Muslims Protesters Call for a Caliphate Outside Syrian Embassy in London

The crowd was made up mostly of people from mosques across London and was reportedly self-segregated with most of the women wearing Islamic clothing. As the night went on, the crowd grew, eventually blocking off an entire road.

Over a thousand British Muslims took to the streets of London on Tuesday in a show of force, blocking off a central London square to call for a caliphate while the crowd chanted ‘Allahu Akbar’.

We need a Caliph who will clean up these streets / Who will smack up armies and who will back beef [fighting]. / Backhand your missiles back to your land, that’s the plan. / World domination at hand. We can expand and take out these fools.

Those were the words of a poet invited to address the raucous crowd outside the Syrian Embassy in central London who cheered and yelled Allahu Akbar (Allah is the greatest) in support of his calls for war.

Eschewing an alternative demonstration in support of Syria taking place outside Downing Street on the grounds that they did not support the British government, the protesters heard speeches by Moazzam Begg of CAGE, editor of 5Pillars Dilly Hussain, and Hizb ut-Tahrir member Ibtihal Bsis among others.

Lanes of traffic were blocked off in London’s Belgrave Square as the protest got underway at about 9pm, with a prayer session outside the Syrian embassy. The building has lain empty since May 2012 when the Syrian ambassador to the UK was expelled by the British government.

Rachel Megawhat / Breitbart London

Rachel Megawhat / Breitbart London

The crowd, mostly drawn from mosques across London, was largely self-segregated with many of the women wearing Islamic clothing.  It soon grew to block off the entire road, with many in the crowd waving what looked to be the Taliban flag, while others were handed placards made by Hizb ut-Tahrir Britain, which calls for the reestablishment of a caliphate. It is not clear who organised the demonstration.

Rachel Megawhat / Breitbart London

Rachel Megawhat / Breitbart London

Rachel Megawhat / Breitbart London

Following prayers, a series of speakers addressed the crowd, talking for over an hour amidst constant interruption in the form of cheers of support.

Asim Qureshi, director of the Muslim rights group CAGE, which has been linked to extremism, laid the blame for the situation in Aleppo at America’s door, saying: “Never forget who is the problem here.

“When they say ‘look, America is the one who is going to come and help you in this’, then we have to remind them. Go back to the beginning of the war on terror when we were investigating cases of individuals being put on rendition flights to Syria where they had the soles of their feet beaten by the Syrian regime the moment they arrived in prison.

“And who sent them there? The Americans, the CIA.”

They fled the violence in Syria to create more violence in the West, or at least that’s what it’s feeling like. Before finally dispersing, Haitham al-Hadad, a Saudi-traned Salafist Muslim congratulated the crowd on gathering so much so quickly, calling it a victory for Allah.

Source: breitbart.com