Those Treacherous Muslims demonstrating against the British Army in Luton
That is how the Daily Mail and the Daily Express, among other outlets, reported the side demonstration against a homecoming parade by 200 soldiers back from Basra through Luton this week.
This reporting is bollocks; it fails to give the crucial context to anyone who just sees the front page – as we know is often the case for people who, for example, watch the “papers review” on the television. Just adding “Extremist” into the headline would be better. To their credit, none of the “qualities” played the same trick. Where to start?
- The “Muslim extremist” (not quite an accurate description, but close enough) demonstrators were about 20 people, are thought to be associated with the organisation Al-Muhajiroun – or related glove puppet organisations.
- Luton has a Muslim community of around 30,000 – and there is no real evidence that I have seen that that is mainly where this crowd originated.
- I don’t actually see much difference from the language used by most “White British” demonstrators against the operations in Iraq.
- Yes, we are right to be disgusted by the protest.
- What’s it going to be next? “Sensible Daily Mail front page reporting” instead of “somehow a sensible report appeared on the front page of the Daily Mail this morning”.
- This is an excellent way to allow the public to swallow BNP attack lines.
Most of the Muslim community may be sceptical or hostile, and that is their right; I don’t agree with that. I’d be out there welcoming the troops home – they did a decent job in a difficult set of circumstances.
I tend to agree with Margaret Moran the MP: the question is whether the demo should have been allowed to go ahead in these circumstances. If Dave Gorman the comedian photographing Helter-Skelters constitutes a possible breach of the peace, then I don’t see how this demonstration failed to qualify; breach of the peace depends on context, but the comparison is startling.
For a more detailed “on the ground” report, visit the Norfolk Unity blog, or even better the Local ITV News report. The video footage is here, but I couldn’t capture the stream to upload to Youtube.
[Update 1pm: I've just received permission to run an edited version of the Norfolk Unity piece, which I will do tomorrow.]
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Why should anybody beleive Norfuck unity or you if you print their anti white rubbish.
FACT: Atreus is a turncoat who sold out the BNP and joined the searchlies fascists
FACT: Denise Garside is a minge munching dyke freak who votes tory and loves muslims. Under sharia law she would be stoned to death.
Hypocrytes.
@BNP and Proud: thanks for the visit and comment.
>Why should anybody beleive Norfuck unity or you if you print their anti white rubbish.
That’s for thereader to judge. I looked at a number of reports, and I’m satisfied that these papers got it wrong.
As is clear, I hold no brief for the likes of the demonstrators, but neither do I think that they are anything like representative – and all that is clear. If we want to stir up civil strife, then demonising parts of our society is the best way to do it.
>FACT: Atreus is a turncoat who sold out the BNP and joined the searchlies fascists
He’s free to change his views. We’re in a democracy, right?
>FACT: Denise Garside is a minge munching dyke freak who votes tory and loves muslims. Under sharia law she would be stoned to death.
If Denise Garside wants this deleted, I’m to delete it.
BTW I’ll be republishing the Norfolk Unity piece (edited to remove a couple of personalised comments) later today, so anyone can judge.
[...] attitudes are sympathetic to such stories. A good example of this style of coverage was the inflammatory coverage of the demonstration by approximately 20 extremists during a parade of soldiers returned from Basra [...]
[...] political attitudes are sympathetic to such stories. A good example of this style of coverage was the inflammatory coverage of the demonstration by approximately 20 extremists during a parade of sol…, in March this year. By contrast, a far more balanced report, in my opinion, was published by the [...]