Islamic march through Wootten Bassett

[rov1200]

http://news.bbc.co.uk...wiltshire/8437658.stm

Should they also be respected?

[Ankou]

in all honesty i think a march to commemorate the innocent war dead in those far off places is possiblly something that i could accept. however, i think doing it in wooton basset is as somebody said previously here, just a pr exercise to further inflame the tensions between islamists and locals. just a way to stir trouble.

why don't they march in london ?

[Bobbisox]

There's is a double edged sword ankou, they say they want to march to pay tribute to the Muslims who have fallen, but they are also wanting to take an opportunity to berate the British Government and our troops that are there as we speak, I will never understand how people who were born here want to bite off the hand that's feeding them, we educated these people...have they no jobs? to be able to travel so freely to the Yemen and Pakistan, they have dual nationality so if there hatred is so deep against the west they could go to their Mother country, and I think moving the "march" to London is just moving the problem, I suppose one way of showing distaste would be for the gentle folk of Wooten Basset to line the route with their backs turned, perhaps show the marchers the soul of their shoes, a symbol of disgust in lots of Muslim countries...but Alas, that would never happen, the people of WB didn't ask for notoriety for their little town, they chose to pay homage to all fallen servicemen and women in a dignified way, a lesson that these people who are set to use the town for propaganda purposes...could learn from

Bobbi ♥

[Ankou]

but those wishing to protest about the war and atrocities occurring daily are not just muslims or immigrants.

[Bobbisox]

Yes ankou of cause and yes they have a right to demonstrate....and I can see why you say London now,but is it anti-war protesters,I was under the impression it was Muslims protesting against the occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq by British forces
Bobbi ♥

[Bobbisox]

I should add and the people who have been killed by them,,, so yes I suppose it is an anti-war demo....without the bodies in wooden boxes, the tears and the silence?

Bobbi ♥

[Ankou]

the group has a history of announcing inflammatory events and then cancelling them so it is not likely anyway. its membership is also thought to be less than 50 people so it would be more of a single file queue than a "march".

the one thing they have managed to do is grab the headlines and start the mouth-frothing, which i suspect is their main aim.

[Bbbananas]

Ridiculous. No they should not be allowed.
What an insult and abomination to our soldiers to even contemplate allowing this to take place.
I agree with Bobbi in every respect.

[standian]

As much as I do not like the idea of the march, to not allow it to take place, would go against the (albeit limited) freedom of expression that we have, and should value in this country - the same laws enabled the march against the Iraq war, the countryside march, etc and we cannot pick or choose which marches are right and which are wrong or we will undermine all the civil liberties that we enjoy.

Islam4UK know exactly what they are doing in proposing this march through WB - and I personally think that the best way to deal with it is to not give them the oxygen of publicity that they so obviously crave - the earlier point about bystanders just turning their backs is, I think, the best thing that can be done - any jeering or protests against it will just confirm their beliefs that this is an inherently racist country and that they are a victimised group who are therefore justified in their actions and protests - whereas ignoring it will harm them more than anything...as difficult as that may be - but then the people of WB have already consistently shown their fortitude and dignity so I hope that they are able to do that once more.

And on the positive side, it will make it easier for the security services to know who to watch in future as anyone warped enough to think this march is the right idea in the right place maybe needs watching in future.

[Bobbisox]

brilliant piece standian which adds a positive note to it
Bobbi♥

[Teleph0ne]

This scum are marching in favour of the people killing our soldires. They should be charged with treason and deported.

[jake-the-peg]

Our soldiers who are killing Afghans

Tell me how many Afghan civillians have been killed by our soldiers and maybe I'll agree.

But you can't can you?

We don't even count them.

Incidently Anjem Choudary is the son of a Welling market trader - do you want to extradite him back to Bexley?

Or did you all just assume he wasn't British? - Or think that it didn't count because he had a foreign name and was opposing the war?

[jake-the-peg]

Isn't it a shame that Bertrand Russel couldn't have been extradited to Germany for being a pacifist during World War I.

Why can't we try anybody with treason who opposes our use of our armed forces?

Sometimes I really wonder about people on here who express views like that - I really do!

[Teleph0ne]

I wander about the people of this country that just lie down and get shafted, nobody seems to have any pride anymore and if they do then they are branded as a racist or BNP supporter, I just think that supporting our soldiers should be the priority here and imagine how they would feel coming home to see a march of this nature?

[Ankou]

nothing compared to what they are currently seeing i would guess.

[Teleph0ne]

If I had gone through all that and made it home to find that there were muslims marching the streets in support of the people that had been trying to kill them I would be gutted. Especially if it were a march with coffins mocking our repatriation!

[rov1200]

As Norman Tebbitt said most immigrant Muslims fail the cricket analogy. Support for our soldiers in Iraq or Aghanistan is virtually nil. They abhor being part of the English setup. Our politicians are at fault for not considering this when waging a war in Muslim countries and allowing our borders to be so porous as to let those with a different ideaology threaten our way of life.

They should realise their mistakes and deport those who will create havoc and try to blacken our soldiers courage. British human rights should take preference over this hatefull mob.

[rov1200]

British born and bred before recent immigrants only here because they have said they want to claim assylum.

[Teleph0ne]

Assylum seakers are supposed to stay in the first safe country that they reach, how come so many of them end up here after crossing europe? Surely they would class most european countries as safe by now!