Posted on 11/10/2011 11:55:10 AM PST by the scotsman
'The home secretary is banning Muslims Against Crusades (MAC), a group that planned an anti-Armistice Day protest.
It had wanted to repeat a demonstration held last year, when it burned poppies near London's Albert Hall.
Theresa May's order will make membership or support of MAC a criminal offence. It is closely linked to seven other previously-banned groups.
The organisation, now dissolved, said "the call for Islam will never be silenced by any ban or proscription".
Mrs May said she was satisfied that Muslims Against Crusades (MAC) was "simply another name for an organisation already proscribed under a number of names".
"The organisation was proscribed in 2006 for glorifying terrorism and we are clear it should not be able to continue these activities by simply changing its name," she said.
Muslims Against Crusades is the latest incarnation of an organisation originally set up by extremist preacher Omar Bakri Mohammed, who fled the UK six years ago.'
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You are not entirely focused today, Deb. My observation that the EDL are a bunch of socialists has nothing to do with politics in the Middle East.
As they say in Parlaiment;
HEAR! HEAR!
No, just no.
As I am sure you are aware, I and the other British/Irish freepers (mitch86, vanders9, IrishConservative etc) all dislike or detest the EDL and have explained numerous times exactly why.
Your hatred of the EDL has nothing to do with competing economic ideologies. You support Islam. Man up (if possible) and admit it.
Most people and parties, including conservative and conservative-nationalists, oppose the EDL. They are disliked and distrusted across the political and social spectrum.
Most of your countrymen know little of freedom; you let the government take over your health care and you let them take your handguns.
So is the Tea Party here.
You're just proving my point.
The Tea Party is disliked and distrusted across the political and social spectrum? Wow, I learn new stuff on FR every day.
Attempting to deflect by pretending I've lost focus is pathetic.
You think Democrats and the RINO establishment and the MSM likes the Tea Party?
Seen these numbers?
"A CNN/ORC poll released today shows the approval rating for the tea party movement at its lowest point since polling began in 2010.
The conservative/libertarian movement is viewed favorably by just 28 percent of Americans — down from its all time high of 38 percent last November — while 53 percent have a negative opinion of it, also a record.
Read more: http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-09-27/politics/30207187_1_approval-rating-favorability-rating-wrong-direction#ixzz1dL8LhRdl
See how that works, Muzzie-lover?
1—97% of the UK is NOT Muslim.
This idea that Britain has been, is being or will be conquered by Islam is a nosense and a fantasy. You ever wondered why the people who say that are Americans, not British?.
How ironic you are still selling that flimflam on a thread posted by a Brit about how the Brits have clamped down on Islamic extremists.
2—The NHS was set up in 1948 as the result of wartime policy papers and political movements that included the Conservatives, and yes even old Winston. If you actually knew your British history, you’d know that. And we have private healthcare, plenty of it.
3—We WILL agree on the handgun ban. Idiotic and kneejerk, it gained support because (and I have said this on FR many times) the British populace was never and never has been a gun owning people, and such, the restrictive laws gained little opposition, be it the 1920’s or the 1990’s.
Furthermore (and to use an extreme example), it is theoretically (and logically) possible to oppose homosexuality, while not supporting Fred Phelps.
So the EDL was organized to counter-protest the anti-war protestors (true). That doesn't mean I cannot take a more critical look at them.
The Tea Party is a viable political force in present U.S. politics, making your point . . . well . . . stupid.
The Tea Party are a group of normal and decent people.
The EDL are a group with links to football hooligans and to more extreme far right groups like Combat 18 and to the racist and antisemitic BNP political party. The EDL has a disproportinate number of members with criminal convictions for football hooliganism ,GBH, assault, racial hatred, racial assault, racial harassment....
Thanks for proving MY point about the starry eyed notion of the EDL in the US.
There is a difference.
But nary a condemnation of Islam from you people. Are you afraid MI-5 is reading your keystrokes?
The Tea Partiers I know are well-liked. Try leaving the boundaries of your trailer park.
Where do you get that from my post?
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