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Here are the opening paragraphs from a Times of London article headlined Muslim peace rally attracts thousands.
More than 20,000 British Muslims gathered yesterday at a conference in London, the largest meeting of its kind to be held in Europe.Ken Livingstone, Michael Mansfield, QC, and the former Pakistan cricketers Saeed Anwar and Imran Khan were among the speakers promoting global peace and unity.
And here's an excerpt from an eye-witness account of what actually went on:
The eminent barrister Michael Mansfield QC, wearing black and white keffiyah scarf, shouted into the mike about the heinous crimes of the Western coalition countries. The crowd chanted and thundered its appreciation.The terrifying demagogue George Galloway ascended the podium and exhorted the crowd to stand up for the redemption of the oppressed Muslim world or else the nation had better get ready for ‘rioting in every street in Britain.’
The ‘slaughter in Palestine and Iraq’ being only part of the equation, Chechnya, Bosnia and Kashmir were also mentioned all day by every speaker including a crazed, chador-clad Yvonne Ridley, who at any moment I expected to self-immolate, such was her fury at the Zionists, the Americans and her fellow Britons. To my utter disbelief, she condemned the British police force as some form of fascist brigade in ‘jackboot Britain.’
Bosnia? Isn’t that where NATO forces liberated Kosovo for Muslims?
To all of these exhortations came cries of ‘Alllahu Akhbar’ from the enormous, simmering crowd of what looked to me like the angriest gathering of young men and women with whom I have ever had the misfortune to be seated in my lifetime.
The concluding paragraph is particularly disturbing:
In this same week, Polly Toynbee has written a scathing piece about the repulsive nature of Christian imagery in 'The Chronicles of Narnia.' She condemns religion in general but has particularly venomous feelings about traditional Christianity. Dare I say it was this faith that sustained Britain in its Churchillian 'darkest hours?' Wake up, dear, tolerant Britons, and stop expending energy on hatred of America, Zionists and your own Church and recognise the destructive turmoil within your shores before it is too late.
The Chronicles of Narnia—a series of children's books, for pity's sake—is to be denounced, but thousands of Muslims spewing anti-Western hatred at a "peace" rally in London isn't worth mentioning. The writing is on the wall, brighter than ever now, but European secularists still refuse to read it.
Read the whole thing—and weep.
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