10,000 Muslims Protest Anti-Islam Film in London (VIDEO)

«§» 15 October 2012

A protest by 10,000 Muslims outside the offices of Google in London on Sunday is just the first in an orchestrated attempt to force the company to remove an anti-Islamic film from website YouTube in Britain.

The scene outside the Google offices in Buckingham Palace Road, London.

Thousands had travelled from as far afield as Glasgow to take part in the demonstration, ahead of a planned million-strong march in Hyde Park in coming weeks.

Anger over ‘The Innocence of Muslims’, an American-produced film which insults the Prophet Mohammad and demeans Muslims, according to protesters, remains available to watch on the website YouTube, a subsidiary of Google.

Organiser Masoud Alam said: “Our next protest will be at the offices of Google and YouTube across the world. We are looking to ban this film.

“This is not freedom of expression, there is a limit for that. This insult of the Prophet will not be allowed.

The group’s next action was a march Mr Alam hoped would be “a million strong” would take place in Hyde Park “in the next few weeks”, he said.

“Until it is banned we will keep protesting,” he added.

Today’s demonstration was the third organised in a month, and took place on the central London street where the website search giant has its UK headquarters. A demonstration outside the American Embassy in London last month drew little attention as protests in Libya, Tunisia and Yemen dominated headlines, including the storming of embassy in Benghazi, Libya, that led to the death of the US Ambassador to Libya, Christopher Stevens.

Barricades were erected in front of Google’s headquarters and a crowd bearing placards with the words “We love our prophet more than our lives” and “Prophet Muhammad is the founder of freedom of speech” had amassed by lunchtime.

Speeches by more than a dozen imams in a mixture of Arabic, Urdu, and English urged Muslims to honour the name of the Prophet and not to back down in the face of Google’s continuing reluctance to act, and were met with passionate cries of “God is Great” and “Mohammad is the Prophet of God” in Arabic.

One of the speakers, Sheikh Faiz Al-Aqtab Siddiqui, told The Daily Telegraph: “Terrorism is not just people who kill human bodies, but who kill human feelings as well. The makers of this film have terrorised 1.6 billion people.

“Organisations like Google are key players and have to take responsibility for civility. You can’t just say it doesn’t matter that it’s freedom of speech. It’s anarchy.”

Sheikh Siddiqui, a barrister from Nuneaton, said he wanted to form a coalition with the Church of England, Catholics, Jewish groups, Trade Unions and even Conservatives to encourage their ranks to join his “campaign for civility”.

“We want everyone in society to recognise these people are wrecking our fragile global society. We want the Church, the Synod, Jewish groups and establishment figures involved,” he said.

As many as 800 imams in mosques across Britain helped to organise today’s protest, which lasted four hours and blocked roads almost up to the Queen’s doorstep on Buckingham Palace Road.

Muslims from Blackburn, Birmingham, Glasgow, Luton, Manchester and Peterborough were in attendance. When asked where where the women attending the protest were, one protester replied: “Right at the back”.

Self-employed businessman Ahmed Nasar said he was worried the video could lead to violence in Britain in the same way as it had abroad. “If you push people too far,” he said, “You will turn the peaceful elements into violence.”

A YouTube spokesperson said: “We work hard to create a community everyone can enjoy and which also enables people to express different opinions.

“This can be a challenge because what’s OK in one country can be offensive elsewhere. This video – which is widely available on the Web – is clearly within our guidelines and so will stay on YouTube.”

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Posted: at 15-10-2012 06:34 AM (12 years ago) | Hero

useless people..

Posted: at 15-10-2012 07:48 AM (12 years ago) | Addicted Hero

I hope the same Muslims will say thank you to England (a Christian country) for accepting to treat free of charge the young Pakistani 14 year old Malala who was shot in the head by the Taliban in her country. They shot her because she was advocating for the rights of women to go to school and become educated. I did not see or hear any Islamic nation wanting to offer medical assistance!!!!  How can they. They are too busy murdering and plundering!!!!

Posted: at 15-10-2012 09:00 AM (12 years ago) | Gistmaniac

Dont remove d film,make it available 4all 2watch,de world must kw dat muslims are terrorists and womanizers,foolish set of Animals dat doesnt kw what dey shuld do,Na London alow dem.  

Posted: at 15-10-2012 09:11 AM (12 years ago) | Newbie

let the world ban islam,they are the problem we have in this world,why not them go to Saudi arabia,Yemen or Afghanistan  to protest,in their own country,they will not allow other religion to protest freely like this,now UK government allowed then to protest and move freely with out any harm or arrest,let the Europeans country be careful,this people are more than wicked,before they will say they want to islamize Europe,foolish people that can never think or any good thing ,only how to kill and suck blood like vampires

Posted: at 15-10-2012 09:22 AM (12 years ago) | Newbie

Dont mind them,useless set of animals protesting over nothing.Everyone knows that mohammed is a play boi so it is not a new thing.Weather movie or no movie,the world already know that mohammed life on earth was encircled with women pants and pusssssies nothing more. That is the reason why he promised 72 women to all his followers and every muslims and people like ajanni wants to die put.Yeye people. Na London allow them naa,make them go try am for France,i think dem say Western Education is evil,why are they living in western world?

Posted: at 15-10-2012 10:03 AM (12 years ago) | Gistmaniac

WHY REMOVING THE FIRM? MAKE THEM NO JUST TRY AM OO, COS I NEVER WATCH MY OWN, THIS PEOPLE ARE JUST STUPID, JESUS CHRIST MY SAVIOUR HAS A FIRM, WHICH TELLS US HIS GOOD LIFE WHILE IN THE WORLD, THEN IF A FIRM IS PRODUCED TO TEACH THE PEOPLE WHAT THE phyukING BAD PROPHET MUHHAMADE DID IN THE WORLD, SOME FOOLISH FOOLS WILL NOT WANT PEOPLE TO WATCH IT, WHY?' COS THEY KNOW THAT THE PROPHET IS A FAKE ASS, HE DID MANY EVIL THINGS IN THE WORLD, HE DANCED WITH SATANIC WORSHIPERS, GAVE HIS PEOPLE SATANIC VERSION WHICH IS SURA 53, 19 AND 20, WHY WILL A PROPHET TAKE A WORD FROM SATAN?

Posted: at 15-10-2012 10:38 AM (12 years ago) | Gistmaniac

If u want to knw ao peaceful islam is try and protest in a muslim country about an abuse to yor religion. Them go Sharia you 1,2

Posted: at 15-10-2012 11:04 AM (12 years ago) | Upcoming

Don't remove d film google. Dis is rubbish.

Posted: at 15-10-2012 12:06 PM (12 years ago) | Addicted Hero

Mumu, lets c hw long they can hold.
Son of ashawo mother

Posted: at 15-10-2012 12:12 PM (12 years ago) | Upcoming