News "britains First" And Other Radical Hate Groups

[BlueBear]

These groups are really getting under my skin. There are many people that I considered good people, but now I'm seeing these "good" people sharing posts from Britain first, about radical Muslims.

They use news articles like "Muslim beat up student for drinking alcohol in public". The comments are then all "lets beat them up", "sucker punch them before they get in the mosque" and "Wake up Britain". Yet Our own youths have led to the death, rape and torture of innocent young men for centuries.

It infuriates me as to how these people can judge another group so poorly, when they are just as bad if not worse. and at 406,980 likes they're growing a huge supporter group.

What is your opinion on this?

 

[Friday]

Fanatics are one trick ponies.

To me it doesn't even matter if there is hypocrisy, or not... Because I try not to assume too much responsibility (or direct it towards people) surrounding events neither had any say, in. 'The past is a different country, they do things differently, there.'

A religious fanatic, a racist fanatic... To me they're all just one and the same. Equally blind, equally stupid. Same evil. Different book.

 

[Recovery4Me]

Luke 18:19 is something that I have hung onto to abate my judgement when it rears it's head inside me.
http://biblehub.com/luke/18-19.htm

I come from a dominate mixture of heart breaking stories where each person could have settled in justifiable (?) hate. I have seen war in many forms and being in different countries, many sides, or views of that war.

What I believe, and dearly hang onto is that people can do the wrong thing for the right reasons and/or the right thing for the wrong reasons. Yet I wish with all my heart that one day, we all will find peace, acceptance and tolerance in order to build a thriving planet, unite our children within a future anchored in realistic hope and promise.

 

[darrenS]

i have lived in Muslim communities and have found them to be very trusting and decent, whilst i was in Nigeria ,i ran a manufacturing plant with 150 employees and 40 contractors. They were a mix of muslim and christian.

The Muslims were far more trusting , but like everything , there is a dark side and a underbelly. It exist everywhere, and these same people could be easily influenced by mob mentality and turn on a dime. I tend to think the driving force is always poverty, when your barely surviving and in a constant state of hunger, small injustices can seem like a life changing crisis.

Sadly the majority of people will never see, or experience what real poverty is, and what some people do to survive, like building complete communities on huge dumps, so they have a ready supply of recyclables and can make a living.

When we learn that capitalism unfettered is the greatest danger to humankind and actually works against us, things might change , but even that would take a hundred years to come to fruition.

 

[shandemonium]

I think people like us are generally more affected by all the negative and extreme "stuff" in the world than most people. I think it means you are a truly kind hearted person and since people like us are still so wounded inside, outside world stresses can spin us down that spiral.

I am not telling anyone what to do, just offering what helped me. I no longer have cable tv and only use Netflix, watch movies, and I even temporarily deactivae my Facebok because so many people post horrific news and there's no way to filter it. I use this website instead of going on FB everyday. Movies and Netflix always involve a choice, then it stops. It doesn't keep running and shouting at me which has helped calm my nerves (and gain tremendous insight to how tv programming "programs" us)

I know it sounds like 'sticking your head in the sand' but we have so much noise inside us, it's ok to take a break from knowing the latest f*cked up shit that happened in the world. I promise it'll still be there when you decide to turn it back on!

 

[Hashi]

I think the problem is they are talking about Muslim extremists, and personally I find that hard to disagree with - technically. At first glance, can anyone argue against a group that's against dangerous fanatics? At second glance, the problem really is that dangerous extremism isn't restricted to Muslims. What about Christian extremists who car bomb and kill doctors who carry out abortions? What about any religious extremists? - Islam doesn't have the monopoly here.

So it seems to be regular racism a little bit disguised. Ugh.

As for standing in the 2015 elections... um... any thoughts on foreign policy, economic policy, domestic policy, housing, education, benefits... ? No? I hope they'll lose their deposits. (Anyone standing in a UK general election has to pay a deposit which they lose if they don't get a certain minimum number of votes - the idea is to deter nonsense candidates. This is - in my view of general elections - complete nonsense.)

 

[Ronin]

I find these hate outbursts too often be simply what they are - hate disguised as 'caring for community', and similar bs excuses to spread racist, xenophobic, Islamophobic and hateful actions. That sort of thing isn't alright.

I have lived with a few groups one might consider 'extremist', labels aren't all there is to everything, either. People who react to those news of extremism often react on poorly presented and misinformed bias, news coverage that's deliberately manipulated to suit particular agenda instead of reality, the kind of reporting that may well be rather unethical. There's more sides to these coins.

(Btw, *not* saying I'm in support of these ideologies. But I'm saying hate doesn't help anyone, and often that proverbial 'black sheep' are all those 'peace loving, extremism shooing' concerned citizens.)

 

[anthony]

It is all getting a bit out of control in relation to how the media portray things. They say they're unbiased, yet they use religion in an attack, which lets face it... provokes these very responses. There have always been radicals, and they aren't isolated to one religious group or sect... but the way we're all plugged in nowadays, there is a much larger and faster sounding board to get things across. The more contentious, the more graphic, the more biased, the faster the news spreads, whether good or bad, it spreads... thus the www sounding board once again does its job.