every time the EDL mounts such a protest they are told they are fascists and shouldn't be allowed to say what they're saying
I can't say for certain they are all innocent but I'd bet a large amount of money they are (at least the vast majority). And for your information the EDL have been granted police permission to hold a protest in Newcastle tomorrow and clearly have as much right to protest as any of other organisation. Standing outside a mosque before Friday prayers and telling worshipping muslims to go back to their own country is in no way a protest, it's abusive. If a muslim stood outside of a church on a Sunday morning and started ranting abusiveness towards Christians about to enter the church I've no doubt you'd be the first to condemn it.
She has a right to protest. She doesn't have the right to hurl abuse at innocent muslims.
I agree with this.. Just because two Muslim men committed a horrific offence does not mean all Muslim's are the same and share their views! I admit terrorism and other forms of extremist beliefs annoy me and make me feel really angry but, you shouldn't assume that everyone with something in common with extremists, for example the same religion, are the same!
"Go Home" *Walks around corner to Estate* They live in Britain, they work in Britain, they pay tax to the British government. What have they done wrong?
Racist abuse. Abuse doesn't have to be physical. To pre-empt your reply of "Islam isn't a race" she quite obviously was being racist by saying "Go back to your own country" regardless of where she said it
I agree with this.. Just because two Muslim men committed a horrific offence does not mean all Muslim's are the same and share their views! I admit terrorism and other forms of extremist beliefs annoy me and make me feel really angry but, you shouldn't assume that everyone with something in common with extremists, for example the same religion, are the same!
I find it ironic that there were people from the EDL saying things like "Burn the mosques. Kill all them extremist Muslims"... erm did you thin to read what you said exactly... In EDL world, apparently only Muslims can be extremists...
EDIT: This was not meant as an argument against Herrington, but rather a continuation of her post.
she is presumably protesting their presence in her country
So she's "protesting" the presence of (presumably) Pakistani people in her country, who have lived here all their lives. That's not protesting. That's racism.
How is saying "Go back to your own country" protesting exactly?
Probably because every single Muslim community used to be an English one? but they were forced out, ethnically cleansed and fled in what is known as 'white flight'. Then in turn, they were called the racists.
Muslims would never allow that to happen in a Muslim country. Yet Brits are expected & told to put up with it, or told that it is good for them...it's diversity.
Look at East London for example, traditional home of the cockney... where the hell are they now?
EDIT: Seriously, this thread is so bias just look & thumbs up vs thumbs down.