Posted on 06/30/2007 7:17:12 PM PDT by angelcindy
LONDON (AFP) - London Mayor Ken Livingstone called on Britons Saturday not to demonize Muslims after a double car bomb plot was foiled in the capital, amid fears of a Islamist terror threat.
At the same time he criticized Britain over its ties with Saudi Arabia, which he said had fuelled intolerance in the past through its Wahhabist form of Islam, creating a "major problem."
"In this city, Muslims are more likely to be law-abiding than non-Muslims and less likely to support the use of violence to achieve political ends than non-Muslims," he told BBC Radio.
"They have played a good and active and growing role in creating a multi-cultural society," he added.
He noted that terrorist acts had been carried out in London over the years by various groups including for example far-right groups. For years the British capital was wracked by violence by the Irish Republican Army (IRA).
"All I am interested in as mayor is that we try to prevent all acts of violence whether it is by a disaffected young member of the (far-right) BNP (British National Party), whether it is by an Islamist or a Wahhabist supporter," he said.
It was crucial to understand "that that doesn't mean that all white men are potentially a threat to society any more than all Muslims are," he added.
But he said criticized the government's ties with Saudi Arabia, saying it remained unclear if Riyadh had stemmed huge amounts of funding which he said flows from the country.
"We have got to understand that when we talk about the Wahhabi strand of Islam, which is very intolerant, our major problem in dealing with it is that it flows out of Saudi Arabia," he said.
He said Wahhabi was the official religion of the Saudi royal family, and noted that Riyadh was one of the main buyers of British arms.
"For a very long time, politicians at national level were refusing to be sufficiently critical of the fact that the Saudi regime didn't clean up its act," he said.
"Now we are assured that they have, but there's been decades of literally hundreds of millions of pounds flowing out of Saudi Arabia with official backing into the most intolerant strand of Islam, buying influence all over the world for it.
"I think we have to be absolutely clear that that is not still going on. I don't have access to the sort of MI6 briefing to say whether that's come to an end or not," he said.
The only way MI6 would debrief this moronic nutjob Ken would be if they were to yank off his underpants.
This is just jaw-droppingly stupid. This guy is truly insane. Who does he think is driving these car bombs around the UK? Lutherans?
Ken Livingstone is an admitted Communist. Isn’t it disturbing that he says the same type of claptrap that Bush and most of our politicians here say — that the worst thing, worse than the murder of innocents, would be if our society was intolerant of Muslims?
“In this city, Muslims are more likely to be law-abiding than non-Muslims and less likely to support the use of violence to achieve political ends than non-Muslims”
It is amazing that this man ever got elected - he’s a disgrace to his city and his country.
uh, how different is that from Pres Bush after 9-11?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1857308/posts
this guy is a jew hater to begin with and a commie to boot-i sincerely he is incinerated in one of the terror acts his beloved muzzies commit
This is such BS, it would be almost amusing if the situation wasn’t so horribly dangerous. This guy is doing the people he serves a great disservice by blatantly lying to them.
Really doesn't do much good to tell the non-Moslems to do that.
What universe did this “Red Ken” Livingstone escape from?
He had to come riding in with Dr. Who.
When will people learn........
Not to worry; Quislings always get their due, it's just a matter of when and from whom...
I bet a lot of Brits are saying, “We’s had about as much of this multi-cultural society that we can stand.”
OUCH!
That's gonna leave a mark.
There are some differences, however; Bush stopped saying "ROP" quite a while ago, and the U.S. has neither the percentage of rabid sandmaggots that GB has, nor have we had to deal with the number of ROP attacks or attemps.
Or perhaps we have, but our leaders insist on "protecting" us children...
We’s should be We’ve
.... yeah pardon me if I’m wrong but wouldn’t you brits have burned a guy like that at the stake four or five hundred years ago?
I still find myself wondering exactly what is the virtue of being “multicultural”? It doesn’t contribute anything beneficial to my own life that I can see - (and I suspect it makes it more dangerous.)
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