Took the words right out of my mouth...i havent seen anywhere online ie major rags even reporting such a story...pretty sure Daily Fail would have jumped on it if it was true.
Amazing what people will believe though...actually frightening more like.
Two Gateshead men arrested for watching 9/11 Koran burning video
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Took the words right out of my mouth...i havent seen anywhere online ie major rags even reporting such a story...pretty sure Daily Fail would have jumped on it if it was true.
Amazing what people will believe though...actually frightening more like.
It doesn't matter now. The story has been in the wild for a day now. Whether it's true or not is irrelevant - the damage is done.
It has the potential to cheese a hell of a lot of people off. It's not the act itself, it's the ramifications.
and? they have done nothing wrong, if they want to burn books then thats there choice, its got **** all to do with the police
No it isn't. The original story was about two men being arrested in a pub for watching and sharing a video of a man in the USA burning the Koran. The story on the BBC is about six men producing and sharing a video themselves.
The first story has similarities with the second, but it's near enough cobblers.
Except for the fact that they are arguably committing the offence of inciting religious hatred, which would be a matter for the police.
Although that being said, that law is fairly sketchily written, so who knows, really.
So why where they arrested for inciting racial hatred?
So were they watching a video of someone in the US burning it, or filming themselves burning it?
Information is sketchy, but it seems that they have been arrested for producing and distributing a video of them burning several copies of the Koran. I would assume the distribution was on Youtube or similar.
We are a bit in the dark because we have not seen the video. So we don't know if all they were doing was burning the Koran (if it is, then something is horribly wrong if you get arrested for that) or if the video had additional content that would fall under incitement.
You'll note the BBC story specifies that originally two men were arrested at a date co-inciding with the first story. Is it an exact match? No. Is it better reporting of the same story (with subsequent events)? Yes, it is.
Probably because of lazy reporting. The act under which they were arrested is the Racial and Religious Hatred Act of 2006.
Except the original story also said that they were arrested for watching and sharing an American video, rather than producing their own.
I would imagine that even just recording and sharing such a video would be seen as inciting hatred. Why else would you do it?
My mum buys Korans from charity shops and destroys them, but she isn't videoing herself doing it and putting it on Youtube.
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Either way I don't see the big deal even if they were burning the Koran and distributing videos of the event, a long as they legally own the copies of the Koran so what.
It just seems getting so bent of out shape over such trivial acts only serves to empower the act itself, it's counter productive imo.
It just seems getting so bent of out shape over such trivial acts only serves to empower the act itself, it's counter productive imo.
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What is more worrying is that they are arrested for online activity, just shows you how many police are sitting on the internet on facebook and youtube, just looking for people who are uploading videos and posting comments.
like the modern day gulag
like the modern day gulag
Because they were obviously only doing it to be... brace yourself for maximum punnage - INFLAMMATORY.
But being inflammatory is not a crime.
Or else we'd have to lock, you me, spawn and the majority of posters on here up too.
Yes they are, and no it wouldn't be fair enough. What kind of statement is that?
How can you state and make that sort of judgement?