Protests outside a Batley School

Kompany Car said:
As I understand it for the Sunni religion it's seen as idolatry and haram. However for the Shia's its quite common to see images of Mohammed.

One of the major issues within the Sunni religion is that Sharia is seen as absolute and the actual words or the prophet rather than something that can be interpreted and nuanced.
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Sunni is a massive section of Muslims all with different beliefs though. It's like the difference between the Western churches and Eastern Orthadox churches. There's still a massive variety within each part.

I'm willing to bet that if you look into the backgrounds of these self-appointed community leaders and protesters, you'll discover that they almost all attend a Salafi or Wahhabi mosque, which are Sunni, but a fundamentalist variety. Unfortunately, given the amount of funding that Saudi Arabia puts into spreading this toxic variety, the ideas are seeping into Islam more widely. But in principle, these people are like the Orthadox Jews who protest when a lingerie advert appears in their street, or the evangelical Christians that protest when someone puts on a play taking the piss out of Jesus, who might belong to a wider group of Christians, but are still a small extreme sect within that. However, those groups tend to stick to protests, whereas the Islamic variety tends to be protest backed up with the threat of murder.
 
I'm With Stupid said:
Sunni is a massive section of Muslims all with different beliefs though. It's like the difference between the Western churches and Eastern Orthadox churches. There's still a massive variety within each part.

I'm willing to bet that if you look into the backgrounds of these self-appointed community leaders and protesters, you'll discover that they almost all attend a Salafi or Wahhabi mosque, which are Sunni, but a fundamentalist variety. Unfortunately, given the amount of funding that Saudi Arabia puts into spreading this toxic variety, the ideas are seeping into Islam more widely. But in principle, these people are like the Orthadox Jews who protest when a lingerie advert appears in their street, or the evangelical Christians that protest when someone puts on a play taking the piss out of Jesus, who might belong to a wider group of Christians, but are still a small extreme sect within that. However, those groups tend to stick to protests, whereas the Islamic variety tends to be protest backed up with the threat of murder.
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They have a lot in common with the protestors in Bristol and London - tiny vocal minority pushing their right to protest to the limit while the population as a whole does not two fucks give.
 
Bluemanc100 said:
Zero chance that the police will do anything about the illegal gathering outside the school or the people who are allegedly shouting “Allahu Akbar”
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Worth noting that Muslims don’t automatically blow up or kill people when they shout that. It simply means “god is great” and they say it when protesting, when their team scored a goal, during an Earth quake or a million other times.

I have no time for these protesters or their cause but I thought it worth noting that shouting that phrase isn’t worthy of any police inference any more than City fans chanting “City, City, City”.
 
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