Remembrance day
Posted by: allthingsanalogue on 12 November 2010
Anyone know how come when three people burnt a copy of the Koran and posted it YouTube they were traced and arrested for inciting racial hatred but when some Muslim extremist decide to burn a poppy on remembrance day during the two minute silence the police stand there and do nothing while they shout out “Burn in Hell”?
Is it because we are afraid to upset them as that would be an excuse to accuse the British public of racism?
Posted on: 12 November 2010 by David Scott
Perhaps burning poppies isn't against the law. In any case there are plenty of different races and religions in the British Army and were in WW II as well come to that, so it's hardly a racial or religious issue.
Posted on: 12 November 2010 by allthingsanalogue
I'm well aware of the various races in the British Army and during WW II thanks but they wouldn’t be living here if it wasn't for the soldiers in the WW I or II. Maybe immigration should check on their legal or illegal status in the UK. After all, British passport can still be revoked after you get given one if you get involved with certain activities, protesting for one. I should know, I have 1st hand knowledge of the immigration system
Posted on: 12 November 2010 by BigH47
It's also these people being remembered, died to allow other people their right to freedom of expression and religion.
Fortunately burning poppies will be looked on as yet another stupid act, from an extreme bunch of intolerant morons, misusing religion.
Posted on: 12 November 2010 by David Scott
ATA,
My point is that poppies are not a racial or religious symbol, so however distasteful it is (and my father fought in the second war, so I certainly don't appreciate it), it doesn't fall foul of the Racial and Religious Hatred Act, whereas burning the Koran certainly does.
Which is the answer to your initial question, I think.
