ENGLAND
“Moderate” British Muslims warned that Gaza backlash was about to hit England
Protesters clash with police as 100,000 strong London Gaza demo descends into violence
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Violent clashes occurred between police and around 20,000 protesters outside the Israeli Embassy in London – with an estimated 100,000 protesters airing their views around the city.
Windows were smashed and policemen were injured – with one officer knocked unconscious in the running battles and two requiring treatment for facial injuries.
The protesters – mainly young men – knocked down barriers threw missiles including eggs, red paint, sticks and shoes as 300 officers in full riot gear tried to maintain the peace.
There were reports that some protesters had tried to set fire to police vans.
The violence, which broke out in front of the Israeli Embassy, appeared to be led by a hard-core of masked and hooded youths.
A national demonstration against Israel’s attack marched from Speakers’ Corner at Hyde Park today to the Israeli embassy in High Street Kensington.
UK
Gaza conflict fuelling anger in UK, Muslims warn Brown
UK: Muslim Leaders Issue Veiled Threat to British Government, Back Hamas and Oppose Israel or Face More Jihadist Terror…..
Anger within Britain’s Muslim communities over the Gaza conflict has reached “acute levels of intensity” that could have repercussions for national security, leading Muslims will warn Gordon Brown today.
In a letter to the prime minister, representatives of Muslim organisations will say the Israeli government’s use of “disproportionate force” to combat threats to its security has “revived extremist groups” and “empowered their message of violence and perennial conflict”.
The letter, a copy of which can be read on the Guardian’s Comment is Free website, also says that the “current, partisan and simplified narrative” emanating from the White House is of “serious and direct harm” to relations between the UK, North America and Arab countries.
They say it is imperative for the UK to distance itself from the Bush government. The letter goes on: “We urge you to make concerted and successful efforts to convince the US administration of the dangers of its approach and to ensure the incoming Obama administration forges a more enlightened direction. We also believe the UK – bilaterally and as part of the EU – has an important role to demonstrate to Israel that the threshold of acceptable behaviour has been perilously transgressed.”
The letter adds: “As you are aware, the anger within UK Muslim communities has reached acute levels of intensity. The Israeli government’s use of disproportionate force … has revived extremist groups and empowered their message of violence and perennial conflict. For Muslims in the UK and abroad, we run the risk of potentially creating a loss of faith in the political process.”
Their intervention follows a meeting on Tuesday between Bill Rammell, foreign and commonwealth affairs minister, and 30 people drawn from Muslim organisations such as the Muslim Council of Britain and the Islamic Society of Britain.
In what was said to be a testy meeting, representatives told Rammell the government’s position on Gaza could provoke UK terrorist attacks.One of those present was Dr Hany el-Banna, youth worker and co-founder and president of the charity Islamic Relief.
A perceived double standard has alarmed the Young Muslims Advisory Group (YMAG), which the government launched last October to help prevent violent extremism. The group sent a letter to Brown this week saying government failure to condemn Israeli action against Palestinians was undermining efforts to reduce homegrown radicalisation.
The letter, first published in Muslim Youth, said:”We are in grave danger of sending a message to youth today that the mass murder of civilians can be justified if the right grievances are cited. In the current climate there is a real danger young people who witness the impotence of institutions that are supposed to be protecting innocent life will turn to other organisations in an effort to make their voices heard and the violence stop.”
INDONESIA
PALU
Angry Indonesian Muslim students stormed a Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) restaurant Thursday in protest against Israel’s military strikes on the Gaza Strip.
About 300 protesters gathered outside the US fast food outlet in Palu, Central Sulawesi, waving Palestinian flags, burning US and Israeli emblems and carrying banners condemning Israel as a “terrorist and criminal” state.
A handful of demonstrators then stormed the restaurant, overturning tables and chairs.
“KFC’s license is from America, an important Israeli ally. In consuming US products it means that we give financial contributions to Israel’s military strikes on the Palestinian people,” protest coordinator Maful Haruna said.
ITALY:
Outrage over proposal to boycott Jewish-owned shops
Jewish leaders in Rome today expressed outrage over a trades union proposal to “identify and boycott” Jewish-owned shops in the Italian capital amid fears of a resurgence of anti-Semitism linked to Israeli actions in Gaza.
Jewish leaders said the proposal, put forward by Giancarlo Desiderati, leader of the Flaica-Uniti-Cub union, which represents 8,000 shop assistants in Rome, was reminiscent of the anti-Semitic racial laws adopted 70 years ago by the Fascist dictatorship of Benito Mussolini in imitation of Nazi Germany, under which only “Aryan” shops were allowed to trade.
Asked if he was aware of the comparison, Mr Desiderati said: “We know we will have everyone against us, but we cannot pass over in silence what is happening in Gaza”.
He said his union had already urged its members to boycott Israeli products, and boycotting Jewish-owned or Jewish-run stores was a logical next step.
AFGHANISTAN
Afghans sign up to fight Israeli troops in Gaza
KABUL
(Reuters)
More than a thousand Afghans signed up on Thursday to say they wanted to go and fight Israel in the Gaza Strip, many of them blaming the United States which has some 30,000 troops in Afghanistan, for supporting the Jewish state.
Accusations by Taliban militants and some Muslim clerics that Israel and its main ally, the United States, aim to destroy Islam have a strong impact on public opinion in Afghanistan, where Washington plans to almost double its troop numbers this year.
Scores of young men crowded into the library of Kabul’s Milad ul-Nabi mosque, lined with banners reading “Death to Israel” and “Death to America”, to sign up to fight Israel.
“More than a thousand brave Afghans registered their names here to fight Israeli troops in Gaza,”said Habibullah Assam, the imam of the mosque and organiser of the campaign.
USA ILLINOIS , CHICAGO
Chicago Sun Times
Vandals deface three local synagogues
Vandals spray-painted the words “Death to Israel’’ on two synagogues and a Jewish school early Saturday in three separate incidents police say could be linked and are being investigated as hate crimes.
In each case, the vandals — at times donning masks — used orange-colored paint, also shattering glass windows with bricks and rocks at two of the buildings.
Lincolnwood police said vandals also scrawled “Death to Israel’’ and “Free Palestine’’ on the outside walls of Lincolnwood Jewish Congregation, 7117 N. Crawford. Mitchell Sandler, past president of the congregation, said they threw at least two bricks at the front doors, damaging four windows.
Leabnese Hezbollah supporters, march during a demonstration to protest against the Israeli ground attack.
LEBANON
Thousands in Lebanon, Europe demonstrate over Gaza
BEIRUT, Lebanon
Nearly 20,000 people marched through southern Lebanon on Saturday to protest Israel’s offensive in the Gaza Strip, as thousands also took to the streets in several European cities to show their anger.
Wild Thing’s comment…….
What truly amazes me about these various protests, and it really doesn’t matter what city they are in, or what country they are in, is how these people make a choice to side with terrorists. And now all that are protesting are Muslims, they are like our Code Pink group in the USA and other communist groups, the workers union groups etc.
They have chosen to side with the enemy of the entire world……… TERRORISTS!
So when we hear of another attack let’s ask first how many of the victims were siding with the Hamas, how many were against Israel defending itself and fighting back. How many made a decision to ” sleep with the enemy” and then are they going to whine, cry, beat their chests in pain of lost loved ones when THEY are attacked one day?
They better look elsewhere for sympathy.
Prayers for the safety of the IDF and the Israeli’s. Prayers too for friends that live in countries that are mostly Muslim, Arab countries that they will be safe as well.
They think “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” well bull crap the enemy of my enemy could still be my damn enemy. I have to laugh at how these idiots don’t realize if the were to meet bin laden or achmadenijad, how quickly and summarily they would be shot in the face. code pink? these bastards hate women and everything else these people “stand” for especially “peace”. The only person so far to get it right was none other than Patton. “The more I see of Arabs the less I think of them. By having studied them a good deal I have found out the trouble. They are the mixture of all the bad races on earth, and they get worse from west to east, because the eastern ones have had more crosses.” General George S. Patton
These idiots would probably have sided with the nazis in WWII. In a way I’m glad my Grandfather has passed and he isn’t here to see this. He FOUGHT AGAINST these sombitches in europe! Interesting side story time magazine’s man of the year has never meant anything. Time magazine’s man of the year for 1939 was Adolf Hitler.
Actually hitler was 1938’s man of the year, sorry. 1939 was josef stalin, see what I mean?
This is getting way out of hand! This is what happens when people don’t listen and heed the warnings of the government at hand. I thought Islam was a religion of peace, but I guess that’s pieces, hmmm? The media whines for us all to get along and then these things happen. So I’m an Infidel–I wasn’t born a Muslim. I was born an American first, then baptized Roman Catholic and later chose to follow my heart to just be the best Christian I can be. It’s not easy when the younger generation thinks Islam is the wave of the future and that I’m some sort of ancient ruin for believing in the precious blood of the lamb. (I’m not that old yet!) These kids don’t realize or have never read up on how bad Islam really is politically. They think America is the worst thing since sliced bread and that we deserve to die. Ain’t that just a shame? Boo on the media and the teachers for indoctrinating these brainless boobs into thinking this. Time for “true” Americans to take back what’s ours!!! No more nambe-pambe pussyfooting around.
Yeah Time’s man of the year. Go figure.
There is such great support for the palestinians, in many of our big cities, why don’t they make the pilgrimage to the holy land and join up that way, we can get rid of these low lifes too.
OMA – Oh My Allah – Storming a sacred KFC establishment in an upcoming Obamanation REGIME is an act of war?
Yet another reason not to let any Muslim into the USA.
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“If you’re looking for sympathy you’ll find it between shit and syphilis in the dictionary.” — David Sedaris
As long as there is an islam, there will be terrorism. Anywhere, anytime. For no reason other than hatred and envy.
As these stories clearly show, we are in a religious war whether the looney liberal left (regardless of country) and Barack Hussein Obama want to admit it. The Islamofascist terrorists are forcing people to choose sides. Either you join and become part of the radical Islamic Caliphate or you are an infidel and the enemy that needs to be killed and destroyed.
Sounds like time for a joint Christian, Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist, and other non-Islam religion “Crusade” to take back the Holy Land and rest of the democratic and civilized world from these savage Islamofascist beasts and scum of the Earth.
JohnE PFC U.S. Army, excellent quotes and good point. I agree these are the same type of people that would have sided with Hitler.
They are much fewer in number people like this, I totally believe this, but the media prefers to show more of these kind of people then good people that want to fight the terrorists.
Interesting too about Time’s man of the year, one right after each other. Thanks JohnE.
Lynn, I agree so much, well said.
We way out number them, they just get more press partily because they say threatening things I suppose too.
Mark, that is a great idea, gosh I wish they would do that.
Darth, yes I wonder what the ole Kentucky Col. would say about that. I think if he came back today he would think he landed on some other planet.
Duane, I agree with you. This should be like an alarm going off to our government. I would hate to get in the weakened position like the UK has when they get threats from Muslims telling them to back the Hamas or more attacks will happen in the UK. The nerve for one thing sheesh.
Jack, oh my gosh, fantastic. hahaha
Tom, that is true, I wonder if there will ever be a day when we can at least see fewer of them so they don’t have the stength in numbers like they do today. The keep signing people up in prisons etc. too. Plus they teach their children to carry their hate, what a total mess and what a horrible enemy.
I can’t even imagine what it would be like to live with hate like that and they do it every day.
Les, yes, we would be such a strong force against them if we joined side by side with Israel. The enemy would not have a chance with the IDF and our military together crushing them.
Lets face it my friends, the whole fucking world has gone to hell. It is no longer what is right, but what is in vogue and supporting terrorists and terrorism is now the hip thing. This is why I fully support anything the Israeli’s do when dealing with this kind of situation. And now that we know GW turned down Israel’s request for bunker busters for use against Iran’s nuke facilities,it appears that the US is about to abandon Israel. That said, Israel will have no choice but to take on Iran herself and by that I mean that they will nuke the bastards to hell. I will support that as well no matter the consequences. Go Israel, kick their asses.