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March 31, 2006

UK: Muslims Insult Condoleeza Rice On Blackburn Visit

We mentioned earlier that the US Secretary of State, Condoleeza Rice, was due to visit Blackburn in Lancashire today. The visit has gone ahead, but has been marred by disgraceful displays by Muslims and anti-war protesters.

She had been invited to Blackburn by Jack Straw, Britain's foreign secretary and member of parliament for the town. She visited Pleckgate school, but did not enter through the front door, because a large crowd of Muslims, adults and children, with some Anti-War protesters were shouting abuse and holding placards. She entered via a side door.

These displays have been deliberately manipulated by local Muslims to give themselves maximum media coverage. On BBC and ITV broadcast news, it was strange to hear Muslims, not one of whom spoke with an English accent, saying that this prestigious figure was not welcome in "their" town. One individual claimed she should be extradited to Iraq to be tried for murder.

The manipulation strategies began before the visit. According to The Scotsman, the Guardian, and Channel News Asia, she was originally invited to attend a mosque in the town, the Masjide Al-Hidayah. The invitation had been officially suggested by Jack Straw's office. However, the mosque withdrew its invite at the eleventh hour, because local Muslims were threatening to disrupt the visit.

Threats included Muslims saying they would arrive early and "invade" the mosque and mount protests from within the building. One of the mosque's governing committee members, Ibrahim Master, said: "The visit wasn't cancelled because we don't like Condoleeza Rice. What these people had threatened to do was invade the mosque during dawn prayers. It would have compromised the safety of the visiting dignitaries."

He said that he had no right to prevent any Muslim from entering the mosque.

The visit to Pleckgate school had protests which began yesterday, with 40 people camped outside the building. Hanif Dudhwala, a parent, and one of those who tried to sabotage the visit to the school, said: "We decided we should see the headteacher [Robin Campbell] and ask him to cancel the visit because we were not happy that we were not consulted at the outset."

The man who has campaigned the hardest to disrupt today's events is Saeed Ahmed, a so-called Muslim "leader". According to the Lancashire Evening Post, Ahmed led the campaigning to ban Ms Rice from entering any mosque in the town.

Ahmed (pictured above right) is imam at the Jamia mosque on Clarendon Street in the town. His insults to Ms Rice included calling her a terrorist. He appeared on ITV television news, calling for her to be extradited to Iraq. He has said that she has "blood on her hands", and has said that she is not welcome in the city.

Ironically, if British people like myself said that he and his supporters are not welcome in my country and should go home to their countries of birth, I would probably be tried for inciting racial hatred. But for Muslims, it seems, they can act in whatever way they see fit, and in Britain's pathetically PC climate, they are rarely censured.

Ahmed said to the Evening Post: "Letting Ms Rice inside one of our mosques is like allowing Ariel Sharon inside or a terrorist. We don't think it is right that a woman with thousands of people's blood on her hands should visit our mosques and have her picture taken. We have held meetings and this is the majority view of Muslim leaders here."

Poor Condoleeza Rice spoke diplomatically about the protests, and is now in Liverpool, where more Muslims and anti-war protesters are already preparing a disgusting display of ungraciousness to a leading figure on the world stage who has been invited. This is no way to treat distinguished guests.

Our unwelcome guests, our recently-arrived Muslims who refuse to let their children marry British people and prefer to import spouses via arranged marriages should realise that displays of this nature only fuel the collective hatred against them.

Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at March 31, 2006 1:05 PM

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