departed along Whitehall, making their way to Trafalgar Square and beyond. At the end of the last rally, a bunch of drunken idiots chose to sit on the road and block the traffic, in spite of several requests from other attendees who insisted that they leave the area peacefully. And, of course, these were the only images that made the front pages of the newspapers, along with headlines that screamed something about “far-right violence.” The same thing happened again on Saturday, even although the speakers and compere pleaded with everyone to leave the area without a fuss, which the majority of people did. At the top of Whitehall, at Trafalgar Square, there is a roundabout, and at this roundabout some handful of demonstrators, again, chose to stand or lie on the road and block the oncoming traffic. This time, the same as last time, it happened to be a bus at the front of the traffic they were attempting to stop.

The driver of the bus was a Muslima in a headscarf, although it should be noted that the bus wasn’t targeted because a Muslima was at the wheel. The last time this happened, the driver was a middle-aged white man. On both occasions, it was the bus that was targeted and not the driver. The focus was on blocking the road and bringing the traffic to a halt. Anti-Trump supporters had shut down central London the day before, and earlier on Saturday afternoon the police refused to allow pro-Trump supporters to gather outside of the US Embassy to show their support for the President. Also, it should be noted that on both occasions, both bus drivers could do nothing more than stay in their seats and wait for the police to disperse the crowd in order that their buses could continue on their way.

The last time this happened, when the white middle-aged bus driver was at the wheel, the newspapers focused on the disruption by the “far-right” drunken mob. This time, the reporters ran with the headline that a Muslima in a headscarf demonstrated to the world everything that is great about Britain. She, like the other white bus driver, sat calmly, sometimes smiling, and always waiting for police direction. She, unlike the white bus driver, is now being touted as the face of everything that makes Britain great – tolerance, patience, a sense of humour, the ability to laugh in the face of a perceived threat by “nazis,” courage and the refusal to leave her station (even although she and her passengers were never in any danger, and there was never any reason as to why she or the other bus driver should have abandoned their vehicles).

So again, the people of the UK are being treated to incredibly misleading news from the biased media, as well as being relegated to second place behind Muslims. It is remiss of the media to make much of this Muslima’s behaviour when it was simply an exact replica of the middle-aged white man’s behaviour, the man who was at the wheel of the last bus that got stopped by protesters. On both occasions, police surrounded the vehicle and the passengers and driver were never in any danger. It is misleading headlines and biased news stories such as this one that are making British people feel like second-class citizens in their own country, suggesting that we’ve forgotten what it is that makes us one of the greatest countries in the world. Courage, humor, tolerance, and patience are human attributes that are not exclusively the domain of people in headscarves.

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Filed Under: Featured, journalistic bias, United Kingdom Tagged With: Independent, Tommy Robinson, Whitehall


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  1. Nannette says

    Jul 16, 2018 at 9:42 am

    Wasn’t anyone aware of the momentum mob pretending to be far right and causing trouble such as what we’ve seen!

    The organisers should have got their security people to move these troublemakers on!

    • Anne Smith says

      Jul 17, 2018 at 4:32 am

      Agree – the organisers of these support Tommy marches have an overriding duty to have enough security personnel on hand to stop the far right troublemakers getting out of hand and giving ammunition to the left wing Press. Otherwise the marches and rallies are counter productive.

  2. somehistory says

    Jul 16, 2018 at 10:28 am

    In a PR course, one is told that the media tells the public what to thing about but not what to think.

    However, this is no longer true…if it ever truly was…because moslims have to be portrayed as being greater than they are, and certainly greater than the rest of mankind.

    It’s all a part of the “image” that is built to mirror the wild beast. Promote the idea that moslims are special and must be put on pedestals and everyone must bow to the beast. The wild beast of islam is, therefore, also put on a pedestal and everyone must look up to it in awe.

    Part of this is certainly to make people wish to be thought of as special, not criticized, and therefore, wish to convert to worship of the the beast. Many wish to be a part of the in crowd, “to go where the in crowd goes and to know what the in crowd knows.”…just as the song says.

    And the media people are adept at leaving out the parts that would make others just as “special” as the moslim. Leaving out words, sentences, or as in this case…the entire part about the non moslim, white guy who acted every bit as well as the moslim.

    (Revelation 13)

  3. don vito says

    Jul 16, 2018 at 1:01 pm

    Your comment is pure gold. nice

  4. gravenimage says

    Jul 16, 2018 at 6:14 pm

    Thumbs way up, Jay Boo.

  5. gravenimage says

    Jul 16, 2018 at 6:15 pm

    The Free Tommy demo and the Muslim bus driver
    …………………

    Blocking traffic is mildly stupid, but it is *not* violence.

    And this bus-driving Muslimah is no hero. What tripe.

  6. Brigitte from Germany says

    Jul 16, 2018 at 6:42 pm

    https://www.change.org/p/theresa-may-mp-free-tommy-robinson?recruiter=855854356&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink&utm_campaign=share_petition

    This is the very important petition Free Tommy.
    Please sign it and share it.
    Thanks a lot.

    • gravenimage says

      Jul 16, 2018 at 7:08 pm

      Signed it.

      • Andy says

        Jul 16, 2018 at 7:18 pm

        Ditto

        Free Tommy, God bless Tommy&family and all freedom fighters everywhere!

  7. Lydia Church says

    Jul 17, 2018 at 12:10 am

    Typical twisting of the facts!

  8. Matthieu Baudin says

    Jul 17, 2018 at 2:00 am

    I wonder how Mr Robinson is surviving in prison. The fact that he is Britain’s leading defacto political prisoner was probably not lost on President Trump and may have been a factor in the cold shoulder that was presented to Teresa May.

    • gravenimage says

      Jul 18, 2018 at 12:21 am

      I hope Tommy Robinson is hanging in there.

  9. Brother Charles says

    Jul 17, 2018 at 6:07 am

    When you people ,STOP BUYING THE SUN ,THE STAR, AND OTHER FOOTBALL FILLED MEDIA ,THEN MOST PROBABLY THE MEDIA MAY LISTEN , iTS YOU THAT KEEP THE MEDIA GOING AND BY THAT THEY WILL NOT REPORT ON YOUR MARCHES , HAS LONG HAS YOU BUY THEIR RAG ,
    BOYCOTT ALL MEDIA RAGS THAT DO NOT REPORT AN UNBIAS REPORT .

    • Jacque Demolay says

      Jul 17, 2018 at 7:22 am

      This is what it will take. Stop supporting them financially. Stop supporting their advertisers. Get rid of cable or satellite TV if you have it and switch to internet streaming.

  10. terry says

    Jul 17, 2018 at 6:22 am

    Lol It was a canned set-up just for the headline! Both times were orchestrated by leftist groups; a perfect counter-intelligence operation! Look into it, for that would be a story!

  11. Keys says

    Jul 17, 2018 at 12:47 pm

    Yes, Jay Boo, and I’ll bet that muslima bus driver is a recent Saudi immigrant.

  12. strong aingel says

    Jul 18, 2018 at 6:39 am

    The principle reason why many Faithful will not bother with these rallies is because they put food on the table of liar journalists and their paymasters. Similarly, standing in the company of pissed up of union and police plants has zero merit. The money spent on one of these rallies soul fund an overwhelming legal challenge, one which would depose and destroy current political parties and restore the UK to a place where commonsense decency prevails and political correction dies a timely death along with its spawn, islamism.

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