Posted on 05/28/2013 12:38:57 PM PDT by the scotsman
'A mosque has been praised for serving tea and biscuits to English Defence League supporters after the far-right group arranged a demonstration there.
About six people turned up to protest at the mosque in Bull Lane, York, on Sunday and were invited inside to play football with worshippers.
More than 100 supporters of the mosque had gone there after learning of the planned EDL protest.
Archbishop of York Dr John Sentamu said the mosque's response was "fantastic".
He said: "Tea, biscuits, and football are a great and typically Yorkshire combination when it comes to disarming hostile and extremist views."'
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“Tea, biscuits, and football are a great and typically Yorkshire combination when it comes to disarming hostile and extremist views.”
LOL
“What’s in it?”
Why am I thinking ‘ beware of biological hazards ‘.
For all the horror of Woolwich, and tension in the UK, its actually quite a funny and charming story.
Nah, Yorkshire tea is very nice, lol.
CC
Not the Taylors of Harrogate. Ugh
No, Yorkshire, although it might have been Tetley’s or Typhoo.
Aye, thats the weakest. LOL
Maybe this Mosque was a non-saudi funded mosque....
Archbishop of York Dr John Sentamu
He said: “Tea, biscuits, and football are a great and typically Yorkshire combination when it comes to disarming hostile and extremist views.”’
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Johnny would it have disarmed your pet Islamic terrorists who butchered Lee Rigby ???
Maybe the British citizens need to CCT conceal carry a teapot in order to defend themselves and protect their families from the Moslams...
After days of making the EDL into bad guys, the BBC now portrays Muslims as good guys reaching out to the evil Englishmen. Pravda’s got nothing on the BBC.
Right now the number one baby name in England for a boy is Mohammed.
I found some PG Tips at a local discount place for dirt cheap. Looking forward to that.
I’m rolling through Upton’s Mincing Lane blend and East Frisian. I’m overly partial to Assams.
If you wanna counter a protest, that’s how you do it!
Bravo!
let’s see...decapitation...that’s a red card, right?
Would you rather have the Muzzy’s brownies instead?
Very British response.
I have mixed emotions re: EDL having sat next to an EDL guy on a flight to England. He looked very much like a football hooligan, but was sitting in first class and very articulate and (at least to me, an Israeli) very pro-Israel.
It was jarring, in that my belief was that they were basically legal neo-Nazis.
Basically spent the entire flight telling me about their Jewish division.
My wife drinks green tea, constantly. I hear tea has medicinal effects. I like a smooth tea, 90% tea, 10% scotch.. but I had to give it up.. for wifey. :-}
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