http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/05/world/europe/05march.html?hp In the article a group of Islamists are protesting the war in Afghanistan by honoring the corpses of British soldiers killed by other Islamists over in the Middle East. There is a movement of sorts to ban it. Now, personally, I find such behavior disgusting and repulsive, and bordering
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And not from the USA, no, but I'm also inviting opinions from the rest of the world.
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There really is no debate in the US, though. If Nazi's can march through Skokie IL, jihadist sympathizers can march at, say, Ground Zero. I don't like it, but I don't have to keep quiet about it, either. I'd be at the counter march, probably with a basket full of rotten fruit. Or bacon.
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Here they would be allowed to, but Britain ain't here.
My personal opinion is that they should be able to march. They're not protesting funerals like that scum phelps, they're honoring innocent civilians that have died. I don't see why people are bent out of shape about that.
Yes the guy was critical towards the British troops, and said some untrue things. I'm sure this guy isn't helping Muslims with his hateful rhetoric, but that's not what their march is about.
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And I agree, the guy definitely isn't helping British Muslims with how he acts. But such people never think that way. It's both selfishness and arrogance.
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Now in this case, I don't see that the group's plans impinge very much at all on the privacy and/or on their pursuit of happiness, hard to justify a ban in my opinion. I'd argue it's an important act in a context in which people are unquestioningly revering war dead and just the kind of thing that freedom of speech should protect. But this is Britain, so who knows.
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And agreed, this is the government that bans knives. So it is an open question of whether or not Brown might not simply do this so as to keep Labor in Westminister....
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