COFFINS MARCH IN UK

COFFINS MARCH IN UK

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July 21, 2022

A British group called Islam4UK, led by Anjem Choudary, has announced plans to march through the northern town of Wootton Bassett to press for British troop withdrawal from Afghanistan. The marchers will carry empty coffins to represent thousands of civilians killed by the 2001 US-led invasion. Although no date has been set, the proposed protest, in a place that has come to symbolise public respect for the war dead, has caused uproar. Other British Muslim leaders are slamming this coffins protest as “provocative” by a self-styled group through the town where Britain’s Afghanistan war dead are repatriated. “Muslims deeply regret loss of life, whether it is civilians in Iraq, Afghanistan or soldiers of our British armed forces,” Suleman Nagdi, spokesman for the Leicestershire Federation of Muslim Organisations. He added, ”But our energies should be directed through peaceful means to our Government and not targeted at our soldiers or their families.”