Setton Posted May 28, 2013 #1 Share Posted May 28, 2013 (edited) A mosque has been praised for serving tea and biscuits to English Defence League supporters after the far-right group arranged a demonstration there. About six people turned up to protest at the mosque in Bull Lane, York, on Sunday and were invited inside to play football with worshippers. Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk...kshire-22689552 Edited May 28, 2013 by Setton 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.United_Nations Posted May 28, 2013 #2 Share Posted May 28, 2013 6 people? more of a family group Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ali smack Posted May 28, 2013 #3 Share Posted May 28, 2013 cool. I think it's great that they defused the situation. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ealdwita Posted May 28, 2013 #4 Share Posted May 28, 2013 A similar occurrence took place near Amentieres Christmas 1914 - didn't lessen the final casuality count of over 37 million though! 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clarakore Posted May 28, 2013 #5 Share Posted May 28, 2013 (edited) Maybe the EDL is just seeing the light? Hating others is not cool. Always seeing the worst side of things must be a horrible way to go about things. As thousands of English Defence League and anti-fascist protestors took to a city’s streets yesterday, a remarkable scene unfolded away from the crowds in a back lane.Onlookers feared the worst as a row flared between EDL chief Tommy Robinson and Muslim political commentator Mohammed Ansar. But within moments the pair stunned watchers... by smiling and embracing each other. “It’s something I never thought I’d see,” said a man who witnessed the bizarre scene in a side street just before the EDL and anti-fascist Newcastle Unites rallies started on Tyneside. “These two having a debate in a back lane while thousands were demonstrating – and then cuddling and embracing.” English Defence League chief and Muslim share hug at protest Edited May 28, 2013 by Leave Britney alone! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coffey Posted May 28, 2013 #6 Share Posted May 28, 2013 Maybe the EDL is just seeing the light? Hating others is not cool. Always seeing the worst side of things must be a horrible way to go about things. English Defence League chief and Muslim share hug at protest To be honest most o them are misguided, bored, young adults full of hatred and anger with no output. So they made one. Governments fault really. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clarakore Posted May 28, 2013 #7 Share Posted May 28, 2013 Yes, give them jobs, give them education, and let them live their lives to be healthy. All the money we spent on war could have been spent on them :/ Sad really. Best of luck to them as they grow older they will grow less edgy and, yes, even have bigger hearts. You know they have heart now as is, so passionate. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ealdwita Posted May 28, 2013 #8 Share Posted May 28, 2013 (edited) Maybe the EDL is just seeing the light? Hating others is not cool. Always seeing the worst side of things must be a horrible way to go about things. Why do you constantly infer that it's only the EDL who have a monopoly on hate? As far as I'm aware, the EDL haven't yet flown airliners into tower blocks, blown people up, or hacked them to death in the street. IMO the EDL is reacting, not instigating! Edited May 28, 2013 by ealdwita 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Setton Posted May 28, 2013 Author #9 Share Posted May 28, 2013 Maybe the EDL is just seeing the light? Hating others is not cool. Always seeing the worst side of things must be a horrible way to go about things. English Defence League chief and Muslim share hug at protest Why do you constantly infer that it's only the EDL who have a monopoly on hate? As far as I'm aware, the EDL haven't yet flown airliners into tower blocks, blown people up, or hacked them to death in the street. Right both of you, stow it, please. If you want to argue about who's worse, can you stick to one of the many other threads where you're already at it? The whole point of this thread was to show that, even in times like this, tolerance can win through. Both from the mosque refusing to rise to the bait of the protest and the EDL members for acknowledging that gesture. Just shows that no group is as bad as the members who make the headlines. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clarakore Posted May 28, 2013 #10 Share Posted May 28, 2013 Fair call Setton. This is a good thread. Positive is nice and should be the norm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coffey Posted May 28, 2013 #11 Share Posted May 28, 2013 Why do you constantly infer that it's only the EDL who have a monopoly on hate? As far as I'm aware, the EDL haven't yet flown airliners into tower blocks, blown people up, or hacked them to death in the street. IMO the EDL is reacting, not instigating! I disagree. Before the attack at Woolwich a Muslim was murdered in the UK, why was this not reported on the mainstream media? It didn't make it past local news! I personally don't think Islamist extremists flew airliners into buildings either. I think that shiny pipeline in Afghanistan was one of the first problems, or the CIA funding, training and creating these groups. Or our non stop aggression in the Middle East. Sometimes things are better left alone. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ealdwita Posted May 28, 2013 #12 Share Posted May 28, 2013 Fair enough - I give thee the ground - let naïvete spring forth unbounded! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capt Amerika Posted May 28, 2013 #13 Share Posted May 28, 2013 I personally don't think Islamist extremists flew airliners into buildings either. Dare i ask just how those airplanes ended up in the offices way up there in those towers then? Go ahead, hit me with your "theory" I have some time to kill.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TSS Posted May 28, 2013 #14 Share Posted May 28, 2013 I disagree. Before the attack at Woolwich a Muslim was murdered in the UK, why was this not reported on the mainstream media? It didn't make it past local news! I'm not going to drag this off topic, as the OP has requested it stays on a certain theme...but this point just needs rectifying, since just about every national news paper, and most news outlets including the BBC, Sky News and local news stations have all carried numerous reports about the murder of Mohammed Saleem...and they continue to run news items about it to help search for the killer 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TSS Posted May 28, 2013 #15 Share Posted May 28, 2013 No 9/11 conspiracies on this thread thanks - there's plenty of other threads dealing with that already. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Setton Posted May 28, 2013 Author #16 Share Posted May 28, 2013 Guys, the conspiracies section would be that way. And the thread in the 9/11 attacks is hundreds of pages already. Fair enough - I give thee the ground - let naïvete spring forth unbounded! And let paranoia have no foothold here. No 9/11 conspiracies on this thread thanks - there's plenty of other threads dealing with that already. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clarakore Posted May 28, 2013 #17 Share Posted May 28, 2013 Mohammed Saleem news stories must have been buried quick. Never even saw a thread here on them. Glad someone brought it up. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coffey Posted May 28, 2013 #18 Share Posted May 28, 2013 (edited) And let paranoia have no foothold here. Insults have no foothold here either. Justified questioning is not paranoia. I would be paranoid if the US government opened the investigation and didn't lie. Edited May 28, 2013 by Coffey 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knight Of Shadows Posted May 28, 2013 #19 Share Posted May 28, 2013 i want biscuits in tea in mosques too !! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TSS Posted May 28, 2013 #20 Share Posted May 28, 2013 (edited) Mohammed Saleem news stories must have been buried quick. Never even saw a thread here on them. Glad someone brought it up. Nothing has been buried. The problem with a stabbing where the killer hasn't been caught is you don't have a motive, video footage, the killer didn't wait about after to attack police, no one filmed it and posted it online, the murder itself wasn't in front of stunned onlookers etc....there isn't much to say about a case like this until some more evidence comes to light (that's probably why there isn't multiple threads about it too - there isn't multiple angles to discuss yet). Meanwhile, in other news...plenty of people have been stabbed in the first 5months of this year, from a stranger killing a school girl on a bus, stabbings outside schools, domestic violence, stabbings outside pubs/night clubs...etc.....most of those were lucky to make the news for a single day, all but a couple never made it on any forum. Edit - spelling. Edited May 28, 2013 by Sky Scanner 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coffey Posted May 28, 2013 #21 Share Posted May 28, 2013 Nothing has been buried. The problem with a stabbing where the killer hasn't been caught is you don't have a motive, video footage, the killer didn't wait about after to attack police, no one filmed it and posted it online, the murder itself wasn't in front of stunned onlookers etc....there isn't much to say about a case like this until some more evidence comes to light (that's probably why there isn't multiple threads about it too - there isn't multiple angles to discuss yet). Meanwhile, in other news...plenty of people have been stabbed in the first 5months of this year, from a stranger killing a school girl on a bus, stabbings outside schools, domestic violence, stabbings outside pubs/night clubs...etc.....most of those were lucky to make the news for a single day, all but a couple never made it on any forum. Edit - spelling. No the difference is that the Woolwich murder can be made into a "terrorist" attack and fill an agenda. The fact is the other should be blown up far more in the media because of the fact the killer is still on the lose and could strike again, more media coverage means more people aware, nobody has to fear the 2 idiots from Woolwich as they are/will be locked up. The police also think this is a racially motivated attack. What makes one terrorism and not the other?! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TSS Posted May 28, 2013 #22 Share Posted May 28, 2013 (edited) No the difference is that the Woolwich murder can be made into a "terrorist" attack and fill an agenda. The fact is the other should be blown up far more in the media because of the fact the killer is still on the lose and could strike again, more media coverage means more people aware, nobody has to fear the 2 idiots from Woolwich as they are/will be locked up. The police also think this is a racially motivated attack. What makes one terrorism and not the other?! The police didn't stop and film the woolwich killers - the public did. The police didn't post that footage online - the public did. No one asked the killers to give interviews to bystanders and give their reasons - the decided that on their own. It's a bizarre case in the way it was played out - hence the public interest. The Saleem murder has been on my local news regularly - since they are looking for witnesses and evidence from that area, it wouldn't make much sense to broadcast it on Norfolk local news (for example) would it, since the chances of a witness to that murder happening to be in Norfolk on the day of broadcast, and hadn't already heard it from the area they came from is pretty remote. You are right the police have said they believe it could be racially motivated, but if you have watched all the interviews they have given you'll see they are being quite specific about what they don't say either, so i'm guessing they have evidence they don't want the killer knowing until he/she is caught. If the lack of interest (as you see it) bothers you so much, why aren't you starting threads and finding angles to discuss about this? Is it because that due to the lack of available evidence so far there isn't much to discuss yet? Edited May 28, 2013 by Sky Scanner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TSS Posted May 28, 2013 #23 Share Posted May 28, 2013 (edited) Dp. Edited May 28, 2013 by Sky Scanner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clarakore Posted May 28, 2013 #24 Share Posted May 28, 2013 (edited) Well one silver lining is Muslims are not flipping their pancakes over this. Instead like true Brits they remain calm and carry on. Edited May 28, 2013 by Leave Britney alone! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Almagest Posted May 28, 2013 #25 Share Posted May 28, 2013 Figures even the most savage Englishman can be tamed with tea and biscuits. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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