UK - Thousands join pro-Islam protest

How does the BBC know they were "mainstream" Muslims?

More than 4,000 UK mainstream Muslims joined a protest against controversial cartoons satirising their Prophet Muhammad in London's Trafalgar Square.

Muslim organizations realized they screwed up with last weeks demonstrations that called for killing innocent people and now, with the help of the BBC, they want to try and show the world that they are peaceful. But as you can see here the organizers have links to terrorists.

Organisers also said it wanted to dissociate the mainstream Muslim community from a "minority of extremists".

But the organizers are extremists.

Why have we not seem protests like these by Muslims condeming bin Laden and al Qaeda? Why didn't these people protest when the cartoons were published by Muslims in Egypt back in October?

Repeat after me, these protest have nothing to do with the cartoons, Muslims merely want us to submit to Islamic law.

Among them was Hanifa Brka, a 29-year-old student from Birmingham, who said: "This is the heart of our faith - we believe it is wrong to talk badly about the prophet.

"I would like to send a message to all honest Christians - we are all brothers and sisters."

Well Brka, why can't we take a Bible into Saudi Arabia? Why do Muslims preach hate towards other religions?

"We demand that people show respect for each other's community, each other's faith and each other's religion."

And we demand that you live by our democratic principles of free speech.

I absolutely love this part:

Respect MP George Galloway received a rather frostier reception however, as he took to the stage to boos and cries of "Big Brother, Big Brother".

Seems George just can't get no Respect.

Earlier, organiser Anas Altikriti, of the Muslim Association of Britain, said he was confident the demonstration would not be taken over by extremists, adding that only the official slogan - United against incitement and united against Islamophobia - would appear on their T-shirts and placards.

Who is Anas Altikriti?

An anti-war envoy is continuing to meet Sunni Muslim groups in Iraq in a bid to secure the release of kidnapped Briton Norman Kember and three other men.

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Mr Altikriti, who was sent to Iraq by the Muslim Association of Britain, Stop the War and CND, has given interviews to the local media.

Nice group of friends eh? Muslims and the Communist led anti-war movement.
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