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Actually, I can understand why he did it - if visual representation of Muhammed is against the basic principles of Islam, then I understand why so many people are (if you'll pardon the expression) up in arms about it.

Doesn't mean that I agree with the way things turned out over the weekend, but I can understand where some of the tension originated.

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Also, as SWW says, I'd be more inclined to try to track down some of the people who burn the flags and wave the billboards with such aplomb, but have to hide their faces whilst doing so.

At least this guy had the good grace to leave his face for us all to see...

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I'd call it stupidity.....

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Well he DID get a reaction to his outfit - perhaps that's all he wanted.

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You could be right Rammy but, as a result of his stupidity, we all know who he is.

However, I'd be more worried about the people who were there whose identities we don't know - it's very easy to be brave when no-one can tell it's you. On the flip side of that though is the fact that there could well have been people in that crowd who both wanted and had the means to burn down the Danish embassy - unfortunately, because they would have had their faces covered, how are the police supposed to track them?

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I know Muslims are upset by these cartoons, however what this moron did was wrong, did he not realise that it is not even a year ago that many people lost friends and family, that people lost limbs ect, personaly I think he is quite immature and thoughtless, deserving of ridicule more than prison. Muslims want people to respect their religion well it works both ways I am affraid.

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That's what I think, and if true, isn't worth the drippings off my nose.

He hasn't even been given that yet :(

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just as a matter of interest,there were a few hundred on the street and the coppers did nothing.what happens in say twenty years time when there could be thousands of them on the street.
if the coppers can't arrest anyone for fear of starting a riot this countries in a bad way and i honestly fear for what will become the christian minority in this country.

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we'll probably see the guy who dressed up as a suicide bomber in the next edition of celebrity big brother!

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There's someone of dubious charactor that you don't want on the streets.

Do you have the police:

A: Barge in with riot police to arrest them, thus causing the situation to escalate, resulting in wrongful arrests (ie arrests of people who are protesting peacfully) which will send out the wrong message (or rather the message that the extremists want sent out) to the middle east where many Brits are (not just in the forces) and will put them at risk.

B: Gather as much information as possible, such as filming members of the protest breaking the law several times (rather than stopping them after the first) then once a case has been built and the CPS believe that a conviction can be made, quietly arrest the suspect and put them through the legal system.

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Sorry to put a dampner on that idea, but wouldn't apprehending the masked offenders there and then actually mean they get caught? What good would filming do for these people?

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:p:

but I may be laughing on the other side of my face when Max Clifford or some other lowlife (my opinion that) gets hold of the lunatic and offers him the snakes and ladders board into fame

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Keep the peace a whole lot better than trying to arrest them.
With many Imam's on the police's side, the hope will be in someone turning them in for un-islamic behaviour.

After all, what's the point in putting CCTV in petrol stations when robbers can wear masks?

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As a UK citizen I'd feel a LOT safer if these people were prosecuted instead of being allowed to encourage people to kill me.

To record the number plates of people who drive off without paying for petrol.

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Duh! :D

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So the police can fast forward through all the intimidation and physical violence that goes on during an armed robbery and spend a couple of cosy shifts targetting middle class motorists who claim to have had their number plates stolen