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.
Where’s Black Jack Pershing when we need him?
Red Ken... How the Brits ever elected this steaming pile of Stalinist butt fudge is beyond me.
He wants “multiculturalism”... Thats funny. The Muslims he is defending don’t. In fact, liberal retards like him would be amongst the first to go.
No, actually, most are saying if they hadn't gone into Iraq none of this would be happening. I'm afraid the Brits are more into blaming themselves than blaming muslims. Pathetic.
Some people really do believe that being nice to the enemy will get them to like us. History has proven them wrong, but they continue to hope.
I’ll recommend this again.
Oh my youtube profile i have a playlist of a conference Red Ken was in that was about Jihad, called “Clash of Civilization”
Ken and his jihadi debating partner Salma Yaqoob vs Daniel Pipes and his must see partner Douglas Murray (you folks must view his part.. video 6 in the list)
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=581E170AE8760519
Pipes and Murry demolish Ken (especially Murry) and even got the London crowd to clap enthuasistically at their points.
All the points you folks are bring up are encapsulated by these speakers and the London crowd.
Boy, is that nuts!
That city withstood the great plague of the 1600's. It withstood the great fire a few years later. It withstood the old Luftwaffe.(They missed me).
Can it withstand this politically correct, ingratiating, fawning individual? From WW2 the echoes are with me now.
Carry on London.
British Muslim Opinion Surveys July 25, 2005
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=18888
I knew it
I knew it
Leave to Red Ken start some s**t
The only virtues I can see in multiculturalism is pandering for votes and interest group politics,it always ends badly, or as Al Gore says, E Pluribus Unam - from one, many.
I’m adding that book to my reading list.
Interesting choice of words.
We know that the majority of Muslims are 'good' (as good as anyone else) folks and want to get along -- however this is in spite of their religion, and not because of it.
Islam is a demonic religion.
You open the koran, and you read about a crazy guy who exalted lying, murder, rape, and destruction. His 'heaven' consisted of servicing the unbridled lust of young men.
Those who murdered for the 'cause' get the express pass to 'nirvana'...
Praise the LORD that most muslims don't follow their 'not so good' book -- but the Mayor is not helping his constituents -- the non-muslims, as well as those trapped in the islamic cult -- by pretending there isn't an intrinsic problem with a cult founded on the koran and hadiths.
The Mayor received two wake up calls in the last two days, yet he ignores it.
They hit Scotland today. I think we can count on the soccer hooligans rising up now.
I’m ot sure but I think he was in favor of Saddam too
The host cannot even regonize the parasite anymore.
i read the project has been denied permission to proceed.
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