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birdy:
An incident occurred in a supermarket recently.when the following was witnessed:
A muslim woman dressed in a Burkha (black gown/facemask) was standing in a queue with her shopping.when it was her turn to be served,and as she she reached the cashier,she made a loud remark about the english flag lapel pin,the female cashier was wearing.
the cashier reached up and touched the pin and said
"yes i always wear it proudly.my son serves abroard with the forces and i wear it for him"
The muslim woman than asked the cashier when she was going to stop bombing and killing her countrymen,explaining she was a Iraqi.
At that point, a gentleman in the queue stepped forward,and interrupted whith a calm and gentle voice,and said to the iraqi woman:
"Excuse me,but hundreds of men and women,just like this ladies son have fought and sacrificed their lives so that people just like you can stand here,in england,which is my country and allow you to blatantly accuse an innocent cashier of bombing your countrymen"
"It is my belief that if you were allowed to be as outspoken as that in iraq which you claim to be your country,then we wouldn't need to be fighting there today"
"However-- now that you have learned how to speak out and criticise the english people who have afforded you the protection of MY country,I Will gladly pay the cost of a ticket to help you back to Iraq"
"When you get there, and you manage to servive for being as outspoken as what you are here in england,then you should be able to help straighten out the mess in YOUR iraqi countrymen have got you into in the first place,whith appears to be the reason that you have come to my country to avoid"
Apparently the queue cheered and applauded

Eeyore:
Urban myth and racially provocative, I'm afraid to say.

and liable to get moderated in these parts.

Cheers
 8)
Eeyore

beast5680:
urban myth? possibly but i,m afraid i fail to see the reasoning behind it being racially provocative?

thermidorthelobster:
That's funny, I thought the reason we were bombing Iraq wasn't so the Iraqi people could have freedom of speech, but because we didn't like their ruler, which is why the government made up something about weapons of mass destruction.  They didn't say anything about freedom of speech at the time.

Of course, maybe I'm wrong;  maybe it's because Iraq has huge oil reserves.

I love this idea of us gallantly going to defend the right of the Iraqi people to democracy, but even our lying, thieving corrupt government didn't go so far as to say that.

thermidorthelobster:

--- Quote from: "beast5680" ---urban myth? possibly but i,m afraid i fail to see the reasoning behind it being racially provocative?
--- End quote ---

Well, if it didn't happen, and it's stereotyping an image of an Iraqi Muslim woman wearing a burqa and criticising the British, it's hardly designed to promote balanced debate, is it?

Surely it's no better than saying Jews are scheming money-grabbing misers who eat their own babies or something.

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