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UK: Muslims call for changes in law
BBC ^ | 02/08/06 | BBC

Posted on 02/08/2006 4:06:18 PM PST by Pikamax

Muslims call for changes in law

Muslim scholars who gathered for an emergency meeting have called for changes to the law to stop images of the Prophet Muhammad being published.

Members of the Muslim Action Committee (MAC) who met in Birmingham called for changes to the Race Relations Act and the Press Complaints Commission code.

They are to stage a protest march in London on 18 February, expected to attract 20,000 to 50,000 people.

The MAC met to form a response to the publication of cartoons of Mohammad.

Shaikh Faiz Saddiqi, who chaired the meeting, said Wednesday's gathering of about 300 Islamic religious leaders was the largest meeting of its kind he knew of in his 25 years of living in the UK.

'Deeply offensive'

He said the MAC was meeting to bring cohesion to the debate among Muslims about how to respond to the publication of the cartoons in a Danish newspaper and their subsequent repetition in other countries.

The discussions among the religious leaders, who had travelled to an Islamic centre in Small Heath from across the UK, lasted for two hours.

What kicks can you get out of seeing this caricature, except to insult the Prophet of Islam?

Shaikh Faiz Saddiqi

Mr Saddiqi said they had concluded they wanted the Race Relations Act modified to give Muslims the same protection as Sikhs or Jews.

He also said the Press Complaints Commission code of conduct should be tightened to prevent publishing of any images of Muhammad, but added the clerics accepted criticism and discussion of Islam should be allowed.

He said the code was a voluntary code to ensure the media treated people with respect and called for that respect to be shown to Muslims, whose religion forbids any pictorial depiction of Muhammad.

The cartoons have been repeated in other papers, such as France Soir

Mr Saddiqi said: "That act in itself is deeply offensive, it's akin to someone standing up in your face and abusing your mum, your sister, your dad, and it's akin to a deliberate act of provocation."

He said Muslims could accept a one-off publication of such an image as a misjudgement and said this was why it took several months for anger at the cartoons, first published in October, to gain momentum.

But he said other media organisations continuing to show the cartoons knew they were causing offence.

He said: "It happens once, it happens twice but a third time you are going to take action.

"Enough is enough, we have to get back to being a civil society.

"What kicks can you get out of seeing this caricature, except to insult the Prophet of Islam?"

He praised the UK media for not publishing the cartoons.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: ukmuslims
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To: Pikamax

21 posted on 02/08/2006 4:25:44 PM PST by BenLurkin (O beautiful for patriot dream - that sees beyond the years)
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To: trubluolyguy

Here's an idea that just came to mind:

Go to a website that has the Koran on-line. Download a copy. Then erase it. Without much trouble you could write a small program to do this repeatedly, possible several times a second. In this way you can destroye millions of Korans every day.


22 posted on 02/08/2006 4:27:09 PM PST by Flash Bazbeaux ("I'll have the moo goo gai pan without the pan, and some pans.")
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To: Flash Bazbeaux

Even better.

Order free hardcopies.

Then use them for toilet paper.


23 posted on 02/08/2006 4:29:06 PM PST by 76834 (There's nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation.)
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To: Pikamax

"What kicks can you get out of seeing this caricature, except to insult the Prophet of Islam?"





Who can ask for anything more, Muckbar?


24 posted on 02/08/2006 4:30:12 PM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (MAY I DIE ON MY FEET IN MY SWAMP)
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To: Pikamax
Outlaw offensive behavior by muslims while you are at it.
25 posted on 02/08/2006 4:30:31 PM PST by paul51 (11 September 2001 - Never forget)
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To: Flash Bazbeaux

One could even flush it down a virtual toilet! The horror!


26 posted on 02/08/2006 4:30:35 PM PST by 6SJ7
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To: Pikamax
Deport the unhappy freeloading bastards...

Do it soon, before they copulate and populate themselves into a majority in YOUR country.

Semper Fi
27 posted on 02/08/2006 4:31:24 PM PST by river rat (You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
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To: Pikamax

I really pray that our British allies do NOT fall for this crap...


28 posted on 02/08/2006 4:33:48 PM PST by SAMS (Nobody loves a soldier until the enemy is at the gate; Army Wife & Marine Mom)
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To: LibWhacker

I'd like to give Sharia a foot somewhere other than the door..........


29 posted on 02/08/2006 4:35:34 PM PST by festus (The constitution may be flawed but its a whole lot better than what we have now.)
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To: coydog

What is the difference between their request and the Church silenced in England not being able to discuss homosexuality or gay?

This is what you get on the slippery slope of hate speech.


30 posted on 02/08/2006 4:36:05 PM PST by edcoil (Reality doesn't say much - doesn't need too)
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To: Mugwump
"What kicks can you get out of seeing this caricature, except to insult the Prophet of Islam?"

Says it all for me.

Works for me too!

31 posted on 02/08/2006 4:39:34 PM PST by Rummyfan
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To: AmishDude

Yep. Envy, pure and simple.


32 posted on 02/08/2006 4:42:24 PM PST by RightWhale (pas de lieu, Rhone que nous)
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To: All

Oh, boy - here we go!


33 posted on 02/08/2006 4:43:41 PM PST by jackibutterfly (.)
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To: river rat

EXACTLY [and I don't often shout]

... but "The RoundUP" is long overdue


34 posted on 02/08/2006 4:47:07 PM PST by Dad yer funny
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To: jdm
Clearly anti-free speech. Ya hear that, liberals?

The truth is that there is no free speech in the United Kingdom. People have been tried for speaking "race hatred". There is no First Amendment like in the USA.

35 posted on 02/08/2006 4:55:40 PM PST by SunStar (Democrats piss me off!)
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To: Pikamax

If I'm not mistaken, Mohammed bobble-heads are still ok under Islamic law.


36 posted on 02/08/2006 4:57:57 PM PST by fat city ("The nation that controls magnetism controls the world.")
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To: SAMS

if you follow domestic news in the UK you know they just narrowly missed passing a version of word- and idea-crime law that would probably have made publishing the danish cartoons an offence.


37 posted on 02/08/2006 6:16:31 PM PST by WoofDog123
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To: msnimje

Step 2. To approve poligamy as they have already asked here in Spain...


38 posted on 02/09/2006 2:13:44 AM PST by Asereje
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To: Pikamax

Screw your stones on tight, Brits! Tell the buggers to live under British law or go back to where sharia is the law!


39 posted on 02/09/2006 2:17:28 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly.)
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To: joem15

Just a theory, mind you, but the "scholar" who took these cartoons on a months long road trip also took some which had not been published anywhere. Those, even allowing that one was a badly faxed picture of a contestant in a French hog calling contest, were far more offensive than anything published.
The cartoons which were published were published some time back, and the fact that all of this 'spontaneous dissent' seems to have been orchestrated and coordinated is nearly inescapable.

With the NYT and others braying incessantly about monitoring of telecommunications, it is possible that this entire event has been staged to produce a veritable snowstorm of communications events in order to overwhelm monitoring of comuniques for the purpose of transmitting plans, instructions, or other data.

This entire thing reeks of a scam, but one with a deeper purpose. I expect the real feces will hit the fan after all this dies down


40 posted on 02/09/2006 2:20:01 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly.)
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