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Friday, 10 August 2012
Uglier than usual back of a bus
 You have heard the expression that someone who is particularly ugly has a "face like the back of a bus"? These are uglier than usual backs of buses, made so by an unpleasant poster. Maybe one in three of the buses I saw this afternoon at Walthamstow Central, on routes around east London or destined for central London bore one of these posters advertising next week's 'Al Quds' march. I have reported on this event before here. As I said then Al Quds is the name some Arabs give Jerusalem. The Ayatollah Khomeni of Iran declared 30 odd years ago that the last Friday in Ramadan was to be Al Quds day, when Muslims the world over are to express their hatred of Israel and their love for the Palestinian Arabs. The ones they keep in camps rather than integrate them into their own respective countries. The Harry's Place website has asked their readers to call on Transport for London to remove these adverts, which depict an imprisoned Nelson Mandela, wearing a PLO scarf and looking wistfully through the bars of his cell at the Mosque of Omar in Jerusalem and quote his words on the subject of the 'Palestinians'.
The guest writer at Harrys Place says: What you can do Contact TfL’s partner for advertising on London’s buses, CBS Outdoor. You can contact Aiden Dunning, the Director of Legal & Business Affairs, at: aiden.dunning@cbsoutdoor.co.uk (telephone: 020 7428 2874) and feel free to Cc in Mike Hemmings, their head of Marketing, at: mike.hemmings@cbsoutdoor.co.uk (telephone: 020 7428 2852). If you’re a Londoner, contact your MP, local councillors and assembly members – you can find out who they are and how to contact them, here. Attempts to advertise their events by other extremist organisations (that's his opinion of course) including the English Defence League would be rightly crushed. A five minute phone call with your elected representative and a polite e-mail to the gentleman above could be all this needed to get the IHRC off the buses of London. In previous years the march has been on a Saturday or Sunday. This year the march is actually on a Friday when it is hard for working Englishmen and women to get time off. Other proposed events during the period of the Olympics have been stopped or the organisors made to re-arrange. That this one is confident of their chosen date to spend so much on advertising makes me wonder what the authorities priorities are. Photographs E Weatherwax and S Sto Helit. August 2012. Posted on 08/10/2012 5:10 PM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Comments
10 Aug 2012
 Christina McIntosh
The last Friday in Ramadan, eh? Big Mohammedan hatefest aimed at Israel and the Jews. Every year. Strikes me that what the assorted pro-Israel groups need to do is to arrange to hold large We Love Israel, We Love the Jews marches/ rallies/ demonstrations, to be held on the first weekend - say, a Sunday afternoon - prior to that last Friday in Ramadan, whenever that happens to fall. Get in first and aim to be bigger and louder ...and more fun, with music and dancing. It's probably too late to do anything this time around - though how hard would it be for Australian, or British, or American or Canadian friends of Israel, say, who happen to live in the capital cities, to contact each other and form a friendly impromptu gathering outside the Israeli embassy in those cities, to express solidarity and hand in letters of support and encouragement? But let the plans for next year get under way now; and let the organisers Think Big. (However, I am convinced that we shouldn't wait till next year. I have a strong feeling that some big pro-Israel rallies need to happen, in various countries, as soon as can possibly be managed. I don't know how to do it myself, and I haven't yet figured out who to pitch the idea to, but I think it needs to happen, and fast). 10 Aug 2012
Kinneddar The sponsor, the Islamic Human Rights Commission, is attempting to exploit the reputation of true human rights defenders, something it only purports to be. Note the similarity of its logo (barbed wire) to that of Amnesty International. In reply to Christina, here in Toronto the Jewish Defence League has somethign planned for August 18 "to expose and confront the Al Quds day terror supporters" who somehow have received permission to hold a demonstration at Queen's Park, the site of the Ontario parliament. https://jdlcanada.wordpress.com/2012/07/30/ 10 Aug 2012
Christina McIntosh
Kinnedar - thanks for that info about the Canadian counter-protest. It's good to know they're on the ball. I will pray that the event is a resounding success. 11 Aug 2012
chimoio
that transport for london agreed to advertise this "event" at all almost beggars belief, but on the back of london buses!!?? probably buses trundling through tavistock place............I feel like screaming,again.....................the stupidity really is astounding 11 Aug 2012
Paul Blaskowicz
For speakers of British English - shouldn't the words under the second picture be "Pull the other one" ? This picture won second prize in the islamic republic's holocaust cartoon competition in 2006. It's the work of the lovely Carlos Latuff (more here). With a view of a mosque from his prison cell, looks like political activist, human-rights campaigner, nominal Christian, Mandela has been locked up by the Ahmadinnerjacket crew for any one of dozens of offences he would be guilty of in an mahoundian state. |
