Moslems Protest 'terrorist' police - No-one Cares
Courtesy of Little Green Footballs, I find that on last Friday, a group of moslems "demonstrated outside the Paddington Green police station on Friday, but British media completely ignored the event". Possibly because they were masked and carrying messages not peaceful enough to fit the standard MSM stories about the 'Religion of Peace' (see here for examples of peacefulness of 'Religion of Peace') and thus not worthy of our knowing. Perhaps. There's really no fathoming the workings of the fevered minds responsible for the MSM, I suppose.What I would like to know, though, is what the sign 'Muslims Rise For Islam' is supposed to mean. You can see the banner quite clearly here, but the meaning is somewhat obscure for this Brit. It looks more than a little like incitement to mob action to me. After all, moslems have the Respect party, so they can use political power if they want to, and they have entire nations kowtowing to them in an unprecedented manner, so they don't need to use social power. This leaves mob action, which is generally a very unpleasant occurrence.
But it has been suggested that the non-reporting is a good thing, as it deprives these oddballs of the 'oxygen of publicity' which they seem to love so much. More interesting than the non-reporting of the event, I think, is the victim mentality of the people involved. We can see from the images (full gallery currently here, taken by Gaiaseye) that the banners display a uniformity of image and message, which suggests that there is someone pulling the strings behind all this. I doubt it's a single-purpose gathering, this. As well as trying to cow the cops, they are also re-inforcing the imagined victimhood of the moslems in the UK. (I say imagined because there is no other group that I know of for whom things have been pre-emptively banned and satire of whom has been actively discouraged by politicians)
The victimhood 'meme', so to speak, for the moslems is getting to interesting levels now, and it appears to be not only moslems who believe it, but also at least one American (hat-tip to regular commentator Bernard for pointing that essay out to me), Oriana Fallaci's sarcastic term 'poor-little-things' to refer to moslems in Europe becomes more and more pertinent.
What, I wonder, do our readers think of this?
Mr Smith
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I thought "Muslims rise for Islam" was something to do with keeping the Islamic birthrate high...
On a less flippant note: the repetitive victimhood theme is quite interesting, because it's almost always allied with a certain threatening triumphalism: so that on the one hand (or hook) you have posters claiming that all Muslims are oppressed, etc, and right next to it someone is holding a poster with "Islam will conquer Rome", or something similar. It's difficult for them to have it both ways.
No-one cares
A bit like this thread.
Well done, you noticed.
I care. It makes me angry that it doesn't tic with most people. It's all so commonplace anymore. Muslims protest, riot, burn cars, scream racism/islamophobia, throw stones, and sue people on a regular basis to, damnit, get their way!!!
Normal citizens have learned to keep their opinions to themselves for fear of being labeled something nasty. Name calling IS worse than sticks and stones anymore. We've been PC'ed into craven cowardice and normalized into acceptance of special interest, anti-societal behaviour by a group of protected minorities. What else is new these days?
Despite what Mr Smith says above about the MSM being reluctant to report these demos, they have done and in the case of the infamous Danish cartoons protest march it was the very MSM which led the outcry here in London and forced the authorities to mount prosecutuins for inciting violence. As for the demo above, as long as they aren't being violent or breaking the laws in incitement they are as entitled to freedom of speech as anyone else however hypocritical they may be about it.
Colm is absolutely right that they have a right to peaceful protest and we need to protect that right lest it bite us in the ass. Beautiful verbage as usual Colm.
Colm is absolutely right that they have a right to peaceful protest and we need to protect that right lest it bite us in the ass. Beautiful verbage as usual Colm.
Daphne
I'm sure some people would think the word after beautiful in your comment above should have been garbage !