^ This
What saddens me is that the police felt the need to issue an apology, seemingly on the basis that a few shopkeepers had refused to put the postcards up in their windows. Rather than just say, 'OK, fair enough - it's a free country and you don't have to put this up if you don't want to'. When in fact it appears to have sparked 'outrage' because of the comments of one Muslim as being interpreted as 'well, all Muslims must be offended then'.

And it has struck me just now - would there have been a 'furore' if they'd used a kittum instead?
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Thu 3 Jul 2008, 12:20, Reply)