Bombings will test Britons' tolerance level

Los Angeles Times ^

[jmc1969]

Thursday's attacks at the Aldgate East tube station and three other sites touched off fear in London's down-at-the-heels eastern districts, where the city's most recent and poorest immigrants have always settled. With suspicion in the attacks quickly focused on al-Qaida, Muslims in the area were bracing for a backlash — and trying to prevent one.

According to the right-wing Daily Mail newspaper, the activists praised Osama Bin Laden and chanted "Bomb New York'' and "Kill George Bush'' while burning two U.S. flags. The demonstrators also asserted that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the Iraqi insurgent who boasted of beheading numerous captives — including British citizens Ken Bigley and Margaret Hassan — was about to wreak havoc in Britain because of its support for the war. Some in the crowd chanted, "UK you will pay — Zarqawi is on his way.''

[NO_2_CORZINE]

LOL according to MSM the Muslims are the victims now huh? BARF!

[sheik yerbouty]

KCAL in LA is falling all over themselves with a Muslim press conference in Garden Grove. Islam forbids alcohol. Why do they so love whine?

[Ron in Acreage]

Liberals are hoping and yearning for the Brits, and the U.S. for that matter, to surrender like their beloved French cowards did. They are the Cowardcrats.

[monday]

"But its change of direction has been opposed by a foreign service known for its Arabist sympathies as "the camel corps.''

Apparently the foreign service wants to live under Islamic tribal law. Idiots.

[Callahan]

Did the LA Times just call people celebrating the deaths of London commuters and chanting "Bomb New York" "activists"?

[Callahan]

Blood of innocents still warm in the streets and their concern is the "backlash" against people who are chanting "kill George Bush." Too funny.

[El Gato]

With suspicion in the attacks quickly focused on al-Qaida, Muslims in the area were bracing for a backlash — and trying to prevent one.

Well, this isn't the way to do that:

Turning in the terrorists, or would be terrorists among them would be a good start.

Instead, I heard an audio clip from some Imam in London, on this mornings BBC world news (via NPR in a hotel room). He had a very Brit accent but with a hint of Pakistani. While he did call the act despicable, he blamed the bombings on the "enemies of Islam", rather than the "enemy within Islam".

[El Gato]

Oops left something out

.. Well, this isn't the way to do that:

According to the right-wing Daily Mail newspaper, the activists praised Osama Bin Laden and chanted "Bomb New York'' and "Kill George Bush'' while burning two U.S. flags. The demonstrators also asserted that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the Iraqi insurgent who boasted of beheading numerous captives — including British citizens Ken Bigley and Margaret Hassan — was about to wreak havoc in Britain because of its support for the war. Some in the crowd chanted, "UK you will pay — Zarqawi is on his way.''

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[JimSEA]

I see no need for this article to have been written other than to express the wishes and fantasies of some in the Muslim community who are looking for an excuse to retaliate. The British have acted as one would expect, not the way the Middle Eastern Street reacts.

As they say in the Far East, This is the sound of one hand clapping.