Will the extremists be prosecuted for offence?

[Loosehead]

Well while the rest of us were having 2 minutes silence, our muslim friends were burning poppies, wonderful eh? The rest of us get harranged and prosecuted for the slightest offence. Will the purpetrators now be arrested and charged?

[moonraker558]

Nope they will get away with it again. Dont start me off on one again.

[boxtops]

Where's the link to a poppy-burning story please?

This also was in today's press http://www.metro.co.u...tten-on-armistice-day

[Prudentia]

no, they qualify for benefits not available to ordinary hard working poor families......

[jno]

so, um, it's okay for a politician to call for a Muslim to be killed but not okay for Muslims to call for soldiers to be killed? Given that the soldiers are out there to kill people themselves... Where do you stand on this?

[naomi24]

jno, but it's not okay for the politician to call for a Muslim to be killed. He's been arrested.

[jaydah]

here boxy

http://www.telegraph....tice-Day-protest.html

[jno]

I was asking Loosehead, naomi - he seemed ok with what the politician said but less so with what protesters say.

[naomi24]

Oh right.

[stokemaveric]

when it is ramadam there should be a national koran burning event..then lets see what happens...our jails would be full within 10 minutes...

[boxtops]

why Ramadan, stoke? It would upset people any time of the year. This sounds like a bunch of extremists, they certainly don't represent the rank and file Muslims of my acquaintance, several of whom are wearing poppies this week.

[Gromit]

It is not an offence to burn a poppy. It is very disrespectful, just like burning a copy of the Koran or even a national flag. The people who do symbol gestures such as those, are usually intolerant of others beliefs, but it is not (and shouldn't be an offence).

You refer to "our muslim friends were burning poppies". Well, about 12 individuals out of a UK population of 1,600,000. That is like saying the British people spent yesterday breaking windows at the Conservative's HQ. Is that how you spent yesterday Loosehead?

[NazNomad]

Man's greatest threat to man.

[stokemaveric]

yes boxtops but they choose to burn poppies on armistice day..they could have done it yesterday or tomorrow but they chose armistice day didnt they??..so the burning of the koran should coincide with a time of the year that is sacred to them just as today and rememberance sunday is sacred to millions of people...and i have yet to see a muslim wearing a poppy here in my hometown..and believe me there are enough of them living around these parts....

[Gromit]

Stokemaveric

You obviously believe that burning the poppies was extremely provocative and offensive. So do I. So why are you suggesting an equally provocative and offensive gesture, the burning of the Koran? Does that not make you as big a kn0bhead as the poppy burners?

[boxtops]

Agreed, stoke, but as has already been pointed out, a handful of blokes doing something objectionable is not representative of the vast majority of the Muslim population here in the UK or elsewhere. The link I posted earlier in this thread shows that many Muslim soldiers also fought "on our side" and should also be commemorated - the people burning poppies today probably have no idea of their fellow Muslims' war history. If they think poppies glorify war, that's why they did it, then they are wrong.

[ludwig]

// I was asking Loosehead, naomi - he seemed ok with what the politician said but less so with what protesters say. //

The difference was that the politician was obviously making a crap 'joke', whereas the protesters were serious. That's probably why Loosehead was ok with the one but not the other.

[stokemaveric]

gromit i agree that we should not lower ourselves to their level but dont you think enough is enough?? i say fight fire with fire and lets show this ''minoroty'' that the british public should not be treated with such hatred..after all they are on our streets burning a symbol that is sacred to many people..and before anyone says that our streets are their streets to then they should be arrested for inciting racial hatred..im sure that if there was a koran burning protest then that is what would happen..i do agree with you boxtops that it is not every muslim that feels and acts like this but there is a serious element that does feel like this and it is these that will bring terror to our streets....again....

[NazNomad]

our streets are their streets to (sic)

Arrest me, go on.

[123everton]

Does everyone wear poppies in Ireland?
North or south.