Bristol Peace Walk goes ahead in response to EDL march

“@horfieldharry

Now I KNOW you are deluded! "trendy Harbourside", haha, is that inbetween lloyds and Oceana or any of the other hideous vomit inducing bars?!”

“People do some odd things. This is truely bizarre. 'Look everyone, we can all walk about without punching each other in the face!' Oh well done then.”

“As an atheist I was welcomed at this event which was about a celebration of diversity in the face of all extremism. I would rather everyone had ignored the piddling little EDL show the day before rather than emphasise it with a protest against it. To get 150-200 people for a walk on a cloudy Sunday afternoon wasn't bad. Perhaps like the EDL they should have had a 'mass national mobilisation' and attracted another hundred...”

“Only 150 religious fanatics? Further proof that belief in the supernatural is dwindling.”

“Some Muslim leaders are said to have advised their community to attend this as an alternative to Saturday's counter demo, so 150 drawn from various faiths must be considered a low turn out. It would appear that Bristol's Muslims and others have effectively shunned this opportunity. I am no expert but I would have thought it unlikely that imams themselves would encourage Muslims to attend a multi-faith event, since I believe they regard non-Muslims as unfaithful. If anybody knows different then by all means say so.
If people want to congregate, throw flowers into the fountains and profess peace then they are welcome to, but I feel there is some naivety operating here.
It's hardly peaceful to cut the throat of a conscious animal to provide Halal meat. It isn't equality to regard a woman's evidence in an Islamic court as worth half that of a man's. It isn't pleasant to say that people with disadvantages are paying for sins committed in a previous existence, as Hindus believe. There are serious philosophical differences between various cultures, and many values conflict with one another. Middle-class liberals can try to pretend that these differences can co-exist and that it's just a matter of throwing some petals into the water, but true cohesion can't happen until conflicting values are acknowledged and reconciled.
Bristol has it's white working class community who are banished to the unglamorous outskirts of the city, rather than the trendy Harbourside. They may feel disadvantaged by immigration in the same way that the EDL do, and so it's a bit presumptuous of the middle-class liberals to say 'yesterday did not represent Bristol'. Why not leave cosy Queen's Square and Millennium Square and go to the working class areas? Ask the white working classes how they are enjoying multi-cultural Britain. I expect you will find the same kind of alienation and anger that the EDL brought to Bristol's gentrified doorstep yesterday.”

“allananlyn-You seem to know a lot about me ,EDL lover's ,you dont like me,you dont like muslims,you dnt like jews,you dont like asians,and most importantly you dont like Silverback gorillas,you dont like people from Knowle ,is their anyone or thing you do like,apart from the EDL of course.”

“150 people is that it, what a big turn out!!”

“Gary 'Opkins parachuted in to tell true Bristolians what to do ! Go back to where you came from !”

“Irons,,,,get a life,,, get a job,,,, get some friends,,,,,your spending to much time on here sniping at people because your life is unfulfilled”

“allananlyn -Bristol pete ,it is nice to bring like minded people together.As a City fan i love them Red Arrows. AL, yawn yawn yawn yawn.”