Cannydc wrote:Fenella wrote:Cannydc wrote:Fenella wrote:I would have thought that a better comparison with the poppy burning incident was the case of the chap who urinated on a war memorial.
I suspect that one action was a deliberate attempt to inflame and induce mutual hatred.
The other was a drunken fool with little or no sense of what they were actually doing.
I am going to assume that you mean the first refers to the poppy burning chap, and the second refers to the urinating chap.
The chap who burnt the poppies got a £50 fine, and the chap who urinated on the memorial got 250 hours of community service and had to pay costs of £85. Mind you, I think there was another incident where another drunk chap got a £50 fine for urinating on a war memorial.
I'm not sure one can equate burning poppies with racial hatred, although it was clearly an act of hatred and one which is likely to have been aimed at non-Muslims.
I didn't mention race.
Muslims are not a race, they are a religion.
I didn't say you did. My comment was really related to those who have mentioned the poppy burning incident in this thread. I think the criticism is that those who condemn the golly incident didn't condemn the poppy burning incident in the same way - or something like that anyway.