Al Quds
Day – the UK agrees yet again to host a racist, Islamist event
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Posted: 19 Aug 2012 03:06 PM
PDT
The following was written by Babs Barron,
reporting from London:
Al Quds (Jerusalem) is allegedly the third most holy site in Islam. Strange, then, that it is not mentioned anywhere in the Qur'an or ahadith.
Some background:
Before the Six Days War between Israel and
her neighbours in June, 1967, Jerusalem was
supposed to be an international city, holy as it was to three religions, and
administrated by the United Nations so that Jews and Christians as well as
Muslims could have access to their holy places. However, the envisaged
administration by the UN did not materialise. Instead, upon Israel's
declaration of statehood on 14th May, 1948 and the resulting
attacks on her by her Arab neighbours the 1,500 residents of the Jewish
Quarter of the Old City were expelled and a few hundred taken prisoner when
the Arab Legion captured the quarter on 28th May. The Arab Legion also
attacked Western Jerusalem with snipers.
Arab residents of Katamon, Talbiya and the German Colony fled. Arabs
were also displaced in the battle.
As a result of the 1948 war, the old
walled city of Jerusalem,
which contains the Western Wall (the only remaining wall of the second Temple),
fell into Jordanian hands. Jordan took
control of all the holy sites and forbade Jews from entry to the Old City.
They severely limited access of Christians to their holy places too. Israel retained West
Jerusalem.
Half of the 58 synagogues in the Old City were
either razed or converted to stables and hen houses over the next 19 years,
including the Hurva and the Tiferet Yisrael Synagogue. The Jewish Cemetery on
the Mount of Olives was desecrated.
Its gravestones were used to build roads and latrines and many other historic
and religiously significant buildings were demolished and replaced by modern
structures.
Jordan was
urged to remain neutral during the Six Days War, but it attacked West
Jerusalem on the second day. The Jordanian army should
have listened to that advice because Israeli forces captured the Temple Mount after
hand-to-hand fighting and extended its law and jurisdiction to East
Jerusalem and some surrounding areas, incorporating them
into the Jerusalem Municipality.
In time-honoured fashion, Arab/Muslim
belligerent self-pity and incapability to let go of grudges ensured that
successive Palestinian governments have made the very most of their defeat by
Jews in 1967. The Palestinian propaganda machine reminds the world of
Palestinians' "right" to Jerusalem (Al
Quds) with monotonous regularity. Added to this, disturbingly, alongside
the growing antisemitism in the West as a result of Islamist propaganda in
newspapers like the UK Guardian, this specious "right" to sling out
the Jews once more from the city which was their seat of government during
Biblical times and where there has been a Jewish presence since before the
Muslim prophet was conceived, seems to have gained some traction.
It will come as no surprise to the well-informed reader that the message
rings out loudest and most clearly from the Western capital city which is
known for its welcome to all things Islamist and offers them freedom to spout
their odious ideas – London.
Al Quds Day in London
 
Al Quds Day is an annual day chosen by the
late Ayatollah Khomeini to call for Israel (and
for that you may also read "Jews") to be destroyed. It is usually
"celebrated" on the last Friday in Ramadan which this year fell on
17th August. Islamists and their fellow travellers and
haters love a good parade and of course it was marked all over the world by
marches and demonstrations against Israel,
liberally seasoned (if past occasions are anything to go by) with the
belligerent self-pity and antisemitism I have mentioned above. Devout
Muslims are enjoined to hate Jews because their prophet did, even though they
may never have met one and will almost certainly have benefited directly from
the Jewish contribution to Muslim welfare and to all mankind. They hate
Jews even more, of course, because Jews are cleverer, more resourceful and
their military is more powerful than any Arab army which has ever been
foolish enough to try to wipe them out. Muslims are not particularly
clever at learning from experience and invariably snatch defeat from the jaws
of victory, and they do have a ridiculous penchant for repeating the same
behaviours which they know will not work and telling themselves and their
people fairy stories that they have achieved victory. All this, were it not a
hairsbreadth away from the usual Islamist inspired violence, would make this Al
Quds Day spectacle one of ridicule rather than concern. In
previous years, for example, we have been "entertained" by poster
girl convert extraordinaire, Lauren ("I have read three
pages of the Koran") Booth, among other clowns.
This year we were reminded that the
event is bankrolled by the Iranian Islamic Human
Rights Commission (IHRC) and is advertised by a series of
advertisements by them on the sides of London buses
(but see below for the result of a campaign to have those advertisements
removed). This means, of course, that Transport for London was
willing to accept money from an Iranian-funded, terror-supporting
organisation. I would imagine that that is against UK law.
You would think that Transport for London would
have been more careful, but they seem to have cared little so long as the
advertisers stumped up the cash.
A friend, when he heard of the plans to
advertise the Al Quds hate fest on the sides of London buses,
wrote to Transport for London:
"I am appalled by your even
considering doing advertising Al-Quds day on London buses,
let alone go ahead with it.
"Quite apart from an utter lack of
respect and no sense of timing – have you forgotten that these Olympics mark
an anniversary of the murder by Islamic terrorist of Israeli Jewish athletes
in Munich? – the utter
insensitivity of this almost beggars belief. What effect do you think
this has on Jewish and other communities in London and
elsewhere which sees you giving open support to Islamists? What effect
does this have on social cohesion? This, taken at a previous Al-Quds
day in London, is but one
example of what your advertisement endorses:
"You have been well and truly
hoodwinked by the IHRC. Did you know that it is an Islamic charity
which supported the tyranny of Ayatollah Khomeini?
"Did you know either that the
charity supports Sheikh Abdul Rahman, who was the spiritual leader of the
Egyptian Islamic Jihad and Al-Gama’a al-Islamiyya, which were were
consolidated into Al Qaeda? He was an associate of Bin Laden, and his
teacher, Abdullah Azzam. Having moved to New York to fundraise for Al
Qaeda, the Blind Sheikh was convicted of various charges arising from the
the World Trade Center 1993 bombings and was imprisoned several times
in Egypt in 1970 and 1981 for 3 years. He left Egypt in
1990 after facing security restrictions and being put under house arrest for
a year. Three years after arriving to the US,
he was arrested, convicted and sentenced to a life sentence.
"These, then, are the people your
buses show you to be supporting. By inference, your allowing them to
advertise so contentiously about a gathering which threatens social cohesion
makes it seem that British people support them, but the majority of us most
certainly do not.
"No matter how much you received
for advertising in this way on behalf of this egregious organisation, please
keep your collective soul intact by taking down the advertisements – so
insulting to many London and UK citizens.
You have been had most consummately and running these advertisements during
the Olympics is ill-judged and insulting to the Israeli athletes who were
murdered by people who held the same ideology as them.
"Yours
faithfully"
And he received the
following form email from one Nigel McDonald. He and I know of others
who got an identical reply. From the lack of reference to the concerns
in my friend's email I doubt that McDonald even bothered to read it:
From: Nigel McDonald [mailto:Nigel.McDonald@cbsoutdoor.co.uk]
Sent: 07 August 2012 14:44 To: Subject: RE: Al-Quds Day advertisement
Thank you for your email regarding the
Islamic Human Rights Commission campaign.
CBS Outdoor UK sought
advice from the Committee of Advertising Practice and the advert complies
with Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) guidelines and does not breach any UK ad
regulations.
If you wish to make a formal complaint
regarding the campaign, please contact the ASA directly.
Advertising Standards
Authority
Mid City Place 71 High HolbornLondon WC1V 6QT
Tel: 020 7492 2222
The ASA will confirm
receipt of the complaint and advise you on how it will be proceeding.
Thank you for taking the time to contact
CBS Outdoor UK.
Regards,
Nigel McDonald
Subsequently however (although not
without many more letters of complaint, representations to MPs etc) the
advertisements were withdrawn, although far too late. The Al Quds hate
fest went ahead in all its mouth-frothing ignominy. I also found
out Transport for London promised
that it would review its procedures so as to make sure that offensive
advertisements would not be accepted again. Transport for London also
apologised for the offence caused.
For one person's eye-witness account,
complete with photographs, please go to Richard Millett's blog here. Note that he was advised to
leave subsequently by the Metropolitan police. Note also the first
comment below the line to the article, where the poster says that it is his
right to demonstrate but, of course, he shows absolutely no awareness that
along with rights come responsibilities.
The UK is
sleepwalking into dhimmitude
London has
just hosted a tremendous Olympic Games. The UK government
and London dignitaries
made much of the universal brotherhood which is the Olympic ethos. Yet
in the following week, apparently without any awareness of the contradiction
and insult, London played host to as egregiously nasty a collection of
haters, antisemites and supporters of Islamist terror as you might find
anywhere on earth. This is not coincidence. Islamists and their
fellow travellers, Jew-haters and supporters of Islamist terror are made more
comfortable and welcome in London than
in almost any other Western city. That must be the case when even London buses
announced support for their iniquitous endeavours.
The UK government's
twisting itself out of shape to accommodate Islamists and haters of every
stripe grows more and more alarming. I wonder whether this march – in
support of a dictatorship which makes no secret of its antisemitism and its
desire to wipe out the only democracy in the Middle East because it is a Jewish
state, and uses the plight of the Palestinians as an excuse to whip up the
masses – would have been allowed to go ahead if Jews, Zionists, Christians,
Hindus, Sikhs, Zoroastrians and other faiths and peoples were perceived to be
as violent as Muslims when thwarted and as prone to act out in response to
imaginary offence?
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