MUSLIMS TO HOLD WOOTTON BASSETT PARADE

I have taken this from the Channel 4 Snowmail

Staying on the subject, as it were, an Islamic group has said it will hold a parade in the main street of Wootton Bassett, famous for turning out to pay tribute to British soldiers killed in Afghanistan.

Presumably some - like this group Islam4UK (al-Muhajiroun under a new name) - would see the small Wiltshire market town as infamous, rather than famous.

The people of WB are forever saying their actions are not political. Well, possibly not party political.

But from the standpoint of some Muslims, perhaps it looks a bit different, in this controversial war.

Most Afghans that I have asked see such actions as very, very political indeed.

So the lads from Islam4UK say they want to parade some symbolic coffins along the main road to draw attention to the large number of Muslim civilians killed in this war.

That number of course dwarfs the stats for killed and injured British soldiers.

They do not want to parade on a day when a real coffin is in town. It will be intriguing to see whether or not the police give permission for the march to take place.

What seems to be lacking is the dialogue. Of which on this subject I am very happy. The reaction of the peoples of Wootton Bassett and the surrounding area is a continuous reminder to OUR GOVERNMENT of their unacceptable, shabby and often incomprehensible attitude to young British person’s lives. The idea that government can make enormous political gestures and that it has no relevance to others died with the evolution of the Butterfly Theory. Furthermore, the idea that the spontaneous gestures of a section of English people has to be moderated by the sensibilities of a noisy immigrant minority is frightening. Cannot the politico's see the damage done by their inertia at the demonstration of Muslim intolerance to returning troops from foreign lands?