Why does the UK have such tolerance for Islamic fundamentalist hate speech?
825513
The British government though voted into power by the British public has no feelings for their own people. The only concern that is shown is for the misguided downtrodden terrorist who has been forced into such savage acts because our life is better than his. The poor fools believe that killing themselves is a sure way to achieve greatness. The only thing that they achieve is a long long sleep. We all know that the only way to get anywhere in the UK is to be an activist foaming at the mouth so that you will be granted untold wealth and property to suit, with police protection in case some hard working Brit takes umbridge.
908670
Because England has gone so stupidly politically correct that it doesn't want to offend other Religions. The fact that, if people from other Religions were going to get upset, it would be over Christmas itself not the stamps, seems to have absolutely nothing to do with it.\n\nBut let's face it, if it were not for Christ, there would be no Christmas (for all you atheists, I know it was originally a pagan festival but it would have been chucked out with all the other pagan festivals had the Church not wanted to celebrate Christ's birth) so people who are willing to leave Christ out of Christmas shouldn't be celebrating it at all.
1077933
i think that everyone is entitled to their own views, and we in the UK have been kept in the dark about so many things, its unbelievable.Only recently has the world opened up to us, essentially because of globalisation and migration. Alot of the press on the television to do with politics and this sort of thing is mainly propaganda, eg when they mention things like the new anti-terror laws and such, without anything actually haveing taken place, it is to sway public opinion, its spin. i do not wish to live my life censored, and what is life if it is not free? do we really want to go back to a time when people give up their rights for personal safety?! I think that Human Rights is of utmost importance, because if you were stopped in the street and searched for being black or for wearing traditional muslim clothes, i'm sure you would be in favour of human rights. Or if you were shot at because you were suspected of being a terrorist. However, everything has its boundaries, and if you are under attack its only right that you fight back. sad but true. My opinion, from Birmingham UK.
983480
when one of the burning questions in the news nationwide is "should muslim women wear a veil or not?" then i think the national identity of the UK has already disappeared, there are much more important issues to be discussed than this, and to deflect the awareness of the country away from the important things that face them in their everyday life, ie crime,unemployment,poverty etc. I feel we are having our media manipulated in order to garner sympathy for a cause that does not need it, that cause being the advancement of Islam, which is one of the largest religions in the world, and you know what really pees me off? the muslims say they're being trampled by this government, when if it wasn't for the english people taking them in from their troubled countries, they would probably be dead now.
985137
Well, you may have a point, muslims can wear what they like, we are not allowed to wear caps and hoodies in some shops or banks. muslims can preach racial hatred, if a brit did this, they would be arrested instantly and imprisoned for racism. Infact, muslims virtually cant be done for racism, apparently, only white people are capable of it. When a muslim breaks the law, WE have to care about their human rights, when we break the law, they couldnt care less, and a muslim, can enter our country, and without doing a stroke of work, scroung off us and complain we dont give them enough, if we did that in their country, we'd probably be shot. So yes, they probably do think they own us...
769195
The BNP is the British version of a Fascist Party and we all know hatred towards a specific group of people never solved any problems, on the contrary it actually created more.\n\nIf "hate" is the answer then the question was obviously "What is the root of all evil in the history of the Human kind?"
368374
I think there is plenty of hate for both groups, and they stand on basically the same level. The reason we see more animosity directed towards the fundamentalist muslims is simply because there are more of them and they're a bigger problem. In comparison, the KKK is small potatoes. Not that what either group does is acceptable.\n\nAdditionally, mainstream Christianity publicly denounces the actions of the KKK. Perhaps it has more to do with a lack of freedom of speech in these middle eastern countries, but we don't see this from mainstream Islam.
167971
1) Muslims are angry that while any criticism/joking about jews is often labeled anti-Semitic and quickly censored (it's illegal to question any aspect of the Holocaust in many European countries), the same countries are defending these cartoons as "freedom of speech".\n\n2) Many Muslims incorrectly believe that the Danish press, like theirs, is controlled by the state. Therefore, they see the cartoons as being sponsored and encouraged by the Danish government.\n\nPersonally, I disagree with them, and believe that \nAs for Christian outrage, look what NBC did with Will & Grace (Cruci-fixin), as well as how "The Book of Daniel" got axed.\n\nWe need to educate these people about the concepts of freedom, that people may say stuff you don't like, that's no reason to burn stuff.
416577
As i can see from some of the answers over here some peple are just blind and deaf and will not listen to anything other than what they already believe. The question is very valid but all the answers seem to be lacking. At some point in history peple from every religion ( not the religion mind you. dont lump them together and make them a symbol for their religion. generalisation is a sickness that is being directed by the media against the muslims) has perpetrated acts of terrorism against others. The people who are crying foul have themselves done exactly the same heinious things to others in the past and continue doing it. its not becoz of their religion but becoz of the greed of a few of their leaders. It is deplorable, whoever does it. \nyes the jews were tortured and killed by a fundamentalist who happened to be a christian. look at what they are doing to thier neighbors today. the oppression and killing and thuggery.\namericans killed the natives almost to extinction/ minority.\nenglish captured countries round the globe and colonised them, practiced apartheid and reduced them to poverty after looting all their riches. their is a long history of hatred perpetrated by these guys. \nwhen u perpetrate hatred, some of it does come back to u.  your forefathers committed these crimes and you are being made to pay for it. you were just trying to live peacefully. yes you are being wronged. you are right about that, but the way to end it is not by perpetrating more hatred but by initiating peace, giving peple their due and not being greedy. So before you blame any peple any religion or anytbody even in the small daily matters of life, look at yourself. see where u might be going wrong. Mistakes get corrected starting from oneself and not by correcting others. There's no one to blame but ourselves for anything that happens to us coz we are the ones that cause things to happen to us, one way or another.
781420
The Brits abuse everyone, including themselves. Some is done between friends and is accepted here as fun...  if they really disliked them, they would not bother even speaking to them. However, some people are xenophobic and see abusing foreigners as a source of amusement... but they tend to be in the minority.  But as we are a developed country, freedom of speech within certain boundaries allows people to say what they think... And parents are not blind... often they are of he same view of their children OR have been so restricted by the laws the MP's have made, they cannot chastise their children!
119037
A lot of it is a result of propaganda. I don't think we *all* jump to the conclusion that *all* Muslims, etc. are overly reactionary, though they are the "enemy" right now and many here feel it's their "patriotic" duty to hate them. But we need to remember that only a fraction of the Muslim population is responsible for recent terror attacks, not the group as a whole. It just so happens that the most vocal group of Muslims is the part getting all the attention.\n\nThis is the problem of allowing too much religion into our lives. Faith in a higher power is fine, but too much "devotion" elicits fanaticism. Look at the Danish cartoon flap - now in Iran, Danish pastries are called "Roses of Mohammed" or something like that. That and (especially) the rioting and embassy burning is an EXTREME overreaction to what is really a piddly editorial cartoon. Regardless, we need to remember not to hate the Muslims for their religious beliefs, but we can hate the way they think they need to carry them out. I can't imagine any religion truly advocates such violence or reactionary behavior - if so, it's definitely not a religion worth following.
573768
don't know if it's true, but islam is at home in uk, like in my country France. they are everywhere home this people soI wouldn't be surprised !
818414
Unfortunately it seems that a lot of these terrorists are "home grown" - i.e. born in the UK of (mainly) Muslim parents.\n\nWhile our present government has created a chaotic immigration system which means we really have no clear idea how many people are coming into this country and what they intend to do when they get here, there is also a large degree of brainwashing of young Muslims going on in the mosques and faith schools which is creating a generation of terrorists within our own society. This is not helped by the government's pathetic policy of political correctness and appeasement towards various extremist Muslim preachers and leaders who seem to be able to encourage hatred against the very society that they live in without any real fear of arrest or removal from the UK.\n\nIt seems unbelievable that we grant political asylum to some of these extremists because they state that their views mean they would be subjected to brutal arrest if they were deported back to their own countries - yet we do nothing about them here except allow them to encourage terrorists (usually while they claim welfare at the same time). Limiting immigration into this country is NOT racist, selfish or isolationist - it is COMMON SENSE... something which seems to be in very short supply in and around Downing Street.\n\nUntil the government stops these people using our systems of immigration and welfare against ourselves then the potential consequences for the UK remain dire.
475460
The simple answer is lack of education here in America.  People see that a group of of radical people attacked us and that they claimed to do it for the religion of Islam, and they go off and respond against everyone of that religion. It happens everytime in war.  Japan attacked the U.S. the U.S. responded by discriminating against all asians.  All Germans, Italians and Central/Eastern Europeans were also looked down on as the enemy to.  When countries go to war, the hatred always seems to follow.  It is truly an example that the Human Race has a long way to go.\n\nThe situation is further compounded when our media only gives half stories, such as they report that muslim governments fund terrorism by paying money to the families of suicide bombers and such.  They don't address the bigger problem such as, that most suicide bombers are recruited from young impressionable arab men and lately women, who have little or no money, and are lured into this job of a suicide bomber because they are told their families will be taken care of, which anyone who knows anything about Arab culture knows that family is valued very highly in it.\n\nThis all leads to the easier explanation that it's easier to hate the whole group instead of doing the work to find out who the real bad guys are and hating them.\n\nLet's take a look at Hamas, they were a terrorist organization, or a freedom fighter group depending on what side of the fence you're on.  They then decided to try things politically and managed to get elected.  That's democracy for you.  The IRA did the same thing in Ireland and the British and Americans hailed it as a victory, funny how the double standard comes into play...
736739
i agree with you. i think it does widen the gap, and you cant compare going on holiday for a few wks and not spking the native language to choosing to live in a country and refusing point blank to learn the native tongue. just how much is it costing the tax payer to have every leaflet printed in different languages? its all about integration. if your not prepared to integrate and p.i.s.s and moan about how the country wont accomodate you then move to an arabic country. i for one have had enough with hearing how islam is a religion of peace when very clearly it fcuking isnt! and the argument about women wearing headgear,(cant remember the word for it, how ignorant of me!) is another point. i think it show they're fundamentalists. i'd certainly be more wary of someone covering up then i would be of someone with an open face. the country is trying to fight intolerance with tolerance and it just aint gonna work. the same laws dont seem to apply to muslims as they do to british born citizens. its not universal. and the fanatical muslims only have themselves to blame. why should we make the effort to understand what is basically a hide behind for bloodshed when they dont acknowledge other faiths.
198555
Gee,  people wonder why people are leaving religions in droves and are thoroughly disgusted with the institution as a whole and use the word hypocrisy.  The cartoons were offensive and so were the anti-Semitic cartoons the Islamic press were publishing at the time.  But there is freedom of speech and we are entitled to use it!  Nor do people not of one have have to conform to the rules of another.  I find it funny Muslims are in an uproar over cartoons of their prophet yet at the same time running blatantly anti-Semitic cartoons in THEIR papers.  Talk about talking out of both sides of your mouth...\n\nGROW UP THE WHOLE LOT OF YOU!  We ALL have to live in this world not just you!
948064
Because the don't have a clue how to be diplomatic with regards to race, religion on creed. \n\nThere is more chance of a white person being arrested for racial abuse than a coloured person.  It's not just white who are racists, but you would think they are.\n\nThey bring in Terrorism laws (I have no problems with this), but they make the Muslim Communities in the UK feel insecure.\n\nThey have not asked the Americans to hand over the soldiers  who killed our soldiers in "Friendly Fire", but they quickly handed over business men who were / or were not responsible for a multi billion Dollar ENRON empire to collapse.\n\nThe Labour Government has undermined everything that is held dear by the British that we have the right to the Freedom of Speech and Movement anywhere in the country. \n\nYou are now guilty until proven innocent ALA USA instead of innocent until proven guilty.