British police are honing in on at least one suspect believed to have slapped east London with those “gay-free zone” stickers that warn “verily Allah is severe in punishment.” (Or rather, he is “connected with” the stickers.) The man looks like this, a still grabbed from a CCTV camera, where government officials may, at their leisure, watch drunks pissing in an entryway or dogs crapping in front of a pub.
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Did This Man Help Declare East London A Gay Free Zone?
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ewe
Unfortunately it is impossible to declare a “no asshole zone”
Tallskin
Oh where oh where is fucking fagburn now???
Or are the PC lefties who hate-fascism-but-love-brownskinned-fascism going to tell us that this is a white native, from the EDL?
I await their attempts at telling us in Orwellian fashion that I am only holding up three fingers, not four!
ewe
That is no different than saying no jews or no blacks. He must be incarcerated.
james_from_cambridge
To our European brothers: I pity you, especially if you’re in Paris, Amsterdam or the Netherlands. Our Christians suck balls but they don’t go trolling the streets in an organized mob looking to gay bash. And if they do, our police aren’t afraid to deal with them out of political correctness. The little civil war y’all are gonna have as a result of your very large, very radicalized population of religious extremists in the next twenty years is gonna be sad to watch. Especially poor, secular France, which should be a role model for any Western democracy. (Except for the-tolerating-the-religious-zealots-in-your-midst-who-want-to-overthrow-your-secular-democracy part that is.)
http://www.actup.org/forum/content/media-criticized-silence-over-islamic-gay-bashing-amsterdam-2110/
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article522264.ece
http://atheism.about.com/b/2004/01/26/islamic-extremism-in-france.htm
Tallskin
@ james_from_cambridge- don’t be so fucking smug James.
We are well aware of the problem with homophobic muslims thanks. And we are dealing with it.
craigers
@Tallskin: Apparently not very well. I agree with James. I don’t hate Muslims in any way, but until people aren’t afraid to deal extremist Muslims in the same way we deal with extremist Christians we have a big problem.
Devon
@Tallskin:
Clearly that’s just a bigoted, hate filled, evil, oppressive white man who got a tan and a dark dye job to make people think our good, kind, loving Muslim brothers are responsible for this. Damn crafty white guys and their clever schemes.
dazzer
I don’t suppose it’s worth pointing out both thelocal mosque and the Muslim Council of Great Britain have condemned whoever has been putting up these signs and urged anyone with any information to go to the police.
Whether or not muslims agree with or tolerate or hate gays and lesbians is neither here nor there. It’s against the law in the UK to promote hatred based on sexuality and at a time when there is rising homophobia they don’t want to have to deal with accusations of homophobia.
I’ll happily go to town on all those muslims who want to start a fight, but the very vast majority of muslims in the UK just want a quiet life in which they pursue happiness without too many hassles. I want that, too.
Just because they’ve got some witless mingepieces in the muslim population of the UK doesn’t mean they’re all mingepieces. Similarly, just because we’ve gotsome useless twats in the gay population, itdoesn’tmean all gays intheUK are twats.
ousslander
he’s being set up, Islam is all about peace. Damn white devils.
james_from_cambridge
@Tallskin: How? The French are kinda dealing with it but you Brits seem to just be bending down further and asking them to please be nice and not beat up and kill your homosexuals.
james_from_cambridge
@craigers: Yeah, they’re dealing with it real well ::eye roll::
“Ezra Levant, a leading Canadian political activist, lawyer and blogger, writes in the Toronto Sun: “If you think Amsterdam is the gay capital of Europe, you’re half-right, but 10 years out of date. Today it’s the gay-bashing capital of Europe.”
“In 2008, 10 Muslim youths broke into a fashion show, dragged gay model Michael du Pree off the stage and beat him bloody. Last month, several lesbians were hit by beer bottles thrown at their heads as they marched in a parade of thousands to protest violence against gays. There’s a gay community centre in Amsterdam – you’d think that would be safe. Wrong. It’s a target, with home-invasion style beatings. No one is immune. Last year Hugo Braakhuis, the founder of Amdsterdam’s gay pride parade, was attacked.”
The city isn’t just gay now, he says: it’s “Muslim, too,” and “sharia law rules the streets.”
Gay bashing, he writes, is front-page news “only when it’s committed by a straight, white male.”
“But as Chris Crain, editor of the Washington Blade, was walking hand in hand with his boyfriend near one of the gay districts in Amsterdam, two men standing on a street corner spat at his face. He stopped to ask why, was called a “fag” and suddenly the two youths turned into seven.
Surrounded, Mr Crain was kicked to the ground by the gang and ended up in hospital with a broken nose and badly bruised face.”
His attackers were Moroccan youths, blamed by Dutch gay rights groups for a disturbing rise of gay-bashing, as conservative Islamic culture clashes with Dutch liberalism.
“The clash between Dutch liberalism and Islamic conservatism led to the rise of Pym Fortuyn, the populist homosexual anti-immigration campaigner, who was outraged that gay teachers were being sacked because Muslim parents did not want their children to be taught by homosexuals. He was murdered by a left-wing activist.”
All links above…
Xtian99
Allah would not be pleased with his wasting his time on silly stickers when there are daughter and sisters in need fo stoning to preserve “honor”, ladies in need of beating for showing cankle, little labias in need of cutting so they wil be tighter for the emn folks, walls that need to be toppled on adulters and a whole nation of Israel that needs to be stopped, bombed and paved!
ewe
@ousslander: The white devils are gay people? I had no idea. Maybe it’s you that is posting those signs?
Zonk
James from Cambridge : Don’t you DARE speak facts on a gay blog. You’re not being a good Gay-Gay !! Never move to Manhattan.
james_from_cambridge
@Zonk: I’ll stay in Cambridge, MA. since it don’t get more Leftie than here, and I’m a proud Leftie/Socialist on most issues myself. But I don’t tolerate fascists, whether they’re Christians or Muslims. For some reason, my fellow Libs don’t excuse Christians who just talk nonsense but Muslims, who are actually murdering and bashing us, get a free pass. Liberalism is very, very confused right now, especially in Europe.
Shannon
WHY THE F—- DO YOU GAY WHITE MEN ALWAYS INSIST ON DECLARING WHEN >YOU< HAVE ISSUES "IT IS LIKE BEING BLACK OR JEW"? REALLY? THE ORIGINAL RACE…THE MOST PREDOMINATE RACE ON THE PLANET IS LIKE SUCKING DICK??? REALLY? IT IS FUNNY HOW YOU TRY TO "EQUATE" YOURSELF WITH EVERYTHING WHEN THE HATRED IS AGAINST YOU! THIS IS WHY PEOPLE ARE ABANDONING YOUR CAUSE FRIENDS….YOU NEED TO GROW UP HERE. STOP THIS TRYING TO EQUTE EVERYTHING WITH YOUR SEXUAL PRACTICES! OFFENDING PEOPLE IS NOT GOING TO HELP YOUR CAUSE NOR HELP YOU MAKE FRIENDS..
Shannon
THEY NEED TO DECLARE THE REA A NO ~~ARAB MUSLIM ZONE~~ AND SEND THEM BACK TO THEIR OWN COUNTRIES…
TheRealAdam
@Shannon: This post was completely uncalled for. Our “sexual practices” are a part of our identity in how we love and interact with one another, and yes, they are essential. Don’t you dare try to tell me that sexual orientation is somehow undeserving of respect and consideration in the same way that ethnicity and race are. Don’t you dare.
Whenever you try to privilege the suffering of one minority above another, you are committing a wrong.
prohomo
@TheRealAdam: Yes, SHANNON, and BOTH are IMMUTABLE.