5 ms·

>No one has been arrested for tweeting criticism of Islam. You’re simply wrong. https://mobile.twitter.com/sussex_police/status/877110502350098432 https://mob

>No one has been arrested for tweeting criticism of Islam. You’re simply wrong. https://mobile.twitter.com/sussex_police/status/877110502350098432 https://mobile.twitter.com/sussex_police/status/877110502350... https://mobile.twitter.com/wiltshirepolice/status/889585359297945602 https://mobile.twitter.com/wiltshirepolice/status/8895853592... http://www.businessinsider.com/in-britain-police-arrest-twitter-and-facebook-users-if-they-make-anti-muslim-statements-2013-5 http://www.businessinsider.com/in-britain-police-arrest-twit... http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/arrests-for-offensive-facebook-and-twitter-posts-soar-in-london-a7064246.html http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/arrests-for-offensive-f... http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/as-katie-hopkins-brands-muslims-these-sods-in-wake-of-terror-arrest_uk_5902dc56e4b05c39767d6cd9 http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/as-katie-hopkins-brand...

DanBC 9y ago
first link: suggested people should bomb a mosque a day. clearly not simple "tweeting criticism of Islam", but threats of violence. (Also ignoring that the crime was on Facebook, not twitter) second link: no relevance to this conversation. third link: is a mish mash, but the first case they list is this pedophile: http://www.bostonstandard.co.uk/news/crime/man-jailed-for-sending-sexual-messages-to-13-year-old-girl-1-5265496 http://www.bostonstandard.co.uk/news/crime/man-jailed-for-se... forth link: no mention of criticism of islam. fifth link: katie hopkins routinely posts hate speech about muslims and islam, and hasn't been arrested. If anyone was going to be arrested for criticising islam it'd be her. The fact she hasn't been weakens your point. Find just one person who has been arrested for "criticising Islam", rather than for calling for death to all muslims or for the bombing of mosques.
- marcoperaza 9y ago
  I’m not saying these people were reasonable or thoughtful in their comments. Most of them are downright despicable for saying what they did. But being a hateful moron shouldn’t be illegal. You’re really cherry picking the cases. A lot of the arrests have been over nasty things said about Muslims as a group, not calls for violence. The people who said them are wrong, but they shouldn’t be made into criminals. This man for example, was arrested for tweeting that he asked a Muslim woman about an attack and didn’t like her response: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/mar/23/london-man-confronted-muslim-woman-explain-brussels-attacks-arrested https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/mar/23/london-man-c... . It’s certainly rude what he did, but not illegal and it’s not even what he was arrested for. He was arrested for the tweet. Out of respect for the moderators of this site, misguided as they may be in wanting this conversation to end, I think we should end this conversation or take it elsewhere.
  - DanBC 9y ago
    I'm not cherry picking the cases. You made a claim - that mere criticism of Islam was leading o arrest. I asked you to support that claim, and despite your very best cherry picking you have been unable to find a single person arrested for criticising Islam. What you did find is people sending death threats; people calling for a campaign of bombing of mosques; pedophiles grooming children. > but not illegal You obviously know fuck all about English law so you should probably stop making claims.

DanBC 9y ago

first link: suggested people should bomb a mosque a day. clearly not simple "tweeting criticism of Islam", but threats of violence. (Also ignoring that the crime was on Facebook, not twitter) second link: no relevance to this conversation. third link: is a mish mash, but the first case they list is this pedophile: http://www.bostonstandard.co.uk/news/crime/man-jailed-for-sending-sexual-messages-to-13-year-old-girl-1-5265496 http://www.bostonstandard.co.uk/news/crime/man-jailed-for-se... forth link: no mention of criticism of islam. fifth link: katie hopkins routinely posts hate speech about muslims and islam, and hasn't been arrested. If anyone was going to be arrested for criticising islam it'd be her. The fact she hasn't been weakens your point. Find just one person who has been arrested for "criticising Islam", rather than for calling for death to all muslims or for the bombing of mosques.

marcoperaza 9y ago
I’m not saying these people were reasonable or thoughtful in their comments. Most of them are downright despicable for saying what they did. But being a hateful moron shouldn’t be illegal. You’re really cherry picking the cases. A lot of the arrests have been over nasty things said about Muslims as a group, not calls for violence. The people who said them are wrong, but they shouldn’t be made into criminals. This man for example, was arrested for tweeting that he asked a Muslim woman about an attack and didn’t like her response: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/mar/23/london-man-confronted-muslim-woman-explain-brussels-attacks-arrested https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/mar/23/london-man-c... . It’s certainly rude what he did, but not illegal and it’s not even what he was arrested for. He was arrested for the tweet. Out of respect for the moderators of this site, misguided as they may be in wanting this conversation to end, I think we should end this conversation or take it elsewhere.
- DanBC 9y ago
  I'm not cherry picking the cases. You made a claim - that mere criticism of Islam was leading o arrest. I asked you to support that claim, and despite your very best cherry picking you have been unable to find a single person arrested for criticising Islam. What you did find is people sending death threats; people calling for a campaign of bombing of mosques; pedophiles grooming children. > but not illegal You obviously know fuck all about English law so you should probably stop making claims.