Moggy wrote:captain red dog wrote:Moggy wrote:captain red dog wrote:Squinty wrote:Tony Robinson
I have a vague interest in the guy. I watched that show where he went to meet Muslims, and I genuinely thought he would learn something from the experience. Dude seems to have learned nothing. He tries to come across as reasonable but the mask slips a lot of time, revealing him to be antagonistic, out of his depth and exploitative.
I watch a lot of his videos and have found him to be quite knowledgeable on Islam and the history of terrorism in the UK particularly in terms of knowing the history of radical preachers that have been active around the UK.
I agree that he has been unnessarily antagonistic over the mosque attack last week for example. That was an occasion where he really could have built bridges.
Tony Robinson?
Tommy Robinson (and his ilk) research Islam in order to find things to use against the group as a whole. Find a nasty passage in the Quran, use it to demonise a billion people. Lovely.
He's a wife beating, racist, fraudulent thug. He's not somebody that can build bridges because he's one of the ones knocking them down.
Not sure on the racist bit as I have really struggled to find anything racist he has said, aside from that clip Piers Morgan had last week. I have really looked for it given the number of times he has been called a racist, so if you have anything I'm genuinely interested to see it. Generally what he says about hate preachers in mosques has been reasonably accurate but I don't think he has any kind of solutions.
He mentioned internment for people on the terror watch list, but I'm opposed to that on two fronts, firstly it's against the principles of our legal system and secondly it would, in my opinion, escalate the number of youths that are radicalised.
I can't be arsed to go through his entire history and dig up every quote/tweet he's ever said/sent.
Let's look at the basics:
Former member of the BNP.
Former member of the British Freedom Party.
Founder of the EDL.
Non stop verbal (and now physical) attacks on Muslims.
"But but but Muslim is not a race". Sure, but I think we know what he means.
Well that's the thing, I have seen a lot of people call him a racist but haven't to date seen anything he has said that seems racist, and I have scoured a lot of his tweets and various speeches but have come up empty handed.
As far as I recall, I think he said he left the BNP as he found they were racist, and set up the EDL to do things differently. Then I'm sure he said he left the EDL when they were joined by BNP types but who knows.
A lot of his past is a bit sketchy, and I'm not entirely sympathetic that he gets called racist as I have seen him do the same thing when he has called Corbyn a terrorist sympathiser and I have tweeted him to say as much.