Muslim protesters today called for the bombing of New York in a demonstration outside the US embassy in London.
There were threats of "another 9/11" from militants
[Since when did "militants" hang out in London posing as "protesters?"--Jen]
angry at reports of the desecration of the Koran by US troops in Iraq.
[Horsepucky!
That Koran flushing is just an excuse.
They've been upset with the West and ready to wage war for Islam for years, decades, centuries!]
Some among the crowd burned an effigy of Tony Blair on a crucifix and then set fire to a Union flag and a Stars and Stripes.
Led by a man on a megaphone, they chanted, "USA watch your back, Osama is coming back" and "Kill, kill USA, kill, kill George Bush". A small detail of police watched as they shouted: "Bomb, bomb New York" and "George Bush, you will pay, with your blood, with your head."
Demonstrators in Grosvenor Square, some with their faces covered with scarves, waved placards which included the message: "Desecrate today and see another 9/11 tomorrow."
[Yawn. I'm almost bored with their outrage and their death threats.
Don't these people ever have any new ideas?--J.T.]
The protest was organised by groups including the Muslim Council for Britain and the Muslim Parliamentary Association of the UK.
[So, will the Evening Standard please explain how these groups are morphed into "militants?"]
Their protest follows fury in the Islamic world over the claims in a Newsweek magazine that US soldiers at Guantanamo Bay had abused the Koran.
[Don't you believe it.
Unfortunately, our Old Media gave this death cult a convenient pretext to "protest," riot and work themselves into a frenzy.
Not to let Newsweek totally off the hook--we could've done without inflammatory stories, knowing how "touchy" these radical Muslims are.]
The magazine later withdrew the article and apologised but not before it triggered riots in Afghanistan in which 17 people died and 100 people were injured.
Former Guantanamo Bay detainee Martin Mubanga told the crowd he had seen a copy of the Koran "desecrated" during his time at Camp Delta.
He said: "This was one of the methods they used, throwing the Koran, my Koran, on the floor in my cell."
[Horrors! They put it on the floor!
Of course, Martin did (*wink*) and there will others who have their own testimony about American soldiers "desecrating" their holy stuff at Gitmo, Abu Ghraib, Bagram, etc.
It's the hot summer trend.]
One of the protesters called for the release of radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza.
[This is the infamous Captain Hook of Finsbury Park mosque.]
He shouted: "Your so-called democracy will fall under the sword of Allah. The day of judgment is coming."
[To which democracy was he referring, do you think? The U.K.'s or Iraq's or what?--Jen]
The demonstration coincided with protests across the world. On the West Bank 2,500 Palestinians streamed out of mosques shouting "Death to America". In Calcutta, India, protesters burned, spat and urinated on the US flag. And in Somalia thousands chanted anti-US slogans.
Your Muslim Sabbath "Death to America" 5-minute hate is now over.
As long as they keep it to yelling, burning flags and merely threatening death, we can deal with that.
If it turns into actual violence and murder, we have a problem.
I wonder if Londoners were shocked by this--this was a more blatant show of hostility and virulent hatred on the part of the Islamists in Britain that we're used to seeing only in the Arab world, not in the "civilized" countries of the West.
, which were supposed to prevent the inciting of religious hatred.
Muslims inflaming infidel hate and only curb the speech of Christians and Jews in Britain.
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