BBC compares jihad preacher Anjem Choudary to Gandhi and Mandela

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Freedom is dying in Britain, and the BBC is leading the charge to kill it. Real defenders of democracy and freedom are barred from the country, while jihad preacher Anjem Choudary is celebrated as a hero.

“BBC under fire after Home Affairs Editor Mark Easton ‘compares extremist preacher Anjem Choudary to Gandhi and Mandela,’” by Steph Cockroft, MailOnline, 14 May 2015:

The BBC is under fire after the Home Affairs Editor appeared to compare notorious hate preacher Anjem Choudary to Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela.

Following a lengthy report on last night’s BBC News at Ten about Choudary’s ‘radicalising force’, Mark Easton appeared to question whether there were similarities between Britain’s most famous extremist and two of history’s greatest civil rights campaigners.

Referring to Theresa May’s pledge to clamp down on extremism, the journalist said that Gandhi and Mandela had both been ‘extremists’ and that extreme views ‘are sometimes needed to challenge very establish values’.

But outraged viewers slammed the comparison as ‘disgusting’ while experts said the ‘ludicrous’ comments could give credence to Choudary’s ‘complete rejection’ of democracy and tolerance.

After a ‘special report’ which gave further airtime to Choudary and his radical views, Mr Easton said: ‘It’s one thing to ban someone for inciting hatred or violence, but quite another to pass a law that silences anyone who challenges established values.

‘I was in Parliament Square today – a statue of Gandhi looking down at me who was jailed for being extremist; Mandela who was jailed for being an extremist.

‘History tells us that extreme views are sometimes needed to challenge a very established values that people at the time hold so dear.’

Adam Deen, founder and executive director of The Deen Institute, a Muslim debating forum and think-tank, said the journalist was trying to make the point that dissenting views are essential in a democracy.

But he said that Choudary’s views ‘completely reject’ democracy and tolerance – the very values by which Gandhi and Mandela’s views were inspired.

Mr Deen said: ‘I think the journalist’s point is underpinned by the view that dissenting views are important for a democracy and that these voices can highlight areas where a society may have gone wrong.

‘But the error is that he is assuming that Anjem is arguing in the same way or dissenting in the same way as the likes of Mandela or Gandhi, both of whom were dissenting with a backdrop of views that the establishment already held.

‘Unlike Mandela and Gandhi, Choudary completely rejects those values of democracy and tolerance which makes the comparison completely false.

‘Anjem rejects democracy, is very non-Muslim and is very much anti-western. So to regard Anjem as a legitimate dissenting voice – and to open up this topic, saying that “maybe we’ve got it wrong to clamp down on his organisation” – is absurd.’

Anjem is not “very non-Muslim.” He is very Muslim. But leave it to the clueless and ridiculous Daily Mail, which ran a series of anti-free speech articles after the jihad attack on our free speech event, to obfuscate that fact.

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ByPamela Geller

on May 14, 2015

Anjem Choudary BBC

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THE PROPHET MOHAMMED

was a 7th century Adolf Hitler (as Hitler was a 20th century Mohammed). So how can Choudary (a Mohammed loving Moslem supremacist) be a Gandhi or Mandela? The world is upside down.

http://www.apollospeaks.com
- MJSANTILLI
  
  It’s very Easy with pamelageller < my neighbor's mom makes $64 hourly on the computer . She has been without work for 6 months but last month her check was $14236 just working on the computer for a few hours.
  
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sandbox

Choudhary should have been legally deported or interned years ago. When Cameron makes that happen, we’ll know he’s serious.
- Proud Kafir
  
  This is how real BBC is-
  - Dianne Johnson
    
    Yep!!! The EU countries will pay the price!!
    - Rangba Stephen
      
      time is coming.
  - Mike Hoffmann
    
    where the h*ck does this come from?
- Ron Cole
  
  Cameron was moulded in the same fascist factory as was lil’ john boehner (pawn, Beltway worm).
  - Mother Nature
    
    So you’re a big follower of Anjem Choudary?
- Patrick Roy
  
  He’s useful in that he makes people so bloody ANGRY they can never forget their hatred for the RoP. Maybe someone will take him out…
- Forlorn
  
  He was born in the UK (without my permission, I should add). Why do you think he is so oily-smug? He cannot be deported. Why he is not locked up for inciting violence and murder is real question. 800 years after the Magna Carta the green and pleasant land of England has sprouted snake-like weeds.
- Beagle
  
  When Choudary is incinerated in a freak prayer rug fire we will know Cameron is serious.
- Mike Hoffmann
  
  Absolutely agree!
Patriot Girl

Easton.. Surely this man is jewish… Another LEFTWING elitist jew hating jew who panders kowtows and licks the bum of these muslim savages.. He will be the first to go when they take over .. Make no mistake the UK is done for with the vicious help of the bbc!! I don’t understand nor ever will why these non muslim lefties hate their own country so much that they are willing to bow down to these murderous savages who despise them more than any one!! They fight for the civil rights of these animals when the animals don’t BELIEVE IN CIVIL HUMAN RIGHTS FOR ANYONE BUT TGE SAVAGES THEMSELVES! And not even then.. Look at the Sunni killing shite! Hopefully they will kill each other off but somehow I don’t think we’ll be that lucky! This is a job for all western nations but sadly they are all too busy taking in the barbarians at the gate, feeding clothing and sheltering the very enemy savage destined to slay them! Pathetic! Choudrey is a smug horrible vile creature, a POS, and he laughs as the UK government pays his bills and puts him up in a million dollar house in London! Thus us not a joke! It’s real and the UK will lay for their politically correct LEFTWING ideology! They already are! Civil war us. I ing and all good non muslim Englishman and women need yo arm themselves! Oh I forget! Not even police are armed there! God what a horrible mixed up society! Glad to be american! At least no one yet can dis arm me!
- JacktheRipper
  
  “Patriot Girl.” You so picked the right name.
  - Patriot Girl
    
    As did you..Jacktheripper…
- Mlady_Raka
  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Easton Sorry….you can’t pin this one on the Jews :) and btw Pamela is Jewish….what the HELL has being Jewish to do with anything anyway? Mark Easton is Scottish…
  - SCREW SOCIALISM
    
    Scottish? From the land which released the convicted bomber of Pan Am 103 on “compassionate” grounds for the “compassion” for Libyan Oil drilling contracts.
    
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZM2S4K54mI
    
    At 1:54 see the waving flag of perfidious scotland.
    BDS scotland – the home of back stabbers, socialists, appeasers.
  - Patriot Girl
    
    Ahem, madam, I am NOT PINING THIS ON THE JEWS! If you read what I wrote I pointed out that like america the left wing JEWS of this country and UK actively work to destroy our great ally Israel, by their SELF LOATHING OF BEING JEWISH! I am well aware pamela Geller is jewish and she herself has pointed out in many articles about the dangerous traitorous left wing JEWS who in their self loathing turn against their religion country and people! So don’t presume to lecture me madam.. My post was not anti Semitic merely pointing out a fact about JEWS in the left wing media how destructive they are and pander to the very people who want them dead! Read it again with out hysteria at the word JEW… I am a huge supporter of Israel, pamela Geller etc. I merely comment on this hugely disturbing phenomena of left wing jews in left wing media being traitors to all they are and know!
    - Keith
      
      You mean like Ed Miliband, the last leader of the UK Labour party who in an interview with The Muslim News, just before the election, promised to make Islamophobia an aggravated hate crime.
Theodorick C

Massacre Memory Lane…

“Prophet” Muhammad To The Women Of The Banu Qurayza:

https://drawthevileprophet.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/prophet-muhammad-to-the-women-of-the-banu-qurayza.jpg

https://drawthevileprophet.wordpress.com/2015/05/08/prophet-muhammad-to-the-women-of-the-banu-qurayza/
sandra schmidt

This pig incited violence against Pamela for exercising her First Amendment rights. Mark Easton is a traitor to Western culture and to all humanity. He should be shipped to ISIS land so he can enjoy the new “values” espoused by his hero Choudary.
- sandbox
  
  Why does that UK have to allow enemy sympathizers, supporters, or, in this case, the actual enemy continued residence in the country with access to press and public? It’s insane.
  - SCREW SOCIALISM
    
    BDS the UK until the time, if ever, it regains its morals and marbles and pushes back against Socialism and Islamofascism.
  - Gail Combs
    
    The UK is no longer a sovereign country. They have no say on their immigration laws. Those laws are decided by the European Union.
    
    READ Pascal Lamy: http://www.wto.org/english/news_e/sppl_e/sppl220_e.htm
    
    LEARN THE LESSON FROM THE UK!
    
    The politicians WITHOUT approval from the people made the UK a vassal state of the EU.
    
    The secretly negotiated Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is an attempt to forge a supranational government for the nations of the Pacific Rim modeled after the European Union. this includes free immigration between partners.
    
    REFERENCES:
    http://www.worldviewweekend.com/news/article/ultra-secrecy-surrounds-barack-obama-s-new-global-economic-treaty
    
    http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/sociopol_nasco04.htm
    
    http://economyincrisis.org/content/leaked-trans-pacific
    
    WIKILEAKS has some of the draft.
    https://wikileaks.org/tpp-ip2/
    - Dianne Johnson
      
      There is an element pushing for that with the US. Open borders with Canada and Mexico. What a mess that would be. But then again, for all intents and purposes, we do have an open border with Mexico.
      - Keith
        
        If all the countries involved had exactly the same standards of living, social welfare/benefits system, beliefs, economic levels and laws it would not be a problem but as there are no 2 countries in the world who have all of the above exactly the same you are always going to get those from poorer countries moving to richer, more economically vibrant, countries thus depriving the poorer country and over crowding the richer country.
        
        Of course this would be a left wing utopia, enrich everyone by dragging everyone down to the lowest common denominator
    - William Martin
      
      I’m in the UK atm.
      The place is going downhill fast.
  - Judi
    
    And give them all the benefits such as welfare payments (for up to 4 wives and numerous little future jihadis), housing, and anything else they think they are entitled to. Unbelievable!!
  - Patrick Roy
    
    Freedom of speech. But you forgot the access to benefits that he and his wife and four children also enjoy. Lovely, isn’t it?
Shwayz

As a South African its a fucking disgrace to compare this scum to Mandela. Mandela would be the first to condemn this rubbish. Mandela never preached hatred, but reconciliation and acceptance of others views. South Africa has one of the most liberal constitutions in the world when it comes to this.
JacktheRipper

I like this whole “dissenting view” theory in defense of anjem’s traitorous views. An analogy, it’s like if your house is burning up for hate, and we praise the views of the arsonist as a “dissenting view.” No, it’s not a view to consider, unless we’re considering the views of pyromaniacs or violent criminals.

Well, we islamophobes have considered his dissenting views, and we reject them as undemocratic, oppressive, ignorant, brutally authoritarian, misogynist, and hateful.

Here’s my dissenting view: KICK HIM OUT!
- Lynne Marton
  
  Jack, love your comments, but may I offer a suggestion? That is – the use of the word “islamophobe/phobia” is wrong and here is my reasoning. A phobia is usually defined as ” an exaggerated usually inexplicable and illogical fear of a particular object, class of objects, or situation.” There is nothing inexplicable or illogical about this fear – not even irrational. It has been explained, we know what, and who these moslem terrorists are, and we know why they are doing these horrific things all over the world. They want to take over the world, and they want us dead because Mo wrote it in his sleazy, evil koran that we are the “infidels”, and must die if we are not just like them.
  - JacktheRipper
    
    You rock Lynne. Yes, you’re right. Of late I’ve used that disparaging term as a self-descriptor as my way of showing contempt for it. It’s an epithet our critics use to silence us. So in defiance I wear it as a badge of honor. However, I’m glad you pointed that out. It’s a liberty I shouldn’t take on behalf of others, even if they are “on my side.” They may resent my attempt to discredit the term with my flaunted use of it. From now on I’ll only use it in reference to myself. Thanks for bringing that to my attention.
    
    And thanks for reaffirming the truth, yes, they are doing “horrific things” and they do want “take over the world.” This can’t be overstated.
    - Gail Combs
      
      Try using: “Islomophobe”***
      
      *** If you are not afraid of a mad man with a machine gun then you are bat s##t crazy too!
  - pitfour
    
    spot on.
  - Patrick Roy
    
    It’s ISLAMOLOATHIA.
    - Mother Nature
      
      Loathing of Islam? When Islam ditches jihad, sharia, slavery and apartheid, it will be less loathsome.
- Keith
  
  Nothing will change in any Western country, including the US, until we educate our politicians about Islam. At the present time all our politicians seem to believe that Islam is a religion of peace. We need to change that attitude quickly or else Islam will be at a great advantage when the civil wars start.
  - Mike Hoffmann
    
    But how to change their attitude? It’s like fighting windmills-) Hopefully civil war is first and sooner.
    - Keith
      
      Well I think we need to give them the information. Before the UK election campaign started one of the candidates got an early start and just happened to knock on my door and asked me what I thought about the state of the country. I instantly asked what she thought about that “vile racist violent misogynistic pedophilic religion called Islam” admittedly I could have been more diplomatic in my phrasing of the question I got my point across and got called a racist islamophobe for my trouble. The day election campaign started I emailed all the candidates for my constituency links to the 1990 Cairo Declaration (Human rights charter released by the Organisation of Isamic Countries) and the Muslim Manifesto for the UK (read on either FaithFreedom.org or Answering Muslims)
      I got one reply from the 5 and that was from the lady who knocked on my door. She said that she had read both articles very carefully and believes they raise some concerns. If she gets elected (unfortunately she didn’t) we should have a chat about it.
      I think that shows if we give the right information people can start heading in the right direction.
- Mike Hoffmann
  
  That’s what I’m saying for years already, bit nobody listens.
  - JacktheRipper
    
    People are starting to listen now. Don’t give up, things are turning around for us.
Alan

well Obama go the peace prise for what?
roccolore

Muslims like Choudary hate British values, but love British welfare benefits.
- Ronald Tell
  
  As nearly all muslims in Europe. They hate us because we are non muslims, but on the other site, they take our welfare benefits from us infidels… Well, they to what Mohammed did, he also plundered.
  - Your Friend Clem
    
    never worked a day in his life
  - Keith
    
    As Choudary states it is Jizya.
- defcon 4
  
  That’s very insensitive and racist of you, it’s not welfare benefits these proud, tolerant muslims are receiving its jizya! Jizya payments earned by hundreds of years of European oppression of the honest, tolerant, fun loving muslims like Chowderhead. Sarcastically speaking that is.
  - Mike Hoffmann
    
    I was hoping you would say that last sentence!
    - Incredulous
      
      They say there are no jokes in Islam. So what’s Choudary if he is not the biggest joke around?
- Dianne Johnson
  
  I read earlier today that 53% of Male Muslims in the UK do not work. They are taught that the infidels should support them. I’m certain we have some of those in the US as well.
  - Judi
    
    The men deliberately make themselves unemployable by the nightdresses they wear and the facial hair. As for the women, who is gonna employ a black shroud from the 7th century. All she’s good for is producing little cockroaches!
Radford_NG

Seems fair to me if you knew the record of these two men.He isn’t the one caught `bang to rights` at a Soviet controlled terrorist training camp learning to make bombs….and you should just hear some of the views of that `half-naked fakiar`(to quote Churchill).
Radford_NG

The Soviet grand plan:use Mandela and the ANC to take over South Africa (Steve Beko said that);use M.Mc G and J. A. (financed by the Boston/New York Irish–inspite of pleas from the Pope and the NY Cardinal) to take over Ireland (they’d already got Cuba).Establish Soviet bases at Simonstown,Guantanimo Bay(outside the US area)and at Queenstown/Cork/Cobh harbour from where the North Atlantic could be controlled;cutting off Europe from from the USA. the ANC/IRA/PLO all commarades together.
edward

How the hell can you compare Islamic values which are intolerance of non Muslims, murder, paedophilia and slavery of women to western values which are all about love and peace. The arsehole who tries to compare them should be shot.
Ronald Tell

How is it possible that this radical preacher is still free?
- hallal2u2
  
  Because the convicts of every jail in Britain have signed a petition saying they don’t want the clown anywhere near them. Can you imagine being stuck in a cell with him. Sort of like being married to him -all 5 of them in one bed.
lamb4usa

I am so glad I left England in 1983. I saw the writing on the wall back then. I feel for my family that still lives there. I am advising all of them to go out and buy a shotgun, which you can do in England. I, along with many others who are posting to this story know that Islam is no religion of peace. It is a cult of hate filled Muslims who only want to kill us. Be prepared for some serious attacks in this country before too long. And the blame will be placed on Republicans not closing the borders.
michaelwarden

Just for the record : Mandela was a murdering Communist and Gandhi was a total racist. Apart from that they were probably OK guys. Anjem Choudary is just the average muslim who happens to be able to string a few words together. A total sxxt but again, otherwise just an OK guy. Don’t worry about us in England, we have David Cameron to protect us – and also that lovely Theresa May.
- Your Friend Clem
  
  you people really do need all the help you can get.
Dusty Koellhoffer

So that’s why Gandhi G had Hindus and Moslems make separate countries? Islam has more akin to Nazi Germany than any other ideology.

Islamic reform is not realistic. The spread of Islam must be stopped!
http://liberalsbackwardsthink.com/2015/02/18/the-final-solution-to-islamic-terrorism-and-the-jihad/
- Mal Toozian
  
  I totally agree that Islam must be stopped, but Gandhi wanted one inclusive country with both Hindus and Muslims. It wasn’t possible because one group, and I don’t want to mention Muslims, are too exclusive and warlike.
- Gail Combs
  
  Gandhi called Muslims BULLYS.
  
  QUOTE
  But my own experience confirms the opinion that the Mussalman as a rule is a bully, and the Hindu as a rule is a coward. I have noticed this in railway trains, on public roads, and in the quar�rels which I had the privilege of settling. Need the Hindu blame the Mussalman for his cowardice? Where there are cowards, there will always be bullies. They say that in Saharan�pur the Mussal�mans looted houses, broke open safes and, in one case, a Hindu woman’s modesty was outraged. Whose fault was this? Mussalmans can offer no defence for the execrable conduct, it is true. But I, as a Hindu, am more ashamed of Hindu cowardice than I am angry at the Mussalman bullying. Why did not the owners of the houses looted die in the attempt to defend their possessions? Where were the relatives of the outraged sister at the time of the outrage? Have they no account to render of themselves? My non-violence does not admit of running away from danger and leaving dear ones unprotected.
  UNQUOTE
  
  http://koenraadelst.bharatvani.org/books/bjp/section7.html
Mal Toozian

This clown is way out of touch with the average Brit, who would just assume tar and feather Choudary, as they consider him a parasitic buffoon.
SweetMarmot

Gandhi and Mandela preached nonviolence. I was under the impression this Anjem guy loves violence, and wants as much of it as possible. How he compares with nonviolent people, who are vastly superior to him, is a mystery to me.
- SCREW SOCIALISM
  
  I wish that someone would treat andy choudary like the satanic piñata he is.
- Patrick Roy
  
  He needs a public whipping. Naked. In a square. On a cold rainy day. By beautiful women in bikinis and stilettos.
  - Finrod Felagund
    
    In bikinis made of bacon, using whips made from pigskin.
    - Mike Hoffmann
      
      That’s a very nice idea! But also live on TV, all channels! And then kick him out afterwards,
- Steve Joseph
  
  You got that one wrong,mate,Mandela,encouraged violence,even after his release,remember he could have been released many years earlier,and the only condition was that he reject violence as a means to furthering his political objectives!
- Gail Combs
  
  Mahatma Gandhi:
  
  …my own experience confirms the opinion that the Mussalman as a rule is a bully…
  I, as a Hindu, am more ashamed of Hindu cowardice than I am angry at the Mussalman bullying. Why did not the owners of the houses looted die in the attempt to defend their possessions? Where were the relatives of the outraged sister at the time of the outrage? Have they no account to render of themselves? My non-violence does not admit of running away from danger and leaving dear ones unprotected…..
  http://koenraadelst.bharatvani.org/books/bjp/section7.html
  
  Even Gandhi recognized the muslim is a bully and the correct response is to FIGHT BACK!
Tatonka

Gandhi and Mandela were no saints either so he is partly true in comparing them to that Choudary but at least they were voices in their own country
Choudary is raising hell in a country that not his own so how can he be a legit “dissident” in the UK.?
They should’ve kicked that smug trony out years ago i say
Speaksvolumes

Choudary has stated that he would like to leave Britain to live in the ISIS “Caliphate” but he is prevented from doing so by the British government who has revoked his passport.
- dfw63
  
  He’s lying, taqiyya on parade. He gets paid too much being on the dole to ever move to some Middle East rat hole country.
  - SCREW SOCIALISM
    
    The fact that the sand nazi andy choudary receives money from the british government demonstrates the low moral state of Britain.
cmouse

Behold the sun setting on the British Empire.
- SCREW SOCIALISM
  
  The collapsing UK serves as a warning to all Western Civilization of the perils of Socialism.
  There is a glimmer of hope for the UK with the re-election of David Cameron. The BBC must be forced to stand on its own merits, and STOP forcing people to support the BBC with taxes.
- defcon 4
  
  Maybe the Falklands would be better off if Argentina had successfully taken over! I’m certain in Englanistan’s islamic-nazi future it will build mosques at a state expense on the Falklands as well as importing a few million islamic-nazis to make sure they’re filled to capacity.
- hallal2u2
  
  And it’s blood red.
Mike

Where are our Crusaders???? When will they rise up and deal with these PIGS!!!!!
- Donald Howard
  
  Mike we people in the west will end up having to be our own crusaders and deal with them ourselves once the tipping point is reached,because our illustrious politician who’s job it is to lookout for the interests and security of our nations have been willfully derelict in their sworn duties.
  - Mike
    
    Yes Donald. And I’m sure you recognize that many of us are ready and will be there when duty calls. I will do ANYTHING to protect my family. ANYTHING.
Mark Gullick

What is sad is that Choudary is viewed as a comic figure by most Brits. He is also an oddity in that he tells the truth about Islam, in bold contradistinction to the UK’s political elites. And those elites know exactly what they are doing here (UK); they are desperately trying to foment cultural clashes.
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Prinz Eugen

Mandeler was in jail for murder — but the west”whitewashed his crimes. Gandhi was strange, but Choudry does compare with the commie enabler, Mandeler! We can see the “freedom and prosperity” that Mandeler brought — and Choudry’s handiwork is visible throughout the mideast and Afriker!

The BBC converted to islam a long time ago — they are too timid to declare it openly.
Lacouray Too

I still prefer my picture of anjemma.
- defcon 4
  
  LOL. I love this pic. Chowderhead would look so much less threatening if he were to get a makeover like this.
  - Patrick Roy
    
    Oh no he looks scarier than ever!
Snow Hare

In the photograph above, wearing a cap and scarf, is Michael Adebolajo, currently serving life, after butchering and nearly beheading the British soldier Lee Rigby in a London street in 2013. They could never hate me as much as I hate them.
Warren Raymond

“…dissenting views are important for a democracy and that these voices can highlight areas where a society may have gone wrong.”

Yes indeed. Dissenting views are important, that’s why voices like Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller should and must be heard, if once great Britain still wants to call itself a democracy. So when is that going to happen? And how will this nation of giggling shopkeepers bring this about?
The Bull

It’s a real shame that this man is on the dark side because he has charisma and the ‘silver tongue’. He also has the conviction to follow his beliefs, albeit terrible, courageously and truthfully. Lets pray for his Islamic deconversion.
- Keith
  
  I bet if he even had a dream about apostasising he would have to go and behead himself as penance.
defcon 4

Gandhi admired Jesus, he never made any such statement about muhammad.
Ron Cole

England is finished with no rescue in sight.
joker

When are journalists going to know really their subject?
- Hallal2u2
  
  When they find themselves sitting next to him on a British Airways jet and think “do I really want to be here? I’m feeling kind of nervous but I don’t know why”. I wonder if Choudary does fly anywhere. He’s on government benefits, welfare, so probably not. Scary thought.
John Winston Beatson

still living in a mansion on a pile of benefits and freebies waiting to destroy us
we’re all equal

What an absurd comparison. Mandela was in prison under apartheid and when he was released, preached and practised only forgiveness. He deserves to be honored and revered. Had it not been for him, there would have been a bloodbath in South Africa when apartheid ended and he became president. Were it up to Choudary, there would be a bloodbath against those not conforming to his beloved and ridiculous Sharia. He’s a hate mongering scumbag who should be in prison…
American

I bet that was a real blow to his ego. I’m sure he would have preferred to be compared to his hero Mohammad, who would have beheaded the other two.

BBC-WHY??? Now you’re ‘under fire’ for espousing submissive and shameful rubbish.
Dianne Johnson

Hahahahaha!! On Ghandi’s worst day he could not be as f*d up as Choudary!! To compare a peaceful man like Ghandi to a proponent of torture and murder, stoning and lashings. Makes me want to vomit!!
Costas Constantinou

Well, Ghandi was a racist and Mandela a terrorist…Think the comparison is justified.
Leslie

Choudry preaches hate and is not jailed, a Christianity preaches that homosexuality is a sin from The Bible and he is arrested and fined for hate speech. I’m not sure if he’s serving some jail time. Choudry runs free. Westmonster is a cluster of cowards unwilling to speak up to Muslims. So some neighborhoods are lost, I guess they will start a new Gaza strip in the UK. It’s weird how they are against Israel when they have their own problems with Muslims.
Shelter Somerset

Does the Left Wing really want Islam to “challenge” their values? Or perhaps they never had values and they’ve always been driven by a hatred for the USA and anything that represents individual liberty.
Magicmaninthesky Nothanks

Anjem Choudary is very Muslim. Just like the murdering rapist Mohammed.
grayjohn

The BBC has outlived it’s usefulness and become a treasonous pile of shit. Shut them down and pub Chaudary in prison forever, on a strict bacon diet.
kraftavilqa

“Mr Deen said: ‘I think the journalist’s point is underpinned by the view that dissenting views are important for a democracy and that these voices can highlight areas where a society may have gone wrong. ” In this case the area where British society has gone wrong is blindingly and painfully highlighted: letting libtards run the country too often and too long and allowing immigration of hordes of unwashed extremely hostile savage colonists. Pisslam does not add to a civilisation rather pisslam destroys it multiculturalist assholes.
LuluB

This man is truly, genuinely evil. He’s also a charlatan, who’s been revealed to have lied about all sorts of degrees and qualifications and has called in abuse under pseudonyms on radio programs, etc. He is really, bad news. The BBC lost a huge chunk of credibility, here.
IC_the_future

The BBB has been dhimmified, along with the NY Times, most of the USA media, the FBI, the CIA, the State Department, the White House, did I leave anyone out?
- Shelter Somerset
  
  the publishing industry, Hollywood, higher education, public schools, corporate America…
alyn21

The British people recently had the opportunity to vote David Cameron out of office and put someone in to start to repare the damage that has been done to Britain. Instead the people voted for someone who said that British muslims have made great contributions to his country and he looks forward to the day when a muslim would be Prime Minister of Britain. As a Canadian observer I have only one thing to say,”You people are absolute idiots. No wonder the muslims are bossing you around.

Even the BNP would have been better.
- defcon 4
  
  Um, I believe more than a few people have been persecuted and incarcerated for criticising pi$$lam in Canada. Mark Steyn and Ezra Levant were both persecuted by the HRC and one man was imprisoned for publicly criticising Islam. The US is no better (i.e. Dearbornistan).
  - alyn21
    
    Yes those are two good examples however I suggest that your comparison is not quite accurate. In my country or the U.S. if a young girl is raped by a muslim or anyone else for that matter police have no problem arresting them. and social workers have no problem reporting it. They are not concerned about being charged with racism for reporting a crime.
    Our Prime Minister Stephen Harper stated that Canadian values will always supercede any other religious or cultural practice. David Cameron says that British people should integrate more into the muslim way of life not the other way around. He also looks forward to seeing a muslim prime minister one day.
    In the U.S. they have first amendment rights that allow someone like Pam Geller to place ads on buses that muslims find offensive. In Britain you had a man recently arrested for quoting Winston Churchill in a public area.
    In the U.S. you currently have a President with muslim sympathies. However you also have a very loud opposition to the President and the opposition does not have to worry about being arrested. In Canada you have laws against issuing death threats which apply to everyone including muslims. In Britain you have muslims like Anjem Choudhary who issue such threats without consequence. You also had a labour leader who recently ran on a platform where he wanted to make it illegal to criticise Islam at all. Fortunately he was not elected. Our NDP who would be the equivalent to your labour party are idiots. But even they would not think that they could get away with shutting down free speech.
    I could go on and make many more comparisons. But this is generally how I see it.
SJS

Wow. Just Wow.
SJS

Bye Britain. Was fun having you around. Now, not so much.
Bachiyr

You people don’t understand the greater power that is at work here….. Rupert Murdoch owns the Daily Mail, has BSkyB in his pocket too. Of course his vile opinions are going to be splattered on the papers he owns.
#Wakeup
Lacouray Too

Just found these photos on a website and had to share them.
AnneM040359

Every time Sean Hannity of “Hannity” takes Choudhary on, Mr. Choudhary shows his trues colors for all to see.
Beagle

My favorite example of this kind of ‘reasoning':

Hitler was a vegetarian artist who was kind to dogs and kids whenever he met them.

Many leftists really are insane aren’t they?
- Paul K
  
  People may be astounded as to why ‘progressive’ leftists
  (Cultural Marxists) have such a strong bond with the likes
  of Choudary, but there’s really no mystery. It’s a perverse
  mindset where people repackage their own twistedness
  in fanciful and jargonistic terms. As much as I despise
  Choudary, he is, unlike them, honest about how much of
  a monster he is.
  Pat Condell gives us a great insight into the
  ‘progressive’ mindset :
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mu8bmMrfMYw
Paul K

Just goes to show how out of touch the BBC is with mainstream

opinion – as if any more confirmation was required. Choudary is despised
and rightly ridiculed here by the vast majority of people, but to the Cultural
Marxists at the BBC he’s a hero. As disgusting as those comments were
by them it’s not at all surprising. The ‘progressive’ left and Islamists are
made for each as I’ve noticed that the former commonly abides by a firm
set of rules : 1) Good=bad 2) Bad =good 3) Never attack evil 4) Only
attack those who attack evil 5) Deliberately misunderstand their
logical and compassionate arguments 6) Threaten, slander and/or
physically intimidate them.
Now, that may sound crazy, but it’s their mentality in a nutshell and
you’ll see it played out every time – I guarantee it!
irwinpenny18

Anyone who is surprised by the BBC and the British, should know that our Founders couldn’t wait to get the hell out of that despicable country. In addition, the British treated all the Holocaust survivors who tried to escape to Israel as harshly as the Nazis.

Britain is an evil country. Do not let that British accent fool you. Pamela Geller should know that being banned from visiting England is one of the greatest honors that any human being can receive.
- Paul K
  
  Don’t tar us all with the same brush and don’t confuse us
  with the smug ‘multi-cultural’ elites at the BBC and in
  parliament who have declared cultural and religious war
  upon us with the help of the likes of Choudary and other
  slick Islamists.
  Do you REALLY think that people here – I mean those of us
  subjected to this crap on a daily basis – were happy when
  Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer were banned from the UK
  after Lee Rigby was so brutally murdered? Should I assume
  that all Americans are complicit with the way your current
  administration have created chaos in the Middle East so that
  Erdogan can have the Ottoman Empire back? – And that’s what
  it’s all about.
  Resistance is certainly forming amongst the expendable, hated
  and betrayed amongst us, I can assure you. You should be
  
  wishing those amongst us who play our part well.
  - irwinpenny18
    
    Paul–I hear your pain–and you are right that Obama’s decisions have been a disaster. The majority of Americans do not agree with him–however we have to pay the consequences. Yet, if you look at America long term, we have been a source of good in the world. I wish I could say the same about England.
    - Paul K
      
      I agree about America, and I hope they get somebody
      good in next year. Things in Britain are too far gone
      without things being resolved very brutally. On the
      one hand, we have the alliance between the Islamists,
      the bourgeois ‘intellectual’ left, the cowardly MSM etc.,
      and then there are real patriots who are slandered
      and harassed (Paul Weston,Tommy Robinson, Paul
      Golding, UKIP etc.). One positive is that many are
      sick and tired of deliberately deceptive politically
      correct nonsense and have woken up to it. Better late
      than never though, I suppose.
    - defcon 4
      
      I’ll tell you one thing, Pakistan and Bangladesh were a lot more tolerant, peaceful and multicultural under British rule than they are now.
Oxford Mike

The biased BBC must fire Home Affairs Editor Mark Easton, he is encouraging radical extremists like Choudrey, instead of condemning them. He is anti the British way of life and must go.
Marko hersh

He may be canonized by the pope
- defcon 4
  
  LOL.
http://amillennialist.blogspot.com Santiago Matamoros

Gandhi suggested that Germany’s Jews commit mass suicide to draw the world’s attention to Hitler’s atrocities.

Other than that, Choudary is more like Hitler.
Jim Fox

Let Choudary rant. He’s the BEST argument against ISLAM. And most likely to wake up the comatose British.
Jim Fox

Choudary renamed the British “Job Seekers Allowance” [JSA]
to “Jihad Seekers Allowance”. Pretty accurate…
Steven Reed

Why did they compare these two? Does Andy drink his own urine too?
r8it-now.com
Doug Lynn

He is imam not a preacher, who is a country pastor….
Margi Isaac

I am SERIOUSLY considering STOPPING my licence fee!!! :-(
James M

Mandela was a terrorist, so it’s a fair comparison. Gandhi was an idiot who was daft enough to advise the Jews not to resist that nice Mr Hitler:

“Throughout history, many chose not to emulate Moses’ example. During the Second World War, for example, when it appeared that Nazi Germany would attempt to capture England, Mahatma Gandhi offered the British the following advice:

“I would like you to lay down the arms you have which are useless for saving you or humanity. You will invite Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini to take what they want of the countries you call your possessions. Let them take possession…. If these gentlemen choose to occupy your homes, you will vacate them. If they do not give you free passage out, you will allow yourself, man, woman and child, to be slaughtered, but you will refuse to owe allegiance to them.”

To the Jews of Germany, Gandhi offered a similar message:

“I am as certain as I am dictating these words that the stoniest German heart will melt [if only the Jews] adopt active non-violence. Human nature… unfailingly responds to the advances of love. I do not despair of his [Hitler’s] responding to human suffering even though caused by him.”

Had Gandhi convinced the English to lay down their arms and practice non-violence, the Jewish people would have been annihilated, democracy and human rights would have disappeared, and our world would have been plunged into a new Dark Age of unimaginable cruelty. War, while always unfortunate and painful, is not always evil; sometimes, fighting a war is the most moral thing to do.

Astonishingly, the nation that Moses created has in recent years emulated Gandhi rather than Moses. With the Oslo accords, we invited our sworn enemies to take parts of our homeland in the belief that they would reciprocate with peace and good will. Instead of declaring outright war against the terrorists and their infrastructure, we chose to practice restraint and non-violent diplomacy. Many of us believed then, and some still believe, that the stoniest terrorist heart will melt in response to our peaceful advances.”

http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/111454/jewish/Gandhi-or-Moses.htm

## Those “useless arms” helped save that treacherous, back-stabbing, useless bastard’s sorry arse. No wonder Choudhry admires him. It is hard to think of two widely-praised men this century who are less deserving of the almost universal adoration they receive. MLK was no plaster saint, but he’s worth 1000 of those two. Choudhry is gambling on the fact that most people are taught to admire those two scumbags uncritically. It’s a pretty safe gamble.