British Muslims Burn St. George’s Flag
Charles Johnson
Fri Jun 22, 2007 at 8:56 am PDT • Views: 1,166
Anjem Choudray and his followers are on the streets of London again, burning the flag of St. George, calling on God to “curse the queen,” and warning that this latest Muslim seethefest over Salman Rushdie’s knighthood could get as bad as the seethefest over the Danish Mohammed cartoons: British Muslims burn St George’s flag at anti-Rushdie rally.
Muslims burned the flag of St George and called for the Queen to ‘Go to Hell’ in a furious rally held in London over Salman Rushdie’s knighthood.
Angry Muslim extremists rallying at Regents Park Mosque said that anger over the award could match the fierce reaction to publication of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in Denmark in 2006.
Organisers of a protest outside the mosque claimed several hundred demonstrators were denouncing the decision to reward Rushdie, whose novel “The Satanic Verses” led to a death threat from Iran in 1989.
“This knighthood is just another example of Tony Blair and his government’s attempts to secularize Muslims and reward apostates,” said Anjem Choudray, protest organizer and an ex-head of the British wing of the banned radical group al-Muhajiroun.
“Rushdie is a hate figure across the Muslim world because of his insults to Islam,” Choudray said. “This honour will have ramifications here and across the world”.
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