“The Muslim community have taken it upon themselves to rid the streets of evil. This is just how the Taliban started in Afghanistan. For all intents and purposes, you are witnessing the emergence of the Taliban in Walthamstow.” — Website, Islam4UK
With East London hosting the world during the Olympics, a group of Islamists associated with Anjem Choudary and his group, Islam4UK, have taken the law into their own hands.
Over recent weeks the group has launched a vigilante campaign in Waltham Forest, close to the main Olympics venues, to target “Pimps and Prostitutes,” part of a wider campaign by Choudary’s associates to launch their own vigilante campaigns, based on a narrow interpretation of Shariah law. Last year, the group put up stickers around parts of East London declaring it a ‘Shariah Zone.’ It warned women to observe strict dress codes, and local residents against drinking alcohol. Homosexuals were also threatened.
“Pimps and Prostitutes” is a new campaign. Of course, few would argue with a genuine civic movement to clear the streets of prostitutes, but Choudary’s men are not motivated by public spirit. They want instead to assert Islamist principles and practice over parts of public life in London, in the hope of carving out enclaves for themselves. “As Muslims in your local area it is our duty to invite you to embrace Islam” the group states, “but we also want to share with you some of the great projects we’re involved in that can make a real change to the area.”
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3237/islam-olympics
and see http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=rdcx7rDsqKk
More macho willy-waggling (using the Qu’ran as a kind of fig leaf) from the ‘usual suspects’. Remember the ‘gay free zone’ stickers in Whitechapel?
Despite their claims, Anjem Choudary and his group, Islam4UK are NOT “the Muslim community” any more than the BNP & EDL are the “white community”. All these groups are fascist & seek to unite people behind their far right agenda by calls for “law & order” “family values” scapegoating vulnerable groups & inciting attacks upon them. Ex-Muslim apostates & genuinely moderate Muslims who have spoken out have faced violence & intimidation from ALL of the above. There is a paradox in toleration as to how far you can tolerate the intolerant. Certainly free speech must by definition include free speech for those who use it to denounce free speech (& other freedoms) for others, but inciting violent assaults & even organising & instigating them crosses many lines & if we want a tolerant society, there are limits to how far we can tolerate the intolerant, or else they shall destroy the very tolerance which they constantly appeal to to excuse themselves. It’s time for self proclaimed “anti-fascists” to stop making excuses for them & oppose ALL fascists