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   9/14/08

   LoveIan

   Why?
   Do they think Heather Mills didn't get enough?

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      9/14/08

      harleyblues

      what? that's not even funny
      gv~
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      9/14/08

      pointlessbanter

      Actually that is really funny
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   9/14/08

   harleyblues

   Sunday September 14,2008
   By Dennis Rice Subday Express
   SIR Paul McCartney has been threatened that he will be the target of suicide bombers unless he abandons plans to play his first concert in Israel.
   
   Self-styled preacher of hate Omar Bakri claimed the former Beatle’s decision to take part in the Jewish state’s 60th anniversary celebrations had made him an enemy of all Muslims.
   
   Sources said Sir Paul was shocked but refused to be intimidated.
   
   In an interview with Israeli media yesterday he said: “I was approached by different groups and political bodies who asked me not to come here. I refused. I do what I think and I have many friends who support Israel.”
   
   Sir Paul, 65, should have gone to Israel with the Beatles in 1965 but they were barred by the Jewish nation’s government over fears they would corrupt young people.
   
   Yesterday a number of websites described him as an infidel and suggested he was going to Israel only because of the reported £2.3m fee for the one-off concert.
   
   A message posted on one website said: “Shame on you Paul McCartney for day trippin’ to apartheid Israel” and vowed never to buy his music again.
   
   Bakri, who made his weekly internet broadcast to fellow extremists from his home in Lebanon, where he has lived in exile since being banned from returning to Britain, said Sir Paul was “making more enemies than friends”.
   
   Syrian-born Bakri, 48, went on: “I heard today that the pop star Paul McCartney is playing as a part of the celebrations.
   
   “If you speak about the holocaust and its authenticity never being proved historically in the way the Jewish community portray it, people will arrest you. People will you say you should not speak like this. Yet they go and celebrate the anniversary of 60 years of what?
   
   “Instead of supporting the people of Palestine in their suffering, McCartney is celebrating the atrocities of the occupiers. The one who is under occupation is supposed to be getting the help.
   
   “And so I believe for Paul McCartney, what he is doing really is creating more enemies than friends.”
   
   Explaining his comments, Bakri told the Sunday Express: “Our enemy’s friend is our enemy.
   
   “Thus Paul McCartney is the enemy of every Muslim. We have what we call ‘sacrifice’ operatives who will not stand by while he joins in a celebration of their oppression.
   
   “If he values his life Mr McCartney must not come to Israel. He will not be safe there. The sacrifice operatives will be waiting for him.”
   
   Lawyer Anjem Choudary, who last week chaired a meeting in London at which extremists claimed the next 9/11-style atrocity would be in Britain, said Sir Paul had allowed himself to become a propaganda tool for Israel.
   
   He added: “Muslims have every right to be angry at Paul McCartney. How would the world react if he wanted to have a
   concert in occupied Kashmir?
   
   “They would not allow it to happen but because it is Israel he can play. A country which, as the celebration indicates did not exist 60 years ago, only exists thanks to stealing and occupying another country’s lands.” Yesterday the comments drew condemnation from Palestinian sources and outsiders.
   
   Omar Barghouti, of The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, described the threat as “deplorable”.
   
   Patrick Mercer, the Conservative MP for Newark and a former Shadow Security Minister, said: “One could dismiss Bakri as a ranting extremist but history has shown that he has an ability to twist minds, so his comments should not be underestimated.
   
   “If Sir Paul McCartney wants to play at the 60th anniversary then it is the worst form of illiberalism for Omar Bakri to restrict the artist’s freedom in this way.”
   
   A spokesman for Sir Paul declined to comment on the threat, saying: “Paul’s Friendship First concert is about his music. Paul’s is a message of peace.”
   
   Tickets for the concert range from £70 to £230.
   
   Last night Sir Paul performed his first concert in the Ukraine, playing to tens of thousands in the capital Kiev.

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      9/14/08

      aningeniousname

      Oh yeah the Sunday express is a well respected newspaper.
      Not a day goes by that their front page isn't plastered with headlines declaring gay one legged Muslim fundamentalist asylum seekers are claiming welfare and hurting kittens.
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   9/14/08

   harleyblues

   this is soo freaking upsetting to me, what a bunch of lunitics, you can never reason with a maniac~never..,
   hb

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   9/14/08

   wehireu

   Maybe they will corrupt young people like the Jewish state said earlier in the message. I hope he tries at least to come across with a message of peace that is nondenominational. People need it badly there.

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   9/14/08

   Onlineguru

   It is sad, in the name of religion trying to spread terror and hatred. They feel everyone fighting for this cause will get heaven. They forget in heaven there is no space for souls that lived and died for hatred.

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      9/14/08

      harleyblues

      I donot know how many other artists British, American or otherwise have played there in this region, have they also been threatened? why threaten Paul McCartney?...Besides being the biggest living legend
      hb~
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      9/14/08

      drjay1966

      Well, the fact that he's so famous does bring them attention....
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   1/03/09

   harleyblues

   well seeing the termoil between Isreal and Palistine...
   
   I'm glad Paul McCartney is not in that part of the region now.. I thought it very foolish for Macca to do a concert over there...
   
   I dunno. I have mixed feelings I dislike war. I feel for the Palistinians..Now Isreali ground troops have entered Daza? What the? The Isrealies aren't as angelic as one might think ....I'm just saying~
   
   So much for a Peace treaty
   
   Obama has his plate, very full, when he comes into office...
   comments?

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