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| Islamic march plan sparks row in military town |
| 2010-01-03 |
| [Al Arabiya Latest] A controversial Islamic group sparked a row in Britain on Saturday after announcing plans for a march to commemorate civilians killed in the Afghanistan war through a town known for honoring dead soldiers. Islam4UK says it wants to march through Wootton Bassett in southwest England, which regularly sees hundreds gather in its streets as the bodies of British soldiers killed in Afghanistan parade through in hearses. The town, which is close to the Royal Air Force base where soldiers' bodies are repatriated, has become a powerful symbol of Britain's war effort. Islam4UK calls itself a platform for al-Muhajiroun, a radical group now disbanded which used to be headed by Omar Bakri, an Islamist preacher barred from Britain for his views. The march is expected to be held in the coming weeks and will feature symbolic coffins to honor Muslims killed in the conflict. Islam4UK said on its website that the march would be "held not in memory of the occupying and merciless British military, but rather the real war dead who have been shunned by the Western media and general public." It added: "It is quite extraordinary... that those military serviceman who have directly or indirectly contributed to their death are paraded as war heroes and moreover honored for what is ultimately genocide." A total of 108 British soldiers died in Afghanistan in 2009 compared to 2,038 civilians in the first ten months of the year, according to the United Nations mission in Afghanistan. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 2010 will certainly be an interesting year in much of the world. Welcome, True Tommy! |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2010-01-03 23:29 |
| #3 ION RUSSIA TIMES > [NY-Based US Econ-Author Raymond Lotta] US ECONOMIST: WE HAVE TO PREPARE FOR SOCIALIST REVOLUTION IN THE US, OPines that SOC REVOLUTION IS COMING as Capitalism has wrought too may Evils + Xorruptions on the US-World, and hence may need to eliminated. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2010-01-03 22:07 |
| #2 Tolja So. |
| Posted by: Enoch Powell 2010-01-03 08:19 |
| #1 This will invoke a full scale steer war in a number of UK cities more potent than the Bradford riots . The far right is gaining a lot of support at the moment , and the general consensus is that the general public are fed up of weak central government , apologists and the PC culture . These islam4uk idiots won't last much longer in this country and they know it . Expect big socio-political changes in the uk for 2010. The tide is turning , government loose votes far right gains . 2010 could be a very progressive year IMO . |
| Posted by: True Tommy 2010-01-03 03:36 |