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Old 11-09-06, 10:22 PM   #46
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The discussion is multicultrualism and whilst that very quickly was turned into a rant on this forums favourate boggymen - lets get back to reality.
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My final point. Some of Al Quida's best opperatives have been White, Caucasion males. Its not just those with darker skin colours who are extreme.
You can't have your cake and eat it, too, as the saying goes.

The mistake of multiculturism is not multiculturism itself. It's Islam's inflitration through it.

There might be one other negative effect of multicultuirsm and that is political correctness, It shows.
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The head of MI5 has given a chilling assessment of the scale of the terror threat in the UK.

saying that it will last "a generation".
In a rare public statement, Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller said that the security services are dealing with up to 30 plots designed to cause mass casualties.
She also says MI5 agents and the police are tracking more than 1,600 suspects.
Dame Eliza warned that weapons of mass destruction could be used in future attacks.
She voiced concern that many of those involved were British citizens, radicalised by friends and by material on the internet.
She said that some of the plots being tracked involved suicide bombers, and others were being directed by al Qaeda.
She said: "Today we see the use of home-made improvised explosive devices, but I suggest tomorrow's threat will include the use of chemicals, bacteriological agents, radioactive materials and even nuclear technology."
"If the opinion polls conducted in the UK since July are only broadly accurate, over 100,000 of our citizens consider that the July bomb attacks in London were justified," she added.
"The threat is serious, is growing, and will, I believe, be with us for a generation. It is a sustained campaign, not a series of isolated incidents. It aims to wear down our will to resist."



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Old 11-10-06, 09:01 AM   #52
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I disagree, I think DAB is throwing STEED on grounds he's never stepped on, rejecting things never called for (he can only assume STEED wants X and Y) and equating Al-Qaeda with white "extremists".
Did I? I mentioned Steed once in my last post, and that was a challenge for him to come up with five "British" charactor traits that are evident across the British Nations. Where did I 'throw him'?

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Has STEED ever commited an act of terrorism DAB? Are you implying STEED is a terrorist or condones terrorism? What about you joea, do you also believe STEED is planning terror attacks at this very moment?
In what way is that related to any of the posts written by anyone on this thread!?

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Finally, there's the great misconception that young Muslims would feel incensed by what's written in this thread and thus go commit terrorism.

First, terrorists don't have a problem with what anybody on this thread does but with what they are: infidels. They can be good infidels, friendly infidels or submissive infidels, it doesn't matter.
Actually, I don't think terrorists equate the concept of a good infidel. I'd imagine they all consider us to be equally worthy of being murdered!

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Second, what about Jews who disagree with you DAB? All things being equal, they should feel incensed by what you write and start plotting your murder. Facts prove you wrong.
Took my a while to see what you were getting at here. You had me trawling through my posts for any reference to Judism.

I'm sure there are extremists in any society, and there probably is some nutcase who wants to kill me for something or other but anyway.

The times when I have flown into Tel Aviv, I've walked around the streets of that city and found it to be very safe city. Even traveling into East
Jerusalem lacks any of the connitations you get from the media. Which begs a question. If all Muslims are bloodthursty animals looking to kill Jews or Christians... why is it that so many 67's (thats the local term for a Palestinian Muslim) living there have security passes that allow them to travel freely around Israel. Surely they are such a dangurous threat that they must be locked up and surrounded constantly by soldiers.

Is it because maybe the Israeli government acknoweldges these people are human beings and that the majority of them have never committed a crime. The only other explanation is that the Israeli authorities are idiots... I don't believe that, anyone care to argue that point!?

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If you had any appreciation for reality you would've known that there is no lack of extreme anti-christian/jew/religion all over Britain. Yet, where's the incession? Where's the bombing? Where's the extremism? Last Christmass some council decided to ban Christmass decorations, since there are many more Christians in Britain than Muslims, we would expect Christian terror brigades to be born easily, or are these not homegrown? Does it take some time for them to arrive from Mars?
No its just the Catholic and Protestant Terrorists are still caught up in Northern Ireland. And yes there is still a problem there. Last week, a young women was doused with Petrol and set alight. Her crime, to date someone from a different demonination OF THE SAME BLOODY RELIGION!!!

For someone who started your post with a broadside claiming I was putting words into peoples mouths, your doing a good job of scoring your own goals. Since when did the forcible removal of religious icons and the playing down of religious festivals have anything to do with multiculturalism - surely thats monoculturalism on a orwellian scale.

And for the record, the people I have heard calling for the abolition of Christmas tend to be Jehova's Witnesses and Puritains.

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Lastly, how many posters do we have in this thread, less than 20? That's few enough to specify, there's no need to generalize, yet, I have no idea of what you mean by "the sort of crap we see on this thread". Could be about the Kebab or your lack of respect and tolerance for any differing theology than your own fundamentalist/literary one, how very extremist of yours.
Well if you want specifics.
  • We will ignore STEED's highly inaccruate estimation of his prison sentence.
  • HunterICX in post 6 referring to Muslim Terrorist Dogs. Very pedestrian insults.
  • Post 7. What the hell does Kaptain mean by True British population. He didn't help matters when he said you had to be born in England (post 10 I think)
  • Post 14, Line One - such a sweeping generalisation, it was close to incitement under the UK's religious hatred laws. Doesn't help with the last line, what the hell does something that happened 1500 years ago have to do with the present debate.
  • Post 15, saying that living your life acording to Islamic teaching is incompatable with British Life.
  • Post 20: Steed saying that terrorist will do 15-20 years. 40 years is the minimum tarriff!!!
  • Kiwi_2005 posting something that the Conservative Party has derrided as Racist. (before the flame war about me accusing people of things, look at the careful way I posted this bullet point)
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It is true that Al-Qaeda's best opperatives are white, but not in the sense you mean it. The best operatives are the officials from the British government, the intellectuals, journalists and other agents that decided not to crack down on terrorists and only recently start to put pressure on extremist Imams.
Thats funny, its going on the office noticeboard. It could almost be taken from the writings of many third world dictators and left wing revolutionaries. "We must save the country from those who are saying something different from us"
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Old 11-10-06, 09:06 AM   #53
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First you say:
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The discussion is multicultrualism and whilst that very quickly was turned into a rant on this forums favourate boggymen - lets get back to reality.
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My final point. Some of Al Quida's best opperatives have been White, Caucasion males. Its not just those with darker skin colours who are extreme.
You can't have your cake and eat it, too, as the saying goes.

The mistake of multiculturism is not multiculturism itself. It's Islam's inflitration through it.

There might be one other negative effect of multicultuirsm and that is political correctness, It shows.
Isn't there a thread you started elsewhere on taking quotes out of context. The final quote came from a paragraph after I had moved back to the subject of terrorism.

And as for Political Correctness. If that means I judge someone as an individual, not on their faith, race, culture or class, and I defend Liberty and Freedom by applying it universally rather then repealing and selectively applying it, hell insult me with that one all you like
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Old 11-10-06, 09:22 AM   #54
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Oh thank you for saving me some time DAB, I was composing a long answer to TteFAboB and you answered better than I could. He made a wonderful personal attack when I named no one in my comments. In fact I just agreed with your posts. I mean WTF? I never named anyone in my posts, and also get accused of being an extremist.

Oh and how many muslims have posted threads mocking Christian places of worship as we have had here about mosques. Just an aside from a past thread.

Seriously, what worries me is what these threads reflect societal attitudes more than having some kind of influence. So we have a choice between the crescent moon or a pair of hammers. Wonderful.
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Oh and how many muslims have posted threads mocking Christian places of worship as we have had here about mosques. Just an aside from a past thread.

Why should they bother posting here when they can openly insult and denigrate people in the mosque itself (Australia is a good recent example).
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Oh and how many muslims have posted threads mocking Christian places of worship as we have had here about mosques. Just an aside from a past thread.

Why should they bother posting here when they can openly insult and denigrate people in the mosque itself (Australia is a good recent example).
FYI Yahoshua I'm here, as have been other Muslims and not once can I recall any such behaviour as described above by anyone who I know to be a Muslim on this forum.

You certainly have some form of your own when it comes to insulting and denigrating people as evidenced by your comments towards the Democratic House Leader Nacy Pelosi as shown here: http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...=100637&page=2
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Pelosi is one frigid bridgid. Pro-taxes, Anti-Gun, and most certainly against the war.
Besides, I thought you were just on this thread "eating pop corn" and cheering on as you so often do.
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I disagree...
Did I? I mentioned Steed once in my last post, and that was a challenge for him to come up with five "British" charactor traits that are evident across the British Nations. Where did I 'throw him'?
When you talk about immigration, here:

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Whats your problem!?
Then on Asylum here:

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However, because everyone seems to have a not in my backyard attitude...
What's your problem STEED? And he does seem to have a not in my backyard attitude, if only he knew this is putting asylum children in jail, or does he? Of course, if you say you haven't meant any of this at STEED, then this case is already closed.

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Second, what about Jews who disagree with you DAB?...
Took my a while to see what you were getting at here. You had me trawling through my posts for any reference to Judism.

I'm sure there are extremists in any society, and there probably is some nutcase who wants to kill me for something or other but anyway.

The times when I have flown into Tel Aviv, I've walked around the streets of that city and found it to be very safe city. Even traveling into East
Jerusalem lacks any of the connitations you get from the media. Which begs a question. If all Muslims are bloodthursty animals looking to kill Jews or Christians... why is it that so many 67's (thats the local term for a Palestinian Muslim) living there have security passes that allow them to travel freely around Israel. Surely they are such a dangurous threat that they must be locked up and surrounded constantly by soldiers.
I will not go over this thread and search for other people's claims, so I can only speak for myself here. As I did not stated that all Muslims are bloodthursty animals looking to kill Jews or Christians that question will remain begging. Again, I do not speak for anybody else here, but I also haven't suggested that all Muslims are such a dangerous threat that they must be locked up and surrounded constantly by soldiers.

There's a sophist trick: read what isn't written, propose what wasn't called for, concluded what couldn't be concluded.

You've mentioned something about working on politics, have you ever considered a political career?

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Is it because maybe the Israeli government acknoweldges these people are human beings and that the majority of them have never committed a crime. The only other explanation is that the Israeli authorities are idiots... I don't believe that, anyone care to argue that point!?
What is this supposed to mean? That the terror attacks or failed attempts in Britain, France, Germany and Spain happened because said governments didn't acknowledged these people as human beings and that the majority of them have never committed a crime? I disagree and agree. I disagree because the Israelis don't do more for them than the French do. But I agree if I take my understanding of what one has to do to acknowledge these people as human beings: that is giving them the treatment the 1st generation received. And this wasn't done with the 2nd. So that's true, the policy the 2nd generation received is inhumane or more inhumane than the first one. But that's no excuse. Irish, Italian, Japanese and other immigrants got it much worse in the USA and never exploded anything.

Sure the majority of "these people" (Muslims, immigrants, etc.) never committed any crime, I don't think any government will dispute that. Nor did the majority of the members of the Nazi party, or the Communists, or the Fascists nor did their victims commit any real crime either. Yes, crime is an exception not the rule.

These are or would like to, however, and Israel has become safer only because they are cracked upon: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061110/...ity_britain_dc

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If you had any appreciation for reality you would've known that there is no lack of extreme anti-christian/jew/religion all over Britain.(...)
No its just the Catholic and Protestant Terrorists are still caught up in Northern Ireland. And yes there is still a problem there. Last week, a young women was doused with Petrol and set alight. Her crime, to date someone from a different demonination OF THE SAME BLOODY RELIGION!!!
That's not a conflict born out of anti-religious expressions, as if that was a valid excuse to go out killing people, but it is indeed a very important example. I do not intend to reduce the significance, the pain, grief and sorrow nor do I seek to get the corpses rolling in their graves, I do not seek to apologize, forgive, ignore, justify or condone anything.

But it puts things into perspective when we notice that the death toll of the three decade conflict between 1969 and 2001 (3,523) is 550 bodies more than what the Muslim terrorists killed in a single day of 2001 (2,973). What could they do in three decades then?

Source is wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Troubles - down at the bottom, they took it from "Sutton Index of Deaths"; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9/11 - they took the numbers from various sources.

We're not counting the attacks in Iraq where Iraqis are killing Iraqis (Shi'ite, Sunni, Kurd, other) nor the attacks in India or Indonesia or the terrorism in Sudan, Ethiopia, Turkey, Morocco, Algeria, Israel-Gaza-Syria-Lebanon. I don't know if the Irish statistic includes disrupted terror plots but even without them, and with all due respect to the victims of the conflict, Islamic terror casts a shadow over Northern Ireland.

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For someone who started your post with a broadside claiming I was putting words into peoples mouths, your doing a good job of scoring your own goals. Since when did the forcible removal of religious icons and the playing down of religious festivals have anything to do with multiculturalism - surely thats monoculturalism on a orwellian scale.

And for the record, the people I have heard calling for the abolition of Christmas tend to be Jehova's Witnesses and Puritains.
Who knows, I don't care for the whole multiculturalism part, there's alot of words flying around here. My point with that was about the motivational effect it should've had on fanatics since you were saying that the words written in this thread could motivate a young Muslim to embrace radicalism, unless there are no Christian fanatics in Britain or none that felt incensed by that decision. My point is that whatever anybody says, that's not an excuse for Muslim terrorists since all things being equal Christians aren't blowing buses and subways in Jehova's Witness and Puritan neighborhoods.

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Lastly, how many posters do we have in this thread, less than 20?(...)
Well if you want specifics.
  • We will ignore STEED's highly inaccruate estimation of his prison sentence.
  • HunterICX in post 6 referring to Muslim Terrorist Dogs. Very pedestrian insults.
  • Post 7. What the hell does Kaptain mean by True British population. He didn't help matters when he said you had to be born in England (post 10 I think)
  • Post 14, Line One - such a sweeping generalisation, it was close to incitement under the UK's religious hatred laws. Doesn't help with the last line, what the hell does something that happened 1500 years ago have to do with the present debate.
  • Post 15, saying that living your life acording to Islamic teaching is incompatable with British Life.
  • Post 20: Steed saying that terrorist will do 15-20 years. 40 years is the minimum tarriff!!!
  • Kiwi_2005 posting something that the Conservative Party has derrided as Racist. (before the flame war about me accusing people of things, look at the careful way I posted this bullet point)
Thanks. That was really just for clarity.

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It is true that Al-Qaeda's best opperatives are white, but not in the sense you mean it. The best operatives are the officials from the British government, the intellectuals, journalists and other agents that decided not to crack down on terrorists and only recently start to put pressure on extremist Imams.
Thats funny, its going on the office noticeboard. It could almost be taken from the writings of many third world dictators and left wing revolutionaries. "We must save the country from those who are saying something different from us"
Well, count me out of any "we". Brits do as they please and must ask no permission from me. I'm only interested in observing the reality and expressing it, I cannot narrate history if I'm an active part of it, involved in the process, I could give my account but it would be limited and partial and somebody else would have to take my words and put them back into perspective. So I could care less about "saving the country". I'm not like those naive kids fresh out of college who believe the world only has problems because they don't have the power in their hands to fix them as they believe to know and be able to apply all the solutions. Incitement to hatred or crime is a crime. If left unpunished, then eventually it will no longer be a crime. I only respect and tolerate the "difference" that respects and tolerates me in return. In the case of extremist Imams, they would not guarantee me freedom of speech if they had the power to do so, as their brothers in most of the Muslim world do not.
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Oh and how many muslims have posted threads mocking Christian places of worship as we have had here about mosques. Just an aside from a past thread.

Why should they bother posting here when they can openly insult and denigrate people in the mosque itself (Australia is a good recent example).
Yup, I read about that. Disgusting. Still no excuse to make jokes about mosques being built here.
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FYI Yahoshua I'm here, as have been other Muslims and not once can I recall any such behaviour as described above by anyone who I know to be a Muslim on this forum.

You're jumping the post here, I didn't say that Individuals HERE were doing so, but that the Imams already have their pulpit to voice their opinion from.

You certainly have some form of your own when it comes to insulting and denigrating people as evidenced by your comments towards the Democratic House Leader Nacy Pelosi as shown here: http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...=100637&page=2

Firstly that comment wasn't directed toward Muslims, but toward Pelosis' agenda and her attitude toward gun owners (me). So what's your point?

Besides, I thought you were just on this thread "eating pop corn" and cheering on as you so often do.

The *Eating Popcorn* is reference to a smiley from another forum, namely these: (Just figured out how to import it) because of all the . And uh, what jokes did I make about the mosques in particular?
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