How is this proportional and fair?

[Scoobos]

Because Poppies are a symbol for those who died irrespective if they are black, while, brown, yellow or green.

One race shouting for another race to "burn in hell" and setting fire to a symbol of the Allied sacrifice to combat race hate and totalitarianism is racial hatred in my book.

[Mich the Tester]

Finger in the air, face covered, wild look in his eyes. Got extremist written all over it this one...

Yep, but he's not a muslim.

[SupremeSpod]

I suppose we could compare sentences received for "Pissing on the cenotaph" and "Burning Poppies"...

Just saying, like...

[northernladuk]

One race shouting for another race to "burn in hell" and setting fire to a symbol of the Allied sacrifice to combat race hate and totalitarianism is racial hatred in my book.

Thank god we have a strict legal system to fall back on rather than this happy clapping bollox.

[d000hg]

Hmm, I agree with the sentiment NLUK but I don't see how burning poppies isn't criminal damage and inciting racial hatred either. But now I'm repeating myself like a true raving maniac.

Why is burning poppies racist? It could be deemed xenophobic at best.

[Scoobos]

d000hg these guys wont even know that Muslim's faught alongside us, I assume , perhaps wrongly, that it is aimed at the white western population.

My motivation is driven by my ex military background not racial predujice.

I seriously can't understand how this is tolerated; and how people don't see just how hateful and hurtful it is.

4 months compared to 50 quid is just not acceptable for me, and any disrespect to dead soilders needs to be stamped down on much harder than this.

I just think it sends totally the wrong message and fuels the racists.

[EternalOptimist]

Why is burning poppies racist? It could be deemed xenophobic at best.

Its a racist attack, if the victim perceives it as such. apparently

[Mich the Tester]

I suppose we could compare sentences received for "Pissing on the cenotaph" and "Burning Poppies"...

Just saying, like...

People who do that kind of thing have recieved the ultimate sentence already; their own sad, miserable, failed existence. Fine them if it's really necessary, but most of all ridicule them, point fingers at them and laugh in their faces.

[SimonMac]

Anyway, why do extremist muslims always seem to have one finger pointing in the air?

Should someone inform customs and immigration? 'Nothing wrong with muslims, chaps, it's just the ones who point their finger into the sky; they can be a bit awkward'.

[d000hg]

One race shouting for another race to "burn in hell" and setting fire to a symbol of the Allied sacrifice to combat race hate and totalitarianism is racial hatred in my book.

The Allies aren't one race. in WW1/2 it was (broadly) the same race on both sides. Neither WW1 or WW2 were [primarily] about 'combating race hate'.