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Originally Posted by blazey

As far as I am concerned the tire pyre wasnt anti catholic either, it was celebrating their own successes of their own religion.

Which just shows how little you know about what they are celebrating. It's not 'a success of their own religion'.

Originally Posted by blazey

Bonfire night is just as stupid as burning one huge pyre. Bonfire night is condemning a group of people who wanted to rid of the houses of parliament, 'terrorism' one might like to say, but why do we burn effigies of a 'terrorist' one night of the year like its a necessary ritual?

I don't think most people who have bonfires and fireworks here on November 5th even consider the historical significance particularly let alone think of it as burning a terrorist.

Originally Posted by blazey

I'm not linking Bonfire night as anti-muslim, hence why they were in seperate paragraphs. But right now we might as well have a war against their religion as so many people in the country now think of the term terrorist as linked with islam. British people are just as shallow minded as these people lighting pyres and chanting against the catholics in ireland and rubbing it in their faces.

Good because bonfire night couldn't be considered anti-muslim by even the dimmest of right wing fascists. That's my point. You seem to liken bonfire night here to the bonfires in N. Ireland celebrating the Battle of the Boyne. My point is that the former is a largely forgotten historical event here which most people cannot even relate to whereas the latter is very much alive and well in the minds of many in N. Ireland.

Originally Posted by blazey

We celebrate the fact that we won the war but what about those from those countries that now live on our doorsteps because of our new cultural acceptance. Does anybody actually give a damn about who they offend?

When do we do that? I'm not aware of any war winning anti-German celebratory events taking place annually in this country.

Originally Posted by blazey

Catholics in ireland may fear walking to a protestant pub, but you cant even say what you really think on a community forum without being flamed for being an outsider/ a student/ too young to understand, how different do you people actually think you are from these tyre burning protestants?

Very different indeed. Here what we actually do is discuss issues and some try to point out things which they feel others may have misunderstood. Most of the flaming which I have noticed lately has come from newer members who dislike the fact that sometimes existing members disagree with them on some points. Being a student doesn't automatically mean someone is ignored. Some students have made some very interesting and well informed posts. How do you define an outsider? How far outside do you want to go? Brian comes from Culpeper Virginia but he has never been flamed or ignored for not living in Accrington. Same goes for our other US members.

The majority of people have enough common sense to make distinctions between disagreeing with a point in a post, an opinion expressed or an inaccurate fact or two and actually attacking the individual. I'll agree that not everyone does that and that from time to time people 'pounce' on a person rather than a post but it's the exception rather than the rule and does not tend to be the behaviour of most of the 'old hands' and regulars.