I'm sticking to facts.
I don't think I ever have. When something is done by an extremist group - and I'll use settlers as an example, where there are elements that venerate Goldstein's atrocities - I make a point of saying it is not part of mainstream Israeli society. Frankly, you can take the "jooooooos did it" narrative and stuff it.
People are individuals - whether they are Muslims or Jews or you or I. And they both have their share of extremists.
The fact is, the poster
claimed they were Norwegian Muslims - as a group.
They weren't. They were an Iraqi Salafist extremist group
not even based in Norway - do your own words: fringe extremist group - ring any bells here? Or do you only apply that to non-Muslims
...do your own words:
fringe extremist group - ring any bells here?
What you have here is a tiny group, about as representative of their religion as groups like the Westboro Baptists - threatening their fellows. It's like 60 people out of a city of 1.5 million.
This particular protest was led by
Anjem Choudary, - a generally ackowledged extremist. His demonstrations and marches in support of Sharia see the support of 15 to 60 people at best. Just to give you a sense of proportion - London's Muslim population was around 607,000 as of the 2001 census.
From the first two lines of the article:
A RADICAL Muslim group sparked outrage last night as it launched a massive campaign to impose sharia law on Britain.
The fanatical group Islam4UK has *announced plans to hold a potentially *incendiary rally in London later this month.
Further on in your article:
The group was also attacked by Tory MP Philip Davies who said: This march is clearly a deliberate and provocative attempt to incite racial tension and disrupt community cohesion.
A spokesman for the Islamic Society of Britain said: 99.999 per cent of Muslims despise these people. This only serves to fuel racial *tensions.
And....guess who's the front man for "Islam4UK"? It's our familiar whacko Choudrey who does not seem to garner much support from the British Muslim Community.
There's a follow up as well, of a
counter Islamic demonstration planned for that same date that you must have overlooked:
It might be important to note also, that according to this 2007 Gallup study, London's Muslim population is well assimilated and indeed, more tolerant than their Christian compatriots:
London Muslims were actually less likely than the general public to say they would prefer to live in a neighborhood made up mostly of people who share their religious or ethnic background (25% vs. 35%). Whats more, they were slightly less likely to say they would not want a Christian as a neighbor (8%) than the British public overall was to say the same about a Muslim neighbor (15%). Significantly, London Muslims were 10 times as likely to express positive views as negative views of Christians, while the public is roughly as likely to express positive as negative views of Muslims.
This one is little more than a biased opinion piece:
Fiction: 10,000 Muslims Demand Google Enforce Sharia . . . in London
Fact:
Muslims protest 'age of mockery' as thousands descend on Google HQ
According to the original article:
A protest by 10,000 Muslims outside the offices of Google in London today is just the first in an orchestrated attempt to force the company to remove an anti-Islamic film from website YouTube in Britain.
Thousands had travelled from as far afield as Glasgow to take part in the demonstration, ahead of a planned million-strong march in Hyde Park in coming weeks.
... One of the speakers, Sheikh Faiz Al-Aqtab Siddiqui, told The Daily Telegraph: "Terrorism is not just people who kill human bodies, but who kill human feelings as well. The makers of this film have terrorised 1.6 billion people.
"Organisations like Google are key players and have to take responsibility for civility. You can't just say it doesn't matter that it's freedom of speech. It's anarchy."
Sheikh Siddiqui, a barrister from Nuneaton, said he wanted to form a coalition with the Church of England, Catholics, Jewish groups, Trade Unions and even Conservatives to encourage their ranks to join his "campaign for civility".
"We want everyone in society to recognise these people are wrecking our fragile global society. We want the Church, the Synod, Jewish groups and establishment figures involved," he said.
Imagine that! A peaceful demonstration to let Google know how some of their customers feel about a film have what. How...wrong....hey what?
What's wrong with that?
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