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Originally Posted by Deelow
Isn't this just sick?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...y-protest.html
About 35 Islamic protesters, dressed in dark clothes and with many masking their faces, carried banners and chanted slogans such as "British soldiers: terrorists".
The group confronted police officers and briefly fought with them, leaving one officer with a head injury requiring hospital treatment, and three arrests were made.
They gathered near Hyde Park in London before burning a model of a poppy on the stroke of 11am then marching along Exhibition Road and along an underpass, past the Victoria and Albert and Natural History Museums.
Asad Ullah, 23, a spokesman for the group who would only say he was from London, said: "The British soldiers you remember on this day are soldiers who have taken innocent lives in illegal occupations and unjust wars |
Perhaps poorly timed (obviously the timing is the point though), but I wouldn't say it's "sick".
They have a very good point - they just chose a poor time to make their point.
Also, they are kind of off on the final sentence there. The soldiers I remember and I think most people remember (for the most part, anyway) are the soldiers who died in the just wars of the 20th century, not the Bush/Blair wars of the 21st.