Muslims 'Greet' Returning British Troops on Parade

[derspiess]

This is what unwise immigration policies get you, unfortunately.  Hit up the link for pics.  These protestors ought to be waterboarded for shits & giggles.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1160958/Home-war--troops-greeted-abuse-Muslim-protesters.html

Home from the war... and our troops are greeted by abuse from Muslim protesters

By Michael Seamark, Andrew Levy and Matt Sandy
Last updated at 1:25 AM on 11th March 2009

Twice in two years they have fought in Iraq. Twelve of their regimental comrades paid the ultimate price there and in Afghanistan.

Over the past two years they have spent day after day patrolling hostile territory, where every passer-by could have a gun or a bomb.

So the 200 men of the 2nd Battalion Royal Anglian Regiment perhaps had a right to expect a heroes' welcome yesterday on a homecoming parade through Luton.
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Venom: Faces contorted with fury, some of the Muslim demonstrator who marred the homecoming of the Royal Anglian Regiment yesterday

Instead, they were faced with the hate-filled jeers of anti-war protesters waving placards saying: 'Anglian soldiers: Butchers of Basra,' and 'Anglian soldiers: cowards, killers, extremists.'

There was a furious reaction from the hundreds lining the streets to support the soldiers – known as the Poachers. Shouting 'scum' and 'no surrender to the Taliban', they turned on the Muslim demonstrators.

Police were already out in force to protect the anti-war group and arrested two men among the soldiers' supporters.

Police closely monitor the anti-Army group as the 200-strong regiment passes through Luton town centre

Last night the mother of David Hicks, a captain with the Royal Anglian Regiment who was killed in Afghanistan in August 2007, called the protests 'extremely distressing'.

'I felt very saddened and extremely upset,' said Mrs Hicks, of Wokingham, Berkshire. 'I also feel a little angry. I think every mother or father who has lost somebody in Afghanistan or Iraq would feel very difficult about this.

'It's very easy to tarnish all the Muslim community with the same brush, but I do wonder, if the roles were reversed, if such a protest would be allowed in a Muslim country.'

Gordon Brown condemned the protests and ministers and senior politicians branded the demonstration 'insulting' and 'sordid.'

Shadow Secretary of State for Defence Dr Liam Fox said: 'This is offensive, appalling and disgraceful.

Tempers flared as pro-Army supporters took offence at the small protest and police were forced to separate the groups

'It is only because of the sacrifices made by our armed forces that these people live in a free society where they are able to make their sordid protests.'

Luton South Labour MP Margaret Moran called for an inquiry into the way police handled the incident.

She said: 'Calling people baby-killers and the rest seems to amount to provocation of the worst kind when these lads and lasses have risked their lives for the freedom these people enjoy. It seems to me this amounted to huge provocation and was potentially racially divisive.'

But the Muslim protesters were unrepentant. Teacher Sayful Islam, self-styled leader of the Luton branch of al-Muhajiroun – the now-banned radical organisation led by Sheikh Omar Bakri – said: 'The anger has been rising. The parade was the final insult.

'They have killed, maimed and raped thousands of innocent people. They can't come here and parade where there is such a Muslim community. What do they have to be proud of?'

The battalion is based in Germany, but Bedfordshire is one of the areas where it recruits, along with neighbouring Hertfordshire and Northamptonshire.

Trouble flared as the soldiers marched to a meeting with the Duke of Gloucester, the regiment's colonel-in-chief, and local dignitaries.

He said:' The anger has been rising up. The parade was the final insult.

'They have killed, maimed and raped thousands of innocent people. They can't come here and parade where there is such a Muslim community. What do they have to be proud of?'

Leaflets urging Muslims to demonstrate against the soldiers' homecoming had been distributed around Luton earlier in the week.

Under the headline 'Criminals' it railed against the troops' 'audacity' at marching though the town centre and accused them of having 'blood on their hands.'

It read 'Muhammad said :"He among you who sees a munkar (evil) should change it with his hand. If he can not do that , then with his tongue(by speaking out against it)".'

It finished with the words:' We urge the Muslims of Luton not to stay silent against these murderers of Muslim men, women and children and to do what we as Muslims have been obliged to do and speak against an open evil.'

Police had penned the protesters into a small area and two lines of officers separated them from a large number of local people, waving Union and St George's flags. At one point a man climbed onto a roof and threw a packet of bacon at the Muslim group.

Bedfordshire police said the Muslim protesters were later 'escorted from the area to a safe place to disperse'.

The force said last night: 'Everything that went on will be examined and if any offences have been committed then we will arrest them.'

An Army spokesman said the battalion, which is due to take part in a similar march in Watford today, was 'deeply touched' by the strong support shown by the people of Luton.

He said: 'There is no better boost to a soldier than to see hundreds of people turn out to watch them on parade.'

[Crazy_Ivan80]

and the muslitards leave no opportunity unexploited to make sure that the non-muslims will hate them with a passion and will gladly move them into the ovens when the time comes.

[Tamas]

At one point a man climbed onto a roof and threw a packet of bacon at the Muslim group.

Yay for him!

[Martinus]

Religious people are stupid. Film at 11.

To be honest, I don't see how this is different from any other anti-war protest, or anti-abortion protest etc.

I'm obviously all for putting Christians in the ovens in response to Fred Phelps's protests at soldier funerals, but I don't think most people would see it that way.

[Richard Hakluyt]

It's the same old problem. According to the Independent there were about 20 nutters protesting about the troops :

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/muslim-antiwar-protesters-abuse-troops-1642232.html

The town of Luton has a muslim community of about 30,000 so this is a pretty poor turnout by any standards.

Meanwhile Irish terrorists have murdered two British soldiers and an Ulster cop in the past few days, yet the idea of getting angry with the Irish on a communal basis never enters my thoughts.

I still think it's a cultural thing, Islam is alien to the British; whereas Ireland and Irish culture is an inextricably enmeshed part of British culture.

[Neil]

Religious people are stupid. Film at 11.

To be honest, I don't see how this is different from any other anti-war protest, or anti-abortion protest etc.

I'm obviously all for putting Christians in the ovens in response to Fred Phelps's protests at soldier funerals, but I don't think most people would see it that way.

Fred Phelps has some interesting ideas re:  you and ovens.

[Josquius]

This is what unwise immigration policies get you, unfortunately.  Hit up the link for pics.  These protestors ought to be waterboarded for shits & giggles.

Explain then: Fred Phelps.
This was on the same scale.

The big police operation as ar esult of it was to stop the general population beating the crap out of the protestors which says qutie a bit I think...

[Valmy]

Religious people are stupid. Film at 11.

To be honest, I don't see how this is different from any other anti-war protest, or anti-abortion protest etc.

It's not.  It is just really really bad press for British Muslims.  They need better PR guys.

[Slargos]

This is what unwise immigration policies get you, unfortunately.  Hit up the link for pics.  These protestors ought to be waterboarded for shits & giggles.

Explain then: Fred Phelps.
This was on the same scale.

The big police operation as ar esult of it was to stop the general population beating the crap out of the protestors which says qutie a bit I think...

Difference of course being that Phelps is one guy with a bunch of hangarounds and I would wager even most people who agree with him think it's in poor taste. These guys are legion, and their peers find their behaviour completely acceptable.

[Valmy]

Explain then: Fred Phelps.
This was on the same scale.

If this was the only group of Muslims in the world who did this sort of thing I would agree it is on the same scale.

Have you been in a cave with cotton stuffed in your ears and missed the last 30 years or so?

[Martinus]

This is what unwise immigration policies get you, unfortunately.  Hit up the link for pics.  These protestors ought to be waterboarded for shits & giggles.

Explain then: Fred Phelps.
This was on the same scale.

The big police operation as ar esult of it was to stop the general population beating the crap out of the protestors which says qutie a bit I think...

Difference of course being that Phelps is one guy with a bunch of hangarounds and I would wager even most people who agree with him think it's in poor taste. These guys are legion, and their peers find their behaviour completely acceptable.

Have you read what RH posted? There were 20 of these guys there. That's the usual turnout at Phelps's protests as well.

[Slargos]

Explain then: Fred Phelps.
This was on the same scale.

If this was the only group of Muslims in the world who did this sort of thing I would agree it is on the same scale.

Have you been in a cave with cotton stuffed in your ears and missed the last 30 years or so?

I think Sweden is rubbing off a bit too much on Josq. T'ain't his fault really.

[Slargos]

This is what unwise immigration policies get you, unfortunately.  Hit up the link for pics.  These protestors ought to be waterboarded for shits & giggles.

Explain then: Fred Phelps.
This was on the same scale.

The big police operation as ar esult of it was to stop the general population beating the crap out of the protestors which says qutie a bit I think...

Difference of course being that Phelps is one guy with a bunch of hangarounds and I would wager even most people who agree with him think it's in poor taste. These guys are legion, and their peers find their behaviour completely acceptable.

Have you read what RH posted? There were 20 of these guys there. That's the usual turnout at Phelps's protests as well.

I will admit that I sortof spaced out after the thread title. It's not like these kind of protests are not thirteen to the dozen.

[Valmy]

Have you read what RH posted? There were 20 of these guys there. That's the usual turnout at Phelps's protests as well.

Yes because these are the only extreme Muslims in all of Europe.

[Martinus]

Have you read what RH posted? There were 20 of these guys there. That's the usual turnout at Phelps's protests as well.

Yes because these are the only extreme Muslims in all of Europe.

And yes because Phelps is the only extreme Christian in all of the world.