By expressing sympathy for the teacher, she disrespected Muhammad, you see.
This is yet another illustration of the reason why we don’t see more genuine Muslim reformers. Not only are the reformers themselves accused of apostasy and heresy, but their supporters are as well.
“Now protesters picket Muslim council chief who said she would ‘welcome’ the Yorkshire teacher at the centre of the Prophet Mohammed cartoon controversy,” by Jake Ryan, Mail On Sunday, April 24, 2021:
A Muslim council chief is being targeted by pickets for backing the teacher at the centre of the Prophet Mohammed cartoon controversy.
Protesters are demanding the resignation of Sabia Akram, deputy leader of Slough Borough Council, after she said she would be happy to welcome the Yorkshire teacher – now in hiding with his family – to the Berkshire town. Ms Akram has reportedly also received death threats.
The original row erupted after the Batley Grammar School teacher – described as a rugby-loving ‘burly Yorkshire lad’ – showed images of the Prophet from the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo to teenage pupils during a religious education class about blasphemy.
Ms Akram, a Labour councillor, posted a message on Facebook in the wake of the furore last month to say she was ‘shocked and saddened’ that the teacher was forced to go into hiding.
She added: ‘To the teacher, if you need to leave Batley which I wouldn’t blame you! Come to Slough. We’ll welcome you and your family.’
The post triggered a wave of anger, with some in the local Muslim community claiming Ms Akram was disrespecting the Prophet.
A petition with more than 1,300 signatures described the councillor as ‘evil’ and demanded her resignation. It added: ‘Anyone who disrespects our Prophet has no position in our lives.’
On Friday, protesters picketed the offices of Slough Borough Council for a third week. About 50 demonstrators brandished placards declaring ‘Sabia Akram Out’, ‘Sabia Akram: Shame On You’ and ‘Stop Islamophobia.’…
mortimer says
Islam is at war with modernity, as this young woman discovered, but she probably knew it already..
How long will it take for politicians in general to see this very obvious fact?
How many more teachers will have to be murdered, mutilated, knifed and threatened into hiding before our Western societies admit that Islam is incompatible with our modern way of life?
Islam truly cannot be modernized … Islam is frozen in the 7th century.
Michael Copeland says
“Islam and democracy are contradictory and absolutely incompatible.”
https://angloamerica101.wordpress.com/2016/10/01/canadian-imam-islam-and-democracy-are-contradictory-absolutely-incompatible/
“Islam cannot and will not ever become a part of liberal secularism”
https://jcpa.org/is-canadas-justin-trudeau-the-great-reformer-of-islam/
Mazin AbdulAdhim, Imam in London, Ontario
“Muslims reject democracy and secularism!” – placard
https://gatesofvienna.net/2021/03/islam-western-leaders-are-well-deceived/
william says
Nothing the Moose Limbs hate more than a ‘modreate Moose Limb and especially if she is female and not even covered up!
Richard says
Lack of education breeds Islam.
Muhammad must have performed a miracle and split the moon in half. Just look at the star and Crescent flags of many Muslim countries. In pracise we cannot see any stars behind the moon as it always keeps its face towards us. So no stars should be visible even behind a crescent moon as the crescent is merely formed by the sunlight. But the flag of Pakistan for example shows a star shining through a hole in the moon, doubtless caused by the miracle of Muhammad.
I listened to a talk by the Royal Institution by one Saiful Islam. I thought surely this cheerful intelligent chap couldn’t be a Muslim and I was right. You cant be intelligent thoughtful and a Muslim too.
Peter Buckley says
Muslims accusing another muslim of being “Islamophobic”.
Hilarious. If “Islamophobia” is being “anti-muslim”,then it is theoretically impossible for muslims to call other muslims “Islamophobic”.
How I love to watch people tie themselves in knots using this word.
You couldn’t make it up, but supposedly educated people still take the word seriously…..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0lT9kvANzI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkFijRrv17c
mortimer says
Agree with RL: ‘lack of education’. Indeed, a Muslim is expected to observe ‘TAQLID’.
Taqlid is a doctrine that maintains a Muslim must totally submit his mind to the teachings of a SHEIKH without asking the sheikh for any EXPLANATION of his statements. This amounts to rote learning and acceptance of nonsensical arguments … arguments that contradict facts, the rules of logic and even biological and geological and physical science
Leave your mind at the door if you become a Muslim and never use your mind thereafter if you don’t want to be tempted to leave Islam.
This is why Muslims repeat formulaic answer about religion and never question them. It’s blasphemous ‘kufr’ to challenge the nonsense spouted by the mullahs.
gravenimage says
Grimly true.
mortimer says
Sabia Akram may receive so many death threats she will have to go into hiding.
gravenimage says
UK: Muslims demand Muslim official resign for saying she’d ‘welcome’ teacher who showed Muhammad cartoon
…………….
I hope this poor woman stays safe.
egor says
Historical fact. The man known as Muhammad in the Islamic narrative never existed. If Mecca did not exist until 740 CE, according to Dan Gibson, then Muhammad did not exist. How many more people are going to needlessly die in the name of somebody who did not exist. Historically, the first Muhammad I can find is the half brother of Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan. and he lived from and he died in either 719 or 720 CE. So he died nearly a 100 years after Muhammad in the narrative. Interestingly, his grandfather’s mother was called Armina and he had a number of wives, one of which was called Zaynab and another called Aisha. Interestingly in the narrative, Muhammad’s mother was Armina. He had two wives named Zaynab and another named Aisha. Coincidence? I do not think so.
The man was a construct to control the people and introduce the Sharia. The Saudis know all this. That is why they have been calmly knocking down all the historical buildings in Mecca. They know they are false. Seen Mecca lately, it looks like the Las Vegas of Saudi Arabia. Even so, the sheep still turn up in their millions..
PRCS says
All religions are beliefs.
In the case of Islam, beliefs–(THAT Muhammad’s existence for example)–which formed the basis of a brutal, totalitarian theocracy.
Sean says
The Telegraph 23 October 2009
Labour wanted mass immigration to make UK more multicultural, says former adviser.
Labour threw open Britain’s borders to mass immigration to help socially engineer a “truly multicultural” country, a former Government adviser has revealed.
The huge increases in migrants over the last decade were partly due to a politically motivated attempt by ministers to radically change the country and “rub the Right’s nose in diversity”, according to Andrew Neather, a former adviser to Tony Blair, Jack Straw and David Blunkett.
gravenimage says
And it never occurred to these fools than any of this “diversity” might be a threat to Britons…
PRCS says
“some in the local Muslim community claiming Ms Akram was disrespecting the Prophet”
The prophet is dead.
Long live the dead prophet.
Andrew Blackadder says
I would like publicly, and personally, to seriously apologize to the living members of the Enoch Powell family, as I was one of many who called him a silly old racist fart in 1968, when he made that “Rivers of Blood” speech, as I see now, all these years later, that this distinguished scholarly gentleman was in fact a visionary, and I was a bloody foolish 20 year old that knew nothing, though i did know how to roll a good joint.
He warned us, they denigrated him, destroyed his career, “cancelled him” and we didnt take him serious, and now the British public pay the price for that ignorance.
Search You Tube for the “Rivers of Blood”” speech by Enoch Powell if you dont know what I referring too.
I was born there but I left the UK in 1970, never to live there ever again, thankfully…
James Lincoln says
Few of us had “wisdom” when we were 20 years old, Andrew.
I know I didn’t.
But we both finally “got it”.
Try not to be so hard on yourself…
gravenimage says
Andrew, don’t feel bad–I’m sure this is true of a lot of us.
Giacomo Latta says
”shocked and saddened”
Apparently Ms. Akram does not know how her very own religion works, although it could be argued that the koran does not support threats toward unbelievers, only ”direct action.” These petitioners who wish to see her resign point out clearly that Islam and Democracy do not mix. She has the right to her current seat on council until she decides to no longer hold the position or loses a vote by all citizens. Perhaps she will wake up to the fact that Islam is not in her DNA and can easily be sloughed off.
Jayell says
Slough is near Heathrow Airport and is now infamous for being the first staging post for those arriving in the UK on long haul flights from outside Europe and the dormitory town for those who work at the airport (most of whom don’t appear to be very ‘English’). Unsurprisingly therefore, it’s the ‘Bradford’ or ‘Rotherham’ of the south and for that reason those of us from less enriched areas of the UK feel the necessity of carrying one’s passport if ever we have the misfortune of passing through the place. It should therefore be perfectly predictable that it would not conduct its civic affairs in quite the manner we would expect of a civilised English town, because it ceased to be a civilised English town many years ago.