[This is the headline over a report in today's edition of Scotland on Sunday. It reads in part:]
The far right Scottish Defence League plans to march on the Lockerbie Memorial in a move that has been condemned by politicians of all parties and the families of those who died in the disaster.
The plans by the organisation, which has been holding protests against the "Islamification" of Scotland, were described as "disgraceful" by politicians who also called for the event to be banned.
The SDL has said it intends to hold a "peaceful vigil at the monument, which was built in memory of the 270 people who lost their lives when Pan Am 103 was blown up over Lockerbie in 1988.
The organisation, which has been accused of being racist and fascist, has also chosen the venue in an attempt to get back at the justice secretary Kenny MacAskill, who spoke against the SDL at a recent Scotland United Rally held in Edinburgh. (...)
In the publicity for the Lockerbie march, the SDL referred to MacAskill's decision to free Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi, the Libyan intelligence agent convicted of the bombing.
"This is also a protest against the traitor Kenny MacAskill who denies the SDL free speech and defended the release of the vermin responsible for the Lockerbie outrage," the SDL said.
MacAskill's spokesman said: "It is hard to see how these people with their appalling and racist views could have sunk any lower, but that is what they have done.
Regardless of whether people supported Kenny MacAskill's difficult decision or disagreed with it, people in Lockerbie and across Scotland will come together to oppose this small unrepresentative group, and their disgraceful plans."
Mike Russell, the education secretary and South of Scotland MSP, said the rally was an obscene attempt to exploit the long suffering people of Lockerbie.
[The report on this matter in the News of the World can be read here.]
The bizarre thing about all this is that Islam as such wasn't even on the radar for most of the Lockerbie enquiry and trial. This wasn't the work of "Moslem extremists" hitting out at the western way of life, this was a calculated revenge attack in retaliation for either the downing of IA655 by the Vincennes or the bombing of Tripoli in which Gadaffi's infant adopted daughter was killed, depending on your point of view.
ReplyDeleteIt's rather sad that the incident now seems to be attracting the wrong sort of attention from people hyped up on "9/11" and unable to see the difference.
Unfortunately, it is Gaddafi himself who is attracting 'the wrong sort of attention' to the Lockerbie incident.
ReplyDeleteHere he is calling for a 'holy war' against the Swiss because they had the temerity to arrest his son, Hannibal, in Geneva two years ago.
In 2003, Gaddafi was forced to pay out $2.7 billion to the 270 Lockerbie relatives for a crime Libya did not commit.
Now Gaddafi - who has never had any credentials as a religious leader - has taken it upon himself to invoke Islam against the infidels!
What are we to make of it, and of the perfectly understandable reaction by the Scottish Defence League?
The "Scottish Defence League" are a bunch of dangerous nutters who should be locked up.
ReplyDeletePH: "Now Gaddafi - who has never had any credentials as a religious leader - has taken it upon himself to invoke Islam against the infidels!
ReplyDeleteWhat are we to make of it, and of the perfectly understandable reaction by the Scottish Defence League?"
Do you have any evidence they're responding to Gaddafi's Jihad against Switzerland? Methinks their response is to heir own fantasies, underpinned with real but ill-defined grievances.
Dunno about 'locked up' - 'allowed to fail' might be better, but I'll defer to those closer to the scene.
CL: "Do you have any evidence they're responding to Gaddafi's Jihad against Switzerland?"
ReplyDeleteI don't but it would be helpful to know who is behind the SDL (who's funding them).