05 June 2013

The Muslim hate preacher and the T-shirt salesman: a bizarre study in double standards

.... Choudary then added, in typically disarming manner, that Adebolajo and Adebowale, the two men charged with Drummer Rigby’s murder, were doing "what they believed to be Islamically correct", while noting that Michael Adobelajo was "a very nice man".

Quite properly, the police refused to step in. After all, we have the right to free speech in this country, and Choudary said nothing illegal.

Now let’s cross the country to Newport, south Wales.

At roughly the same time that Choudary was making his statement, T-shirt seller Matthew Taylor was printing, and displaying, a T-shirt inscribed with the words: "Obey our laws, respect our beliefs, or get out of our country".

As Taylor told reporters, the brutal killing of Drummer Rigby had spurred him into making the shirt, because the shocking attack had "left him upset". Taylor added: "If you don't like the way a country is run, and don't like our beliefs, then go somewhere else, don't go killing people." [telegraph.co.uk] Read more