Thread: Keeping it real: How British Muslims responded to the sacrilegious film

10,000 or 3000, depending who you believe, deluded fuckwits protested the film in London yesterday outside Googles offices. They say unless the video is taken down they'll hold a "million man" protest in Hyde Park.

Muslims protest outside Google offices over anti-Islam YouTube clip - Telegraph

Protestors spent four hours outside the internet giant’s headquarters calling for it to take down from YouTube the clip known as Innocence of Muslims, which is said to insult the Prophet Mohammed as a fool and a womaniser.

The Muslim Action Forum said up to 10,000 people, including 800 imams from mosques across Britain, joined the demo, which closed off one side of a busy road through Victoria on Sunday afternoon, but police put the number at about 3,000.

Organisers said they will hold a “million strong” rally in Hyde Park within weeks unless the film they say is offensive is taken off the internet.

One of those behind the protest contrasted their attitude with that of British Christians, who he claimed were too willing to put up with faith being demeaned.

Khalid Mahmood, a 38-year-old insurance broken from Coventry, said: “This is for all people, from all faiths. We live in an age of mockery. It is essentially out of control.

“The Christian faith is eroded. When we have visited churches, the congregations are mostly over 60 and are not interested in standing up to protest.
“It’s always the Muslims, but unfortunately we’re having to come out. For too long the Christian community have had to accept it.
“We can no longer just stand by, shrug our shoulders and be hurt every day. We are doing this on behalf of everyone. It is the final straw. It is unacceptable.”
Masoud Alam added: “Our next protest will be at the offices of Google and YouTube across the world. We are looking to ban this film.
“This is not freedom of expression, there is a limit for that. This insult of the Prophet will not be allowed.”
Sunday’s demonstration was the largest so far in Britain against Innocence of Muslims, a 14-minute trailer for an American film that was put online over the summer, sparking violent protests in Egypt, Yemen, India and Tunisia.
Crowd barriers were set up outside the headquarters of Google, which owns the video-sharing service YouTube, and protestors gathered bearing placards to chant slogans and listen to speeches by more than a dozen imams.
The speakers urged Muslims to honour the name of the Prophet and not to back down in the face of Google's continuing refusal to remove the video, and were met with passionate cries of "God is Great" and "Mohammad is the Prophet of God" in Arabic.
One of the speakers, Sheikh Faiz Al-Aqtab Siddiqui, said: "Terrorism is not just people who kill human bodies, but who kill human feelings as well. The makers of this film have terrorised 1.6 billion people.
"Organisations like Google are key players and have to take responsibility for civility. You can't just say it doesn't matter that it's freedom of speech. It's anarchy."
Sheikh Siddiqui, a lawyer from Nuneaton, said he wanted to form a coalition with the Church of England, Catholics, Jewish groups, Trade Unions and even Conservatives to encourage their ranks to join his "campaign for civility".
"We want everyone in society to recognise these people are wrecking our fragile global society. We want the Church, the Synod, Jewish groups and establishment figures involved," he said.
A spokesman for YouTube said: “We work hard to create a community everyone can enjoy and which also enables people to express different opinions.
“This can be a challenge because what's OK in one country can be offensive elsewhere.
“This video--which is widely available on the Web--is clearly within our guidelines and so will stay on YouTube."
The Metropolitan Police said there were no arrests at the protest.

None of these straggle bearded ugly fucks seem to realise the irony of using their right of free speech to protest...free speech.

Originally Posted by khmen

10,000 or 3000, depending who you believe, deluded fuckwits protested the film in London yesterday outside Googles offices. They say unless the video is taken down they'll hold a "million man" protest in Hyde Park. Muslims protest outside Google offices over anti-Islam YouTube clip - Telegraph

A million ? - yeah, they certainly have the numbers to show up.
Costing the British taxpayer how much ?

Originally Posted by khmen

None of these straggle bearded ugly fucks seem to realise the irony of using their right of free speech to protest...free speech.

Where is the irony in that? Hypocrisy, but not irony.

Originally Posted by dobella

Costing the British taxpayer how much ?

Probably a great deal less that all the mindless dole chavs who think that voting for the BNP will magically bring them wealth and streets paved with gold by blaming everything bad on furriners..

Where is the irony in that? Hypocrisy, but not irony.

I'm not even sure it's that. Believing that one has some kind of right to protest and at the same time thinking that there are limits to freedom of speech is not particularly problematic. It might be wrong (I don't think it is, though I think these guys are generally wrong about where the limit is) but I don't think there's any contradiction there.

Ah bless, all the Islam experts, pray tell where did you gain your knowledge of what Islam is and is not about?
Surely not the daily mail, the internet and the BNP?

Originally Posted by Zooheekock

I'm not even sure it's that. Believing that one has some kind of right to protest and at the same time thinking that there are limits to freedom of speech is not particularly problematic. It might be wrong (I don't think it is, though I think these guys are generally wrong about where the limit is) but I don't think there's any contradiction there.

My point was the misuse of the word 'irony'. It's a pet peeve of mine.

If the protesters had fled their countries to escape suppression of expression and were then marching in favour of it then that would be irony.

It's typical conservative behaviour of attacking the messenger (YouTube in this case) and not the message and it makes it easy for Torygraph readers to glom onto the LCD part of the story and get riled up.

Originally Posted by Zooheekock

Where is the irony in that? Hypocrisy, but not irony.

I'm not even sure it's that. Believing that one has some kind of right to protest and at the same time thinking that there are limits to freedom of speech is not particularly problematic. It might be wrong (I don't think it is, though I think these guys are generally wrong about where the limit is) but I don't think there's any contradiction there.

Ok, I probably used the word irony wrongly, accepted.

You don't think there's a contradiction in using your democratic right to peaceful protest to protest aginst others rights to freedom of expression?

Bollocks, angry Muslims offend me but I wouldn't protest against their right to protest. I'd rather be offended by these people than live in a society where nobody can say or do anything which may offend some overly sensitive twat, like in these degenerates countries of origin...

Oh wait...I already do.

Quim, Poontang Pussy hole whatever your name is i would love to see you here in the UK where i live, after 1 month you will be voting BNP, the Pakis run our area and abuse the girls, the police try to do a good job but it never fucking happens.
You just dont know why you rant against the BNP, if you dont live in an area then i guess it is cool to be a 'liberal socialist'.

^
This was meant for Quim Borillio or whater his name is.
Quim - [at][at][at][at], yes that is who i meant this for.

after 1 month you will be voting BNP,

Unlikely. Whatever God-forsaken shithole you live in, most people don't vote BNP. Do you know why? It's because most people aren't cnuts.

Originally Posted by dobella

Quim, Poontang Pussy hole whatever your name is i would love to see you here in the UK where i live, after 1 month you will be voting BNP, the Pakis run our area and abuse the girls, the police try to do a good job but it never fucking happens. You just dont know why you rant against the BNP, if you dont live in an area then i guess it is cool to be a 'liberal socialist'.

Originally Posted by dobella

^ This was meant for Quim Borillio or whater his name is. Quim - [at][at][at][at], yes that is who i meant this for.

It is exactly these kind of level-headed arguments and rational points that will convince non-loonies to vote for the BNP!

Well done dobella, you are doing a great service to your cause.

Originally Posted by quimbian corholla

Well done dobella, you are doing a great service to your cause.

Thankyou, i like to think so too.