Too extreme to be allowed in Pakistan, but this Muslim cleric is on UK speaking tour

A Pakistani Muslim cleric who celebrated the murder of a popular politician is in Britain on a speaking tour of mosques. The news has alarmed social cohesion experts who fear such tours are promoting divisions in the Muslim community.

Syed Muzaffar Shah Qadri has been banned from preaching in Pakistan because his sermons are considered too incendiary. However, he is due to visit a number of English mosques, in heavily promoted events where he is given star billing.

Qadri publicly praises Mumtaz Qadri who in 2011 murdered his employer, Salman Taseer, a popular Pakistani politician who spoke out against the country’s blasphemy laws. Qadri was executed earlier this year but to his tens of thousands of supporters he remains a hero who defended their interpretation of Islam.

Mumtaz Qadri was a key influence on Tanveer Ahmed, the Bradford taxi driver who in March stabbed to death Asad Shah. Shah, a member of the Ahmadi Muslim community who ran a convenience shop in Glasgow, was targeted after messages he put out on social media including an Easter greeting to Christians.

His was one of several recent high profile murders in which a Muslim from one community was killed by a Muslim from another community for holding what they considered to be “blasphemous” views. In February, a former Sufi imam in Rochdale was murdered by two Islamic State supporters whom they claimed was practising “black magic”. In May, a Sufi Muslim leader was hacked to death near the north Bangladeshi town of Rajshahi in what police said was an attack by Islamic extremists.

veya_victaous wrote:I believe the British Don't Actually Understand the Finer points of Free Speech.
 
but to be honest If they are going to let the likes of Tommy and Major open their gobs and spew their ridiculously idiotic nonsense, and Claim it as free speech I guess this guy is fine too.

veya_victaous wrote:the UK is allowing this guy to speak
Probably on it's deformed notion of free speech.
which is no suprise as we see Brits (like yourself)
try and Claim that what Major and tommy say is ok, it just free speech.

what does it not have to do with Britian?
and the way you react to those 2 is a obvious example the demonstrates that the british routine have no fucking clue what free speech means and just treat it as 'free to spout shit'.