to be very cross with the people who are burning poppies?

[SparkleSoiree]

I was just flicking through tomorrow's front pages and the headlines talk about Muslims burning the Poppy today. This has made me really very angry. AIBU or is this just freedom of speech and I need to be tougher?

Oh I seeeeee

In that case I will dismiss all thought of Sikh-Muslim conflicts and caualties and just think bigot.

To be fair, though, Michael Foot wearing a duffle coat at the cenotaph probably filled even more outraged column inches.

I do not give a FIG for ANY religion.

However i do give a FIG for my freedoms,and the fact that as a WOMAN i can vote and BE FREE.
Women fought and died for our votes and our freedoms.
Those women made it possible for us to live as we live now.
Women AND men built the world we now live in.
My Grandad died just after WW1,my Dad fought in WW2.
My Mum brought us up.

Yes MD

Nad some of those people who died were Muslims, some were Christians, some Hindu.....

i think Gerupta has a point. For example look at the way other faiths in places like Pakistan are treated. I recently sent money to support christians there who were not getting any of the aid because of their choice of religion.

Why is Islam so intolerant if their followers want to convert to christianity? You are righ Stewie. I don't know if anyone else was burning poppies but why can't the poppy burners just put themselves in someone elses shoes for a change i.e. the veteran soldiers

Don't quite know what to make of your link SMA.
Just trying to say that men and women fought for the freedoms that you and i enjoy.

SGM,alemci is not making sweeping generalisations.

She is asking questions.
My opinion is that YOU are being judgemental,..about her...

Stewie why is it that if anyone criticises Islam there is an uproar. I am entitled to my opinion and possibly i may be a little bit prejudiced but isn't everyone to a certain extent about particular issues.

Perhaps you could comment on why there is so much persecution of other faiths in Islamic countries or where they hold alot of influence i.e. Iraq, Nigeria.

don't give them publicity

the end

Well Stewie??

Burning poppies is a statementI dislike, whomever does it.

I do not think you can equate burning a poppy to buring the Koran though.

We do seem to be going through a bad press to Muslims phase again. I understand the headline "Geeky middle class white boy bruns poppy" lacks the same press appeal, but still, it gets my goat. (Or gall, I forget the phrase.)

Look,i am not an authority on the crises in the whole world,
However,i can say that as a woman i am grateful for the sacrifices that were made on my behalf in the United Kingdom.
I do not want to see these advantages lost through indifference.

Totally agree with you OP.

It is only a minority but as far as I am concerned it goes well beyond freedom of speech.

How many (young) women would march/fight for their freedoms....
They are just accepted now as a rght....
And they would be taken away just as easily.

Who would fight?

To burn poppies is insulting to our culture.
It is insulting to our Grandparents/Parents
who fought and died for a free world.

Aren't poppies supposed to be to remind us not to fight?

Poppies are supposed to remind of us of those who have given their lives FOR us.
So that we can live our lives in freedom.

Oh FFS some people need to get over themselves. A handfull of attention seeking dicks do something childish - SO FUCKING WHAT? It is a non-violent protest, a non-illegal protst, and a bit of a crap one, so why waste time working yourselves up into a racist frenzy?
ALl religions are bullshit, but many of the people who follow one or another of them are perfectly lovely.

You've got to ask yourself- without the media coverage what would this have amounted to? A few ashes on the street and some passers-by tutting. Why do we allow ourselves to be so manipulated by the media?

As I said, I am a forces wife, and I respect the poppy and all it stands for. A few idiots saying otherwise isn't going to change that, so why would you let it bother you?

minority acted in a reprehensible manner isnt representative