What do you think of this Muslim-bashing e-mail I received?

[RagingInMiami]

Are these pictures for real or what? I find it interesting that all the signs seem to have been written by the same person, judging by the handwriting. The following is word by word and photo by photo of what I received.


These Pictures tell it all!



Muslims have stated that England will be the first country they take over!

These are pictures not shown on American TV or in American Newspapers (as they might help Bush's war on terror), but were forwarded by a Canadian who thought Americans ought to know!

These pictures are of Muslims marching through the streets of London during their recent

"Religion of Peace Demonstration."




















Why would anyone think

that we should be at war



with such nice, peaceful Muslims!


Americans need to Know

You need to forward this one!

[silverweb]

1. A corruption, as usual.

http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_muslim_demonstration3.htm

[The_Casual_Observer]

2. Not much.

And it was very obedient of you to pass it along per their instructions too.

[Whoa_Nelly]

3. Read about it at Snopes first

Then, choose your reply...if any

http://www.snopes.com/photos/politics/muslimprotest.asp

[knowbody0]

4. really fucking sad

obviously faked, but fodder for the fires of hatred.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

8. Actually, they're almost certainly genuine.

Not representative of the opinions of most Muslims resident in the UK, and according to Snopes probably not all from the same event, but genuine photos of genuine Muslims nonetheless.

[CJCRANE]

11. The "hand-written" ones are all from the same event..nt

[Lydia Leftcoast]

5. According to Snopes, 500 to 700 protestors

That's about as many Muslims as there are in ONE BLOCK in London neighborhoods such as Kilburn.

Hardly a majority.

Think of the demonstrators as the Muslim equivalent of freepers.

[treestar]

6. Why must Muslims be judged collectively?

Sure some of them are crazy.

But so are some of just about every other conceivable grouping of people.

Must we who have been raised Christians be identified as the same as the Jerry Falwells of the world?

[Bobbieo]

7. I equate those Muslims with the Ku Klux Klan!

[intaglio]

9. IIRC there was a lot of doubt about this demo

There was some indication that it was largely a rentamob, (free trip to London, bit of aggro, just carry this placard for a couple of hours). Certainly the signs, although looking handmade on the spur of the moment, were printed.

The 6th picture down was from a different demo (see Snopes) and actually is a similar claim to that made by Christian apologists.

Yes there are some in Islaam who hold these hateful views - but I saw ever seen a racist demo before the race hate laws and these people do not hold a candle to them.

[CJCRANE]

10. I heard the placards were written by ONE woman

but I still think the people who carried them were complete idiots.

Also, bear in mind that mainstream muslims were so annoyed by this that they carried out a counter-demonstatrion a week later.

[CJCRANE]

12. BBC: Muslim leader condemns protesters

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4676524.stm

[sinkingfeeling]

13. What do I think of it? Not much. I'm not into taking things out of context

in order to teach hate.

[Mr_Spock]

14. So there are Muslim equivalents to our Protestant KKK here in the US

What of it?

Is this a big deal?

According to Snopes, these were people who came out after the "cartoon" incident in Denmark.

[tjwash]

15. I don't see anything there that is less nutty than this kind of shit...

Of course the people that forward off emails like the one in the OP, probably agree whole-heartedly with these nuts.

[DavidDvorkin]

16. Wow those particular crazy, scary Moslems

are just as evil and dangerous as fundie Christians!