Welcome to Tower Hamlets

by Esmerelda Weatherwax (September 2011)

Why I am going to Tower Hamlets on Saturday.

The following are a few the reasons why the English Defence League will be rallying in Tower Hamlets next week. The Home Secretary Theresa May, at the request of the Metropolitan Police, acting under the orders of the notorious Lutfur Rahman, the Mayor (for elected mayor, read Islamic dictator) has banned any march for a month through 5 London boroughs, Tower Hamlets, Newham, Waltham Forest, Hackney and Islington. So the demonstration will be a static one, which is our democratic right from which we cannot be banned.

Imposition of a Sharia controlled Zone.

 

I photographed these in Ford Square and nearby Sidney Street.

The treatment of Women

The hijab is near universal. The niqab is imposed on women in greater numbers than in Bangladesh itself.

I can only conclude that this arrangement below which I photographed in Poplar in July is designed to allow the women of this ground floor flat to reach the veils and other garments just visible on the washing line at the far left above the curtains without having to don a previously laundered niqab before venturing into the sunshine.

These incidents do not stand alone. Others can be found by searching my blog articles going back to 2006.

Treatment of gays.

In 15 years the number of gay pubs in the borough has declined from flourishing to three. They have been targeted for harrassment and intimidation.

Treatment of Jews

Treatment of Christians and Christianity

Attempted Murder of English Christian RE Teacher

Attacks on historic churches, Christian clergy and congregations.

In 2008 Canon Ainsworth of St Georges in the East Shadwell was beaten seriously enough to merit time in hospital after he asked some ‘Asian youth’ to behave.

Unfortunately the campaign went quiet very quickly although to their credit the reporters continue to report incidents like that against the Montessori.

Whatever happens outside this still remains as powerful as ever inside St Dunstans. The original east window was destroyed in the blitz. This window was put up in the 1950s and depicts at the foot of the cross what Stepney outside looked like after the destruction.

One of the legends about St Dunstan is that he was taunted by Satan, who he sent packing by tweaking his nose with the blacksmiths tongs he was using at the time. A saint who could do that isn't going to be fazed in the long run by a bunch of fake (c)rappers on pushbikes.The arson at the Gurdwara Sikh Sanget

The Gurdwara Sikh Sangat in Bow was originally a Christian chapel which then became a Synagogue. Its use as a Sikh temple was the next task in its history of worshiping the Almighty.

The London Evening Standard reported thus:-

Witnesses today said a man had been run into the temple during a women-only prayer session then escaped just before flames were first seen. Having spotted the intruder, the 10 women quickly discovered the fire, which had taken hold in one of the holiest parts of the temple. They tried to put it out but were beaten back by the flames.

Thankfully nobody was killed but their Holy and sacred Scripture is very important to Sikhs and its destruction was a heavy blow to the congregation.

A small selection of attacks on individuals

2007 Central Criminal Court Old Bailey

Consolidation of Islamic territory.

Once territory is held by Islam it is considered forever the property of Islam. Hence the desire to reclaim the Balkans and Andalusia. To show how the East End is being claimed to be Islamic forever a picture says 1000 words.

my daughter said about the Shapla school gates (left), they are cute, friendly and cheerful and the water lily, national flower of Bengal, is beautiful. But how will they learn English and to be English if everything they see harks back to Bangladesh? Not to mention those children who have come here from elsewhere anyway.

Clichy estate, the Chinese presence in Limehouse gave us Pekin Street, the Jewish presence gave us Adler Street, named after Nathan Marcus Adler Chief Rabbi of the British Empire until his death in 1890. So logically Masjid Lane E14 leading to the Burdett Estate Mosque should be regarded as just a modern example of immigration into the East End. Oh, that it were.

Lutfur Rahman and his team on Tower Hamlets Council received a payment of £8million, what we of the old east End would call a ‘sweetener’, the largest of its kind ever, from the developers of the new Spitalfields project for granting permission for that project. Some of the money went on a minaret for the Brick Lane Mosque. They say it is a sculpture shaped like a minaret. It cannot be attached to the mosque as that is a listed building having been originally a church, then a synagogue. But if it is outside a mosque, looks like a minaret, (albeit one made out of oil drums) has a crescent  moon and star on top and the name of the mosque at the bottom, I reckon it’s a minaret.

The opposition to islamisation and sharia has got the authorities and Islamics worried. They allowed no viable opposition to the conference of Hizb ut Tahir in Whitechapel in July. These photographs below are courtesy of Fluffy who was able to get relatively close to events that day.

This is the UAF view. Tommy Robinson = Anders Breivik.

In 1936 my father was among the thousands who stood against the Blackshirts of fascism. Next week I intend to be among the thousands standing against the black flags of jihad and sharia. They shall not pass.

 

Photographs by E Weatherwax, Susan Sto Helit and Fluffy.

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