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Hardliners warn of more attacks

29.09.08 | Philip Jones

Hardline clerics said that further attacks would be "inevitable" if publication of the novel, The Jewel of Medina, goes ahead as planned next month, reports the Telegraph.

Police moved in to arrest three men moments after a fire broke out at the London home and office of Martin Rynja in the early hours of Saturday.

But the radical cleric Anjem Choudhary said the book was an insult to the Prophet Mohammed's honour, something he said would warrant a "death penalty" under Sharia law. Speaking from Lebanon, the radical cleric Omar Bakri, added: "If anybody attacks that man I cannot myself condemn it."

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By jon

are the police going to arrest this Mr Chaudhary for incitement ?

Thu, 27/01/2011 - 14:23
By Jimmy

But the average Englishman said the radical's reaction was an insult to intelligent, modern thought, something he said would warrant banishment from our open and free democracy. Speaking from the streets of the UK, the wearying everyman, added:
"If anybody attacks these institutions of free speech, they should be shown the front door and given a helping boot on the way out!"

Thu, 27/01/2011 - 14:23
By jon

are the police going to arrest this Mr Chaudhary for incitement ?

Thu, 27/01/2011 - 14:23
By Jimmy

But the average Englishman said the radical's reaction was an insult to intelligent, modern thought, something he said would warrant banishment from our open and free democracy. Speaking from the streets of the UK, the wearying everyman, added:
"If anybody attacks these institutions of free speech, they should be shown the front door and given a helping boot on the way out!"

Thu, 27/01/2011 - 14:23

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