The Demonstration in London
assalamu alaikum
I just came back from a demonstration in support of Lebanon and Palestine and mashallah alot of brothers and sisters have come. It was great except for a single incident which I will speak of later on in this entry.
First we had several speakers who gave speeches in support of defending your home from Israeli aggresion and then the march started while shouting slogans (which really could have been alot better to say the truth) and holding banners and flags. I have seen people from the street who came in and joined us in our march which is very heart warming. Considering that the march took place in Edgware Road (an area with alot of Muslims (mainly Arabs)) there were people who are interested. Another good happening was the coming of a few Rabbies who were exteremely opposed to Zionism and Israel. One of them even told me that him and his parents left Israel and will only return with a Palestinian passport and never with a Zionist one. What is even more is that apperently they claim that they would be more than happy to live under Islamic rule where particularly under the Uthmani khilafah, the Jews really flourished.
Now for the bad event that happened. Before the march began, during the talks, a brother came up and started shouting at us saying to the speaker (who was clean shaven) "grow your beard first and then start talking about the khilafah"! This was ofcourse one thing among other obsenities he said that are not even worth mentioning. He honestly ruined my day. Your beard is a sunnah and not a fard and it is between you and Allah. Is it good to have a beard? Certainly, anything from the sunnah is good. But would it save the people of Palestine, Lebanon, Iraq, Kashmir, Chechenia and Somalia? Unless your beard grows bread, bullets or money, then no. So exactly how is your beard related to your work to establish Islamic rule is beyond me. This is even more insulting considering that that very speaker that the brother was shouting at has recently come back from Egypt after spending four years in Egyptian prisons for working for the khilafah there. I wish to know what this bearded brother did for this ummah other than spend his time attacking our party (I was told that this is not the first time he tried to ruin one of the party's activities). What is more was that he wasn't satisfied with shouting (which is quite useless as only the people around him were able to hear him (the speakers obviously used microphones to talk), the brother decided to jump onto the stage and take hold of the microphone from the speaker. Even in the end when we were doing dua'a, he didn't stop and make dua'a to our brothers and sisters being attacked in the Muslim world, he continued to shout and call us kufaar and munafikeen! If it wasn't for our stewards and workers who stood in his path and held him back he would have ruined it for all of us and probably even physically attacked our Egyptian speaker. Nobody was interested in him, even the non-hizbie brothers who didn't agree with us and yet support us as brothers working for a noble cause said that what he was doing is disgusting. Subhaan Allah, may Allah guide him.
The following are photos I took of the demonstration with my mobile phone (I appologise for the quality).
The rude loud-mouthed self proclaimed "salafi" brother who called us kufaar:

The flag of Kashmir while we were listening to the speakers:

Jews against Zionism coming to the march uninvited but very welcomed:


One of the speakers from Hizbullah:


The march began dividing the people into different sections each section headed by a coffin with the raya over it.

Policemen almost every ten steps of the march:

The ending of the march at Regents Park Mosque with two flags of Kashmir:

wassalamu alaikum









