Totally shocked by this fb discussion...

Again, this is a point which I made no previous effort to debate over. I have already condemned the poppy burners.

I therefore won't go into detail, but I will say that there is a fine line between making them "respect our culture" and restricting the civil and religious liberty of immigrants. Obviously that they respect our laws is a given, but who is flouting the line of the law here? Those burning bits of paper, or those promising a violent retribution against a specific group of people?

A guy who went to my old school, who I'm therefore friends with on fb, posted a status saying "I hope all the pakis who burnt that poppy are savagely murdered tonight."

13 people liked it... and counting.. now around 20 do.

If that wasn't enough, there were many comments on it like "yeah... ****ing pakis think they have more rights than us in this country" and "yeah my dad is going to afghanistan next year and he's going to go nuts on them" to which someone replied "wish I could go there with him." Another, I was disguted to read, said "they deserve to have all their rights stripped from them and to burn in hell."

Just a note: the people that commented aren't my friends.

Aside from the disgusting attitudes that these people clearly hold, this is an obvious demonstration in my eyes that the people burning poppies are just inciting more hatred. People should really think things through before acting in a way likely to incite so many people, or they're just as bad.

funny that seeing as the first link on google in relation to it is the telegraph not the mail

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/8126357/Muslims-clash-with-police-after-burning-poppy-in-anti-Armistice-Day-protest.html

I never said the incident wa un-noticed.

I ment that people here have noticed, in disgust, that a few ***** have made some nasty comments aimed at the pakistanis burning the poppy.
But not as many people commented their disgust at the very harsh and nasty comments that were aimed at westerners after the book burning.

Well the people that did make comments towards the West probably did refer to everyone, just like the idiots here are the opposite way. I mean it's not exactly hard to find a video online of a group burning the American flag and chanting something directed at the USA as a whole. Just as its not hard to find people like the KKK doing the same back.
In the Middle-east there was no doubt thousands of comments from outraged people similar to the ones were hearing here.

Haha oh dear some chavs (from my old school) are making such comments on their statuses as well saying stuff like 'take them bak' and 'fukin foreigners should go were they belong'.

To be honest, I am just impressed they managed to spell 'foreigners' right, looks like they did learn something in school

I apologise, I misread your post slightly.

If you were to go out on to the street right now and ask a random person how they felt about Muslims, I would expect a fair number of responses similar to those given on the internet.

The irony of the situation is that they had to buy all of the poppies to burn them, so they actually contributed to the poppy apeal more than most individual ppl in the uk

LOL I have a lot of this on my news feed from a few EDL loving people on FB from my old school.
"Why the **** are all these ***** still in the country! execute or deport ALL OF THEM "

"if i ever say anything apprantly im a racist its ridiculous. they all need to be rounded up and sent back to their own countries. bloody born here couldnt give a **** lol im on a proper rant now "

I was a bit tempted to post a link to Bloc Party- Hunting for Witches on youtube, but that would mean talking to these people...

I'm not condoning violence against groups of people, however, violence against the individuals who did it? I wouldn't engage in a physical fight myself, but I wouldn't stop anyone else from giving them a good old punch, and I would completely understand it.

Think of the trauma that those men and women went through, and go through every day. Think of what they must have felt when they died in pain, miles away from their loved ones. And then, on a day to honour them, some inconsiderate, heartless bastards burn the poppies. That is an insult to all those men and women, and to their friends, families, and to the British people.

Whether you agree with war or not, I don't think it is too much to ask for people to show some respect.

The irony of the situation is that they had to buy all of the poppies to burn them, so they actually contributed to the poppy apeal more than most individual ppl in the uk

i think the idiots today were trying to get back at the idiots who were trying to burn the holy quran

Perhaps. But if you asked someone who didn't read The Sun or The Daily Mail, seriously and on a daily basis (i.e a non-village idiot), you'd more than likely get a response similar to yours and mine.

i think the idiots today were trying to get back at the idiots who were trying to burn the holy quran

Exactly my point. But why does no-one seem to notice that this disrespect is not uni diretional, but is actually present from both the sides??