Sharia law being imposed in London "Muslim areas"

[shygirl]

It reminds me a bit of when there was a surge in the number of young men in South London converting to Islam, partly through gang involvement, some 8 - 10 years ago. Some of them were going around trying to force others to convert, saying that they were justified in robbing people as they were doing it for Islam and other shite that had nothing to do with the religion. Lots of kids were really freaked out by it. One young man was murdered in Brixton, so it was said, partly because he refused to accept Islam. One of the boys I worked with back then said that he wasn't prepared to convert, and thought he might up dead as a result of it. I raised it with the immam and other members of members Brixton Mosque, who condemned the behaviour and issued a press release in the South London Press, similar to the East London Mosque.

 

[Dr Jon]

Wetherspoon should buy up mosques and turn em into pubs, just like they do with churches.

 

[butchersapron]

Wetherspoon should buy up mosques and turn em into pubs like they do with churches.

why?

 

[Dr Jon]

use the space for something useful instead of superstitious fuckwittery.

"Fuckwit & Firkin" could be a successful chain of brew-pubs.

 

[MillwallShoes]

so having a quiet stroll along beer is wrong, but slinging the empty beer cans in bushes is okay by these chaps?

i think i prefer quiet drinkers to litterbugs, actually.

 

[MillwallShoes]

Surely it can't be long before JHE is along to impart his wisdom?

I suspect they know what they're doing. If I were them I'd be thinking that EDL types will be along before long to exact retribution. And they'll no doubt kick the shit out of some innocent group of kids. And after a few racist attacks by those cunts these twats will hope they'll be able to get some support for their 'patrols'.

Islamist far right twats feeding off nationalist far right twats. Great.

this ^ two sides of the same cuntish coin.

 

[MillwallShoes]

Next time i am in saudi, i might set up my own little roadblock - enforce people to have four stellas, a sausage roll from gregs, and maybe a little bit of cocaine.

 

[Frank Merton]

Among the world's religions, Islam does seem to generate the most antipathy, around the world, and does seem to be involved in the greatest number of outrages. Is this perhaps a consequence of selective news reporting, or is there something real behind it?

 

[Tankus]

Dead bodies in the name of islam might be a kicker..... You think...?

 

[scifisam]

Yay, this'll be good for local relations. The racists'll love it.

Whitechapel mosque is pretty big, so there probably are a few extreme arseholes there, but it's certainly not a "radical mosque" like the papers would like to say.

Is there? The few gays I know near me haven't mentioned it. I agree if it does happen of course report to the OB.

Yeah, kinda - it's more up in Shoreditch than in Whitechapel. You have to be a bit wary when leaving the Joiner's Arms. Plus there was that sticker campaign.

 

[likesfish]

Answer saudi money.

If westboro bapist church had squillions tp push its extreme batshit version of christianity you have a similar effect.

 

[two sheds]

Among the world's religions, Islam does seem to generate the most antipathy, around the world, and does seem to be involved in the greatest number of outrages. Is this perhaps a consequence of selective news reporting, or is there something real behind it?

I'd say Christianity is involved in the greatest actual outrages, in particular the fundamentalist Christianity of Bush and Blair who ordered the killing of a couple of hundred thousand Muslims.

Do you wonder that they engage in the relatively small acts of terrorism when we engage in mass-scale terrorism in that way? What would have been our reaction if a Muslim country had bombed the shit out of say the US killing a quarter of a million because the US was hiding terrorists (which it does) and had weapons of mass destruction that could target Muslim countries (which it also does)?

So yes, selective news reporting - we don't call what we do terrorism.

 

[Frank Merton]

Bringing up someone else's wrongs are a bad way to justify your own. It merely makes you seem worse.

 

[two sheds]

Bringing up someone else's wrongs are a bad way to justify your own. It merely makes you seem worse.

Ignoring your own wrongs are a bad way to justify an attack on someone else. It merely makes you seem ignore-ant.

 

[teqniq]

where did two sheds say anything that by implication is justifying 'your own'?

 

[manny-p]

Those lads are gonna get stabbed soon enough. Bunch of dafties.

 

[Frank Merton]

where did two sheds say anything that by implication is justifying 'your own'?

Yea I noticed that; still it was obvious enough. Just a tad of denial in there, or maybe disingenuous.

 

[Frank Merton]

Ignoring your own wrongs are a bad way to justify an attack on someone else. It merely makes you seem ignore-ant.

I don't see the Westerners committing atrocities in the name of Christianity, but only in the name of preserving order and civilization. But then they do commit atrocities, so I doubt know that either deity approves much.

I was raised a Buddhist, and as a result got imbued with the idea that at heart all religious impulses are good things. This is becoming a hard belief to sustain.

 

[teqniq]

Yea I noticed that; still it was obvious enough. Just a tad of denial in there, or maybe disingenuous.

WTF ?

 

[Frank Merton]

WTF ?

 

[SpineyNorman]

I'd say Christianity is involved in the greatest actual outrages, in particular the fundamentalist Christianity of Bush and Blair who ordered the killing of a couple of hundred thousand Muslims.

Do you wonder that they engage in the relatively small acts of terrorism when we engage in mass-scale terrorism in that way? What would have been our reaction if a Muslim country had bombed the shit out of say the US killing a quarter of a million because the US was hiding terrorists (which it does) and had weapons of mass destruction that could target Muslim countries (which it also does)?

So yes, selective news reporting - we don't call what we do terrorism.

I seriously doubt whether Bush and Blair were motivated by their religion - suspect oil and empire had a fair bit more to do with it. Likewise, I think that had the inhabitants of the middle eastern countries the US had been fucking with for decades been non-muslim the response would have been no less violent - might have taken a different form but it would still have happened.

Just don't think it's all that useful to see the violence on either side in simple religious terms.

 

[not-bono-ever]

Those lads are gonna get stabbed soon enough. Bunch of dafties.

I wonder if there is a Youve been framed style outtakes of the vid, where surly yoot give the film makers a slap ?

Probabaly not - looks like they pick only on people who just want a quiet life

 

[Frank Merton]

I Likewise, I think that had the inhabitants of the middle eastern countries the US had been fucking with for decades been non-muslim the response would have been no less violent - might have taken a different form but it would still have happened.

It's basically religious. Don't be so Marxist-ly naive. That Europeans don't give religion a second thought is true enough, but its not wise to see the whole world in European terms.

I always wonder what it is that cause some people to automatically blame the US for everything that smells bad in the world. It's a certain form of envious blindness I guess. Shit the US does plenty of bad things, but that sort of world-view is really distorted.

 

[butchersapron]

Bring back fela fan!

 

[two sheds]

This one's a doosie though. He accuses other people of being niave while believing that we're keeping the Falklands because it's the high minded morally correct thing to do and nothing to do with the UK being able to claim resources around them.

 

[teqniq]

((( )))

These are very likely my very first rolly-eyes.

 

[teqniq]

dp

 

[Das Uberdog]

plenty Christian atrocities go on in Africa by anyone's standards.

 

[Tankus]

If only Reggie and Ronnie were still about ....... wouldn't be any of this malarkey then , otherwise you would end up brown bread.

streets would be safe again !......... uhm .....err ?

 

[cesare]

Bring back fela fan!

I was going to say Derf, but then thought, oh wait ...