So Islam4UK, headed by Anjem Choudary, says it plans to march through Wootton Bassett.
Most of the nation is in up-roar over the proposed march, Wootton Bassett has become a route where the public can pay their respect and honour the dead who have given their lives for this country. The vast majority of Muslims I spoke to at the weekend when campaigning in West Yorkshire, were outraged that this sick and unrepresentative group are trying to speak in their name.
Reader's will know that I believe passionately in Free speech. It often exposes the extremists, for what they really are. I have always been happy to debate and expose others’ abhorrent views like the BNP and Hizb ut tahrir.
But we cannot allow this group to effectively spit on the graves of our brave servicemen and women. Doing so would deeply offend our dead soldiers’ families.
Remember - They held a conference called “The Magnificent 19″, praising the 19 terrorists who attacked the U.S. on September 11, 2001.
A Facebook group set up to protest against the march currently has more than 350,000 supporters.
Last year, Islamist extremists held a protest in March in Luton against soldiers returning home from Iraq. They held signs calling soldiers 'murderers' and baby killers'. Nine people from an opposing group, called United People of Luton, were arrested after attacks on Asian shops.
We often forget about groups such as ‘Islam4UK’, because of the Government being obsessed with the BNP and its extremist’s views. All extremists groups MUST be watched closely by Government.
Islam4uk and others of their ilk need to understand that democracy has its boundaries and provocatively marching in a place synonymous with caskets containing bodies of soldiers killed in conflict is undoubtedly crossing these boundaries, for which there should be severe consequences. For these reasons the Home Secretary should act firmly and decisively and not allow the march to take place in Wootton Bassett.
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How undemocratic. Why do we have some sort of exclusive use of Wootton Bassett? These are British citizens too are they not? Why can't they express their opposition to the war in Afghanistan in that town in the same way many others express the support for our troops?
By having this debate and creating such a clamour for the march to be banned we are playing in to their hands, giving them the airwaves they want and running the risk of exposing a far greater number of vulnerable Muslims to their views. Just let them get on with it, ignore them and let them look like horrible people marching through Wootton Bassett.
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