Cleopatra wrote:Puzzler wrote:Aziz wrote:Puzzler wrote:It's racist to condemn ISIS now?
Puerile (and pointless
) name-calling can be - here's summery of the UK's hate speech laws - you decide:
In the United Kingdom, several statutes criminalize hate speech against several categories of persons. The statutes forbid communication which is hateful, threatening, abusive, or insulting and which targets a person on account of skin colour, race, disability, nationality (including citizenship), ethnic or national origin, religion, or sexual orientation.
TJ might not have minced his words, but as far as I know calling people slags, whores etc doesn't really fall under anything you just listed
"Tower Hamlet-stan", "Islamic State whores", "Islamic sluts", "filthy scum", "wannabe terrorist whore", "Muslim scum", "white British-hating", "want them to die", "want their body parts in Ali Ackbars Mini-mart plastic bag".
If he posted that on Twitter and was reported he'd be getting a knock on the door. That is hate speech.
All the statements in the OP's are fact, absolute truths - why would you want to suppress the truth? ...... and your apparent zeal for the oppression of free speech and the condoning of a 'knock on the door' is really quite disturbing.
It seems that we are very much closer to the Nazi/ Stalinist/ Islamic State that people like you say is just a figment of my imagination -you are proof positive that it is alive and well in Britain today.
I find your appeasement and backing of people - who have availed themselves of all the freedoms and benefits this country has allowed them to enjoy for their entire lives, only to throw it back in it's face, by wanting to join an organisation whose 'stated aim' is to bring our society down and turn it into an oppressive medieval theocracy - not only distasteful but absolutely disgusting.