The Facebook post about Muslims and poppies that explains why no one is offended by poppies

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A man has written a Facebook post explaining why "no one is offended by poppies" in response to claims by far-right groups that Muslims "hate" poppies.

Jez Hunt, who lives in the north of England, wrote the post in response to comments by groups in advance of Armistice Day on 11 November.

As Mr Hunt explains:

His post was shared thousands of times online and was featured on Buzzfeed.

Its popularity seems to have surprised Mr Hunt, who told Buzzfeed: "These far-right groups pump these lies out every year, as a scaremongering way of trying to sew dissent, and people then start to believe it's true.

"Luckily it seems that people are more awake to this lie, as the post went mad!”

The poppy, worn each year by millions of people, including Muslims, was adopted as a symbol of remembrance after the First World War.

Mr Hunt's Facebook post reads:

No one is offended by poppies.

Don't be a idiot.

It's a lie put about by the far right, to make you think that Muslims will get upset. It's horseshit.

Muslims sell poppies. Muslims fought, in huge numbers in both world wars, 50,000 of them gave their lives in the trenches for you, they flew spitfires in the battle of Britain for you. Don't believe people who hold the same ideas as the Nazis. You look like an idiot, and you shit on the memory of those that fought.

No one is trying to ban Xmas either.