Sunday, February 12, 2006
UNITE TO INCITE
About 5,000 anti-Motoon Muslims—organisers expected 100,000—rallied in London on Saturday under the slogan United Against Incitement. But not everybody was on message:
A Muslim leader behind a mass rally in London yesterday gave a warning of “fire throughout the world” if the West continues to publish cartoons of Mohammed ...
Dr Azam Tamimi, a senior figure in the Muslim Association of Britain, which staged the event, [told] Sky News: “The publication of these cartoons will cause the world to tremble. Fire will be throughout the world if they don’t stop.”
The response to this from Muslim Labour MP Sadiq Khan is instructive:
“Speakers can get carried away, but they are just flowery words. I don’t take them on board and others shouldn’t.”
Got that? This Tamimi guy threatens the globe with incineration and we’re told to ignore him; just “flowery words”, you see. No big deal. But publish a few cartoons ...
UPDATE. Yet more uniting:
A leading imam in the mosque where the July 7 bombers worshipped has hailed their terrorist attack on London as a “good” act in a secretly taped conversation with an undercover reporter.
Much in addition to this from IRIS blog. Take a look. Or wave your hook, depending on whether or not you’re a recently-convicted Islamic cyclops. Speaking of whom ...
UPDATE II. Algerian Rachid Salama, a former visitor to the London mosque run by old One-Eye McHookster, on uniting through welfare:
“The mosque was huge, clean and warm. Apart from the heavies on the door glaring and flashing their Afghanistan scars, everybody was extremely friendly and welcoming,” he said last week.
“Then I discovered how my brothers passed the day. Many were on benefits or living off charity so they could hang about discussing jihad all day. Whenever we were not praying, we were taken to watch TV. There were endless videos of mujaheddin activity around the globe.”
Longish piece, lots of detail; read the whole thing.
UPDATE III. Motoon madness causes a British backlash:
A Sunday Times-YouGov poll of more than 1,600 people shows widespread public anger about protests earlier this month in Britain and the worldwide uprising in response to Danish cartoons picturing the prophet Muhammad.
The poll shows that 86% of people think the protests were “a gross overreaction”. By 56% to 29% respondents said it was right to publish the cartoons in Denmark and republish them elsewhere.
(Via Tom Pechinski)
UPDATE IV. Mark Steyn:
From Europe’s biggest-selling newspaper, the Sun: ‘‘Furious Muslims have blasted adult shop [i.e., sex shop] Ann Summers for selling a blowup male doll called Mustafa Shag.”
Not literally “blasted” in the Danish Embassy sense, or at least not yet. Quite how Britain’s Muslim Association found out about Mustafa Shag in order to be offended by him is not clear. It may be that there was some confusion: given that “blowup males” are one of Islam’s leading exports, perhaps some believers went along expecting to find Ahmed and Walid modeling the new line of Semtex belts. Instead, they were confronted by just another filthy infidel sex gag. The Muslim Association’s complaint, needless to say, is that the sex toy “insults the Prophet Muhammad—who also has the title al-Mustapha.’‘
Read whole thing.