For a secular and democratic Iran supporters with Stephen Gash of SIOE
The counter demo to the Al Quds march was even better than we anticipated and at last a broad coalition of communities is being established.
We thank Potkin Azarmehr and his colleagues from “For a secular and democratic Iran” for organising this counter demonstration.
Across Piccadilly Circus there were Iranian, Israeli, Socialist Workers and English groups demonstrating together against the tyrannical Iranian regime.
In total there were around 200 counter demonstrators, which the police confirmed as being a reasonable estimate.
Also, there were people who joined the fringes of the counter demonstration who broadly agreed with the sentiment of our combined groups.
For a secular and democratic Iran
Potkin Azarmehr and co-members of this Iranian group, organised this event and stewarded it very well.
The group are firmly in opposition to Al Quds and the theocratic despotic regime oppressing Iran at the present time under Ahmadinejad.
As the Al Quds demonstration (about 500 in number) passed there were some angry verbal exchanges between the Al Quds marchers and Iranian counter demonstrators. This was totally natural as Iranians had been hounded out of Iran by bearded muslim clerics overlorded by the tyrant Ayatollah Khomeini.
Those Iranians remaining in Iran are either dead, being killed or imprisoned by the theocratic political system bedevilling Iran.
Potkin and his compatriots were astonished by how small the Al Quds demonstration was compared to previous times. In 2007 there were approximately 1000 demonstrators, whereas this year there were about half that number.
In 2007 the marchers were surprised that Iranians had made a counter-demonstration.
This year they were forwarned and this undoubtedly kept potential demonstrators away. Islamists tend to back down when they don’t get things their own way.
What surprised and vexed our Iranians colleagues was the small number of actual Iranians on the Al Quds march. Most were either Arab or Pakistani among others.
There were many pro-Hezbollah placards with the inevitable anti-Israel slogans.
However, our Iranian colleagues let the marchers know in no uncertain terms that they considered Al Quds and Hezbollah supporters were terrorists, or as bad as.
Confronted with this some of the Iranian marchers looked deflated, but the Arab and Pakistani contingent appeared to be buoyed up by the accusations.
No wonder people who had fled Islamic tyranny reacted angrily to such apparent amusement.
Pro-Israel counter demonstrators
Naturally Israel supporters were present, not least due to Ahmadinejad’s assertion that Israel should be obliterated from the face of the earth.
Stephen Gash had a long discussion with members of this group whom he had met on last year’s counter-demo to the pro-Palestinian “Enough is enough” demo in London. Incidentally, at that particular demo the marchers shamefully brandished the nazi salute when they caught sight of Israeli flags.
This year no nazi salutes were observed. Maybe this was because it didn’t go down well with the self-styled “liberal elite” who broadly support or excuse Palestinians, whatever they do.
The Israel supporters were under the misapprehension that SIOE was closely associated with certain political parties in Britain noted for their racist views.
THIS IS NOT THE CASE! SIOE has no association with political parties in Britain and BANS POLITICAL PARTIES FROM ITS EVENTS!
There was also a general misunderstanding that SIOE’s Brussels demonstration on 11th September 2007 was the same as that by Vlaams Belang which was violently broken up by Belgian police.
IT WAS NOT! Vlaams Belang tried to hijack the day by holding their own demonstration. However, that is water under the bridge and things have moved on to the benefit of anti-islamism.
Out of this sprang Cities Against Islamisation (CAI) which is an association of political parties. This organisation organised a conference in Cologne on 20th September which was stopped by police. SIOE did NOT help organise, nor did it attend this conference.
However, let this be clear. SIOE supports, in principle, all legal efforts to stop Islamisation of Europe and opposition to the introduction of Sharia law AT ANY LEVEL!
The Jewish contingent of the Al Quds counter demo were convinced of SIOE’s non-party stance and its position on the Cologne conference.
March for England and United British Alliance
These two groups are patriotic organisations and dedicated to reclaiming the Union Jack and Cross of St George from any racist association. Both declare their anti racist position on their websites and blogs.
They wanted to join the counter-demo to make it clear they thought it outrageous that Al Quds and Hezbollah supporters felt able to march in England’s capital city, which islamist supremacists had bombed just 3 years ago, with impunity.
They wanted to make it clear that England was a democratic country with its own judicial system and that they are extremely angry that Sharia courts have been established in England, and may be introduced throughout the United Kingdom in the future.
The Al Quds march was therefore met with chants of:-
England!
No surrender to terrorists!
Terrorist bombers off our streets!
There were no racist chants from these patriots, but it is obvious that the murderous events of 7/7 will NEVER BE FORGOTTEN OR FORGIVEN!
The “reward” for “understanding” why suicide bombers murder innocent members of the general public has been the introduction of Sharia courts in England.
Well the time for “understanding” is long passed and we English people will see the end of Sharia law forever in our green and pleasant land.
Laughably, some Al Quds and Hezbollah supporters had the audacity to call the English and British counter demonstrators “Nazis”.
It was made plain to the demonstrators that it is Hezbollah and Hamas who are the real Nazis. This left these demonstrators looking sheepish if not exactly shamefaced.
It was not that long ago that muslim demonstrators in London held up placards praising Hitler.
Socialist Workers Union
They were broadly there to support women’s rights in Iran and a woman (whose name I have yet to discover) made an excellent and impassioned speech about how appallingly women are treated in Iran. She asked the question, avoided by Western politicians, judiciary and media, “do you want women in the West to live like women in Iran?”.
If you are not even better.
