Comments on: IHRC: “I Refuse to Buy a Poppy”

By: Abu Faris

Abu Faris — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 22:14:22 +0000

Seemingly so, Hassan.

By: Hassan

Hassan — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 21:48:06 +0000

I do unintentional satire, apparently.

By: Abu Faris

Abu Faris — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 21:38:33 +0000

Hassan

The IHRC must show more tact, and sense.

That has got to be the understatement of the year!

I thought you didn’t do satire, Hassan!

By: Hassan

Hassan — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 20:56:28 +0000

The IHRC must show more tact, and sense. Whilst they may disagree with the wars in Afghanistan/Iraq, they must respect that poppies, for the most part, are in honor of those who were slain in the war against Nazism. A war which resulted in the deaths of numerous Westerners AND Muslims.

There was a wonderful program on the beeb a few months back called ‘The Muslim Tommies’. It contained vivid accounts of Indian Muslim soldiers fighting on the front lines.

By: Abu Faris

Abu Faris — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:13:29 +0000

Do go away, Gerrit.

By: Gerrit Smith

Gerrit Smith — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:43:29 +0000

Helping the kaafirs by buying a poppy is a form of major kufr which puts one beyond the pale of Islam. Allaah says concerning one who supports the mushrikeen:
“And if any amongst you takes them (as Awliyaa’, i.e., friends), then surely, he is one of them”

By: Abu Faris

Abu Faris — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:58:07 +0000

The Muslim dead of WWI:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/5114930.stm

In any case, does it matter whether of what faith (or none) they were?

Chirac rightly said at the time, of a certain place:

“People of all walks of life, of all beliefs, of all religions, are at Verdun,”

Marchons, mes freres.

By: Abu Faris

Abu Faris — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:51:42 +0000

Apologies, *Matt*, not Mike (can’t find my bloody specs!).

By: Abu Faris

Abu Faris — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:45:06 +0000

Mike

I wear a poppy to remember my grand uncle, who died in 1917. He was injured on his first time at the Front. He was removed to a forward medical unit, where he was subsequently gassed to death in his bed, when a chlorine shell landed on the unit. He is buried in Flanders. He was 17 years old, the apple of his mother’s eye, and he lied about his age.

Lest we forget.

By: Matt Edwards

Matt Edwards — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:17:09 +0000

What a vile and ignorant outpouring of hate is this. With attitueds like this there will always be animosity towards Muslims if this purports to represent their opinions.

They should get out of this Country and take thier plastic grievances with them. They dont belong here and never will; they are going a great dis-service to the average hard working Muslims tryting to make their waythrough life in the UK.

By: Barshad

Barshad — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:06:29 +0000

http://www.mcb.org.uk/downloads/RememberingtheBrave_MCB.pdf

By: Lynne T

Lynne T — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:21:28 +0000

Funny that an organization that’s is opposed to opposing Taliban rule and is linked to Iran has a problem with what poppies might symbolize.

After all, the Taliban fund their campaign of terror and repression of Afghans and Pakistanis through poppy production, and it’s been alledged that heroin addiction is a huge problem in Iran, fostered by its rulers as a way to keep a restive population under their thumbs.

By: bananabrain

bananabrain — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:14:34 +0000

and don’t forget that jews are “white”, whereas palestinians are “brown”. i’d like to see them make that argument at the synagogues i pray in.

b’shalom

bananabrain