UK - Muslims march against bin Laden

That's according to this report which was noted in this comment to this post.

The person who left the comment is a person who calls themselves Sonic and regularly leaves bogus allegations and personal attacks on me in their comments - in short a troll. This time in their attempt to attack me they wound up supporting several points I make regularly.

Let's look at the report Sonic linked to.

On Saturday 25th Feb Muslim groups held another rally in central London, making it the fifth since the Danish cartoons controversy flared up in late January. This however was not about the cartoons but organised by Shia groups to protest against the bombing of holy shrines in Iraq, with popular chants including 'Down with Osama Bin Laden' and 'Say no to terrorism'.

I've pointed out several times in the past, it's interesting that Muslims will protest against terrorism when it is they who are attacked. There were no such protests after 9/11, 3/11, Bali and 7/7 when we were attacked. Therefore, I'm not entirely conviced this was a march against terrorism but more of a march about Muslims being terrorized. Still, it's nice to see bin Laden being denounced by Muslims.

Now to the points I make that this report backs up.

But with national media largely unaware of events organised at community level, the 5,000 strong march passed with no mention in the press. The next time someone asks when Muslims last demonstrated against terrorism - now you know.

I don't think it's a case of unaware so much as the press bias towards the terrorists.

In a debate following the terrorist attacks in London last year, the BBC was stumped when it found both representatives from MAB and MPAC supporting suicide bombings in Israel. Viewers naturally complained that the BBC was being biased when no alternative viewpoint was offered by a guest.

The BBC's cluelessness about Muslim politics was plain to see. Unfortunately it has done little to improve this.

The BBC wasn't stumped or clueless, they knew exactly what they were doing because they were promoting them. The BBC hired the editor and cheif of al Jazeera to train their reporters.

BBC journalists seem to divide Muslims into those planning to blow us up and those not. Since the MCB, MAB and MPAC are in the latter category, they get the 'moderate' tag and get called to represent everyone, portraying a hugely skewed image of British Muslims.

Which is how the BBC want it. See my blog search results for MCB here and for MAB here.

The reporter concluded with this:

Unless the mainstream media, particularly the BBC, gets to grip with the nuances of the British Muslim community, it can never hope to provide a balanced debate.

I agree but the British Muslim community have to stop trying to turn Britain into an Islamic state as well.
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