DEMOCRACY is failing the British people, fashioned designer Katherine Hamnett warned a rally to remember the victims of the London bomb blasts on Sunday.
“A million people marched against the Iraq war but the politicians didn’t listen” Ms Hamnett told nearly 1,000 people in Russell Square, a few hundred yards from where a bomb blew up the number 30 bus on July 7.
“I designed a T-shirt for the marches against the war but what was the use? We don’t know how to use democracy. The only thing is to tell MPs we won’t vote for them if they don’t listen to us.”
Peter Brierley from Leeds, whose son Sean was killed serving in the army in Iraq, said he supported the war at the beginning but then discovered it was based on lies.
“We have got to stop lying, we have got to start telling the truth,” he said.
Dr Azzam Tamimi, a leading official of the Muslim Association of Britain, said government forces were trying to silence critics who drew a line linking London terrorism and the Iraq war.
“They don’t want us to explain, they don’t want us to understand,” he said. “But we won’t be silenced, we will continue to write, we will continue to challenge the government. I say to Muslims do not bow to pressure to keep accepting those fingers at you. Say, No, I am not responsible for what happened on July 7. My heart bleeds. I condemn it, yes but I did not make those boys angry. I did not send bombs to Iraq, I do not keep people locked in Guantanamo Bay. Politicians see what you have done to this world”.
George Galloway MP advised young Muslims to direct their justified their anger at the injustices done to Muslims in the Middle East by supporting the anti-war movement or by joining his party, Respect.