To be shocked and frustrated with the Islamophobia that's bursting out all over Facebook today?

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Following the awful tragedy in Woolwich today.

I have seen everything from "We want our England back" to "Kick out all the foreigners" to "Islamic infiltration of the UK" etc. I have paraphrased as some of the stuff is so horrible I do not want to repeat it.

This is from normal everyday people and lots of them. Is this really what people think?

I, like most people am horrified by what has happened to this young soldier in Woolwich, but why is everyone so quick to blame an entire religion for it and to jump on the 'kick out all immigrants' bandwagon.

What can we do about it? Ignore, delete, post, report?

Craps Warn me first, that site made me shudder and spill my coffee!
Sorry, is that a bit too pc?

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You see? You non-racist people are getting just as nasty as you profess racist people are. I bet if you were face to face you would come to blows. And that is ok as well?

Angsana
PC nonsense like recognising that all the followers of a religion are not responsible for the lunatic actions of two vile individuals.

My DH and DC are Muslim. DH is appalled at what these men have done, he thinks it is an act of barbaric insanity. So I will say that from the 3 muslims in my household, this was not done in their name and it is an insult to Islam and an insult to the people of Britain.

Our sympathies to the family of the young man who was killed.

seeker like it says it MAY have been racial .

LastTangoInDevonshire

Really? Because I've yet to run to my nearest racist's house and threaten them with a knife and a grenade.

How about saving your spewing faces for the vile killers and their like who want to try and scare the shit out of the people of this country. Who want to change our way of life and create a holy war out of ignorance and a misinformed ideology. It's wrong to blame Islam and its equally wrong to blame foreign policy as some sort of excuse for savage killings of innocent soldiers on our streets.

In light of the article seeker posted can anyone truly explain to me the difference between terrorism and hate crime? Because I can't see much.

Chipstick it's not one or the other, you know? We can dislike extremist Muslims AND racist shits.

I don't see why the press always have to include the 'motivation' for the attack as soon as it happens before the culprit has been caught, questioned and charged. Spouting 'racially motivated' just stirs up more shit.

Ivanapoo - you've matched me up with a post I didn't make - please don't mistake me for one of the bigots!

I think most people ranting on FB are just having a knee jerk reaction to a shocking event. Agree with the Poster who said that the perpetrators are probably radicalised Muslim converts who have a downer on society and are using the religion as a ways and means.

A friend of mine has just written a very lovely post on FB in response to a friend of hers who had written something knee-jerky and anti Islamic. The writer of the original post had to back down and apologise as her post was so reasoned.

Perhaps people on here should consider that rather than defriending which just comes across badly.

I think you are being entirely unreasonable to be surprised and frustrated that on the day two men hacked another man to death, invoking Allah and further threatening 'You people will never be safe' that people are expressing revulsion at Islamic Fundamentalism/Radicalised Islam. If they seek to blame all Muslims (as opposed to Islamic fundamentalists) that of course is completely unreasonable and wrong of them.

Anybody whose "knee-jerk" response is bigotry is a bigot. Just a bigot who managed to keep it under wraps most of the time.

Racism is a knee jerk response though isn't it? When people cannot use their brains and reason out that their position doesn't make any sense.

allinatizz that speech was never made by Julia Gillard, the prime minister of Australia. Its been doing the rounds for ages but it never happened, its a hoax.

Hoax

Oh dear god, I have just been asked "who's side are you on?" because I have challenged all the racist posts on my fb.
I have answered "the human race, this is a planet, not a football match"
Please tell me this will be over soon, I am worried to death about my family when people are saying such hateful things about anyone who's skin is not white?

It's only a knee jerk response if racism is part of your mental furniture. You can be outraged, furious, heartbroken, a host of other emotions- but you have to be racist for your response to be a racist one.

Exactly, seeker.

I've deleted 2 people so far. The remainder of my friends understand the actions of 2 men don't speak for a whole race or religion.

Definitely seeker I once saw a black lad kicking a smaller lad's head like a football, my first reaction wasn't to shout racist insults at him.