The Labour mayor of Greater Manchester has claimed the suicide bomber who killed 22 was not a Muslim, insisting the “worst thing that can happen” is people blaming Muslims. Andy Burnham, a former Labour frontbencher who was elected mayor this month, insisted the attack, claimed by Islamic State, had nothing to do with Islam.
“The message that I would want to get over – and this is how the vast majority of people feel – this man was a terrorist, not a Muslim,” he said, speaking to LBC Radio.
“He does not represent the Muslim community. We’ve got to keep that distinction in mind all the time. This was an unspeakable act. The worst thing that can happen is that people use this to blame an entire community, the Muslim community.
“In my view, the man who committed this atrocity no more represents the Muslim community than the individual who murdered my friend Jo Cox represents the white, Christian community.”
Similarly, following the Westminster knife and car attack, Prime Minister Theresa May said the “Islamist” attack on Parliament was not “Islamic”.
Haras Rafiq, the CEO of the anti-extremism Quilliam Foundation, which has advised the Government, accused Mr. Burnham of “basically doing what ISIS is doing”.
He said by declaring the terrorist a non-Muslim, he had “excommunicate[ed] Salman Abedi”, which is known as takfiri in Islam and is widely practised by extremists.
Mr. Rafiq said the Manchester attack has “something to do with some interpretation of Islam”, speaking on Sky News, adding:
“What we must not do anymore… is turn around and say ‘this person was not a Muslim’ – because he was, he was practising a form of Islamist, Salafi, jihadist Islam and that’s something we need to tackle head on.”
He also said “there is no such thing as a lone wolf”, predicting the terrorist was part of a “network”. He claimed “every single jihadist terrorist has been part of the globally inspired Islamist ideology”.
Poster Comment:
Manchester has a blithering idiot for a mayor. London has elected a sinister Muslim for their mayor. The Metropolitan Police ranks are bulging with Muslim recruits.
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#1: misterwhite To: HomerBohn (#0)
Who said he did?
misterwhite posted on 2017-05-25 11:54:25 Reply Private Reply
#2: Stoner To: HomerBohn (#0)
Both of which need to have the living shit beat out of them, with ball peen hammers !!! And the voters who voted for them need to have the shit slapped out of them !!!
Stoner posted on 2017-05-25 12:03:06 Reply Private Reply
#3: Pinguinite To: HomerBohn (#0)
That is something only the Muslim community can speak to. If the Mayor is Muslim, then okay, but I kinda doubt he is.
It's up to the Muslims to speak out about this. If they are not willing to do so, then it's not appropriate for anyone else to do it on their behalf.
No, the worst that can happen is that this event is repeated, and the Muslim community choosing to remain silent about it, if they do remain silent, will help enable it.
Pinguinite posted on 2017-05-25 12:38:49 Reply Private Reply
#4: HomerBohn To: Pinguinite (#3)
HomerBohn posted on 2017-05-25 13:50:57 Reply Private Reply
#5: HomerBohn To: Stoner (#2)
HomerBohn posted on 2017-05-25 13:52:14 Reply Private Reply
#6: HomerBohn To: misterwhite (#1)
HomerBohn posted on 2017-05-25 13:52:51 Reply Private Reply
#7: Stoner To: HomerBohn (#5)
Damn good idea !
Stoner posted on 2017-05-25 13:56:28 Reply Private Reply
#8: HomerBohn To: misterwhite (#1)
Of course the Muslim bastard represents the entire Muslim community!!!!!!
HomerBohn posted on 2017-05-25 18:06:34 Reply Private Reply
#9: sneakypete To: HomerBohn (#0)
Someone with mainstream media exposure should quote that,and then paraphrase it using the word "Nazis" instead of "Muslim",and then write something along the line of "It's not fair to stigmatize the rest of the Nazi's because of what Himmler pursued".
I'm betting heads would be exploding while reading that.
sneakypete posted on 2017-05-25 18:07:31 Reply Private Reply
#10: nolu chan To: HomerBohn, Pinguinite (#4)
Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London, is a muslim.
Andy Burnham, the mayor of Manchester, is a Roman Catholic.
nolu chan posted on 2017-05-25 18:19:16 Reply Private Reply
#11: paraclete To: nolu chan (#10)
It is getting so you can't tell the difference, Mudhutmad was a catholic heretic
paraclete posted on 2017-05-26 02:02:29 Reply Private Reply
#12: misterwhite To: HomerBohn (#8)
If tens of thousands of Catholics got together a started a crusade against Muslims, you can bet the Muslims would condemn all Catholics. As would the MSM. Liberals. Hollywood. Academia. Democrats.
They'd all be marching on Rome. Defacing and destroying churches. Attacking priests. Burning Bibles.
misterwhite posted on 2017-05-26 09:28:33 Reply Private Reply
#13: HomerBohn To: paraclete (#11)
So is Bergoglio.
HomerBohn posted on 2017-06-01 08:23:37 Reply Private Reply