My family friends and I went to St Paul's Cathedral on Christmas Eve to celebrate Christmas with carols and peace. We were denied that by a group of venom spitting Muslims. The organiser Anjem Chowdary was present at the lets-hate-Christianity-gathering outside the Cathedral of St Paul’s – yes the one who has praised the terrorists involved in the attacks of 11 September 2001, and 7 July 2005. He claims that Jesus was a Muslim etc. etc.
This is the complaint I made to the Metropolitan Police:
My complaint is about the aggressive verbal attack of Muslims on Christians which occurred in front of St Paul’s Cathedral, London, on Christmas Eve 2012. The complaint against the Metropolitan Police is that:
• The police failed in their duty to prevent this unprovoked hate attack on peaceful Christians by allowing this prearranged ‘protest’ action.
• During the incident, the police failed in their duty to protect Christians from unprovoked verbal abuse and hate speech. The police protected the aggressive element instead of the victims.
This complaint was also be circulated to:
The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC)
The Prime Minister: The Rt. Hon David Cameron
The Deputy Prime Minister: The Rt. Hon Nick Clegg
My MP: The Rt. Hon John Randall.
The Mayor of London: Boris Johnson
The Muslim Council of Britain
The Rt Hon Baroness Warsi of Dewsbury
Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination against Christians in Europe.
The Christian Institute.
The Coalition for Marriage.
The Dean at St. Paul's
The Archbishop of Canterbury
Explanation:
The Police claimed to have allowed this Islamic action under the auspices of ‘freedom of speech’ and peaceful protest. It was verbally communicated to me in person by a Police officer that this Islamic action was a ‘peaceful protest’ which should be allowed under the banner of ‘freedom of speech’. I dispute this claim.
The incident was shocking and outrageous. It was not a protest action but rather an incident where Christians were subjected to harassment and abuse because of their religion. It was an Islamic attempt to provoke and incite hatred and animosity and the message I got from what they were shouting at us was that they had the intention to stir up religious hatred. The police failed in their duty because they allowed a public demonstration of hatred and verbal assault on Christians because of their beliefs.
The other people in our party and I have been adversely affected, distressed, and inconvenienced because of the nature, loudness, and closeness of this verbal outpour of hatred and abuse. None of the Christians who were peacefully waiting in line to attend a Christmas celebration provoked the verbal abuse that we were forced to endure. At one point a Muslim male was loudly shouting abuse at us from a distance of about four meters. I approached a police officer with the request to remove this particular individual. The police officer instead pushed me away. He was not concerned with the abuse which was forced on us.
The British legal system is bizarre. Government formulates and passes a Racial and Religious Hatred Act. But the act is of no practical use apart from serving secular society. A hate crime is supposed to be a criminal offence which is motivated by hostility or prejudice based on a person’s religion or perceived religion. But the act is of no practical use. The Crown Prosecution Service states on their official website that “abusive or insulting behaviour intended to stir up religious hatred is not an offence under the legislation, nor are threatening words likely to stir up religious hatred.” Instead of protecting the religious in the British society the Racial and Religious Hatred Act of 2006 appears to make ridiculing Christians and their beliefs an acceptable form of secular bigotry and gave secular society the power to criminalize Christianity. We clearly live in a post-modern secular society with a distorted sense of justice where ‘hate’ is no longer what one does or says but rather what secular liberal projects on to you. One is punished for what someone else claims you were thinking. It hardly makes sense, but it appears to serve the political agenda of the secular elite in Britain.
Christians are no longer allowed to express Biblical beliefs without being frightened of an outburst of secular hatred or of persecution in the British courts. For the most part, hate-crime legislation appears to be a sop for politically influential secular interest groups. Secularists, who traditionally claimed to be sensitive to civil liberties, have chosen to mollify an entire population at the expense of age-old Biblical beliefs. The debate around marriage is a good example of such secular bigotry. Phrases like ‘natural family’ and “union of a man and a woman” could be and have been, punished as ‘hate speech’ in the British workplace. Bizarrely enough, the secular British establishment allowed Islam to publically incite hatred, under the false banner of ‘freedom of speech’, outside a world famous Christian church during a Christian festival dear to millions of Christians worldwide.
Whilst rumours of so-called crimes against the Quran are met with secular condemnation and deadly worldwide Islamic protests and riots this public outpour of hatred against peaceful Christians outside St Paul’s hardly evoked a yawn from the secular British leadership and the police in London.
Is there no common sense anymore? The critical absence of moral perspective defies logic if one tries to reconcile secular political-correctness with the assumption that Islam is like any other religion. Christianity advocates love and unselfishness whilst Allah (and his followers) does not love unbelievers (non-Muslims) (30:45). People in Britain have freedom of expression – so they claim –but does this mean they have the right to create a climate of hostility and fear? The Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, called for an end to religious hate crime during a visit to Manchester's Muslim community as recently as November 2012 where he made solemn pledged to members of Islamic organisations to do all he could to put an end to 'abhorrent' prejudicial attacks. But what about Christians? Virtually at the same time, the Metropolitan Police allows this public outpour of Islamic hatred during a Christian festival. Really, what happened to logic and common sense?
The Muslims who were involved in this angry outburst of hatred against British Christians outside St Paul’s on Christmas Eve were not radical Islamists – they were only promulgating what the Quran clearly claims. In contrast with the Bible the Quran does not teach universal love but rather incessantly preaches the inferiority of all non-Muslims. The Quran calls Muslims “the best of peoples” and non-Muslims “perverted transgressors” (3:110). The Quran calls all non-Muslims “the worst of creatures (98:6) and “the vilest of animals in Allah's sight” (8:55). This is in stark contrast with the Bible which teaches that God loves all people but hates sin. The Quran never says anything like this but rather explicitly declares that Allah does not love the unbelievers (30:45). In fact, the Quran encourages hostility. Muslims are ordered to “fight” the disbelievers and to be “harsh against” them (9:123). The last thing Muhammad said on his deathbed was "May Allah curse the Jews and Christians” (Bukhari 8:427). The Quran incites violent punished “in the life of this world” (13:33-34). No other religion on earth has the violent nature of Islam.
This is in fact taught in a British private Muslim school. Dr. Sumaya Alyusaf, the director of the King Fahad Academy, which is partly funded by Saudi royals, acknowledged in 2009 that their books and curriculum taught Muslim children that Jews are monkeys and Christians are pigs. It clearly promotes a supremacist and racist attitude.
So, the Muslims involved in this attack on Christianity were not radical Islamists. All of us who live in a multi-cultural city like London know religious Muslims do not integrate into non-Muslim society. The aim of Islam was intimidation and verbal abuse – bullying.
The Metropolitan Police failed in their task to make London a safer and better place for all. I do not feel any safer in London at present – in fact, those people scare me for what they can actually do when words turn into deeds. This incident did not encourage neighbourliness or goodwill. I feel animosity against Islam now which was not there before. Attacks of this nature should not be tolerated by the police.
