Any members going to this demonstration?

[voltaire]

Originally posted by Bilderbooger
So the MAC is a Muslim version of the BNP. That makes sense. I knew I was right to suspect their motives. Lying bastards.

Not really. The groups that support the MAC are (from what I can gather) primarily religious rather than political - for instance Iqbal Sacranie et al from the MCB are more comfortable talking about theological issues rather than political ones. It's only circumstance that's forced their hands.

The only possibly exception to this in terms of the mainstream could be the Muslim Association of Britain who (someone correct me if I'm wrong) I believe are associated with the Muslim Brotherhood?

However even they don't incite racial hatred in the way that the BNP do.

A more accurate comparison would be between the BNP and Hizb-ut-Tahrir or Al-Muhajiroun.



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[HOUDA-K]

I went to both demo's and I'm really dissapointed. The platform that we had was not used effectively against so many issues and to name just a few are the rape, and sexual humiliation of our brothers and sisters at Abu Gharaib, Bagram, and elsewhere under tyrannical so-called muslim regimes, the dehumanisation of refugees in Chechnya, the political and religious oppression of Muslims in China & Central Asia and other Muslims living under occupation, the illegal war in Iraq and Afghanistan, the glorification of terror act, the acts of aggression committed by the West, the hypocrisy of the UN, the poverty our brothers and sisters endure across the world, and esp in Africa

Yvonne Ridley made a comment and nothing else was said. Muslims need to wake up a bit, we need to defend the honour of our Prophet {SAW}, but within reason and bound, there is no point blowing a cartoon out of proportion - if we are going to do that, lets protest every day, against Charles Moore who said the Prophet {SAW} was a pedophile, against Nick Griffin and others.

We need to raise legitimate concerns, and rally the support of the non Muslims in the British society, some of whom are equally troubled over the issues raised above.