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 people of London need to get rid of this guy
“Red Ken” never fails to deliver. yeesh!
More Chamberlin-type comments......
But Muslims love to demonize us Westerners, and come after innocent women and children. This ain’t over ‘till they’re sent to Allah.
You Brits have a problem....and it’s not just the Muzzies.
“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.
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Is he out of his freaking mind? Under what circumstance are the muzzies less likely to use violence than non-muzzies? The IRA bombs have stopped.
oh my youtube profile i have a playlist of a conference Red Ken was in that was about Jihad
Ken and his jihadi debating partner 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.
“Red Ken” should be next.
If they refuse to denounce it and tolerate its presence in their 'holy" sites and daily lives.......
THEY CONDONE IT KEN!
In the end they will kill you too ken.
Aren’t we doomed? It’s not only the Red Kenny boy. (I thought Kenny Boy was dead?!) It’s the rest of us as well. Our weakness which the barabrians exploit is the civilized manner with which we deal with them - jail, due process, prison with Internet access, years and years of appeals, books published, contingent of sympathetic bored suburban housewives rising in their defense, and so on. Take Mumia, Peltier, and so many others like these savages, to see what I mean. Keep such animals alive and invite lame public debates forever.
Britons, nor anyone else, need demonize the muslims. They are doing too good of a job themselves. Where is the muslim outrage at these terrorist attacks? How many "good" muslims have turned in their neighbors/relatives/friends who are plotting with terrorists?
Just be Brits. It’s in your genes. It’s in our genes. Do the right f’ing thing and it’ll be ok. The show down is coming...
I’m counting on the salt of the earth, the soccer hooligans to rise. That’s our only hope!
Of course not Ken. MI6 is likely investigating you not debriefing you.
“In this city, Muslims are more likely to be law-abiding than non-Muslims and less likely...”
More likely isn’t good enough.
A fool and his head are soon parted.
The man is a FOOL.
What a defeatist idiot.
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