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C69 wrote: Sat Nov 11, 2023 7:31 pm
sockwithaticket wrote: Sat Nov 11, 2023 5:49 pm
C69 wrote: Sat Nov 11, 2023 5:28 pm
Why is it you dislike and distrust Muslims so much?

They are no different to any other religious group imho.
We need to be wary of Islamaphobia, but come on. Over the last 20 years there's only one religious group carrying out terror attacks in the West and there's all sorts of troubling polling out there about levels of support of incidents like the Charlie Hebdo attacks and beheading of the French teacher who tried to use pictures of Mohammad to cover the concept of intolerance. Islam is far more problematic for us than say Sikhism or Judaism.

Of course things are different in other parts of the world. e.g. Buddhist monks accused of participating in violent anti-Muslim mobs in Burma.
Perhaps some of the genesis for this lies at the hands of Christians and illegals wars and failures of the West.
Iraq, Libya an s Afghanistan.
Remember a million dead in Iraq and Bush asserted God told him his actions were just FFS. Blair and Bush doing the work of Jesus father.
Gtfo if you think they were doing the work of Christ but they stated they were.
Same as the HAMAS scum now.
I don't accept that terror attacks against the civillian populations of countries are excused like that. If the issues are with politicians and the armed forces they command, target them. Indiscriminate slaughter of people who have no say isn't a retaliation for military incompetence.

Casting it as Christian vs. Muslim is reaching. Bush said it about one theatre and his words as a president of the US hold some weight, but none of the rest of the coalition nations made any such expressions. If it were Christianity vs. Islam you might expect the terrorists to specifically target Christians/churches when launching their attacks, but, no, they're pretty indiscriminate when pursuing mass targets rather than specific individuals ( for such ghastly crimes as drawing their pedo prophet).
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Simian wrote: Sat Nov 11, 2023 8:54 pm
sockwithaticket wrote: Sat Nov 11, 2023 5:49 pm
C69 wrote: Sat Nov 11, 2023 5:28 pm
Why is it you dislike and distrust Muslims so much?

They are no different to any other religious group imho.
We need to be wary of Islamaphobia, but come on. Over the last 20 years there's only one religious group carrying out terror attacks in the West and there's all sorts of troubling polling out there about levels of support of incidents like the Charlie Hebdo attacks and beheading of the French teacher who tried to use pictures of Mohammad to cover the concept of intolerance. Islam is far more problematic for us than say Sikhism or Judaism.

Of course things are different in other parts of the world. e.g. Buddhist monks accused of participating in violent anti-Muslim mobs in Burma.
This is an extremely one eyed take on things. You get that, right?
There's only one religious group that might kill me in my own country or in any near neighbours. I don't really care if you think that's one-eyed.
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Uncle fester wrote: Sat Nov 11, 2023 8:20 pm
Over the last 20 years there's only one religious group carrying out terror attacks in the West
My point being is that this is demonstrably untrue.
Fine. Outside of America one religious group is responsible for the overwhelming majority of terror attacks in the West. To the extent that attacks carried out by any other are statistically negligible.
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sockwithaticket wrote: Sat Nov 11, 2023 9:06 pm
Uncle fester wrote: Sat Nov 11, 2023 8:20 pm
Over the last 20 years there's only one religious group carrying out terror attacks in the West
My point being is that this is demonstrably untrue.
Fine. Outside of America one religious group is responsible for the overwhelming majority of terror attacks in the West. To the extent that attacks carried out by any other are statistically negligible.

Anders Breviks attack is not statistically negligible 77 people died
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sockwithaticket wrote: Sat Nov 11, 2023 9:01 pm
C69 wrote: Sat Nov 11, 2023 7:31 pm
sockwithaticket wrote: Sat Nov 11, 2023 5:49 pm

We need to be wary of Islamaphobia, but come on. Over the last 20 years there's only one religious group carrying out terror attacks in the West and there's all sorts of troubling polling out there about levels of support of incidents like the Charlie Hebdo attacks and beheading of the French teacher who tried to use pictures of Mohammad to cover the concept of intolerance. Islam is far more problematic for us than say Sikhism or Judaism.

Of course things are different in other parts of the world. e.g. Buddhist monks accused of participating in violent anti-Muslim mobs in Burma.
Perhaps some of the genesis for this lies at the hands of Christians and illegals wars and failures of the West.
Iraq, Libya an s Afghanistan.
Remember a million dead in Iraq and Bush asserted God told him his actions were just FFS. Blair and Bush doing the work of Jesus father.
Gtfo if you think they were doing the work of Christ but they stated they were.
Same as the HAMAS scum now.
I don't accept that terror attacks against the civillian populations of countries are excused like that. If the issues are with politicians and the armed forces they command, target them. Indiscriminate slaughter of people who have no say isn't a retaliation for military incompetence.

Casting it as Christian vs. Muslim is reaching. Bush said it about one theatre and his words as a president of the US hold some weight, but none of the rest of the coalition nations made any such expressions. If it were Christianity vs. Islam you might expect the terrorists to specifically target Christians/churches when launching their attacks, but, no, they're pretty indiscriminate when pursuing mass targets rather than specific individuals ( for such ghastly crimes as drawing their pedo prophet).
That post is spectacularly inaccurate, there are no excuses. To deny the rhetoric of both Bush and Blair stating their actions were drien by God is spectacularly forgetful or dishones.I will give you the benefit of the doubt.


God and George W Bush drove Tony Blair to invade Iraq, ex-PM's biographer claims
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/68710 ... rt-Inquiry


and

Prime Minister Tony Blair has indicated that God influenced his deliberations when he committed British troops to fight alongside American forces in Iraq.

The remarks, which surprised some antiwar campaigners, were made in an Independent Television talk show to be broadcast Saturday night. A transcript was released by the ITV station on Friday.

Mr. Blair has made no secret of his Christian faith, but he has not previously ascribed policy decisions to his religion. In the past, he refused to answer persistent questions by an interviewer about whether he had prayed with President Bush.

In the interview on the widely followed "Parkinson" show, Mr. Blair was asked about sending troops to Iraq, ITV said.

"That decision has to be taken and has to be lived with," he said, according to the ITV transcript, "and in the end there is a judgment that -- well, I think if you have faith about these things, then you realize that judgment is made by other people."

Asked to explain what he meant, he replied, "If you believe in God, it's made by God as well."

"This is not just a matter of a policy here or a thing there, but of their lives and in some case their death," he said. "The only way you can take a decision like that is to try to do the right thing, according to your conscience, and for the rest of it you leave it to the judgment that history will make."

https://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/04/worl ... -iraq.html


Bush was much more clear about his Christianity and the actions
'God told me to invade Iraq', Bush told advisers
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/god-tol ... -1.1183264
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sockwithaticket wrote: Sat Nov 11, 2023 9:01 pm
C69 wrote: Sat Nov 11, 2023 7:31 pm
sockwithaticket wrote: Sat Nov 11, 2023 5:49 pm

We need to be wary of Islamaphobia, but come on. Over the last 20 years there's only one religious group carrying out terror attacks in the West and there's all sorts of troubling polling out there about levels of support of incidents like the Charlie Hebdo attacks and beheading of the French teacher who tried to use pictures of Mohammad to cover the concept of intolerance. Islam is far more problematic for us than say Sikhism or Judaism.

Of course things are different in other parts of the world. e.g. Buddhist monks accused of participating in violent anti-Muslim mobs in Burma.
Perhaps some of the genesis for this lies at the hands of Christians and illegals wars and failures of the West.
Iraq, Libya an s Afghanistan.
Remember a million dead in Iraq and Bush asserted God told him his actions were just FFS. Blair and Bush doing the work of Jesus father.
Gtfo if you think they were doing the work of Christ but they stated they were.
Same as the HAMAS scum now.
I don't accept that terror attacks against the civillian populations of countries are excused like that. If the issues are with politicians and the armed forces they command, target them. Indiscriminate slaughter of people who have no say isn't a retaliation for military incompetence.

Casting it as Christian vs. Muslim is reaching. Bush said it about one theatre and his words as a president of the US hold some weight, but none of the rest of the coalition nations made any such expressions. If it were Christianity vs. Islam you might expect the terrorists to specifically target Christians/churches when launching their attacks, but, no, they're pretty indiscriminate when pursuing mass targets rather than specific individuals ( for such ghastly crimes as drawing their pedo prophet).
You do realize that Bush's war and the resultant chaos is directly responsible for the rise of ISIS?
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yermum wrote: Sat Nov 11, 2023 9:27 pm
sockwithaticket wrote: Sat Nov 11, 2023 9:06 pm
Uncle fester wrote: Sat Nov 11, 2023 8:20 pm
My point being is that this is demonstrably untrue.
Fine. Outside of America one religious group is responsible for the overwhelming majority of terror attacks in the West. To the extent that attacks carried out by any other are statistically negligible.

Anders Breviks attack is not statistically negligible 77 people died
Assassination of British MP's?
Jo Cox was killed by a little Englander.

To claim that the only source of terror attacks in the west was Islamic is clearly hyperbole and you belatedly seem to be walking it back.
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As I said, reaching. Casting Blair saying if you believe in God then he'll be among those to judge the decision to go to war is far, far cry from saying you're invading a nation in the name of Christianity.

From your Express link:
He said: "He saw himself as the man who would free the West of a terrible dictator who was persecuting Iraqis and threatening the stability of the entire region.

"He wanted to be the man who would go down in history as the person who led the war against Saddam and brought peace and stability to the Middle East."
That is not doing something in the name of Christianity.

I didn't deny what Bush said. It remains that he didn't speak for every nation involved (frankly he didn't speak for his own nation, the neocon hawks wanted to break open the middle east for disaster capitalism, particuarly Iraq's state owned oil industry) and while I can understand those on the ground in the Middle East who've seen relatives killed perhaps not caring all that much about the distinction, those who've carried out attacks here in Europe were not typically Iraqis or Afghanis.
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Uncle fester wrote: Sat Nov 11, 2023 9:54 pm
yermum wrote: Sat Nov 11, 2023 9:27 pm
sockwithaticket wrote: Sat Nov 11, 2023 9:06 pm

Fine. Outside of America one religious group is responsible for the overwhelming majority of terror attacks in the West. To the extent that attacks carried out by any other are statistically negligible.

Anders Breviks attack is not statistically negligible 77 people died
Assassination of British MP's?
Jo Cox was killed by a little Englander.

To claim that the only source of terror attacks in the west was Islamic is clearly hyperbole and you belatedly seem to be walking it back.
We were originally talking about the threat offered by Islam differentiating it from other religious groups here. As far as I know, Jo Cox was not murdered by anyone in the name of a faith. Which makes the incident somewhat irrelevant.

Not walking back so much as accepting that when I initially wrote I was primarily thinking of Europe as the West.
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Ymx wrote: Sat Nov 11, 2023 7:42 am

Piers suggesting not all protesters are extremists. Murray makes a fair point on what protestors are knowingly marching alongside.


You've posted this about three or four times now so it's obviously something you strongly identify with.

His argument is that those you associate yourself with, or those who associate themselves with you etc , blurs any distinction and you all become one homogenous entity, all standing for the same thing, ie the most extreme faction becomes the norm.

His views are extreme,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_M ... #Criticism

You align yourself to his views.
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Sandstorm wrote: Sat Nov 11, 2023 7:08 pm
Slick wrote: Sat Nov 11, 2023 6:58 pm
C69 wrote: Sat Nov 11, 2023 5:28 pm
Why is it you dislike and distrust Muslims so much?

They are no different to any other religious group imho.
Don’t be ridiculous
What Slick said. No other religion has 21st century fundamentalism.
that's simply not true

thoughts and prayers etc while campaigning for everyone to have guns, 'war on terror' etc

what you say is simply not true
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Simian wrote: Sat Nov 11, 2023 10:18 pm
Sandstorm wrote: Sat Nov 11, 2023 7:08 pm
Slick wrote: Sat Nov 11, 2023 6:58 pm

Don’t be ridiculous
What Slick said. No other religion has 21st century fundamentalism.
that's simply not true

thoughts and prayers etc while campaigning for everyone to have guns, 'war on terror' etc

what you say is simply not true
Or the Chechen, & Yugoslav Wars, which were both Christians massacring Muslims, & the West which would have been all over it if it was the other way around, sat by & did SFA !
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fishfoodie wrote: Sat Nov 11, 2023 10:31 pm
Simian wrote: Sat Nov 11, 2023 10:18 pm
Sandstorm wrote: Sat Nov 11, 2023 7:08 pm

What Slick said. No other religion has 21st century fundamentalism.
that's simply not true

thoughts and prayers etc while campaigning for everyone to have guns, 'war on terror' etc

what you say is simply not true
Or the Chechen, & Yugoslav Wars, which were both Christians massacring Muslims, & the West which would have been all over it if it was the other way around, sat by & did SFA !

okay it's not 21st century, but close, Rwanda.

Myanmar has Bhuddist violence on Muslims, actually I can be bothered to list any more, it's just so wrong to suggest that one religion is responsible for violence, it isn't any religion, it's the human propensity to "other" and make that an excuse to kill because of it, that is the problem
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Tichtheid wrote: Sat Nov 11, 2023 10:39 pm
fishfoodie wrote: Sat Nov 11, 2023 10:31 pm
Simian wrote: Sat Nov 11, 2023 10:18 pm

that's simply not true

thoughts and prayers etc while campaigning for everyone to have guns, 'war on terror' etc

what you say is simply not true
Or the Chechen, & Yugoslav Wars, which were both Christians massacring Muslims, & the West which would have been all over it if it was the other way around, sat by & did SFA !

okay it's not 21st century, but close, Rwanda.

Myanmar has Bhuddist violence on Muslims, actually I can be bothered to list any more, it's just so wrong to suggest that one religion is responsible for violence, it isn't any religion, it's the human propensity to "other" and make that an excuse to kill because of it, that is the problem
yup. I find it incredible that so many people on here (and elsewhere) espouse the view that religious violence and hatred comes exclusively from islam. I am baffled how someone can look at the world and say something like that. wild.
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Simian wrote: Sat Nov 11, 2023 10:44 pm
Tichtheid wrote: Sat Nov 11, 2023 10:39 pm
fishfoodie wrote: Sat Nov 11, 2023 10:31 pm

Or the Chechen, & Yugoslav Wars, which were both Christians massacring Muslims, & the West which would have been all over it if it was the other way around, sat by & did SFA !

okay it's not 21st century, but close, Rwanda.

Myanmar has Bhuddist violence on Muslims, actually I can be bothered to list any more, it's just so wrong to suggest that one religion is responsible for violence, it isn't any religion, it's the human propensity to "other" and make that an excuse to kill because of it, that is the problem
yup. I find it incredible that so many people on here (and elsewhere) espouse the view that religious violence and hatred comes exclusively from islam. I am baffled how someone can look at the world and say something like that. wild.


If someone was to say Judaism was especially violent or the only violent religion then they would be rightly condemned as being Antisemitic.

If someone says Islam is responsible for all the violence then by the same token is that not Islamophobic?
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Simian wrote: Sat Nov 11, 2023 10:44 pm
Tichtheid wrote: Sat Nov 11, 2023 10:39 pm
fishfoodie wrote: Sat Nov 11, 2023 10:31 pm

Or the Chechen, & Yugoslav Wars, which were both Christians massacring Muslims, & the West which would have been all over it if it was the other way around, sat by & did SFA !

okay it's not 21st century, but close, Rwanda.

Myanmar has Bhuddist violence on Muslims, actually I can be bothered to list any more, it's just so wrong to suggest that one religion is responsible for violence, it isn't any religion, it's the human propensity to "other" and make that an excuse to kill because of it, that is the problem
yup. I find it incredible that so many people on here (and elsewhere) espouse the view that religious violence and hatred comes exclusively from islam. I am baffled how someone can look at the world and say something like that. wild.
Islamophobia or racism or stupidity or bigotry?
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Tichtheid wrote: Sat Nov 11, 2023 10:39 pm
fishfoodie wrote: Sat Nov 11, 2023 10:31 pm
Simian wrote: Sat Nov 11, 2023 10:18 pm

that's simply not true

thoughts and prayers etc while campaigning for everyone to have guns, 'war on terror' etc

what you say is simply not true
Or the Chechen, & Yugoslav Wars, which were both Christians massacring Muslims, & the West which would have been all over it if it was the other way around, sat by & did SFA !

okay it's not 21st century, but close, Rwanda.

Myanmar has Bhuddist violence on Muslims, actually I can be bothered to list any more, it's just so wrong to suggest that one religion is responsible for violence, it isn't any religion, it's the human propensity to "other" and make that an excuse to kill because of it, that is the problem
Yep. Look at the atheist China's treatment of the Uyghurs, or Tibet !

Religion just provides a convenient rallying point for despots to other a group. Fuck it; if the history of Islam tells us anything, it's that the overwhelming majority of violence is directed internally, between Shia & Sunni.
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Uncle fester wrote: Sat Nov 11, 2023 9:51 pm
sockwithaticket wrote: Sat Nov 11, 2023 9:01 pm
C69 wrote: Sat Nov 11, 2023 7:31 pm
Perhaps some of the genesis for this lies at the hands of Christians and illegals wars and failures of the West.
Iraq, Libya an s Afghanistan.
Remember a million dead in Iraq and Bush asserted God told him his actions were just FFS. Blair and Bush doing the work of Jesus father.
Gtfo if you think they were doing the work of Christ but they stated they were.
Same as the HAMAS scum now.
I don't accept that terror attacks against the civillian populations of countries are excused like that. If the issues are with politicians and the armed forces they command, target them. Indiscriminate slaughter of people who have no say isn't a retaliation for military incompetence.

Casting it as Christian vs. Muslim is reaching. Bush said it about one theatre and his words as a president of the US hold some weight, but none of the rest of the coalition nations made any such expressions. If it were Christianity vs. Islam you might expect the terrorists to specifically target Christians/churches when launching their attacks, but, no, they're pretty indiscriminate when pursuing mass targets rather than specific individuals ( for such ghastly crimes as drawing their pedo prophet).
You do realize that Bush's war and the resultant chaos is directly responsible for the rise of ISIS?
ISIS that killed almost exclusively Muslims?
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Slick wrote: Sat Nov 11, 2023 11:17 pm
Uncle fester wrote: Sat Nov 11, 2023 9:51 pm
sockwithaticket wrote: Sat Nov 11, 2023 9:01 pm

I don't accept that terror attacks against the civillian populations of countries are excused like that. If the issues are with politicians and the armed forces they command, target them. Indiscriminate slaughter of people who have no say isn't a retaliation for military incompetence.

Casting it as Christian vs. Muslim is reaching. Bush said it about one theatre and his words as a president of the US hold some weight, but none of the rest of the coalition nations made any such expressions. If it were Christianity vs. Islam you might expect the terrorists to specifically target Christians/churches when launching their attacks, but, no, they're pretty indiscriminate when pursuing mass targets rather than specific individuals ( for such ghastly crimes as drawing their pedo prophet).
You do realize that Bush's war and the resultant chaos is directly responsible for the rise of ISIS?
ISIS that killed almost exclusively Muslims?
It's one of the most tragic accidents of history that the entirely justifiable Iranian revolution led to West picking the side of the worst scum on the Sunni side, when the Shia had been, & were the most likely to form Democratic Governments.
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fishfoodie wrote: Sat Nov 11, 2023 10:31 pm
Simian wrote: Sat Nov 11, 2023 10:18 pm
Sandstorm wrote: Sat Nov 11, 2023 7:08 pm

What Slick said. No other religion has 21st century fundamentalism.
that's simply not true

thoughts and prayers etc while campaigning for everyone to have guns, 'war on terror' etc

what you say is simply not true
Or the Chechen, & Yugoslav Wars, which were both Christians massacring Muslims, & the West which would have been all over it if it was the other way around, sat by & did SFA !
Many in the Russian army carrying out massacres in Chechnya were Muslims, at least nominally so. Not unlike the situation in Ukraine. The war there ended up pretty much Chechens killing, and brutalizing, other Chechens.

The NATO bombing of Yugoslavia and the subsequent peace keeping missions is a lovely example of Western countries helping Muslims. Not sure they got much credit for it though.
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Thought this was interesting

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-67378893

Is melenchon France's corbyn?
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Simian wrote: Sat Nov 11, 2023 10:44 pm
Tichtheid wrote: Sat Nov 11, 2023 10:39 pm
fishfoodie wrote: Sat Nov 11, 2023 10:31 pm

Or the Chechen, & Yugoslav Wars, which were both Christians massacring Muslims, & the West which would have been all over it if it was the other way around, sat by & did SFA !

okay it's not 21st century, but close, Rwanda.

Myanmar has Bhuddist violence on Muslims, actually I can be bothered to list any more, it's just so wrong to suggest that one religion is responsible for violence, it isn't any religion, it's the human propensity to "other" and make that an excuse to kill because of it, that is the problem
yup. I find it incredible that so many people on here (and elsewhere) espouse the view that religious violence and hatred comes exclusively from islam. I am baffled how someone can look at the world and say something like that. wild.
Not sure anyone on here is saying religious violence and hatred comes exclusively from Islam. At the same time, its completely bonkers thinking Christianity has the same problem with religious violence (and hatred of Jews) as Islam. Bringing up Breivik, a pagan Nazi, and McVeigh, a self-described agnostic, is also hardly relevant.
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Calculon wrote: Sun Nov 12, 2023 6:55 am
Simian wrote: Sat Nov 11, 2023 10:44 pm
Tichtheid wrote: Sat Nov 11, 2023 10:39 pm


okay it's not 21st century, but close, Rwanda.

Myanmar has Bhuddist violence on Muslims, actually I can be bothered to list any more, it's just so wrong to suggest that one religion is responsible for violence, it isn't any religion, it's the human propensity to "other" and make that an excuse to kill because of it, that is the problem
yup. I find it incredible that so many people on here (and elsewhere) espouse the view that religious violence and hatred comes exclusively from islam. I am baffled how someone can look at the world and say something like that. wild.
Not sure anyone on here is saying religious violence and hatred comes exclusively from Islam. At the same time, its completely bonkers thinking Christianity has the same problem with religious violence (and hatred of Jews) as Islam. Bringing up Breivik, a pagan Nazi, and McVeigh, a self-described agnostic, is also hardly relevant.
Yeah, Islam definitely has more than its fair share of nutters and it's not even close. There is not a lot of tolerance and pluralism in the Islamic world.
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Tichtheid wrote: Sat Nov 11, 2023 10:11 pm
Ymx wrote: Sat Nov 11, 2023 7:42 am

Piers suggesting not all protesters are extremists. Murray makes a fair point on what protestors are knowingly marching alongside.


You've posted this about three or four times now so it's obviously something you strongly identify with.

His argument is that those you associate yourself with, or those who associate themselves with you etc , blurs any distinction and you all become one homogenous entity, all standing for the same thing, ie the most extreme faction becomes the norm.

His views are extreme,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_M ... #Criticism

You align yourself to his views.
I only know that interview. There were separate excerpts of that interview being posted. That interview was not extreme at all.

What is labelled as far right has become a huge joke. It’s a pretty meaningless label being thrown about now.
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Ymx wrote: Sun Nov 12, 2023 8:17 am
Tichtheid wrote: Sat Nov 11, 2023 10:11 pm
Ymx wrote: Sat Nov 11, 2023 7:42 am

Piers suggesting not all protesters are extremists. Murray makes a fair point on what protestors are knowingly marching alongside.


You've posted this about three or four times now so it's obviously something you strongly identify with.

His argument is that those you associate yourself with, or those who associate themselves with you etc , blurs any distinction and you all become one homogenous entity, all standing for the same thing, ie the most extreme faction becomes the norm.

His views are extreme,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_M ... #Criticism

You align yourself to his views.
I only know that interview. There were separate excerpts of that interview being posted. That interview was not extreme at all.

What is labelled as far right has become a huge joke. It’s a pretty meaningless label being thrown about now.
Out of curiousity how would you labelll those EDL supporters that attacked and abused the police and tried to storm Whitehall and the Cenotaph.
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I’d call them idiots.

However they did undoubtedly prove exactly what Suella was saying.

There was much made of them pushing their way through to the cenotaph. All they did was respectfully observe the ceremony.

Later on Police arrested them “to prevent a breach of the peace”. Not for actually doing anything, but just in case they did.

Meanwhile, people were marching with Hamas masks on, attacking someone who dared hold up a banner saying Hamas are Isis. Sung from the river to the sea. All sorts of Nazi are genocidal banners, which somehow the tens of thousands of police missed in real time.

And the BBC summary was that far right counter protestors caused trouble and were arrested.

Channel 4 even claimed it was a peaceful march.

The absolute state of the country!
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:wtf that's some rabbit hole you've gone down there. Seek help
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That’s hilarious. Between YMX and Calculon we’ve had Wingnut 101 this weekend.
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sefton wrote: Sun Nov 12, 2023 9:25 am That’s hilarious. Between YMX and Calculon we’ve had Wingnut 101 this weekend.
You are in clear need for some edumacation
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Calculon wrote: Sun Nov 12, 2023 6:55 am

Not sure anyone on here is saying religious violence and hatred comes exclusively from Islam. At the same time, its completely bonkers thinking Christianity has the same problem with religious violence (and hatred of Jews) as Islam. Bringing up Breivik, a pagan Nazi, and McVeigh, a self-described agnostic, is also hardly relevant.
Actually that's exactly what Sock said.
there's only one religious group carrying out terror attacks in the West
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Ymx wrote: Sun Nov 12, 2023 10:12 am
sefton wrote: Sun Nov 12, 2023 9:25 am That’s hilarious. Between YMX and Calculon we’ve had Wingnut 101 this weekend.
You are in clear need for some edumacation
Hear that Sefton?
You're going to camp!
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What an absolute shitty thing to do. I have some friends in academia who described similar frustrations with the visa system.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/202 ... a-daughter
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Ymx
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Here is a video of the lot who broke through to the Cenataph

Utter chaotic scenes.


There was much made of them pushing their way through to the cenotaph. All they did was respectfully observe the ceremony.
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Ymx
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Arrests made not because of a breach of peace, but just in case there is one.


Later on Police arrested them “to prevent a breach of the peace”. Not for actually doing anything, but just in case they did.
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Ymx wrote: Sun Nov 12, 2023 8:59 am I’d call them idiots.

However they did undoubtedly prove exactly what Suella was saying.

There was much made of them pushing their way through to the cenotaph. All they did was respectfully observe the ceremony.

Later on Police arrested them “to prevent a breach of the peace”. Not for actually doing anything, but just in case they did.

Meanwhile, people were marching with Hamas masks on, attacking someone who dared hold up a banner saying Hamas are Isis. Sung from the river to the sea. All sorts of Nazi are genocidal banners, which somehow the tens of thousands of police missed in real time.

And the BBC summary was that far right counter protestors caused trouble and were arrested.

Channel 4 even claimed it was a peaceful march.

The absolute state of the country!
The Met Police said that the Right Wing nutters were almost exclusively male and many were 'tooled up' with knuckledusters and knives plus carrying drugs etc. They were there for a fight with the police who they chanted at 'you're not English anymore'. To suggest the mob who tried to storm the Cenotaph at 10.30 onwards were there for anything other than a fight is just plain nonsense - the copious amount of video evidence is there for everyone to see. They were essentially there in response to the clarion call from Cruella and were our equivalent of the Proud Boys being egged on by the Orange Twat Trump to storm the Capitol - fortunately our English version of the Proud Boys are just less organised, unarmed and too coked up to be that effective. I also see Wee Tommy was there but scampered into the back of a black cab when the going got tough - probably had enough footage to upload to his website to keep the nutters happy and keep the funds flowing to fund his Spanish villa?

How Cruella keeps her job now is beyond me and Sunak, in not dealing with her earlier, is now backed into a corner - sack her and lose the support of the NatC right wing nut jobs or dont sack her and lose any credibility with the rest of his party and the general voting public. Trying to win the vote of the far right in the UK will never be enough to win the next election and they way Sunak is going he is rapidly losing the support of the middle and left of the Tory party who up to now were probably undecided but are now realizing they will have to vote for right wing crackpots and are baulking at the idea of doing so. The wedge issues strategy is creating more of a wedge within the Tory party than between them and the other parties.
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You really are a trolling piece of shit
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Ymx
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And here’s some peace loving protestors

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Meanwhile, people were marching with Hamas masks on, attacking someone who dared hold up a banner saying Hamas are Isis. Sung from the river to the sea. All sorts of Nazi are genocidal banners, which somehow the tens of thousands of police missed in real time.
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BBC balanced digest of the day

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-67390343
And the BBC summary was that far right counter protestors caused trouble and were arrested.
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SaintK wrote: Sun Nov 12, 2023 10:33 am You really are a trolling piece of shit
Bit harsh tbh. I don't think he is trolling at all, he empathises and shares the views of his fellow travellers.I think he is just frustrated that he feels they are misunderstood and the MSM and Sunak labelling these defenders of the Cenotaph as far right is just wrong.

I quite like his diverse choice of sources.
Oli London the cartoon body dysmorphic pansexual Korean
Phile and BTS super fan says a lot about his viewing preferences.
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C69 wrote: Sun Nov 12, 2023 10:42 am
SaintK wrote: Sun Nov 12, 2023 10:33 am You really are a trolling piece of shit
Bit harsh tbh. I don't think he is trolling at all, he empathises and shares the views of his fellow travellers.I think he is just frustrated that he feels they are misunderstood and the MSM and Sunak labelling these defenders of the Cenotaph as far right is just wrong.

I quite like his diverse choice of sources.
Oli London the cartoon body dysmorphic pansexual Korean
Phile and BTS super fan says a lot about his viewing preferences.
I think he tries really hard to wind folk up but gets really annoyed when it doesn't work. He tries all of the usual tricks that probably work on the other place but fails miserably here. I suspect he is a rather lonely, sad man who shares many of the values of the those he tries to miserably defend on here and can't understand why others here don't share his beliefs. He is a bit of a harmless distraction but no more than that.
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