Sunday, May 29, 2005
KLAN-LIKE HATE GROUP BURNS CROSS
The Pakistan Christian Post reports:
More than 300 Muslim protestors set fire to a wooden cross outside the American Embassy in London last Friday 20th May.
The crowd, led by Omar Bakri Muhammad and Yassar al-Siri, were protesting against the alleged desecration of a Qur’an by American military interrogators at Guantanamo Bay. This followed claims by Newsweek magazine that a copy of the Qur’an had been put down a toilet. American and British flags were also burnt, and the protestors chanted calls for violence against the US and UK. Amongst the protestors were about 50 women, some of whom had brought their children.
At the time this protest took place, Newsweek had retracted their story about the alleged incident in Guantanamo Bay. Yet the cross-burning still took place, and has caused little interest in the British media.
Maybe they wanted to avoid inflaming the volatile Christian Street. CNN also covered the protest, but missed the alleged cross-burning:
Shouting, “Down, down USA; down, down USA,” the protesters called for the killing of Americans, the death of the U.S. president, the death of British Prime Minister Tony Blair, the bombing of Britain, and the annihilation of the U.S. capital: “Nuke, nuke Washington; Nuke, nuke Washington! Bomb, bomb the Pentagon.”
Holding their Qurans high, they called for death and mayhem, praising the destruction of New York’s twin towers on September 11, 2001, and saying the White House is next.
Before they broke up, the protesters joined in meditation, and then they all prayed.
Just like the KKK, right down to the post-incineration prayer group. And the covered heads, as Al Jazeera noted:
The hundred or so protestors, including men who hid their faces in headscarves and at least a dozen women, chanted the name of the Al-Qaeda leader and warned Bush “you will pay, with your blood, with your head”.
A small group of protesters also set fire to an American flag and a wooden cross, before organizers appealed for calm.
There’s a tough job: calm-appealer at an al-Klan rally. LGF has pictures.