Well, no doubt jno's pronouncement will allay unfounded fears for Jake at least, but what about the grandchildren you mentioned? Do the maths work for them - and their grandchilden?
Can't they reduce Choudarys "free everything"? Say for each rant, his "free everything" gets reduced by 10% each time. He could also be moved to a house with one less bedroom for every 5 rants.
I can't understand why newspapers give him any reporting space. If nothing was said about him, it wouldn't stop him, but it would stop him enjoying the fact he thinks he is worth it.
// I can't understand why newspapers give him any reporting space //
Because he's the nearest thing to a spokesman that Islamist lunatics have got, so he's the go to guy whenever there's an incident of islamist lunacy.
Also, you can always count on him to say something outrageous and stupid, and the media love people like that.
jno like it or not Christianity is on it's way out in the UK. as someone pointed out there are over 2 Million Muslims in Britain, the journalist added, time is on their side. Many British people may have put Christian on the census form, but that doesn't mean they are practising, whereas most Muslims do.
I actually think there are more people who consider themselves to be Christian in this country than we realise. As you say, Em, they just don't go to church, and hence are not counted. We shouldn't discount the much higher birthrate in the Muslim population, hence the swiftly swelling numbers, but if push came to shove - which I hope it never does - I think we would see an enormous rise in the number of people claiming to be Christian.
claiming and being are two different things. I have said before i believe that Christianity will eventually die out, to be replaced by Islam, for good and for ill.
it does mean many people have moved away from Christianity and tacked onto other religions, or become atheist or agnostic, even joined the Jedi Knights, but that doesn't mean to say an organised religion with many followers won't take the lead in years to come. Many people need to be led, and have no concept of how to live their lives unless being told what to do. It is something we are ditching in favour of a more secular life.
It seems to me that he will deserve all he gets!!! The problem is, while the media allow such a vile person to air their discriminatory and hateful views, they will continue to do so and become, if only in their eyes, a martyr to their stupid cause: if, on the other hand, they were not given the air time so to speak to preach their hatred they would become obscure.
some seem to think that the more he is on preaching his hatred the more it will eventually see his demise, at least on tv news, i don't see that, he has been doing this for a long while, so it hasn't worked so far.
This chappy is NOT representative of Islam, and can NOT back up his inflammatory remarks from the Koran. His "authority" comes from additional texts, like someone quoting "Bel and the Dragon" as having a direct bearing on Christianity. What is needed - and it is very disappointing that we have not seen it - is for these extremist preachers being confronted by mainstream Islamic preachers, in as public a way as possible.