Mandate Tolerance - Expect Resentment

https://www.itv.com/news/london/2025-06-02/man-found-guilty-after-burning-a-quran-outside-the-turkish-consulate-in-london

All attempts to make us 'Shiny Happy People - Holding Hands' end up causing friction. Old historical grievances reemerge. Suddenly, the attempts to bring about World Peace cause another Global Conflict.

We no longer have Mutual Respect. We have the law of the Jungle. All because we followed the directives of Old Enemies - Germany and France - while decimating relations with Old Allies - such as Serbia and Russia.

Fight-or-Flight is now a way of life.

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  • This man committed an offence under UK law and was duly punished.  

    Most right-thinking individuals know that it is inflammatory to commit acts of religiously aggravated hate crime.

    If you are suggesting that a policy of making us all 'Shiny Happy People' is causing people to behave disgustingly, I would take issue. 

    We should be tolerant of others.  How many religious books do you burn?  I'd hope none, like myself.  

    If you can't control yourself - you pay the penalty.  

  • I agree with what you say, and I certainly wouldn't burn any book, or attack anyone's religion. 

    However, a man physically attacked him because he burnt the book, but was not punished for that. I understand why the defendant was arrested and punished, but I don't understand why the man who attacked him was also not punished - he should have called the police if he saw someone breaking the law, not took it upon himself to deal out punishment. We should expect everyone to control themselves in a civilised society, and whoever doesn't should pay a price, regardless of religious beliefs.

  • However, a man physically attacked him because he burnt the book, but was not punished for that

    I don't see this is mentioned in the article.  

    Clearly there wasn't enough evidence to prosecute someone for 'attacking' the perpetrator of hate crime, or that person too would have been in court.

    Trying to justify / excuse / lessen the impact of a serious matter by deflecting on to another - or implying that another was also guilty (when they weren't - it was just an allegation) is neither here nor there. 

    Had this individual not burned that book, no other offences would have been committed - and no other allegations of any other offences would have been made.  This makes him wholly culpable.

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  • However, a man physically attacked him because he burnt the book, but was not punished for that

    I don't see this is mentioned in the article.  

    Clearly there wasn't enough evidence to prosecute someone for 'attacking' the perpetrator of hate crime, or that person too would have been in court.

    Trying to justify / excuse / lessen the impact of a serious matter by deflecting on to another - or implying that another was also guilty (when they weren't - it was just an allegation) is neither here nor there. 

    Had this individual not burned that book, no other offences would have been committed - and no other allegations of any other offences would have been made.  This makes him wholly culpable.

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