With lots of people up and down the country experiencing these diving communities I talked about in a previous post, its only natural for a figure like Tommy Robinson to emerge. He has a growing following of 500,000 on facebook and 295000 on twitter. I know many of them will be mindless "send them all back" racist thugs, but there will also be lots of level headed people who can also see the worrying side of islam in britain.
For sure yeah, and like him or hate him , Tommy Robinson represents the views of quite a large # of people, and saying anyone who supports some of his points are racists would be equally as intolerant as saying that all Muslims are the problem. Quite a big responsibility falls to a person like Tommy Robinson because he actually can make a big difference. He says in 2014 he's turning away from activism and is focusing on dialogue, bringing non-radical british muslims and white british communities together. I can't say for sure but I don't know how much he's actually done that and how much was just hot air...he has a lot of influence
Tommy Robinson has been labelled racist a few times in this thread and apparently his motives are driven by intolerance and hate. The march in Manchester was a peacful march AGAINST hate and was attended by people from all sorts of different backgrounds. The only troubled caused at this march was by the loony lefties who didn't have a clue. 2 very interesting videos from the march.
Sort of disagree with this to be honest. Did you ever play that game as a kid where you'd hold your hand so close to someones face without touching whilst saying "not touching can't get annoyed" the EDL should be allowed to march wherever they want but the reality is they know the trouble is causes and I really can't help but feel like they were fine with it. I've seen lots of these videos where they are "peacefully" going about their marches and suffer ill-treatment from some angle, a lot of them seem quite antagonistic to me...also a bit convenient they all get caught on camera...
Lots of fake news and the media saying is was a far right EDL protest only stirred up trouble. One of the reasons TR left the EDL is because it was heading in far right neo nazi direction and he was not prepared to follow.
Possibly true but the driving reason was it was a condition of his parole?
I think he makes points that are valid and the community problems he talks about are legit. The more I see of him though the more raw political propaganda I see and the less genuine desire to make the situation right.
I might be doing him a big mis-justice here... but I feel like it's more he's an activist THAT'S FOUND A CAUSE, than he's being an activist FOR THIS CAUSE. It's tough because when you listen to him he's thoroughly convincing. Whatever his motives I think he's going about it all pretty inefficiently.
Would be interested to hear your replies to this TimVanW.
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