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Hijab wearing muslim "attacked" on street

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  • 09-10-2016 6:28pm
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    Jan Laco
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    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-37600532

    Was expecting to read about an assault but it's a story about two guys who come from behind and pull down a girls hijab on a street in London.

    Should this really be considered as an attack? Should pranking school kids be charged when they pull a friends sports shorts down too?

    IMO it's more privilege for these muslims, who shouldn't be wearing hijab here in the first place.


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    tomwaterford
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    I don't think they should be charged.....just why like


    But I do think people should be allowed wear what they want.....except kk jerseys


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    qo2cj1dsne8y4k
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    Is wedgies an attack? They should be!


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    Jayop
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    How would you define an attack other than this? Amazing.


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    darkpagandeath
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    I must have been constantly attacked growing up.


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    Billy86
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    Post Brexit England, what a lovely place to live in.

    On the plus side, the other day on Amazon I got £530 worth of stuff plus deliver for €600.


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    tomwaterford
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    LexieOnRale wrote: »
    Is wedgies an attack? They should be!

    Avoid secondary schools in waterford so.....


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    anewme
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    If someone came up behind a person and yanked down their trousers or lifted someone's skirt, I'd expect it to be taken seriously. This is no different.


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    Penny Tration
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    If someone pulls an article of clothing off of my body against my will, it's an assault.


    Just because it's a hijab, doesn't change what they did.


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    Ted111
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    If someone tried to pull an article of clothing off me Hi Jab em in the face.


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    MEGA BRO WOLF 5000
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    The victim was not injured but shocked and distressed, the Met said.

    Have to feel sorry for her, imagine those brutes seeing her hair and neck! The shame...


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    SterlingArcher
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    Penny Tration wrote: »
    If some pulled an article of clothing off of my body against my will, it's an assault.


    Just because it's a hijab, doesn't change what they did.

    Ha. Note to self don't knock pennys hat off her head she'll be triggered. And have me up on assault charges.


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    Pim Pictus
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    The Honey Monster wrote: »
    Have to feel sorry for her, imagine those brutes seeing her hair and neck! The shame...

    You'd be distressed if two lads nicked the hat off your head as well. It's not a normal thing to do to a stranger.


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    Billy86
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    The Honey Monster wrote: »
    Have to feel sorry for her, imagine those brutes seeing her hair and neck! The shame...
    Honest question, if someone reefed you mother/daughter/sister/wife's handbag or coat off her in the middle of the street in England for being a 'Paddy' would you be grand with it?


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    PucaMama
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    how can pulling an item of clothing off someone in the street be seen as ok? have ye lost your minds??


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    MEGA BRO WOLF 5000
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    Pim Pictus wrote: »
    You'd be distressed if two lads nicked the hat off your head as well. It's not a normal thing to do to a stranger.

    I'm sorry but if someone took off my hat you can be damn sure it wouldn't be reported by the BBC as a "racially motivated attack" or as "an assault". It's absolutely beyond me that in 2016 that women are wearing a bloody postbox over their body to please the skygod.


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    Billy86
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    PucaMama wrote: »
    how can pulling an item of clothing off someone in the street be seen as ok? have ye lost your minds??

    Fucking Muzzie had it coming, her fault for being a Muzzie, rah rah rah...


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    Pim Pictus
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    The Honey Monster wrote: »
    I'm sorry but if someone took off my hat you can be damn sure it wouldn't be reported by the BBC as a "racially motivated attack" or as "an assault". It's absolutely beyond me that in 2016 that women are wearing a bloody postbox over their body to please the skygod.

    I was addressing your apparent lack of empathy for the woman in question. no idea what you're on about now but go for it anyway sure.


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    drdeadlift
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    Did anyone hear the story of the 19 year old girl stoned to death in saudi?


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    Samaris
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    Wait, so it's "more privilege" for a Muslim woman to have the sheer nerve to expect to be able to walk down the street without being accosted by two young morons and her clothing pulled away from her?

    How dare she indeed. /eyeroll.

    You know, I'd be pretty damn pissed off if two young idiots tried to pull any of my clothing off me either.

    HoneyMonster - would you be annoyed if they ripped your shirt off then? Given breasts or, if you're male, your pants, cover parts of you that you don't show in public, maybe try thinking about it that way for just a moment. And either way, they had no right to snatch any of her clothing off her, whether or not you agree it's a sensible garb. It wasn't harming them, they were just dimwits.


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    PucaMama
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    The Honey Monster wrote: »
    I'm sorry but if someone took off my hat you can be damn sure it wouldn't be reported by the BBC as a "racially motivated attack" or as "an assault". It's absolutely beyond me that in 2016 that women are wearing a bloody postbox over their body to please the skygod.

    you know fine well the difference between your hat and what that woman was wearing dont play dumb to entertain your friends on here.

    exactly what does a woman wearing what she wants do to you it has no impact on your life so but out.


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    anewme
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    But it is racially motivated. It happened because she was a Muslim, pure and simple.

    cowardly bullies....note it was done on a woman...they knew well who they were picking on.


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    RayM
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    Jan Laco wrote: »
    Should pranking school kids be charged when they pull a friends sports shorts down too?

    "The first suspect is described as a white man, aged in his late 20s or early 30s"

    "The second suspect is described as a man of Mediterranean appearance, aged in his late 20s or early 30s"

    If the 'pranking school kids' are in their late 20s or early 30s, and their target is a lone woman going about her business, doing nothing whatsoever to harm them, then yes.


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    Billy86
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    PucaMama wrote: »
    you know fine well the difference between your hat and what that woman was wearing dont play dumb to entertain your friends on here.

    exactly what does a woman wearing what she wants do to you it has no impact on your life so but out.

    Plus beyond the other obvious reason, a hat can be flicked off with a finger depending on the type it is.

    I wonder how the same people grand with this would feel if it was their mother, sister, daughter or wife who had a handbag or coat ripped off them? Especially say if it were in England for being a Paddy?


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    MEGA BRO WOLF 5000
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    anewme wrote: »
    But it is racially motivated. It happened because she was a Muslim, pure and simple.

    cowardly bullies....note it was done on a woman...they knew well who they were picking on.

    What are they gonna do, pull a hijab off a man?


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    Arthur.beaker
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    Pim Pictus wrote: »
    You'd be distressed if two lads nicked the hat off your head as well. It's not a normal thing to do to a stranger.

    Or took headphones off your head.


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    Arthur.beaker
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    Billy86 wrote: »
    Fucking Muzzie had it coming, her fault for being a Muzzie, rah rah rah...

    What is a Muzzie? Not a term I have previously encountered.


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    Robsweezie
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    its an attack on her dignity and personal space.


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    Samaris
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    In this case, presumably sarcasm.


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    qo2cj1dsne8y4k
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    No doubt they shouldn't have pulled it off her, but is it a serious enough assault to be reported all over the UK and Ireland? For example, in 2014 my brother was assaulted and moved to Beaumont hospital with a fractured skull and it didn't make the local paper.

    How many of us went to secondary school where underwear was stretched nearly over your head? Or your bra constantly being snapped? People are scum, but there's much worse happening out there that's not making the papers. Real assault.


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    Jan Laco wrote: »
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-37600532

    Was expecting to read about an assault but it's a story about two guys who come from behind and pull down a girls hijab on a street in London.

    Should this really be considered as an attack? Should pranking school kids be charged when they pull a friends sports shorts down too?

    IMO it's more privilege for these muslims, who shouldn't be wearing hijab here in the first place.

    Why shouldn't ' these muslims' be wearing a hijab?
    Whats it got to do with you.
    If I want to walk down the street wearing a cape like batman, is that any of your business? Should anyone be allowed pull it off me?


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