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Woolwich murder sparks anti-Muslim backlash
BBC ^ | May 25, 2013

Posted on 05/25/2013 4:06:35 AM PDT by don-o

There has been a huge increase in anti-Muslim incidents since the murder of a British soldier in Woolwich, an inter-faith charity has said.

Faith Matters, which runs a helpline, said they had received more than 150 calls since Wednesday's attack, up from a daily average of six.

A number of people have been arrested after allegedly offensive comments were made on social media websites.

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Since the attack, four people have been charged by police after allegedly offensive messages were posted on social media websites.

Benjamin Flatters, a 22-year-old from Lincoln, will appear before magistrates on Saturday charged with making malicious comments on Facebook.

An unemployed 28-year-old has been charged by Sussex Police after allegedly posting an offensive message also on Facebook.

Michaela Turner, 23, has been charged with allegedly sending a "grossly offensive" message on Facebook, Hampshire Constabulary said.

And a 19-year-old man form Woking has been charged with improper use of public electronic communications in connection with comments placed on a social media website.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
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To: Little Pig

If the government there does not allow semi-anonymous and otherwise ineffective outlets like making blustering comments on websites, then people will find more effective outlets. I sincerely hope this situation rapidly shifts to one where muslims of all demeanors fear to walk the streets anywhere in the UK. After all, if ordinary non-muslims feel that way, it’s only right that non-muslims return the favor.


PRECISELY! If the pressure is building up too high, the last damned thing you do is spike the relief valve...


21 posted on 05/25/2013 4:32:44 AM PDT by Peet (Come back with a warrant.)
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To: don-o

They are arresting average citizens for voicing thier oppinions yet they save the butchers so they can ask them why they did what they did and how can we help them love us.


22 posted on 05/25/2013 4:36:31 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (Yesterdays conspiracies are todays truths)
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To: Uncle Chip

England never had free speech. Nothing short of an American-style revolution that frog marches Parliment into the Thames and Muslims through the Chunnel will save England. Demographics decide the future, not the news of the day. England surrendered its religion and its history. Nature will fill that vacuum eventually. England is dead.


23 posted on 05/25/2013 4:37:47 AM PDT by HMS Surprise (Chris Christie can STILL go straight to hell.)
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To: Diogenesis

Completely agree, England is dead.


24 posted on 05/25/2013 4:38:52 AM PDT by HMS Surprise (Chris Christie can STILL go straight to hell.)
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To: Tench_Coxe
What if everyone spoke at the same time, how could they arrest everyone?

What if everyone using social media in the UK decided to post a message condemning the silent complicity of the Muslim population, and they all did it at the same time?

25 posted on 05/25/2013 4:39:11 AM PDT by LoveUSA (God employs Man's strength; Satan exploits Man's weakness.)
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To: HMS Surprise

Sure hope not.


26 posted on 05/25/2013 4:39:39 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (NRA Life Member)
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To: don-o; All

Grover Norquist’s wet dream would be to jail anyone here in the US that didn’t kow-tow to Islam

Shame on UK govt...and good that UK citizens are waking up


27 posted on 05/25/2013 4:40:30 AM PDT by SeminoleCounty (GOP - Greenlighting Obama's Programs)
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To: HMS Surprise
...Muslims through the Chunnel ...

Off the Cliffs of Dover would be better.

28 posted on 05/25/2013 4:42:05 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: don-o
a huge increase in anti-Muslim incidents

How many of those were beheadings?

Yeah, thought so...

29 posted on 05/25/2013 4:47:04 AM PDT by Moltke ("I am Dr. Sonderborg," he said, "and I don't want any nonsense.")
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To: don-o

There England has it. Are we going to bow down to Islam, as Europe has done? Did Obama bow down for our whole nation? Or just for his own muslim a$$?


30 posted on 05/25/2013 4:47:46 AM PDT by abclily
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To: don-o

I think the PC crowd should just accept lone-wolf, self-radicalized Sudden Anti Jihad attacks as the norm.

Symmetry, if not justice.


31 posted on 05/25/2013 4:49:50 AM PDT by DBrow
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To: mkmensinger

To me,the real story here is that people can be arrested because other people are offended.
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Yeah and coming to a blue city and or state in the near future. I am thinking New York City, Los Angeles, California or Colorado.


32 posted on 05/25/2013 4:56:43 AM PDT by Tupelo (The Government lies, then the media lies to cover up the government lies.)
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To: don-o

Good. We need some of that here. If the Gubbmint won’t protect American citizens maybe we should “convince” aspiring martyrs to go home. If that works we might try it with illegals, too.


33 posted on 05/25/2013 4:57:04 AM PDT by Feckless (I was trained by the US << This Tagline Censored by FR >> ain't that irOnic?)
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To: don-o

Anti-muslim riot (pogrom) in Russia:

http://m.youtube.com/verify_age?client=mv-google&layout=tablet&next=%2Fwatch%3Futcoffset%3D360%26v%3DN8ouGEtjCA0


35 posted on 05/25/2013 5:03:14 AM PDT by cunning_fish
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To: 22202NOVA

A number of people have been arrested after allegedly offensive comments were made on social media websites.

A number of people have been arrested after allegedly offensive comments were made on social media websites.


36 posted on 05/25/2013 5:06:00 AM PDT by omega4179
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To: don-o

Britain has descended into the depths. How the mighty have fallen. The once-famous bastion of political criticism has now become a slave-state where it is illegal to make any disparaging comments about islam. How sad.


37 posted on 05/25/2013 5:07:01 AM PDT by ought-six ( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: mkmensinger

Here’s what I have to say to the Muslim punk that cut the soldiers head off with a machete:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aXuCaGHOmc


38 posted on 05/25/2013 5:07:03 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: mkmensinger

Thank every leftistlator that voted for ‘Hate Crimes’ legislation.

Double plus ungood.


39 posted on 05/25/2013 5:07:13 AM PDT by WorkingClassFilth
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To: don-o

Speech crime. Meh.


40 posted on 05/25/2013 5:08:06 AM PDT by WriteOn (Truth)
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