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We are all here in front of the US Embassy in London today, to Stand up to Trump’s warmongering and support for bigots.

Now we know he has got form on both fronts.

One of the first Executive Orders he issued when first in the White House at the beginning of the year was for increased military expenditure including upgrading the US nuclear arsenal at the expense of his foreign aid and diplomacy budget.

During August, he was added nuclear threat to South Korea with talk of “fire & fury” and “locked and loaded” and has also talked about taking military action in Venezuela.

Another one of his first Executive Oder’s involved the Muslim Travel ban for Iranians, Libyans, Syrians, Somalians, Sudanese & Yemenis.

None of who’s citizens contributed to the 9/11 attack on the US.

Now you can add his defence of white supremacists since Charlotteville troubles hit the States, to his support of bigotry.

So we are here today to tell Donald Trump to stop his warmongering and support for bigots

And also tell the UK government that it should not commit troops or weapons to Korean peninsula with any US action that might be taking.

We also want the UK govt to withdraw their invite of a state visit to the President until he drops his warmongering and bigotry.

In the Economist editorial of the 23rd of March edition on Justice in Bangladesh it gets it wrong with its comparison with the Eichmann trial as its more like Marshal Petain when making comparison with war crimes cases proceeding in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

I made this point in a recent letter l wrote to the Economist, which l was hoping would get published in this weeks edition;

Dear Economist Editor,

Eichmann is the wrong comparison to make with war criminals cases in Dhaka in your editorial of the 23rd March 2013 on Justice in Bangladesh – Another kind of crime.

Jamaat-e-Islami and its off-shoots were local collaborators for the Pakistan army in the struggle for Bangladesh like Marshall Petain of Vichy Republic with the Nazi in France during the second world war who after the war was convicted for treason, given a death sentence and then pardon.

Its always far more difficult dealing with your own kind like fellow Bengalis who were involved in the atrocities, hence the deep bitterness and why it needs to be dealt with before the nation can move on even if it means retrials.

So its more Marshal Petain then Eichmann.

Murad Qureshi,

27th March 2013