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UK: Muslims attend community memorial at Islamic Centre in London for “honorable Islamic commander” Soleimani

Jan 5, 2020 4:00 pm By Robert Spencer

How loyal do you think these people are to the British state? Right.

“Muslims attend community memorial at Islamic Centre in London for the death of General Qassem Soleimani,” by Luke Andrews and Phoebe Eckersley, Mailonline, January 5, 2020:

Muslims have attended a memorial service for assassinated Iranian general Qassem Soleimani at the Islamic Centre in London.

Crowds squeezed into the religious hub and sat beneath a painting of the Islamic Republic’s second-in-command and Iraqi military commander Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis, as they paid their respects to those massacred in the US airstrikes.

Thousands lined the streets of Baghdad and Tehran today in memory of the dead commanders, while protests against the attack took place across the US, Middle East and outside 10 Downing Street, London.

Soleimani, who died with five other men in the strike outside Baghdad airport, has been accused of helping Shia militias murder hundreds of American troops during the Invasion of Iraq.

US President Donald Trump said the strike was carried out to save the lives of hundreds in America and Europe.

A large group of men, with some young boys, was seen gathering at the Islamic Centre in Maida Vale, London, this afternoon following the assassination.

The memorial service was held 25 minutes after a man was arrested outside the centre to prevent the breach of peace and for obstructing officers.

The Islamic Centre’s director has reportedly referred to Soleimani as an ‘honourable Islamic commander’ in a message of condolence.

As the service took place demonstrators took to the streets of New York, Washington DC and London to denounce the violence and call on Trump to de-escalate the conflict….

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  1. Buraq says

    Jan 5, 2020 at 4:05 pm

    Oh well, it’s good practice for when Ayatollah Khameini gets fast tracked to Paradise to join Soleimani. Zap! Bury! Repeat!

    Clowns!

    • Trick_or_Treat says

      Jan 5, 2020 at 4:35 pm

      ….a nanosecond of noiseless flash, the very last thing their senses got to perceive in this life.

    • william carr says

      Jan 6, 2020 at 9:08 am

      Well as the religion created by their ‘perfect man’ has been a mass murderer of non Muslims
      for 1400 years it is hardly surprising, they should grieve for the latest mass murderer. Much has been made of his participation in the war against ISIS, but ISIS was a Sunni enterprise promoting extreme Sunni doctrines and was a threat to Shiite Iran so there is no paradox there.

  2. Trick_or_Treat says

    Jan 5, 2020 at 4:07 pm

    Somewhere out there, sitting behind a remote control console, there is a Predator Drone pilot wrestling with excruciating temptation.

    • Agostino Armo Pellegrini says

      Jan 5, 2020 at 4:40 pm

      I suggest TWO drones, one for Tehran’s International Tower and the other for the Mahestan B3 Tower. Give ’em their own version of 9/11, let them see how it feels.

      • Laura says

        Jan 6, 2020 at 4:20 am

        If only there was the political will to do that, if only.

        • Roger Woodhouse says

          Jan 6, 2020 at 6:32 am

          Its so easy to appease.The British are famous for it.It requires no ‘action’ Positive action is to be avoided at all times because its bound to upset some people so best avoid it.Only when hundreds of innocent civilians are slaughted in the streets of London will a ‘leader ‘ imerge to ‘rescue the country’Untill then we must suffer the gradual degradation of our culture and way of life.The average Brit is oblivious to what is happening here and in Europe.

      • Infidel says

        Jan 6, 2020 at 7:50 am

        Don’t pick their towers: pick their religious iconic landmarks. Start w/ the tomb of Ayatollah Khomenei, which is a tourist spot for the shi’ite faithful. Then pick other major islamic holy sites throughout Iran. They’ll react to that more strongly than they would if their towers got knocked down.

        Also, take out all their nuke sites w/ MOABs

  3. PETER BUCKLEY says

    Jan 5, 2020 at 4:08 pm

    Must say I enjoyed watching these demonstrations in Tehran this morning. My wife and I have a little bet whenever there are public demonstrations in Pakistan- we call it “spot the woman”. Basically, if no woman is spotted, she has to pay me 10p. If a woman IS spotted, I have to pay her £10. After sixteen years, she now owes me (theoretically, of course) £ 7.10.
    For a number of years, we have been playing a similar game with protests in Iran. However, the rules of the game are slightly different- it’s not “spot the woman” but “spot the man under 40”. Again, I’m well ahead on this game too. Hilarious.
    There seem to be quite a few readers of JW who have got it into their thick skulls that young Iranians are “more extreme” than the previous generation, when, as anyone who talks to Iranian émigrés , the opposite is true. So I was pleased to have this confirmed yet again, by another Iranian living in the UK:

    Exile says ‘most are happy killer is dead’

    “AN IRANIAN who escaped persecution for a new life in Britain, said more than 95 per cent of his countrymen were “very happy” that Qassem Soleimani had been killed.
    Masoud Mohammadifar, 39, right, was accused of being a Western spy and jailed for six months, for wearing a US T-shirt.
    He said yesterday: “Qassem Soleimani has killed more than 1,500 Iranian protesters on the streets.
    “My people cannot do anything because they don’t have any materials to fight – they can only protest. A lot of my friends and my people are really happy inside my country, because we never believe this terrorist government.
    “We are never happy about killing somebody but in my opinion, I’m really happy about what the Americans did.”
    Champion kayaker Masoud, who was jailed after he shared a Facebook picture of himself wearing the T-shirt while competing in Indonesia, fled Iran in 2016 crossed to the UK from France last August.
    He said from his Birmingham flat: “I spoke with more than 100 friends in Iran just a few days ago and they want to leave.
    “Everybody is scared that there may be a war coming again, but they are really tired of this dictatorial regime.
    “We need all the world to see this problem we have. We should go to select a parliament, but again, my people are afraid.”
    He added: “We want to change this regime because it’s expired, it’s killing people.”

    https://www.pressreader.com/uk/sunday-express-1070/20200105/281565177688230

    I have been saying since Trump first took over, that the mullahs would be gone by 2024, PROVIDED TRUMP WINS THE NEXT ELECTION. But I admit I could have got it wrong. It may well be sooner……

    • Jaydam says

      Jan 5, 2020 at 5:08 pm

      For many years i too have noticed the lack of women seen at large muslim demonstrations in breaking news clips. Maybe they have more sense, and prefer to stay at home or they are barred from joining in with the brain washed men.

  4. Cheryl says

    Jan 5, 2020 at 4:09 pm

    Yea for the President, about time we let them know they will pay the piper; solamania was buddies with obama; that should make one pause for cause. iran hates us and for me the feeling is mutual

    • Patti Pickerd says

      Jan 5, 2020 at 5:57 pm

      👍🏼 obummer has a lot to answer for ⛈

      • observer says

        Jan 5, 2020 at 10:32 pm

        Patti Pickerd says
        Jan 5, 2020 at 5:57 pm

        👍🏼 obummer has a lot to answer for ⛈
        ~~~~~~~~~

        “obummer”
        😆😂🤣😁😄😃😀😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

  5. CogitoErgoSum says

    Jan 5, 2020 at 4:10 pm

    Probably some of the same people who were recently yelling “Death to the Queen.”

    • Christopher Watson says

      Jan 5, 2020 at 4:39 pm

      These ‘people’ ought to be charged with treason, because that is what it is. Is capital punishment still applicable for treason? It should be.

      • jayell says

        Jan 6, 2020 at 3:41 am

        Soleimani was responsible for the death of over 600 American personnel, and I don’t know how many British. I believe that he was involved in planning to murder more Americans and British (and others, of course) at the time he met with his ‘accident’. Furthermore, apart from the usual incessant brainless anti-American and anti-British rhetoric from the Iranian authorities and orchestrated mobs in the their streets, Iran has been involved in a catalogue of illegal and provocative acts against British citizens and legitimate interests over recent times. There is absolutely no reason to consider Iran to be in any way a ‘friend’ of the US or the UK, or indeed any other self-respecting Western country.

        Holding this ceremony in London was virtually as inappropriate and unacceptable as, say, holding a memorial service for the likes of Himmler or Goebbels in London in the early 1940’s if either of those two characters had met their end as the result of an Allied raid. That would never have happened, of course, because the people likely to have organised such an event would have been expelled or interned in the UK in 1939. This recent event in London makes it very clear indeed that there are now people in influential positions in the UK who are either bona fide UK citizens who have learned nothing from the events of 1939-45 or/and have no respect for their country and fellow citizens, or are individuals who should not be in the UK at all, or should never have been given citizenship or the right to remain.

        I do not know quite what arrangements had to be officially sanctioned for this event to take place at all, but it would seem more than likely that the current incumbent of City Hall should have known about it in advance – or if not, would have been highly negligent. One wonders what might have happened to a Lord Mayor of London in the 1940’s if the hypothetical Nazi memorial event had actually taken place.

        • Laura says

          Jan 6, 2020 at 4:28 am

          Khan is NOT Lord Mayor of London, he is mayor of Greater London. The Lord Mayor is something entirely different.

  6. gravenimage says

    Jan 5, 2020 at 4:20 pm

    UK: Muslims attend community memorial at Islamic Centre in London for “honorable Islamic commander” Soleimani
    ……………….

    How many of these Muslim thugs are in the West now?

    • Cicero says

      Jan 5, 2020 at 4:30 pm

      A lot of these young boys would be Unaccompanied Minors I.e. young males seeking refugee status in the U.K. and who claim they are “children” in order get masses of welfare benefits and then get Indefinite Leave to Remain in the U.K. once they reach eighteen.

      This is a fact. They then return to the land of their birth for holidays “ in spite of saying they fled the country due to persecution ) or they get married ( at 18 ) and bring their equally young wife back to the U.K. who proceeds to give birth to a child every year ( they usually have at leat five kids ) or they Arrange for the several siblings and parents to come to the U.K. under the Family Reunification Policy

      • gravenimage says

        Jan 5, 2020 at 4:36 pm

        Most of these “unaccompanied minors” are full adults–up to 80% in places like Sweden. This is likely no different in the UK.

        • James Lincoln says

          Jan 5, 2020 at 7:00 pm

          gravenimage,

          You are correct.

          “Swedish dental hygienist Bernt Herlitz revealed to authorities that after checking the molar teeth of hundreds of migrant children that 80% of the so-called children were actually adults.”

          He ended up getting fired from his job for reporting this.

          https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/10/swedish-dentist-reveals-80-migrant-children-actually-adults-fired-now-may-lose-home/

        • gravenimage says

          Jan 6, 2020 at 5:51 pm

          Yes–I am familiar with this appalling story. James.

          There have been similar stories from all over the West.

      • Patti Pickerd says

        Jan 5, 2020 at 6:01 pm

        Should automatically have passports taken, shoved on planes & deported! Don’t matter if they’re citizens revoke citizenships, also moves should be made to deport ALL who arrived whilst obummer was in power!!!! Round them up & ship them out!!! Take Britain back!!!

    • Sun says

      Jan 5, 2020 at 7:57 pm

      Same in Germany. The “Islamic Center Hamburg” organized a commemoration ceremory for the “heroic martyr” Soleimani.

      Europe’s Islamisation proceeds quickly and sucessfully.

    • jayell says

      Jan 6, 2020 at 3:48 am

      Paris is crawling with them. Berlin is crawling with them. Brussels is crawling with them. The Netherlands is crawling with them. London is crawling with them, with one of their friends in City Hall. Sweden is crawling with them………..

    • Janice Mermikli says

      Jan 6, 2020 at 5:58 am

      Too many.

  7. Trick_or_Treat says

    Jan 5, 2020 at 4:22 pm

    PS: though it is disturbing that there is actually even at least three or more people (that the leftist media can then take the liberty of calling a ‘crowd’) out there who are sick and depraved enough to actually mourn the splashing of this evil bastard. This is not right, WTF are these trash even doing in the UK? I mean, It begs the question ‘WHY are they really there?’ Shouldn’t they actually be back in Iran ar Pakistan, or somewhere?

    • Patti Pickerd says

      Jan 5, 2020 at 6:04 pm

      Trying to dominate Britain!!!!

  8. Walter Sieruk says

    Jan 5, 2020 at 4:40 pm

    Those Muslims who live in England who had attended a memorial service at an Islamic Community center and referred that murderous Iranian jihad warlord chief as a “honorable man” are therefore only showing just how deluded ignorant, uninformed and also naive about the true cruel ,brutal character as well as heinously violent and deadly that jihadist “top dog” of the many stooge jihad terror organizations he was behind

    In sum, Soleimani was a very dangerous man. Therefore it was necessary that he was eliminated.

    • Patti Pickerd says

      Jan 5, 2020 at 6:05 pm

      👍🏼

    • Phil Copson says

      Jan 6, 2020 at 6:34 am

      “….only showing just how deluded ignorant, uninformed and also naive about the true cruel ,brutal character….”
      —————————————————————————————

      No, Walter – that is what they like about him. The thought of being able to murder anyone who disagrees with you has tremendous appeal for the immature and dim-witted – hence the popularity of Communism with the Left.

  9. andrew mckendrick says

    Jan 5, 2020 at 4:51 pm

    Why all the mourning ? He is in paradise with his 72 black eyed virgins , or maybe a packet of sun dried raisins , depending on which translation you want to believe….can you imagine the look on his face if it is the later ?

    • Janice Mermikli says

      Jan 6, 2020 at 6:00 am

      Or he could be with the “boys like pearls”, depending on his proclivities.

  10. SAFI says

    Jan 5, 2020 at 5:14 pm

    Congratulations! Well done for allowing all those “loyal” muslim fifth-columnists, millions of them, migrate to your land, settle among you(or perhaps parallel to you) and even infiltrate your security forces. Very wise decision…

  11. Rich Cole says

    Jan 5, 2020 at 5:23 pm

    One reference, Romans 1:16-32. sums it up nicely. When you worship the creature rather than the creator you will not end up where you think you will. Sorry Charlie. You are doomed to a very hot place. As for those living, it might be in your best interest not to build a shrine to him or you will end up joining him some day. Another reference, Exodus 34:14 “(for you shall worship no other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God),

  12. elee says

    Jan 5, 2020 at 6:18 pm

    Hey Brits, attendance at this event is prima facie evidence of criminal syndicalism, I hope it occurred to somebody to write down license numbers & observe who attended. In less technical language, anybody who went to this thing is probably a member of an organisation hostile to your institutions aand your freedoms. Maybe your government ought to be paying attention. I dont think you can count on that though. 9 at

  13. Wilfred says

    Jan 5, 2020 at 7:30 pm

    Would any of the islamic nations allow their minority population mourn one of their own. It’s the Christian Nations generosity that they are thriving in non Muslim Nations.

  14. Wellington says

    Jan 5, 2020 at 8:05 pm

    Proving again for the umpteenth time that Western Civilization and Islam don’t mix well. Indeed, they are mortal enemies of one another. Sure wish Western elites would finally realize this rather than being blinded by political correctness, multiculturalism, and general ignorance and stupidity.

    And to all Muslims who think Islam can be reformed, can come into the modern world, deep and profound shame on every one of you. You may be sincere but you are still shilling for evil.

    • Westman says

      Jan 5, 2020 at 10:53 pm

      Speaking of shilling, the wife was watching the Golden Globes and the entertainment folks with the new morals, which is just the old immorality, couldn’t help but open mouths and preach, practically honoring Soleimani.

      • gravenimage says

        Jan 6, 2020 at 1:27 am

        Good lord. I can’t say I’m all that surprised, though.

  15. Michael Copeland says

    Jan 5, 2020 at 8:31 pm

    “We are a fifth column….” – Anjem Choudary

  16. Paul says

    Jan 6, 2020 at 1:20 am

    You can’t appease fascism.
    It only responds favourably to force. Being nice has not worked..
    Todays non conventional war required force – being consequential!
    The motivating enemy is ceology also must be identified or you loose the war.

  17. Pal says

    Jan 6, 2020 at 3:15 am

    3,372,966
    UK’s Muslim population, ONS Office for National Statistics, Newport
    2 August 2018
    https://www.ons.gov.uk/aboutus/transparencyandgovernance/freedomofinformationfoi/muslimpopulationintheuk/

    3,139,000
    UK’s Wales population, Welsh Government, Cardiff
    30 June 2018
    https://gov.wales/mid-year-estimates-population-mid-2018

    • jayell says

      Jan 6, 2020 at 3:55 am

      So that’s about a 5% proportion of muslims in the UK, the largest non-Christian alien minority? Isn’t that the predicted point at which the trouble really starts? But it’s already started!

  18. SB says

    Jan 6, 2020 at 4:00 am

    You are not being kind, you are … ridiculous.

  19. Seeking Deliverance says

    Jan 6, 2020 at 7:04 am

    So… lets face facts here… Sharia Law is the most draconian, barbaric, (Islamic) legal system in modern existence. For this Iranian “General” to be killing U.S. citizens and U.S. military personnel for years… and to the tune of thousands of people… maybe even tens of thousands… no one knows for sure… was unacceptable and it should have been stopped years ago under Bush, Jr or perhaps Obama. Instead, President Trump pulled the plug and rightfully so. Live by the sword, die by the sword. As to these Iranians within England… mourning the General’s loss… of course they were going to do that… for Islam is INCOMPATIBLE with ANY kafir nation. Westen world kafirs are an ignorant population for they believe Islam is peaceful and not going to wipe them off the Earth once they have the power to do so.

    • Seeking Deliverance says

      Jan 6, 2020 at 7:08 am

      I must point out, know that it has been confirmed, that President Obama STOPPED Israel’s operation to slay this very same General back in 2015. The Democratic Party = Fascist Party… and always has been such. Thanks for the report PJ Media again identifying President Obama as being the worst president in U.S. history.

      • gravenimage says

        Jan 6, 2020 at 5:53 pm

        Yes–good point, SD. That story was also covered here at Jihad Watch.

  20. Battle says

    Jan 6, 2020 at 8:28 am

    The vigil mourners are paid protestors?

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