London Dawah Movement responds to Richard Littlejohn’s article

22nd February 2014

London Dawah Movement speaks to the British public in response to an article published in the Daily Mail by columnist Richard Littlejohn on a Muslim family fun day to Legoland.

The column purports to criticise Sheikh Haitham al Haddad but instead uses slurs commonly found in racist and far-right websites to make its point.

Entitled “Jolly Jihadi’s Outing to Legoland”, the article satirises a community event that is to be held at the theme park, organised through a private group booking. The author uses hateful tropes to fill his article. Mr Littlejohn jokes that the group, which will in real life have parents and children in attendance, will travel to Legoland in a coach “…packed with explosives stops in Parliament Square. As Big Ben strikes ten, driver will blow himself up”.

As a result of Mr Littlejohn’s article, far-right groups are threatening to turn up at Legoland, thus causing distress to the children present.

In this video, London Dawah Movement activists (wearing a Richard Littlejohn face mask) engage with ordinary Londoners, getting their views on the Islamophobic hate filled article.

They also visited the Daily Mail office, and asked to speak to Littlejohn who was not in at the time. Instead they spoke to a regional journalist who works for the Daily Mail to get his view of Littlejohn’s article.