How Canada Deals With Racists/bigots/islamophobes (Delete Where Applicable)

[sp1814]

After the recent horrific murder of the soldier and attack on their parliament building, this social experiment seems to suggest that it's difficult to stir up racism (or technically 'Islamiphobism') amongst Canadians:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/10/28/watch-canadians-stand-up-to-anti-muslim-bigot/

I strongly believe the most decent Britons would react similarly if the scene were repeated here, despite the efforts of some to paint all Muslims as terrorists or de facto supporters of terrorism.

What do you think?

[xstitcher]

I was really pleased to read this and would hope that decent, intelligent people anywhere would react in this way.
Thanks for the article sp.

[joggerjayne]

Interesting clip. The members of the public seemed genuinely angry at the guys pretending to be prejudiced.

The guy who threw the punch wasn't the guy involved in the conversation. I had to watch that twice, because I didn't even notice him the first time.

[mikey4444]

I'm with xstitcher here...heart warming. We should fight racism here in Britain in the same way. After all, don't we have decent and intelligent here, like they do in Canada ?

[Retrochic]

Canada is a big place and very different from one end to the other. Ask a British Colombian to discuss Chinese Immigration, or an Albertan on the joys of having to have all signage and food products labelled in French as well as English....they have there fair share of bigots believe me.

[ToraToraTora]

What a load of old pony. Yes most get it that not all muslims are terrorists and in recent times I have been impressed by many of them speaking out against extremism and having some sort of attempt at putting their own house in order. I will be impressed when all the muslim religious leaders in places like Mecca start banning them from their religion and stopping them entering the middle east for example, banning them from the haj and when they are banned from mosques world wide etc. I'll be impressed when SA starts using it's weapons to assist the allies in Syria and Iraq. For now I'll fail to be impressed by all the doo gooding liberal who come out after every attrocity and scream from the roof tops what a bunch of good guys they really are. This lates twee experiment proves nothing, we'd all defend arbitrary attacks ragardless of the target.

[TWR]

They started the ball rolling, let them pay the price, "End Of"

[Retrochic]

That piece of video has been edited to prove their point. I would not be surprised if the 'punch' and subsequent bloody nose was a set up.

[ToraToraTora]

a clear set up, bunch of actors from the local Am dram I'd imagine.

[anotheoldgit]

Proves absolutely nothing, go up to almost anyone and ask them "are all Muslims terrorists"? and the answer would be no, then ask them "are all Muslims potential terrorists"? and you would get quite a different answer.

[Peter Pedant]

Thank God for AOG to inject a bit if true British common sense into all this left wing bleeding heart nonsense.

anyone with true british grit wouldnt bother to talk to the fella,
they just would have hit him !

note make up NOT needed here

[mikey4444]

Oh dear Sp...same old. same old !

[gness]

Oh, Peter...you do talk twaddle at times, my love......

Throwing a punch is not....."true British grit" as you call it....it's thick headed violence for the sake of it.

[mikey4444]

Well said gness !

[ludwig]

I guess it confirms that most people are basically decent and will step in when they see someone being bullied.

Now, what I'd really like to see is a reversal of the situation, where someone is being harrassed for something in a muslim area/country, (inappropriate dress perhaps), and lots of other muslims intervene to prevent the abuse, and maybe punch the offending tw5t on the nose.

[sp1814]

Thanks for the answers everyone.

This reminds me of a very similar exercise carried out by an American broadcasting company, where a young Muslim is being abused by a racist (actually an actor) in a small supermarket.

From what I remember, most people shuffled away, looking embarrassed, but no-one remonstrated with him...except one...

An American soldier...who firmly put the fella in his place

And furthermore, the soldier had recently returned from fighting in the Middle East.

I think it's quite lovely when you see decent folk standing up against bigotry. Especially when the voice of the silence majority turns out to lean towards tolerance and understanding, rather than (for want of a better word), 'swivel-eyed loonery').

[youngmafbog]

I always find it very interesting when you defend Muslim fanatics SP, do you realize what your life (or lack of it) would be like under Sharia law. A damned sight worse than mine I can assure you, they would not extend any tolerance to you at all.

Swivel eyed loonies, cant resist a bit of name calling can you?

[Zeuhl]

/you defend Muslim fanatics SP/

ymb

please indicate where sp did that in this thread

or are you in fact an IDIOT or a LIAR?

[Svejk]

^oh dear, enjoy your break.

[Zeuhl]

well svejk

I believe that accusing another ABer of 'defending muslim fanatics' when they have done no such thing is pretty despicable.

and probably more of a site rule breaker than asking the culprit to explain themselves.

[sp1814]

youngmafbog

You should really apologise to me, as we both know that I have never once in my decade in AB, defended Muslim fanatics.

I totally understand that during the cut and thrust of debate, people sometimes overstep the mark and say things that on reflection they realise is wrong, but c'mon...don't be a jerk. What you have written is pure and utters cobblers.

If you feel that you are in the right in saying that, then fair enough - I will stop engaging with you on the News site and personally, I would be sad at taking that step, because I enjoy the banter/arguments with you. You, Svejk, AOG, ToraToraTora and