[Politics] King’s Cross - Ramadan Message

clapham_gull said:

Far less "offensive" than what I heard preachers on the streets preach with megaphones.

What a really odd thing to get angry about.

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jcdenton08 said:

I don’t think a train platform timetable board is any place for preaching any religion.

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studio150 said:

So a notice on a station board, which most travellers wouldn't of noticed, but those who like to stir up trouble complain and distribute to a wider audience, to gain further traction and complaints.

Yep its Britain in 2024 under the Conservatives

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Krafty said:

This. It isn't a suitable place to preach a religion.

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portlock seagull said:

Fair to say wouldn’t have happened 20, 30 years ago so regardless of how you interpret, it’s evidence of further islamisation of Britain and wider Europe. Change. But then we already know this given the rising numbers of people with this faith, whether through immigrants, conversions or born into as 2nd and 3rd generation. Many communities here don’t exactly buy into British values, same in any democracy (you don’t tend to get a choice in Dictatorships hence why nobody migrates there for a ‘better’ life!). So yep, a bit new and strange to those of us not of the faith here, but maybe it won’t be very soon?

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clapham_gull said:

Far less "offensive" than what I heard preachers on the streets preach with megaphones.

What a really odd thing to get angry about.

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Harry Wilson's tackle said:

It isn't too much of a stretch to imagine that someone panicked when it became apparent that they had offended Islamophobes.

(I still feel it was a bit needless - as an athiest/scientist I now feel short changed by the lack of announcements and salutations relating to the scientific methods and the importance of rationalism and hypothesis testing. The bastards.)

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jcdenton08 said:

In my opinion, preachers on the streets are a different kettle of fish to a message in national rail station. National Rail are not a religious organisation and can’t speak for a general belief in spirituality as a company or for the public.

If a street preacher decides to voice their protected right to free speech, they aren’t doing so with the tacit implied backing of anyone else - except perhaps the religious organisation they represent.

In this case, by featuring tenets of any religion on their own branded displays, there is an implied endorsement of the message from an entity which has no business doing so.

In my opinion the examples are not comparable.

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clapham_gull said:

I have no issue with any of it, unless it's something divisive like "Terry 9:8-9: No man should lay down with the sheep as if his wife, because that is a wicked man."

At which point I make a complaint.

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portlock seagull said:

Fair to say wouldn’t have happened 20, 30 years ago so regardless of how you interpret, it’s evidence of further islamisation of Britain and wider Europe. Change. But then we already know this given the rising numbers of people with this faith, whether through immigrants, conversions or born into as 2nd and 3rd generation. Many communities here don’t exactly buy into British values, same in any democracy (you don’t tend to get a choice in Dictatorships hence why nobody migrates there for a ‘better’ life!). So yep, a bit new and strange to those of us not of the faith here, but maybe it won’t be very soon?

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portlock seagull said:

The foreign office should just tell all British Nationals to leave the Sudan given their laws are completely bonkers and you can't be sure of a fair trial. It's like the stoning sketch from the life of brian - only it's hardly funny this time. How the leap from naming a teddy bear to western plot can be made underlines how irrationale and paranoid muslim fantatics have become. There's just no reasoning with them.

World War 3 will happen in our lifetime - I'm sure of it. Sweepstake anyone?! I reckon it'll start in 2015 - which means we're running out of time to win the premiership!!

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portlock seagull said:

When is WW3 due to start again? I fear for anyone aged 10 or under...there's no way theres not going to be some Crusade like war of epic proportions between Islam and everyone else in their lifetimes. The rest of us might just get away with it but younger generations are all but screwed. That's if the meteorite doesn't strike first. The seas rise. If the messiah does exist and is due to return, now would be a good time. What a mess Humanity is in currently......Still Brentford at home on Saturday so not all is lost.

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WATFORD zero said:

Still waiting ? Patience is a virtue

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jcdenton08 said:

In my opinion, preachers on the streets are a different kettle of fish to a message in national rail station. National Rail are not a religious organisation and can’t speak for a general belief in spirituality as a company or for the public.

If a street preacher decides to voice their protected right to free speech, they aren’t doing so with the tacit implied backing of anyone else - except perhaps the religious organisation they represent.

In this case, by featuring tenets of any religion on their own branded displays, there is an implied endorsement of the message from an entity which has no business doing so.

In my opinion the examples are not comparable.

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