Biggest protest in UK since rushdie (Trafalgar square)

al_goraba —

Biggest protest in UK since rushdie (Trafalgar square)

Do you know who was insulted?

It is the Messenger of Allah(SAW), the most honoured human being to walk the face of the earth.
It is Habiballah (The beloved of Allah)
The one that Allah sent as a mercy to all creation.
The one who brought you the guidance that will save you from Hell Fire.
The one who will be waiting to greet you at the doors of paradise.
The one who is ready and willing to intercede on your behalf before Allah.

Ask yourself, does he(saw) deserve the kind of insult he is getting now? What are you waiting for?

Date: this Sat 11th Feb 2006
Time: 1pm – 5pm
Venue: Trafalgar Square, London
(nearest tube station : Charing Cross)

Anas bin Maalik (may Allah be pleased with him) said that a man came to the Prophet ﷺ and asked, "When will the Last Hour come?"(i.e. Day of Judgement) The Prophet ﷺ said "What have you prepared for it?" He replied, "I have not prepared a lot of prayer or fasting or charity for it, but I love Allah and His Messenger." The Prophet said, "You will be with the one you love." (Bukhari)

In another Hadith the Prophet ﷺ said "None of you becomes a true believer until I am dearer to him than his children, his parents, his life, his wealth, his family and all mankind." (Bukhari and Muslim)

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al_goraba — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 - 16:28

Date: this Sat 11th Feb 2006
Time: 1pm – 5pm
Venue: Trafalgar Square, London
(nearest tube station : Charing Cross)

For further information go to page 1 on this topic.

LION — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 - 17:58

100MAN.... SINCE UR A non-Muslim, U WILL NOT FEEL THE ANGUISH US MUSLIMS FEEL, THE ANGER, THE SADNESS, THE DISTRESS

HENCE WE MUST DO SOMETHING TO DEFEND THE BELOVED PROPHET OF ALLAH OTHERWISE WE FEEL GUILTY AND ASHAMED..

WE MUSLIMS ARE A BROTHERHOOD AND MUST UNITE AND ACT ACCORDINGLY IN UNITY TO ACHIEVE SUCCESS IN OUR ENDEAVOURS

So a protest is just that and its perfectly LEGAL..

And 100MAN i know its not by the danish embassy and UK hasn't done anything by way of printing the offensive material in question ( YES 100MAN IT IS OFFENSIVE).. but WE'RE NOT PROTESTING AGAINST THE UK U FOOL... ITS THE EUROPEAN PAPERS THAT ARE...

LOL 100man u make me laugh... love to meet u, maybe we can go out with the lads and have a good old chinny wag.. ur views will go down well

Dave — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 - 19:37

[quote="MuslimSisLilSis"]and dont get too emotional[/quote]

...doesn't that sorta defeat the point?

"We're dissatisfied with the cartoons, and we don't want them to be printed in UK, unless of course you had other plans in which case we're cool with that too!"

MuslimSisLilSis — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 - 19:39

[quote="Augustus"]

...doesn't that sorta defeat the point?

"We're dissatisfied with the cartoons, and we don't want them to be printed in UK, unless of course you had other plans in which case we're cool with that too!"[/quote]

and whats wrong with that^^

isa PEACEFUL protest too much to ask?

MuslimSisLilSis — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 - 19:48

[quote="Augustus"]lol... well the point of a protest is to communicate displeasure with something... not ambivalence[/quote]

u can do that without making a huge song and dance about it

what would the snobby queen of England say?

only that "We are not amused"

but serioulsy, i KNOW this protest will be peaceful-BEAR peaceful/sufi type people I personally know are attending

You — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 - 21:00

No you can't.

even today on the Sky News report, the panelists were all calling for the media to publish the cartoons.

We are not ambivalent to this. We see this as offfensive, and the protest is to make sure that there is a hoohaa about this.

However the media seem to be focussing on something else altogether. 'Why are muslims ggetting special treatment?' I saw that in this week last night, and skynews report today...

*DUST* — Sat, 11 Feb 2006 - 10:28

[quote="*DUST*"][quote="Beast"][quote="*DUST*"]i have not been to these things in ages, the last one i went to was that massive Iraq one i think. i used to drag my family along to them before, but after seeing the Iraq one having no effect whatsoever, we all pretty much lost motivation and no longer bother. that and there's always some kinda unislamic behaviour among the crowd. :?[/quote]

Once a HT guy told me not to join a demo that was taking place a 100 yards away.

He said I shouldn't mix with the gays, lesbians, and socialists. But that didn't stop him and his mates setting up two stalls nearby.

:roll:[/quote]
erm, actually i was referring to muslims themselves behaving unislamically... :([/quote]
...so it looks like i'm going. will report back to yall.

MuslimSisLilSis — Sat, 11 Feb 2006 - 12:22

[quote="Admin"]No you can't.

even today on the Sky News report, the panelists were all calling for the media to publish the cartoons.

We are not ambivalent to this. We see this as offfensive, and the protest is to make sure that there is a hoohaa about this.

[/quote]

all i'm saying is muslims shud protest all they want but shud be civilised about it

or is that asking for too much?

You — Sat, 11 Feb 2006 - 20:09

and next day if they are printed in your local paper? and then if they start to print other things?

when will you make a stand?

Its a staircase. If you allow people to make the first step, they will alsomake the second step.

and this rally had a two-fold meaning:

1. About the caricatures.
2. saying not everyone willprotest violently. While some muslims are acting violently, the rest are also angry, but are acting peacefully.

If this rally did not take place, all protests (which were f much smaller scales) would have been marred in some way or another. This shows that while we are angry, we are also law abiding.

*DUST* — Sat, 11 Feb 2006 - 23:50

[quote="nana"][quote="Beast"]At least [url=http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41321000/jpg/_41321672_pray220.jp… people[/url] got to pray their namaaz.[/quote]

some out of over 40.000 thats pretty bad....

i see they bought prayer mats, those prob came with wudhu aswell,

They shouldnt have gone if salaah was to be neglected..oh well.[/quote]
hey guys, just got back from london, pretty knackered... :?

about that figure of '40,000' i think Anas al-Tikriti (MAB chair) mentioned it? wel its kinda misleading coz i think he meant 'this is the number of people who have visited the square up till now'. i thought the turn out wasnt great (thanx omrow :roll: :P) and the newspapers also seem to be commenting that it was lower than expected... but alhamdulillah the atmosphere was great and despite the freezing cold people still managed to be loud. 😉

about salaah, yea it was a major problem. i'm surprised the organisers didnt get someone to do the adhaan or atleast announce the prayer times - it was basically left up to individuals to find a spot and pray. opposite the square there's this 'national gallery' which had a grass verge, some brothers were praying in jama'ah there so i waited for em to finish, borrowed their musallah and prayed there too. :oops: mashaAllah those bros will get enuf thawaab - ppl queued up to use their musallah after me... 😂

i missed the beginning, ended up getting there around 2 - does islam channel online have a 'watch again' option by any chance? 😉

*DUST* — Sun, 12 Feb 2006 - 00:28

[quote="Augustus"]lol so how misleading [i]were[/i] these numbers?[/quote]
lol well Trafalgar Square simply isnt big enough to fit that number of people all at one time, but its possible that 40,000 people visited the protest throughout the day, so i dunno...

oh and btw dave, re: ur comment about imams being present - u dont have to be an imam to lead a prayer.