That is how you deal with loonies.
Now, tell me again how the brave Brits stood up to this protest. Show me how the U.S. Government, under the worst President in my lifetime (that includes Jimmy Carter by the way, and that is saying something), is being asked to shut down Phelps and his disgusting crew.
For the record, I am sorry to see the UK overrun by Islam.
It’s not the Federal Government’s job to police the exercise of free speech even when it’s by a bunch of cretins who think, “How can we get in the newspapers? I know, let’s burn poppies on Remembrance Sunday.” Doesn’t matter if it’s on your side of the pond, or this side.
You seem to think there’s a massive difference between the Cult of Phelps making themselves hate targets by protesting at veterans’ funerals, and the Cult of Chaudhury doing the same damned thing.
But you’re wrong. There’s no difference. They’re both after the same thing: publicity.
At best, these idiots are not terrorists and are simply trying to make a name for themselves. In which case we should treat them the same way you guys treat Phelps... with the withering contempt they richly deserve.
At worst, they are Al Qaeda - but their mission isn’t to bomb us, it’s to make us look like fools in the Islamist press. Either way it’s nothing to get all hysterical about; the security services will be keeping very close tabs on these goons.
Al Qaeda’s operatives want Britain and America to get all hysterical, find a straw man to beat up, maybe invade another country that’s got nothing to do with Al Qaeda, and hand Al Qaeda its next recruiting advert.
Right now we’re content to let the press go after these scrotes, and name and shame them, and let their own communities tar and feather them. It’s a bit difficult for Al Qaeda to claim any kind of PR victory when the British Muslims turn their backs on these protesters, the British government acts in a very restrained manner, and the only people frothing about it are the press.
America takes the right attitude with media-whoring wind-up merchants like Phelps, but still acts all Chicken Little every time a Muslim media-whoring wind-up merchant does the exact same thing and seriously - you guys have GOT to wise up.
It’s only through the benefit of decades of direct experience with terrorism in our cities, that we Brits are able to tell the difference between a group of bona fide terrorists who need to be taken out of circulation in short order, a group of people seeking publicity who require a very different response, and propagandists for Al Qaeda.
From the British point of view, which IRA events really hurt us the most. Manchester? We rebuilt. Canary Wharf? Rebuilt that. The Brighton Bombing? No.
Try Bloody Sunday. Or the Hunger Strike. The IRA’s two biggest victories in its entire campaign, were down to us overreacting.
Let’s just hope it doesn’t take YOU guys fifty years and many, many more bombs on your soil and many more PR gifts to Al Qaeda, before you learn what we had to learn the hard way and STOP OVERREACTING.