Video: Muslim protesters jeer British soldiers returning from Iraq
posted at 9:18 pm on March 10, 2009 by Allahpundit
An utter disgrace, but possibly a useful one per this intriguing detail buried in the Daily Mail’s report:
[T]he Muslim protesters were unrepentant about their abusive attack on the soldiers.
Care assistant Abu Omar, 30, said:’ If Hitler had committed those crimes noone would be cheering, and they shouldn’t just because they are British.
‘They are 21st century Nazis.’
Teacher Sayful Islam, self-styled leader of the Luton branch of al-Muhajiroun – the now banned radical Muslim organisation led by Sheikh Omar Bakri – was prominent amongst the demonstrators.
Al-Muhajiroun is an infamous jihadist outfit organized by Omar Bakri Mohammed, the British Islamist kingpin currently in exile in Lebanon. Rusty and the Jawas keep tabs on them and suspected them of being behind a similarly notorious protest three years ago which you’ll likely remember; even the signs look similar. If that’s who organized today’s demonstration, MI5 at least got a good look at some potential suspects. There were about 20 in all according to the news clip posted by Gateway Pundit.
Britain being Britain, the Mail wonders if they can be prosecuted for inciting “racial hatred.” By jeering troops?
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I’m well aware of the IRA history – they almost got me in Coventry. By saying that they now have a friend, I mean an active friend, rather than one who turns a blind eye. This resurgence is nothing more than “the right time” for some of the die-hards to try to gain advantage in a process that should have been sorted out long ago. Terrorists are terrorists, and should be treated as such. Allowing the likes of Bernadette Devlin into parliament was stupid – she, and others of her ilk, should have been jailed until too old to matter.
This same attitude of “enlightenment” towards your main enemy – the Muslims – will ensure that they will overtake the IRA in being a terror to you.
For the record, I am English, having got out when Heath sold us to the Common Market in 1972.
OldEnglish on March 11, 2009 at 4:40 AM
How many more scenes like that will play out across Europe? Well, at least in the countries where the coalition forces actually fight…
When will the Brits wake up to the fact that the government isn’t going to solve this Muslim problem on it’s own, or at all. A grasssroots, take to the street response is what’s needed. Anything less is just perceived to be a sign of weakness and submission.
CarolynM on March 11, 2009 at 6:01 AM
What would Kipling have said?
SKYFOX on March 11, 2009 at 6:18 AM
You can thank Tony Blair and Gordon Brown for this.
Penguin on March 11, 2009 at 6:26 AM
America, take notice! You have been warned! Coming to a street, school, shopping mall NEAR YOU! Radicals are radicals, terrorists are terrorists and our Messiah is one of them… He is supporting paying MILLONS of our tax dollars for terrorist in Gaza to get a degree in terror, paying for higher “education” for radicals…
Do you feel safer?
Mark Garnett on March 11, 2009 at 7:47 AM
Well said Mr. Garnett. I feel less safe with every passing day and feel great empathy for the next generation and the horror of domestic terrorism they will indeed face. These radical muslims are unrelenting cockroaches.
Ris4victory on March 11, 2009 at 7:57 AM
Cockroaches? Cochroaches? Muslims? Were any of The One’s relatives there?
IlikedAUH2O on March 11, 2009 at 8:04 AM
This is what happens with soft-headed, “everybody’s welcome” (even the people who hate our guts and despise everything we stand for) immigration policies. We now have al Quaeda recruiting (successfully) among the large Muslim population in Minnesota. We spend billions of dollars a year investigating, prosecuting, and imprisoning Mexican drug criminals, who now have established an extensive network throughout the U.S. There’s a large community of Nigerian scam artists in Texas practicing assorted types of credit card and other criminal frauds. But it’s “racist” and “bigoted” and “nativist” and “un-American” and “un-Christian” to want to have — and actually enforce — an immigration policy that serves the U.S.’s (rather than all the world’s poor and criminal classes) best interests.
AZCoyote on March 11, 2009 at 8:07 AM
Gee, I wonder what Churchill would have done?
RobCon on March 11, 2009 at 8:08 AM
Very well said!
Golf Clap!
Mark Garnett on March 11, 2009 at 8:12 AM
Listen, please listen all of you. As indicated above, the negotiations with the Taliban can work. And on immigration, we can be enriched by superstitious, American loathing immigrants. More than that, lets give the world their rights, like the poor boys in Gitmo. The One and His supporters know about the healing power of love and justice. At least for non-American types. Oh, who aren’t conservative or rich.
And about our political milieu and agenda? The Roman Empire did the roughly same thing with bread and circuses, foreign slaves, foreign policy weakness, moral decadence and crazy con men as rulers who wanted to destroy Rome. Their rulers and the Senate spent the place broke while they lived like kings and partied. It turned out fine for them.
Wait a minute….
IlikedAUH2O on March 11, 2009 at 8:26 AM
:) TA DA !!!
Mark Garnett on March 11, 2009 at 8:27 AM
The day may come when the soldier get their opportunity to reply. I hope so.
dhimwit on March 11, 2009 at 8:48 AM
Sorry, make that:
dhimwit on March 11, 2009 at 8:48 AM
The term “fifth column” comes to mind.
AuH20 on March 11, 2009 at 8:59 AM
They are evil, they look at us and our values and the Good they represent and for us they are absolutely enraged with hatred. It’s a simple as that.
Its been the basic argument, from the time Cromwell argued to Parliment for War against Catholic Spain through all the major Anglo-Saxon led battles up till Bush’s “Axis of Evil” speech.
Never more obvious then with ridiculous protest like this.
jp on March 11, 2009 at 9:16 AM
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/books/chap1/godandgold.htm
great book….
jp on March 11, 2009 at 9:21 AM
P. S. I have spoken to a good many guys from the Muslim areas in the Mideast and Africa. The tendency is to HATE anyone who bothers them or who may have slighted them. The following blends our blacks with Muslim foreigners but the conclusion is applicable to both. And wait for the conclusion.
The jeering of troops, as shown above, is wrong but the underlying attitudes are even more toxic.
The cheap gifts to Brown were no accident. In the opinion of many, the British are still living off their backs and Africans like The One blame the Brits for making Africa poor. Like whites in the USA made blacks poor. Anyway, they now accuse the Brits of stealing money by high interest rates to the poor nations and numerous other crimes. Such as AIDS. Yes, AIDS.
They have no use for the rest of us, either. All white Christians are thieves who sell weapons and encourage wars in other lands for profit while stealing their resources. Here at home, we exploit blacks with rotten jobs and drugs. The stimulous was some justice since we have been giving them low paying jobs and a cycle of poverty for generations. I recently heard that we supply fifth rate schools and first rate prisons to the poor. This was on The Factor last night. I have other examples but this was recent and on TV!! So I am not inventing it.
If you think the cheap gifts to the Brits were something, wait till you see what the Hater in Chief has picked out for the rest of us.
IlikedAUH2O on March 11, 2009 at 9:23 AM
OldEnglish on March 11, 2009 at 4:40 AM
Great point. What mags seems to (willingly) ignore, is that the Real IRA are Marxists first, not Catholic, nor Irish. That is why they have a friend in the White House. They are overwhelmingly loathed in the Republic and Catholic enclaves in Ulster. They are much less of a problem than Muslim extremists. Hell, “Lord” Ahmed is more of a threat if he is driving and texting.
And yes, I also used to live in London (just off of Edgeware Road, for what its worth, so I’m quite aware of the problems that exist in this fantastic city), so when I say this, it is in agreement with my Hindu, Sikh, and Afro-Carribbean friends there: Enoch Powell was right.
PimFortuynsGhost on March 11, 2009 at 9:47 AM
What was that about a prophet not being accepted in his own country?
I remember Enoch Powell well. A great man, who suffered greatly for his beliefs.
OldEnglish on March 11, 2009 at 10:05 AM
Cromwell was a sadistic, power-crazed lunatic, with delusions of grandeur. His desire for war against Spain had more to do with matters at home (Scotland, and the Catholic heir to the throne), than with the Spanish themselves. If another country had been the champion of the Catholic Church at that time, it would have been the enemy.
Please do not liken him to Reagan.
OldEnglish on March 11, 2009 at 10:10 AM
Having lived in Luton for 2 years, I can state unequivocally, that Luton is the armpit of the UK. While its a fairly decent area, the place has areas which are overun with muslim immigrants who are seeking to make the place a sharia stronghold, like Birmingham as well.
If you are white, you mainly hang out downtown and never go toward the areas riddled with muslims. It can be dangerous. WarDown Park had become riddled with the Burqua crowd. It was sad.
JP1986UM on March 11, 2009 at 10:21 AM
Cromwell gets smeared by lies and half-truths, there is an immense amount of history about him that contradicts all the smears.
http://www.ianpaisley.org/article.asp?ArtKey=cromwell
jp on March 11, 2009 at 10:21 AM
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jp on March 11, 2009 at 10:26 AM
Ian Paisley? You must be joking!
When dealing with someone such as Cromwell, it is essential to examine his actions from an unbiased standpoint. Cromwell wanted to remove all traces of catholicism from English life, and was prepared to do whatever he needed to achieve this. He was not a Christian – in any sense of the word.
OldEnglish on March 11, 2009 at 10:29 AM
It occurs to me that we on this side of the pond had this same problem a few years back, and the problem was named John F. Kerry and Jane F. Fonda. Years of treatment identical to that accorded the Anglians by their Muslim greeters were given to our own troops — by people I suspect are even now commenting on HotAir.
In a more recent time, remember how Oakland Airport treated our returning soldiers, and how Code Pink currently treats our soldiers in Berkeley and in Washington — with the overt support of Berkeley’s city council Democrats like Clinton, Murtha, and Obama?
The confluence of liberal thought and Sharia is amazing to me. Or maybe not.
unclesmrgol on March 11, 2009 at 10:34 AM
Addendum to the above post.
The period from Henry the eighth, to the death of Cromwell, could be likened to the Taliban, in terms of attitude towards anyone who dared to not tow the official line. Only slowly, after the so-called Glorious Revolution, did England rid itself of its hatred of non-conformity.
OldEnglish on March 11, 2009 at 10:35 AM
We Catholics must be quite powerful to have done this in a country were we could not, for several centuries, hold office, and where we where subject to transport if we were discovered. In fact, the Catholic song “Faith of our Fathers” (which is often sung in other Christian churches as a reminder of the physical trials a Christian must oft endure) is a ode to that era in England.
As for your mention of Ireland, don’t you think the Irish have ample reason to detest Cromwell? And, given that the Irish are still around while Cromwell’s sundered remains molder underground, they have the last word:
unclesmrgol on March 11, 2009 at 10:45 AM
Col Jack Jacob Ret., weighs in on the Administrations approach to Afghanistan. I had mentioned this back under another post about Obama wanting to dialog with Moderate Taliban. I mentioned that the U.S. has used divide and conquer before with good results especially with people living in tribal circumstances. Pakistan calls different areas of Pashstunistan “Agencies” we had Cantonments-Reservations ourselves in the Old West.
Dr Evil on March 11, 2009 at 11:06 AM
Somehow I think back to the Iran Hostage crisis in 1979. I rember Iranian students in the US and their sympathizers demonstrating on campus in a few places. American students stepped up to the plate and kicked butt. I think it would happen again if this were tried in the US.
As a vietnam veteran I feel empathy for the British military who are the subject of this Islamo-Muslim hate crime. I know how it feels when your own people turn on you for doing your duty to defend your country. Never again!
kanda on March 11, 2009 at 11:38 AM
If one of the soldier’s had pulled out a gun and shot one of the protesters, could he claim self defense?
PappaMac on March 11, 2009 at 12:26 PM
NICE
I’m ready here in Indiana, got guns, ammo, baseball bats,bible,and my head is not located in my butt.
UNREPENTANT CONSERVATIVE CAPITOLIST on March 11, 2009 at 12:45 PM
jp,
Rev. Paisley is not a credible source. He buys into all sorts of conspiracy theories – do the Jesuits secretly control the world? It’s true that Cromwell was not a hypocrite and was quite sincere in his Puritan beliefs but he was a bloody tyrant.
It isn’t just the Irish or Catholics who hate Cromwell. His forays into Ireland were an extention of the English Civil War where he chased him enemies – and butchered the Anglo-Irish Protestant settlers who supported them.
Also the English people suffered greatly under Cromwell’s Major-Generals. One of the main reasons they traditionally prefer monarchy is that their only experience of Republicanism is Cromwell’s brutal reign.
aengus on March 11, 2009 at 1:07 PM
I love the smell of Revolution in the morning.
omnipotent on March 11, 2009 at 1:39 PM
But they are not the soldiers’ “own people”. This is why citizenship should not be extended to people from alien cultures. These Muslims have no allegiance to Britain. Even if they were born in Dagenham, they are not British. In an era of sanity they would be forcibly removed to Pakistan or Saudi Arabia.
aengus on March 11, 2009 at 1:54 PM
Whoa! So many contributors gleefully writing-off the UK.
Yes, there is a problem, but the problem with Muslims is facilitated by liberals with their wishy-washy ideas, and policies based on a childlike concept of what the world might be like. Liberals are the enablers of evil of all kinds. Now, in case some of you had forgotten, the USA presently has a rather liberally minded government presided over by a rather liberal fellow.
Those of you claiming, “it couldn’t happen here” might want to keep in mind that within living memory Britain was once the world’s only superpower. The empire on which the sun never set included 1/3 of all the world’s land and Britain dominated more or less all of the salty waters. The mighty can fall very swiftly and the USA is not immune. “It couldn’t happen here” is exactly the sort of arrogance that Britain had 100, or even 50, years ago (and, frankly, still has too much of).
As for the UK, the liberals presently have the loudest voice in the media and in politics and hence if you focus on what media people and politicians are saying your impression will likely be skewed. What is lacking is leadership to oppose the liberals and the Muslims. Without that leadership the country will, I presume, continue to decline. Should that leadership arise, the liberals and the Muslims are going to get their backsides kicked hard.
I don’t know how the tensions will be resolved any more than the rest of you do, but I can tell you that there is a huge anger running deep in the country. The heart of the UK is not as Christian as it once was but it certainly is not liberal, or Islamic … or pacifist.
YiZhangZhe on March 11, 2009 at 2:04 PM
“los cucarachas entran pero no pueden salir” that’s what the problem is going to be. Once they are here no one is safe.
PatriotPete on March 11, 2009 at 2:24 PM
not a Christian???? His final prayer, at the bottom of Paisley’s piece(in which he’s writing partly from a biography on the man)
jp on March 11, 2009 at 2:32 PM
Thank the Good Lord someone has a brain in optimal functioning condition!
BTW: I liked Goldwater too. Were it not for his campaign, Reagan wouldn’t have gotten the political experience necessary. My primary piece of evidence is the speech ‘A time of Decision’.
Chaz706 on March 11, 2009 at 4:52 PM
UNREPENTANT CONSERVATIVE CAPITOLIST
The sad part is that whites allowed entitlement programs (like affirmative action and set asides in loads of $$$ projects), Hollywood worship of minorities, special protective laws, distortion of news and a War on Poverty that may make The Hundred Year’s War look like a ninja skirmish in duration become the law. All for minorities. And most whites I know WANT Muslims and blacks to like them. It is sooo cool to have a black or Muslim buddy or date.
And, despite our generosity and love, the whites are demons.
But haven’t we been here before? Like the “foreign aid” jokes they used to make? A country got $1 million from the US and that got us bad press. With $2 million we got street demonstrations. At $3 million we had violent demonstrations and our embassy looted. If we could go to $5 million we got Castro and Che. Just change the names and multiply the figures by 10 after making the millions billions for today’s nonsense.
IlikedAUH2O on March 11, 2009 at 5:03 PM
Thanks to Chaz706 and Amen to most guys above on this thread.
IlikedAUH2O on March 11, 2009 at 5:06 PM
Ever hear a politician give a speech?
OldEnglish on March 11, 2009 at 6:14 PM
They should hang those camel jockies.
lavell12 on March 11, 2009 at 8:42 PM
England has survived religious civil war before. After the rein of the Catholic Queen (Bloody) Mary taught the fence sitters to chose a side, (the one that won’t burn you at the stake)the Protestant queen Elizabeth I led England into a time of internal Peace.
Oliver Oliver Cromwell was a hard man, in a hard time. If King Charles I, hadn’t been the poster child for the abolishment of monarchy, Cromwell wouldn’t of given his fine example of why it is bad to allow your mortal enemies into your government.
darktood on March 11, 2009 at 9:44 PM
That sounds so familiar. Where have I heard/read this before?
Oh, now I remember, “The verse of the sword“
Blacksmith8 on March 11, 2009 at 9:59 PM
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