Man pulls off Muslim woman's hijab in London

Women look better without hijabs IMO anyway...

But that doesn't mean that Muslims in this country should be forced to not wear what they wish to wear. The women were wearing hijabs and have the right to do that- people should respect their right to wear that and shouldn't be trying to remove it.

bro stop getting hysterical, how is taking off a hijab to show her hair the same as undoing a bikini ?

An idiot like you deserved an answer like this. BRAVO BigTraderBoi

It is pretty much the same thing. For a Muslim woman, someone forcibly exposing her hair in public is incredibly shocking and embarrassing. Similarly, a woman at a beach would be very shocked and embarrassed if a stranger came up from behind and untied her bikini top. In both cases, women are having their modesty forcibly taken away from them and that's appalling.

So you think that pulling off a woman's headscarf is violent assault? I pity you

Of course.
It is violent. Don't think he went up to her lovingly and kindly and pulled it off with affection.
No. I pity you.

It is pretty much the same thing. For a Muslim woman, someone forcibly exposing her hair in public is incredibly shocking and embarrassing. Similarly, a woman at a beach would be very shocked and embarrassed if a stranger came up from behind and untied her bikini top. In both cases, women are having their modesty forcibly taken away from them and that's appalling.

I assumed it was because they found it amusing. But what difference does it make? I still had my pants pulled down in public regardless of why they did it.

Anyhow, that (and this) is hardly an "attack" for Christ's sake. It's an act of mischief. People are losing their collective **** over something dumb and minor. Some jackass no-one's ever heard of pulled down the scarf/hood of some woman no-one's ever heard of. So what? Oh, wait, she's Muslim, so let's make a big song and dance about it and cry "HATE CRIME!" from the rooftops and be morally outraged because maybe he was a bigot.

Make it a national headline if he murders someone. But until then, this guy's rude mischief is unimportant and not worthy of the politicized fainting-couch outrage it's generating.

One is done as a silly prank, the other is done out of hatred.



Well, the real question should be what the motive behind this was. If it was done specifically because of her religion, it would be an attack. It would have been an intentional act done out of hatred.

Bring back the death penalty for scum like these men

Bring back the death penalty for scum like these men

they need to get swift death penalties

Policing things based on their motives is thought policing.

Yes, it's harassment. Just as it would be to go up to a woman and steal her hat.

Thought policing is controlling peoples thoughts; saying what people can and can't think. Which is completely different. We are talking about the motives of an act that has occurred.

If someone gets run over by a car, it is important to find out first the motive. Were they intentionally run over or was it an accident? Finding out the motives, once an act has occurred, is incredibly important and plays a fundamental role in deciding the outcome. Hence why there is often a distinction made between murder and manslaughter. By your logic, murder and manslaughter should be treated the same and motives should be completely ignored.

No, that is not the same logic. Murder and manslaughter are different because one of them has an intention to murder behind it, and the other does not have such an intention. The motives behind committing the crimes have nothing to do with it. Motives are important as far as they define whether a murder is a murder, or a theft is a theft. For example if a killing is in lawful self-defense, it can't be considered murder. If the motive behind the murder does not effect whether the murder is a murder or not, or a theft is a theft, or harassment is harassment, then it is no longer important, or at least it should not change the punishment. If you are prosecuting someone more extremely because you find the ideological motive behind the murder particularly offensive then that is thought policing.

What were the motives behind this act? Was it silly teenagers messing around, or was it a religiously and racially motivated attack?

Committing crimes is okay with you?

Please tell me you're joking. This is a disgusting crime.