Random acts of unkindness

[sp1814]

After the poppy-burning incident by the Muslim fanatics (aka 'trouble-making <expletives>') last year, should we REALLY be agreeing with some of these Daily Mail readers that (effectively) attacks on Muslims of any descent are, to an extent, deserved?

And why target a Somalian mosque when the poppy-burners were of Pakistani descent?

http://www.dailymail....walks-free-court.html

[bookbinder]

To some people, anyone with a dark skin is fair game.

[jno]

nope. Not that I agree with Mail readers about anything very much.

[ummmm]

It beggars belief. What a horrible place his head must be to live in.....

[Ankou]

without sounding flippant, i doubt there was much meat left, he sems to have eaten quite a lot of it. i wonder if he is an obesity and lung cancer burden on the nhs.

[wolf63]

I get the daily Mail delivered ever day. I tend not to read the news items or read them with my cynical hat on.

It has a good TV guide, cartoons, competitions and pull-out puzzle section in the middle.

[ChuckFickens]

This is an example of the stupid "tit for tat" mentality that starts a lot of problems in society and the world.

[anotheoldgit]

Well sp as a Daily Mail reader, what do you think?

[Answerprancer]

He'd better watch there isn't a FATwa out on him :-)

[Old_Geezer]

They have a point that it isn't racism since it isn't to do with race; but religious belief. And IMO a gaol sentance would be over the top. But an act of such deliberate offence should have resulted in more than an apology, I think. As the offense was towards the Muslim community, perhaps a period of community service within the Muslim community might have been appropriate, and help understanding/education.

[Kerosene]

A mere storm in a teacup. Why should this idiot have been jailed for shoving some ham into shoes when a bunch of Muslim hooligans almost caused a riot in Luton? last year when our heroic service personnel were marching through after laying their lives on the line in Iraq+Afghanistan?

Don't remember those Muslims being jailed?

[birdie1971]

Whilst I disapprove of this man's actions, the illogical and quite frankly, imbecilic nature of religion is neatly summed up in the article, which states, “... Islam teaches its followers to avoid pig meat as it makes them impure and unclean...”

I realise that a debate about why Muslims (and Jews) find all products derived from pigs to be abhorrent is outside the scope of this thread but I cannot help but roll my eyes when I read such things. Coming into physical contact with a particular meat does not and cannot make one 'impure' (presumably this means 'spiritually impure' which is an essentially meaningless term) nor 'unclean' (again, if we're talking 'spiritually', it's essentially meaningless).

Apart from ruin some chap's shoes, what this fat tub of lard did was insult someone's ideas. Hardly an offence that warrants incarceration.