“Religion of Peace” Demonstration

This series of photographs were taken during a 3 February 2006 protest staged in London by Muslims angry over the publication in Scandinavian periodicals of cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammad. (Verified by Snopes.com) Check out this site for current information on this so-called “Religion of Peace”

No arrests were made at the time, according to police, due to the danger posed by the size and nature of the crowd:

As the clamour for action grew, police sources said there were no arrests because of fears of a riot. A senior Scotland Yard officer said: "We have to take the overall nature of the protesters into account. If they are overheated and emotional we don't go in.

"It's like a risk assessment; you have to look at the crowd you are dealing with. If we went in to arrest one person with a banner the crowd would turn on us and people would get hurt."

Although it has been circulated with the set of images displayed above, the following photograph likely comes from a completely different protest held in Luton a couple of years earlier:

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