Intolerance

Something has occurred to me in the last few days. I was having a discussion with someone yesterday about funding going to 3rd world counties. Basically his view was England for the English. We had a discussion and I tried to see his point of view, but there was a point where I felt he was using religion such as muslim/non muslim divides as a point of racism. This upset me, because I spoke about the religious divides that occurred in Northern Ireland, however because both parties were white, no one was ready to deport them and burn down their churches.
There seems to be a lot of this recently. Apparently there were muslims who burnt poppies today? I have no idea if this is true, but to me there are a lot of these incidents whereby some extremist muslims do something that people disagree with, and following this all muslims are tarred with the same brush and we get reports that they should be deported and punished. However, I think this is also an issue with race. Why should they be deported, they may be british white muslims? Religion and race are not the same thing, and religion should not be used as a cover for racism. Did we start saying all white people and all Christians were evil when there were the conflicts in Northern Ireland. No, we didn't. However there is some issue with jokes such as all Northern Irish people are terrorists. So this shows my point the race, is clearly associated with events related to extremists.
This is wrong and I hate it. People are people. We should treat them as such. We cannot be intolerant dependant on where they were born. We are all born equal. We do not control where we are born. We are brought up with beliefs yes, but we should be able to not only challenge but try and see the point of view of others. We are all born equal. I guess sometimes it is easy to forget that.
What is the point of hatred based on race and religion. Sure some people burned poppies, some people do a lot of horrible things, they could have murdered hundreds of people. We are people, not labels. People murder, people are extremists. Not muslims, chinese, white, christian, purple or whatever people. Labels are a dangerous thing.
Help fellow man and all that. I guess we have to help people if we want them to help us.
I'd rather be treated as the person that I am, and not by any labels people may attach to me.

EDIT:
Today Muslims broke the 2 minute silence in Central London with banners saying "British Soldiers Burn In Hell" & the burning of a poppy. if you don't like us British people paying respect for our brave fighters, then you know where the airport is. disgusting, disrespectful bastards, if you agree that its about time we stood up for our country n told these racists to fuck off then repost to get the message across


Saw this on facebook.
WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT ALL ABOUT.
Ok lets pick this apart. 
1. NOT ALL MUSLIMS ARE NON-BRITSH
2. NOT ALL MUSLIMS THINK THIS WAY
3. THIS MESSAGE IS FUCKING RACIST
4. THIS MESSAGE IS USING RELIGION TO COVER FOR RACISM


PEOPLE ARE GOING TO DISAGREE AND SHOW IGNORANCE, WE DO IT WHEN THEY TRY TO PUT UP MUSLIM PLACES OF WORSHIP. WE ARE NO BETTER THAN THEY ARE, THEIR IGNORANCE IS NO DIFFERENCE THAN OUR. WE SHOULD BE DOING BETTER TO UNDERSTAND WHY THEY DID THIS, THAN TRY AND TAKE THE FUCKING MORAL HIGH GROUND.
THIS MAKES ME SICK AND ASHAMED TO BE BRITISH. WE ARE MEANT TO BE TOLERANT AND EDUCATED. NOT DISCRIMINATORY, RACIST AND RALLYING UP RACIST MESSAGES LIKE THIS ON FACEBOOK AND SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES. THINGS LIKE THIS MAKES THE DIVIDES WE CREATE IN OUR SOCIETIES WORSE. IF WE WANT THEM TO BE LIKE US, WE SHOULD STOP FUCKING TREATING THEM LIKE AN OUT GROUP BUT ACCEPTING THEM AS PART OF OUR MULTICULTURAL STATE. WHAT MAKES US A GREAT COUNTRY IS OUR ACCEPTANCE AND TOLERANCE, BUT TAKING STEPS BACK TO RACISM MAKES ME SICK TO MY STOMACH. THIS IS NOT FUCKING COOL, THIS IS A DISGRACE.




ENGLAND FOR THE ENGLISH?


WITH BEHAVIOUR LIKE THIS


I'D RATHER NOT BE FUCKING ENGLISH.


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