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"On Friday 500 demonstrators marched from Regent's Park Mosque to the Danish embassy in Knightsbridge to protest at the publication of "blasphemous" cartoons in a Danish newspaper, and subsequently in other countries and on the BBC."
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500 demonstrators in London? That's not exactly a groundswell of support amongst our muslim countrymen. I'm pretty sure I could get ten times that amount to march in defense of our right to wear stripey socks. Christ, Mark Thomas managed to get several hundred people to stage several hundred individual, simultaneous protests in parliament square to raise awareness of the laws concerning demonstrations in parliament square. Pretty much any reasonably well attended mosque you care to name could, if need be, get 500 people to go protest in London; as could your average, well attended urban church.
The majority of muslims I've spoken to about that whole cartoon thing expressed offense at the cartoon, but did not support the threats and demonstrations at all. They have a right to be offended. Just as we have a right to give that offense. We really mustn't get too strung out judging a billion and a half muslims worldwide, by the actions of a few thousand souls.