.... when I first wrote about this topic I did not know that the poster included the slogan ‘Muslims are the most hateful of them all’ or that pictures of mutilated bodies were involved. (These were initially described as pictures of ‘mutilated Muslims’ although it seems more likely that they were being presented as victims of Islamist violence.)
In answer to Islamophobia Watch’s challenge, one might observe (as Edgar does) that such things are displayed or shouted at anti-Israel rallies fairly routinely. The offensiveness of the posters isn’t in doubt – they seemed pretty threatening too, at least implicitly – but those points are compatible with a) thinking the sentence seems, on the face of it, excessive and b) wanting to know a bit more about exactly what was on the posters. [Harry’s Place] Read more
