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Lighten the **** up.
so its perfectly ok to stereotype all muslims as being potential terrorists then is it?
in the video showing the drill, that was publicly posted on all forms of social media by GMP, the phrase can clearly be heard. so now anyone who remotely looks asian, with a beard or wearing the attire will now be treated with even more suspicion by members of the public!
and all this is doing is that it will now be used as a propaganda tool and be used by the extremists to try and further radicalise young british muslims.
its funny how they associate such acts with muslims especially when it happens in western culture...what about in the middle east, ****stan or afghanistan where its a common occurrence and its muslims killing muslims? you dont hear the media saying a "muslim terrorist has killed X many people in baghdad?" no instead they just mention that a suicide bomber has killed X many people...but as soon as its happens over here the point of everybody's fixation becomes the terrorist religious denomination
i'm not saying that the training exercise was wrong. GMP were well within their rights to carry out this training exercise but they claimed it was to test the responses of their emergency responses in the wake of such an attack.
that attack could be by anybody...so why make it look like they were specifically training for an attack by a muslim jihadist? would a bomb attack by a non muslim be any different?
Presumably they wouldn't be shouting some drivel about a god before enacting their particular zealotry, but seeing as the threat we face is from zealots of the Islamic type, the shout used in the rehearsal was an accurate reflection of what the real thing brings, as evidenced by the almost concurrent stabbing of members of the German public...
All the usual mild xenophobic STW stuff from the same people, no real surprises
but this is a little gem i will try to sneak into conversations!
zealots of the Islamic type
I was thinking "lighten the **** up" should be used more often on these kind of threads - LTFU has a ring to it
gonzy - Memberso its perfectly ok to stereotype all muslims as being potential terrorists then is it?
Well it certainly is if your name is Donald Trump.
Or you happen to be a low-level sanctimonious bigot who reads the Guardian.
The fact that a fifth of the world's population is Muslim, and million upon millions of Muslims don't go around shouting "Allahu Akbar" before blowing themselves up and killing all those around them, doesn't come into it.
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EDIT : On the question of [i] "lighten the **** up" [/i] these two comment seem admirably sensible :
[i]"We are absolutely angry and very unhappy and annoyed because these people who kill themselves are not part of Islam and they are not even Muslim. They are terrorists, simply terrorists who are brainwashing people."[/i]
And
[i]“We accept that those words didn’t really add anything to the exercise. It won’t be happening again.”[/i]
Im with Gonzy on this.
A/ The west caused all the mither in the ME, the silly media loves it and uses any excuse whatsoever to create division and confusion.
B/ If the Trafford Centre was attacked they would need an airborne response due to the congestion and I doubt the standard 22 stone gmp copper would pass the test,
C/ If the silly police concentrated more on talking/visibility/approachability to communities rather than trying to play at some kind of special forces superhero bellendry they wouldn't need all this crap that will only lead to further alienation
They shouted something "Ackbar "
less than a month after this tragedy http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-35965835
It's pretty insensitive stuff
after all the lies and wrong doings of hillsborough the police seem to be apologising to anyone, for any minor indescretion, just like a naughty child saying sorry after theyve eaten all the biscuits and been sick.
Entirely different police force (gmp not Yorks) but don't bother with details eh
police forces in general..................