EXCLUSIVE: A Muslim group will march through Brick Lane on Friday to campaign against the drinking and selling of alcohol, which they say is “sinful” under Islamic law.
Members of The Shariah Project say drinking alcohol is “strictly prohibited” and hope to highlight the ills of alcohol with a rally after Friday prayers on December 13.
Spokesman Abu Rumaysah, 30, said: “There’s a lot of problems in the area like anti-social behaviour caused by drinking and a lot of the Muslims are involved in selling alcohol in their shops.”
He added: “The one who is not a Muslim is already going to the hell fire. The one who drinks or sells alcohol ... God can forgive if he mends his ways.”
Mr Rumaysah, who lives in Waltham Forest where the group is based, said hate preacher Anjem Choudary is one of its “mentors”.
Abdul Muhid, 31, who lives in Whitechapel where he works in a shop, said he contacted the group to plan a rally after the council raised the issue of alcohol abuse in the borough.
He said: “One of the problems in the recession is that people are depressed and some have hit the bottle.
“My duty as a Muslim is to convince people of the ills of alcohol.”
He added: “In the Islamic teaching drinking and selling alcohol is definitely a sin.”
An East London Mosque official said the rally was a publicity stunt that would “antagonise local people and business owners”.
He said The Shariah Project is “strongly linked” to Anjem Choudary’s group Al-Muhajiroun, members of which were recently sentenced to jail for threatening people drinking alcohol in east London in so-called “Muslim Patrols”.
Dr Usama Hasan of the anti-extremist group Quilliam, who is based in Waltham Forest, said: “In Islamic teaching you shouldn’t drink alcohol, but you can’t impose Islamic law on other people. This is a democracy.
“To try and impose Sharia by force, which is their stated aim, is completely stupid and against Islamic teaching.”
The rally will start in Osborn Street at 2pm on Friday and march up Brick Lane to Bethnal Green Road.
If these stupid brain dead Muslims don't like our laws, then F**k OFF back to the shit hole you first came from. We don't want you here, don't you understand you Muslim paedophile pig swill. These Muslim Morons have no right marching through the streets and preaching Sharia law in a country where Sharia law doesn't belong, you are not welcome here, if you don't like our laws and our country, then go back to Pakishitstan, the sooner the better.
You know what will happen when these Muslims in their nightshirts start marching, the police will be there making sure that their own people the English are arrested if they counteract the march, it won't be the Muslims that get arrested, the police could never arrest a Muslim, after all, they don't want to upset the brown gits do they.
It would be great to see thousands of pissed off British people standing there when the Muslims start their march, i don't mean the EDL, they can not be trusted the EDL leaders want Muslims to join the EDL and march with them, have you ever heard anything as stupid as that. One Ex leader of the EDL, Muslim loving Tommy Robinson, has already left to join a Muslim group that wants to help take over the UK, what a piece of Shit Tommy Robinson is, a traitor to the cause, who by the way is Irish, so how come he was the leader of the EDL? Because the EDL was set up by government, and the followers of the EDL have not worked that out yet, so we don't want the EDL there, but we want real nationalists there, to show these Muslims that this is England, and they are NOT welcome in England or in Great Britain.
The Muslims think we don't care, because we never do anything to show we do care, well prove them Wrong England, and be there on Dec 13th and tell these Muslims, enough is enough.