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2006-02-13 Britain
Barbarian Hordes Moderates Amass In London's Trafalgar Square
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Posted by Admiral Allan Ackbar 2006-02-13 04:43|| || Front Page|| [11133 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 "The turn out did not match the expectations of some organisers, who anticipated a meeting of tens of thousands of people."
An estimate would have been a nice journalistic touch. Thousands, hundreds, tens?
Posted by Darrell 2006-02-13 08:38||   2006-02-13 08:38|| Front Page Top

#2 Heh, good catch, Darrell. To not mention it means it was seriously embarrassing - even to the Beeb, and that's pretty damned hard to do.
Posted by .com 2006-02-13 08:50||   2006-02-13 08:50|| Front Page Top

#3 They warned they would not accept insults being levelled at the Prophet Muhammad.

They're still fascists and they can still get the fuck out..
Posted by Howard UK 2006-02-13 09:05||   2006-02-13 09:05|| Front Page Top

#4 I bombed it down there as quick as I could after hearing about it on the radio, but it was all finished when I got there. A mate of mine who did make it said that the frothy-seethers kept calling "40,000 people" over the PA system. I think I heard this figure on the radio
Posted by Admiral Allan Ackbar 2006-02-13 09:05||   2006-02-13 09:05|| Front Page Top

#5  I don't think any respectable muslim would be caught dead at a demonstration expousing moderation, peace or any kind of shit like that.
Posted by bigjim-ky 2006-02-13 09:08||   2006-02-13 09:08|| Front Page Top

#6 One bit of info I did catch was that they are planning a repeat demo next weekend (either in Trafalgar Sq or Hyde Park or both)
Anyone who has heard of "Speakers Corner" will know the significance of Hyde Park to the foundations of free speech in this country.

I am a bit of a specialist at the art of "Muzzy Baiting" at speakers corner, having wasted some of my time memorizing segments of their Holey Scriptures (TM)

Anyone else wanna come?
Posted by Admiral Allan Ackbar 2006-02-13 09:09||   2006-02-13 09:09|| Front Page Top

#7 My mate got some photos, in case anybody is really bored interested.
Posted by Admiral Allan Ackbar 2006-02-13 09:15||   2006-02-13 09:15|| Front Page Top

#8 40,000? *cough*bullshit*cough*

If there had been anything like 40,000 it would've been a featured bit, shouted from the rooftops, methinks. Not buying it - even though they still played the Victimology 101 card for ass-coverage.
Posted by .com 2006-02-13 09:16||   2006-02-13 09:16|| Front Page Top

#9 *sigh* new film coming out

what a load of rubbish


filmed in Pak , Iran and Afghanistan
Posted by MacNails 2006-02-13 09:18||   2006-02-13 09:18|| Front Page Top

#10 I'll be rushing out to see that then... LOL!

AAA - take care - remember to use raw bacon if they get too close. I too am a Londoner but tend to espouse the unexpected visit in the middle of the night as a strategy for keeping em on the run. Personally, I've never tried to reason with these assclowns - handing out a few cartoons could be a laugh though...
Posted by Howard UK 2006-02-13 09:27||   2006-02-13 09:27|| Front Page Top

#11 guys we gotta club together hire a private plane and hang a big old banner off the back of it saying 'muhammed was a nonce!'whilst leaflet dropping cartoons mocking allan
Posted by Glavins Glereting2921 2006-02-13 09:35||   2006-02-13 09:35|| Front Page Top

#12 Am just highlighting the point that our media and education institutes are rife with weak minded , cowardly swine . Thrilled to bits having to watch younger generations get their minds warped by some twisted fucktard , excuse my foul language
Posted by MacNails 2006-02-13 09:41||   2006-02-13 09:41|| Front Page Top

#13 

A great piece by the Daily Hate Mail
about the so called moderates/quiescents/sleepers
Posted by Admiral Allan Ackbar 2006-02-13 09:42||   2006-02-13 09:42|| Front Page Top

#14 AAA - that article ran yesterday here, heh. We be on top o' things, heh.
Posted by .com 2006-02-13 09:49||   2006-02-13 09:49|| Front Page Top

#15 Here is the main event. Must have just been a warm up. DEFINATELY be at LEAST 20-50,000 people this time acc al-Beeb.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/4694090.stm

Free Born Children Of Albion:
Date for your diaries, please.
18th Feb everybody.
Serrano filled party poppers at the ready.

Their voices were even and low,
their eyes were level and straight...
Posted by Admiral Allan Ackbar 2006-02-13 09:50||   2006-02-13 09:50|| Front Page Top

#16 Duh, sorry .com - my mistake. I thought it said "Yesterdays news today"
Posted by Admiral Allan Ackbar 2006-02-13 09:52||   2006-02-13 09:52|| Front Page Top

#17 I dream of a day when people of all creeds and colours will link arms and peacefully march in the name of freedom through the streets of London with banners proclaiming 'Muhammad is a Nonce'.
Posted by Howard UK 2006-02-13 09:54||   2006-02-13 09:54|| Front Page Top

#18 AAA - No problem, bro... As for the other al Beeb article, there's nothing moderate about 'em, is there - they're actually demanding that (now) familiar slow-motion institution of Shari'a thingy...

I find Islam "deeply offensive", myself. Oh my, what to do, what to do?
;-)
Posted by .com 2006-02-13 09:56||   2006-02-13 09:56|| Front Page Top

#19 Surely you're not suggesting that we restrict their freedom to oppose freedom of speech. I would be dead against that. Oh, hang on - then I would be against your freedom to oppose their freedom to oppose our freedom, wouldnt I?

I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to strap semtex under a burka and take out a bus full of schoolkids to prove your point.
Posted by Admiral Allan Ackbar 2006-02-13 10:04||   2006-02-13 10:04|| Front Page Top

#20 Now *that's* tolerance! Kumbaya m'lord, kumbaya!
Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious  2006-02-13 10:06||   2006-02-13 10:06|| Front Page Top

#21 Tolerance aint good enough, I'm afraid, SF, It's SENSITIVITY we're after.

(That should be Kumballah, BTW)
Posted by Admiral Allan Ackbar 2006-02-13 10:09||   2006-02-13 10:09|| Front Page Top

#22 The Muslim Action Committee said there would be 100,000:
Posted by Colt 2006-02-13 10:11||   2006-02-13 10:11|| Front Page Top

#23 LOL. I love the smell of surrealism in the morning... it's 7:16 AM here, lol...
Posted by .com 2006-02-13 10:12||   2006-02-13 10:12|| Front Page Top

#24 They gather and they wonder and give worship to Mahound.
And he saith, "Break up the mountains where the hermit-folk can hide,
And sift the red and silver sands lest bone of saint abide,
And chase the Giaours flying night and day, not giving rest,
For that which was our trouble comes again out of the west....
Posted by Admiral Allan Ackbar 2006-02-13 10:51||   2006-02-13 10:51|| Front Page Top

#25 I find Islam "deeply offensive", myself. Oh my, what to do, what to do?

Burn down a mosque?
Posted by mmurray821 2006-02-13 11:01||   2006-02-13 11:01|| Front Page Top

#26 They warned they would not accept insults being levelled at the Prophet Muhammad.

In other words, SSDD, no progress made. They're still skinless people in a sandpaper world. People will make fun of Mohammed and cartoonists will draw derogatory and hilarious panels about just what moronic f&ckwits Muslims are until they regain some sort of balanced sense of humor. At some point in each of our lives, I think we've all run into someone who was utterly humorless. And I also think we all know just how abso-f&cking-lutely useless such twits are.
Posted by Zenster 2006-02-13 11:08||   2006-02-13 11:08|| Front Page Top

#27 'Piss-Koran' lealets....

See if anyone at the BBC makes the connection.... My bet is that they don't....
Posted by CrazyFool 2006-02-13 11:12||   2006-02-13 11:12|| Front Page Top

#28 To learn/know how upset these folks get with simple cartoons and pork, make them an easy target. Time for a pig roast with cartoon napkins on every street corner. Hmmm, maybe some balloons with cartoons on them too?
Lighten up guys!
The small numbers at this rally remind me of the poor turn out for Cindy Sheehan. Wish I could find that picture, but loved it all the same.
Posted by Jan 2006-02-13 11:21||   2006-02-13 11:21|| Front Page Top

#29 Sounds like they need some street vendors with ribs and rub.
Posted by 3dc 2006-02-13 11:46||   2006-02-13 11:46|| Front Page Top

#30 3dc, maybe someone handing out free ham sandwiches?
Posted by Deacon Blues">Deacon Blues  2006-02-13 12:36||   2006-02-13 12:36|| Front Page Top

#31 They turn out to order you not to be Islamophobes, not to fear - Just Submit! to their BS because they use more blues than green on the banners - advised by LLL like Ken Livingstone and his ilks.
Posted by Duh! 2006-02-13 13:55||   2006-02-13 13:55|| Front Page Top

#32 Rantburgers:

The bulk of US foreign aid and military operations are given and conducted on behalf of Muslims. Most of those we aid, share the values of the London protesters. Point the finger.
Posted by Jomble Glavimp6138 2006-02-13 14:48||   2006-02-13 14:48|| Front Page Top

#33 "Home made placards were banned."
By whom and why?
Posted by Darrell 2006-02-13 15:22||   2006-02-13 15:22|| Front Page Top

#34 NoWay JG we do it only for the (here it comes) Jooooooooooooos!
Posted by 6 2006-02-13 16:07||   2006-02-13 16:07|| Front Page Top

#35 "Home made placards were banned."
By whom and why?

Typographers Guild and the Legion of Decent Readability.
Posted by 6 2006-02-13 16:08||   2006-02-13 16:08|| Front Page Top

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Posted by Jomble Glavimp6138 2006-02-13 16:36||   2006-02-13 16:36|| Front Page Top

#37 Many Muslims, both in America and elsewhere in the world, are concerned about the power and influence of evangelical Christians who have a clear and unambiguous hatred for Islam.

- Check sinktrap for the above comments -

I'd wager it's really because Christians have a clear and unambiguous hatred for little schoolgirls being beheaded.

Posted by Zenster 2006-02-13 16:38||   2006-02-13 16:38|| Front Page Top

#38 [Moderator Hat: On]

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Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious  2006-02-13 16:45||   2006-02-13 16:45|| Front Page Top

#39 No, the West doesn't hate Islam as such; we invented freedom of thought and speech so we could turn our energies toward productive endeavor, and away from enforcing our ideas on our neighbors. Rather, the West refuses to countenance those who by violence impose the rules they have chosen to live by on others. Precisely, Explain This TROLL, that means you go ahead and keep your women covered and imprisoned at home, but don't you dare try to make my husband do the same to me. He doesn't want your help figuring out what God wants him to do.
Posted by trailing wife 2006-02-13 18:00||   2006-02-13 18:00|| Front Page Top

#40 Aww come on, don't be churlish. 4 000 is nearly 100 000. Especially in a world where the total number of muslims seems to vary anywhere from 1.2 billion to 1.8 billion.
Posted by Quatermass 2006-02-13 20:40||   2006-02-13 20:40|| Front Page Top

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Posted by Explain This 2006-02-13 16:18||   2006-02-13 16:18|| Front Page Top

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