Squaring a circle

Something that is rather puzzling me at the moment is the seemingly normal unevenness in the application of “law” and the acceptability of protest. I know it’s not really that surprising, and isn’t news but a few things have crossed my vision in the last week which do seem to suggest that we (in a collective national sense) have rather lost the plot. Most recently Orphans of Liberty report that a council has refused to give the EDL permission to lay a wreath at a memorial, and rightly asks the question since when did you need the councils permission to lay a wreath? Meanwhile Harry’s place reports that “hope not hate” are trying to get an EDL march banned in Tower Hamlets, that well known bastion of moderate Islam. Hope not hate, having been remarkably silent about the recent stickering of that area with Islamic anti-gay stickers. The comments on Harry’s place are well worth reading to see a decent fsking of both the petition and hope not hate’s general attitude. Including the well observed comment that EDL are filling a vacuum left by no one directly addressing the problem of militant Islam. Whilst the EDL may not be the solution so far no one has offered anything better.

Yet there seems to have been far less said about the alleged plans of “Muslims Against the Crusades” to set up Sharia zones reportedly to begin in Waltham Forest. Is this because it’s all just so much hot air coming from the Islamic quarter, has anyone seen the stickers supposedly put up in Walthamstow? It’ll be interesting to discover if a quiet attempt at the creation of areas hostile to those that Islam doesn’t approve of, if not full blown Sharia areas, is actually going on? Has their march taken place yet? if it hasn’t perhaps we’ll see the like of hope not hate calling for such marches to be banned any day now.

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