Did The Police Need To Apologise?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3582287/Suicide-bomber-blows-Britain-s-second-biggest-shopping-mall-chilling-night-anti-terror-training-exercise-featuring-thousands-volunteers-playing-victims.html

/// Manchester University Diversity Officer Ilyas Nagdee posted: 'Stupid decision by @gmpolice to decide attackers should be seen as Muslim. Maybe that's why Islamophobias gone up 300% in the UK.' ///

Pleased to note however that they took the health and safety of the victims very seriously, noticing the eye protection glasses.

[-Talbot-]

Maybe 'Top of the morning to you!' would have been a wiser choice?

[ToraToraTora]

No

[mushroom25]

there's no credibility in that Talbot - everyone knows when the irish planted the bomb, they didn't wait around for it to go off.....

[jambutty]

No, of course they shouldn't have apologised. Does anybody in authority in this country actually have a backbone? Are we not waging a war against muslim terrorists?

[anotheoldgit]

andy-hughes

Ah yes, I remember that old British tradition of apologising if someone stepped on one's foot.

But I think that went out of the window when the Luftwaffe failed to apologise for bombing our fish shop.

[Peter Pedant]

// Pleased to note however that they took the health and safety of the victims very seriously, noticing the eye protection glasses. //

eye protection - and ear muffs
and a spy from inside says the blood wasnt blood at all but an innocuous non clotting fluid that looks very like it

I think most manks are roaring with laughter over the apology

as AOG might ask: what proportion of suicide bombers have NOT been islamic terrorists ?

I think it might be as high as none

[there was the fella ( "oi am nart a roman cartlick" ) who blew himself up whilst trying to blow up Coventry phone exchange ( when they existed that is ! ) - that precipitated the B'ham bombings 1975

ummm would comment " what de feck does dat have to do wid it ? "

Of note - the RC bishop of brum threatened to excommunicate any priest who gave the bomber or bits of him a christian burial.

I cant think of any other.

[retrocop]

It's a time worn traditional phrase that the public of Europe has become used to prior to a terrorist outrage by MUSLIM extremists.Don't blame the police. Blame the muslims. 'Your nicked guv' is British police. The other phrase God is Great is usually the parlance of a muslim terrorist. It's called realism.Get over it. Our main threat now is Islam not Baader Meinhof,IRA,Mafia,Mickey Mouse Club.!

[Peter Pedant]

retro you know these things

Baader meinhof ( or patty hearst's symbionese liberation army or anyone else ) never suicided, did they ? they only blew up and shot other people

I would go even - Christians just havent gone in for suicide bombs have they further ?

[anotheoldgit]

I wonder if the police officer or actor who played the suicide bomber was white?

Just a thought, so we don't need to also apologise to those committed to diversity.

[retrocop]

If the Arndale Centre ,Manchester ever goes airborne again perhaps the boss of GMP would ask Ilyas Nagdee to clear up the body parts along with her wooly headed lefty liberal intellectual friends.They obviously don't devote their time to study at Uni. Perhaps they have a strategy to neutralise terrorists after a bomb outrage?

[Hypognosis]

So, if they had consulted with the Muslim community, including this detail, it would have been all over the papers, weeks ago and scuppered the exercise completely?

Not a single ethnic minority copper on the team confident enough to speak out against it?

Wierd!

[andy-hughes]

retrocop - //If the Arndale Centre ,Manchester ever goes airborne again perhaps the boss of GMP would ask Ilyas Nagdee to clear up the body parts along with her wooly headed lefty liberal intellectual friends.They obviously don't devote their time to study at Uni. Perhaps they have a strategy to neutralise terrorists after a bomb outrage? //

Ever the voice of reason and common sense - little more to be added.

[naomi24]

Stereotyping, Basque Sepratists? Never heard such utter rubbish. No, they shouldn’t have apologised. To whom has offence been caused? I can see someone called Ilyas Nagdee, Manchester University’s Diversity Officer, who says:

“Stupid decision by @gmpolice to decide attackers should be seen as Muslim. Maybe that’s why Islamophobias gone up by 300% in the UK”.

No, Mr Nagdee. The reason what you call Islamophobia has gone up in the UK is because any future attack such as the one the police were emulating will come from Muslims who will, more likely than not, be shouting 'Allahu Akbar' as they slaughter.

[Peter Pedant]

// I wonder if the police officer or actor who played the suicide bomber was white? //

yup

allahu akbar in an English accent - I thought if I had heard it like that in real life I might exclaim: " o come arn, get oudda here or I'll call the police ! "

- the /r/ is the give away. All the brits make it a weak post vocalic /r/- whereas the real thing is trilled. [see wiki - rhotacism]

this why Stoo calls me 'Petah' because the english /r/ is just about imperceptible to transatlantic ears and others

[ sorry bit of a linguistic / phonology post there ]

[retrocop]

A-H
You wouldn't know.After your assertion that the UK are the largest owners/users of mobile phones in the world I would take anything you say with a large pinch of sodium chlorate.
Clearly easily proved untrue and you have the nerve to mention common sense and reason!!

[retrocop]

You just can't please these people can you.Moan,moan moan that not enough ethnics are nominated at the Oscars,Baftas etc and as soon as one is given a starring role to go out with a bang we get more moans from a 'diversity officer'

[woofgang]

"If you heard that there was a terrorist attack taking place, who would you immediately think was responsible? “

errrmmmmm terrorists? or is this a trick question?

[woofgang]

retro, you swallow weedkiller if you want to, I will pass thanks.

[Hypognosis]

@retrocop

Do you actually *want* sodium chlorate on all our internet search histories?

Let's face it, that is not merely a typographical error.