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BBC News - Muslims Against Crusades banned by Theresa May The home secretary is banning Muslims Against Crusades (MAC), a group that planned an anti-Armistice Day protest. It had wanted to repeat a demonstration held last year, when it burned poppies near London's Albert Hall. Theresa May's order will make membership or support of MAC a criminal offence. It is closely linked to seven other previously-banned groups. The organisation, now dissolved, said "the call for Islam will never be silenced by any ban or proscription". Mrs May said she was satisfied that Muslims Against Crusades (MAC) was "simply another name for an organisation already proscribed under a number of names". "The organisation was proscribed in 2006 for glorifying terrorism and we are clear it should not be able to continue these activities by simply changing its name," she said. Muslims Against Crusades is the latest incarnation of an organisation originally set up by extremist preacher Omar Bakri Mohammed, who fled the UK six years ago. Its previous versions are all proscribed groups. Most recently, it has been involved in potential stand-offs with the English Defence League and it also demonstrated outside the US Embassy on the 10th anniversary of 9/11. Anjem Choudary, the leading public figure in the organisation, accused the government of attempting to cover up the truth - but hours later the group declared that it was "hearby dissolved". The planned "Hell for Heroes" demonstration was also scrapped. Anyone who would have joined the demonstration as a member or supporter of MAC could face up to 10 years in jail. Individuals can be charged with an offence if police have reasonable suspicion that activities are linked to a banned group. In a statement on its website, MAC said: "The intended banning of Muslims Against Crusades by Home Secretary Theresa May is a great victory for Islam and Muslims and highlights the sheer hatred the British government has towards sincere Muslims who wish to peacefully speak out against policies that are (from every angle) anti-Islam and anti-Muslim." Member fined During its 2010 protest, members of the group burned poppies and chanted "British soldiers, burn in hell". One of the group was found guilty of public order offences and fined. The judge in the case described the actions as a "calculated and deliberate insult to the dead and those who mourn or remember them". Julie Siddiqui of the Islamic Society of Britain had been organising a counter-demonstration for Friday. She said: "In one sweep, Muslims Against Crusades display an unspeakable disregard for the feelings and common bond of our countrymen and women, a contempt and rejection of our hard-earned democracy and its institutions, a disdain for the majority of British Muslims - who do not share their views - and a violation of the example of the Prophet Muhammad." Tory MP Mike Freer welcomed the decision to proscribe Muslims Against Crusades. Last month one of his constituency meetings, being held in a mosque, was disrupted by Muslims Against Crusades. He was moved for his safety to a locked part of the building while its management waited for police to arrive. MAC later denied threatening Mr Freer. Mr Freer said: "What we must also do is ensure that any new incarnation of this group continues to be monitored because past history tells us that this group does reform, rename and reappear." ***************************************************** Mrs May said she was satisfied that Muslims Against Crusades (MAC) was "simply another name for an organisation already proscribed under a number of names". Isn't that an admission that banning groups doesn't work? Meanwhile, a tiny number of self-aggrandising bellends can tell themselves that they are (a) martyrs, (b) right about this being an oppressive, racist state and © getting under the Government's skin. Another stupid move by a stupid person working for a stupid Government.

Paedophile rapist to be beheaded and crucified in Saudi Arabia - Middle East, World - The Independent A man who kidnapped and raped five children, one of whom was left in the desert to die, has been sentenced to be beheaded and his body publicly crucified. Muhammed Basheer al-Ramaly, 22, from the northern city of Hail, in Saudi Arabia, will be executed at noon today. He will be beheaded by sword then his body tied to a wooden cross and his head stuck on a pole as a deterrent. Al-Ramaly was found guilty in February of abducting and raping five boys, the eldest of whom was 7 and the youngest just 3, who he left out in the desert to die. His modus operandi was to pick up the boys in his car and take them off to a secret location and rape them. Most of them were found a day or two after they were abducted, and told police that they had been abused. Saudi reports said that police used one of the survivors, a seven-year-old boy, to scour the area where he was molested, looking for the suspect's vehicle. Al-Ramaly allegedly confessed to the crime and was sentenced to death by a court in Hail, but appealed to a higher court in the Saudi capital, Riyadh. That court yesterday upheld the sentence and ordered his immediate execution. While Saudi Arabia carries out numerous beheadings -- 102 last year, according to Amnesty International - crucifixions are relatively rare. The last one appears to have been in May, when the headless body of a sex murderer was displayed in the capital. Amnesty said there were reports that al-Ramaly may have been suffering from a psychological disorder. One Saudi web forum claimed that police had been surprised when he laughed as he confessed to the rapes and murder. Saudi Arabia has come under fire from human rights groups in the past for its high number of executions. About half of the 1,695 executed between 1985 and 2008 were foreign workers unable to pay the blood money that relatives of murder victims can demand in lieu of the death penalty, according to Amnesty.

That cunt Lampard and his wage demands considering he is 30 years old has got me thinking. Do you think sports wages are recession proof?

About the growing intolerence in Britain today in respect of Islam. One for the anti-muslims maybe?