Americans Advised To Keep A Low Profile During President Trump's Visit To Britain.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5938169/Americans-UK-warned-low-profile-Trumps-visit-Britain.html#comments

[vetuste_ennemi]

//You have to think about how suppressed this religion feels in modern times, and you can't blame their retaliation on their own religion, it's us poking them with a stick//

Spath, I'll ask you a simple question. Please, please try to be honest with me. Not to much to ask, is it?

When have Muslims not had the right to practise their religion freely in this country?

[anotheoldgit]

spathiphyllum

/// We know 'far' or 'extreme' groups are not acceptable. They are close to terrorism. ///

Some are more acceptable than others, there are some that are not "close to terrorism" but actually take part in it.

[jambutty]

Do the KKK still hang black people??

[dannyk13]

jambutty, apparently not any longer:-

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_of_Michael_Donald

[MallyJ]

The mail eh? ...... They do rather scrape the barrel. I have a feeling that quite often they sit down the local pub and see what the next outrageous nonsense they can make up...and if it stirs up a bit of hatred then they get an extra tenner in their ay packet. Lets be honest most people who are anti Trump have huge sympathy for their pain

[vetuste_ennemi]

//"When have Muslims not had the right to practise their religion freely in this country?"

Never.. They've always been allowed to practise their religion freely...

That's got nout to do with how they're perceived and how they're ridiculed.".

How are they perceived, Spath? Differently from Sikhs or Hindus? And if so, why?

[andres]

Americans warned to keep a low profile??If I was American and a Trump supporter that would be like a' red rag to a bull' to me. There must be lots of Trumps American supporters just dying to start trouble. Insulting their leader with a nappy clad baby balloon flying overhead and snidy remarks flying left, right and centre.
No matter what our personal opinions of Donald Trump are we should as a nation,accord some civility and politeness to a visiting President .

[vetuste_ennemi]

//No matter what our personal opinions of Donald Trump are we should as a nation,accord some civility and politeness to a visiting President//

As we have always done for visiting heads of state, Andres, however odious the person, or the regime they represent.

[jackthehat]

Lordy......have we meandered accidentally, or not, onto the well-worn path of Islam/Muslims, once again?

It seems that all threads arrive there eventually....

[jackthehat]

It would be useful, though, to try and get back onto the issue of Trump's visit.

There will be myriad other threads available to be diverted, hijacked, shepherded or otherwise route-marched up the usual 'Muslims/Islam' cul-de-sac before the week is out....

[naomi24]

Spath, you do talk some twaddle at times. Have you ever played Spot the Difference? Try it. Have a quiet sit down and ask yourself why Muslims are perceived as they are and Buddhists, Hindus and Sikhs are perceived differently. You say ‘sheer Islamophobia’, but why would that be? Really, why? I’ll be interested in hearing your explanation.

The US embassy is probably exercising caution. I don’t believe American citizens will come to grief – unless they say they’re Trump supporters. With that mob mentality I wouldn’t want to guarantee their safety then.

As for the demonstrators, apart from creating mayhem and costing the country a lot of money in the process, I don’t know what they expect to achieve. Mr Trump knows he’s unpopular with the hysterical herd. He’s known it since he took office when within days the Sandi Toksvigs of this world and the ‘Me Me Me’ brigade (all of whom incidentally appear to completely ignore the plight of women in Islam) took to the streets with their banners, so he’s used to it. He’s not going to resign because a few thousand idiots in a foreign country play with dopey balloons and shout and bawl at him. If the demonstration had the potential to achieve a practical purpose, fine, but it doesn’t and therefore in my opinion it’s an utterly futile exercise.

[ichkeria]

I wonder how many Trump-supporting Americans live it London? All the Trumpoids I’ve heard here seem to be Brits :-)