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London mayor defends Muslims as bomb plot foiled
yahoo uk. ^ | Saturday, June 30 11:32 am | LONDON (AFP)

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.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: collaborators; dhimmitude; enemywithin; eurabia; haymarketcarbombs; infiltration; islam; kenlivingstone; london; londonistan; redkenlivingston; terror; ukmuslims
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To: 6SJ7

The only way MI6 would debrief this moronic nutjob Ken would be if they were to yank off his underpants.


21 posted on 06/30/2007 7:30:49 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Forget the fence....Build a wall from the Pacific to the Gulf of Mexico.)
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To: angelcindy

22 posted on 06/30/2007 7:32:36 PM PDT by Eye of Unk
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To: angelcindy
Islam the religion of peace:

Islamic Scholar Warns U.S. of 'Two-Faced' Muslims
23 posted on 06/30/2007 7:32:44 PM PDT by Man50D (Fair Tax , you earn it , you keep it!)
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To: angelcindy
"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,"

This is just jaw-droppingly stupid. This guy is truly insane. Who does he think is driving these car bombs around the UK? Lutherans?

24 posted on 06/30/2007 7:33:41 PM PDT by hsalaw
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To: TOneocon

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?


25 posted on 06/30/2007 7:36:22 PM PDT by Judges Gone Wild
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To: angelcindy

“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.


27 posted on 06/30/2007 7:37:19 PM PDT by Taiku
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To: yldstrk

uh, how different is that from Pres Bush after 9-11?


28 posted on 06/30/2007 7:38:27 PM PDT by stuck_in_new_orleans
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To: angelcindy
President Bush Rededicates Islamic Center of Washington The Islamic Center of D.C. June 27, 2007

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1857308/posts

29 posted on 06/30/2007 7:38:55 PM PDT by TexKat ((Just because you did not see it or read it, that does not mean it did or did not happen.))
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To: mlbford2

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


30 posted on 06/30/2007 7:38:57 PM PDT by steamroller
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To: doug from upland

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.


31 posted on 06/30/2007 7:40:03 PM PDT by oakcon (Dulce et Decorum est pro Patria mori)
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To: angelcindy
The Mayor probably ought to go tell the Moslems to quit demonizing themselves.

Really doesn't do much good to tell the non-Moslems to do that.

32 posted on 06/30/2007 7:40:36 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: angelcindy

What universe did this “Red Ken” Livingstone escape from?

He had to come riding in with Dr. Who.


33 posted on 06/30/2007 7:41:05 PM PDT by alloysteel (Choose carefully the hill you would die upon. For if you win, the view is magnificent.)
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To: angelcindy
This mayor is nuts, just like anyone else who thinks that Islam is a religion of peace.

When will people learn........

34 posted on 06/30/2007 7:42:18 PM PDT by pctech
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To: angelcindy
The people of London need to get rid of this guy

Not to worry; Quislings always get their due, it's just a matter of when and from whom...

35 posted on 06/30/2007 7:43:14 PM PDT by Publius6961 (MSM: Israelis are killed by rockets; Lebanese are killed by Israelis.)
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To: angelcindy

I bet a lot of Brits are saying, “We’s had about as much of this multi-cultural society that we can stand.”


36 posted on 06/30/2007 7:45:15 PM PDT by OldPossum
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To: stuck_in_new_orleans
uh, how different is that from Pres Bush after 9-11?

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...

37 posted on 06/30/2007 7:47:07 PM PDT by Publius6961 (MSM: Israelis are killed by rockets; Lebanese are killed by Israelis.)
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To: OldPossum

We’s should be We’ve


38 posted on 06/30/2007 7:48:19 PM PDT by OldPossum
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To: angelcindy

.... 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?


39 posted on 06/30/2007 7:49:06 PM PDT by utherdoul
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To: OldPossum

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.)


40 posted on 06/30/2007 7:50:15 PM PDT by The Duke (I have met the enemy, and he is named 'Apathy'!)
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