NorthernGent
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ORIGINAL: DaddySatyr
It's interesting that you're another one that purports to know what I'm thinking. I haven't disrespected you. I wish you'd afford me the same courtesy.
Assuming what you post is dictated by what you think, then you've made it clear that the actions of terrorists have clouded your view of other muslims. Please see your comment below from your post 395:
I have never been one to pre-judge, based upon appearance but I know when I see a young, bearded man, wearing a burka, these days, my antennae go up. I start looking around, a little bit more.
While, intellectually I realize that not every Muslim is out to do damage, I think I'd be a fool to not acknowledge that there's a chance that something could happen. It saddens and abashes me that I have come to feel this way but it is a sign of the times in which we live.
That's not showing disrespect on my part. That's observing your comments and giving you my opinion that they're dangerous comments proven by history.
In response to your comment in itallics, yes, you would be a fool to think there's a chance something might happen on the basis that someone is walking down the street wearing a burka and sporting a beard. You'd be monumentally foolish. And, it's not a sign of the times: it's a product of your reason or lack thereof.
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ORIGINAL: DaddySatyr
There are enough of them, organized into a group or groups that they are a danger to our very way of Western life.
No. They're not a danger to my 'Western way of life'. This is what the establishment would like you to believe, and they do it by appealing to pride and fear. The danger is a few lunatics who should be rounded up with a sustained police investigation and thrown in prison for life or hanged. In my experience, I've never, ever had any problem with any muslim, verbal or otherwise; and I have worked and lived in an area with a large muslim population for 15 years of my life. I don't live my life according to some 'clash of civilisations' bollocks, nor do I live my life shrouded by fear and minute possibilities.
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ORIGINAL: DaddySatyr
While the PPLs, here, like to spew about Christianity, there are few Christians organized into paramilitary groups whose mission is to wipe out Western life/pluralism. Can the Islamaphiles say the same?
Nothing to do with me, as I haven't mentioned Christianity, and as far as I'm concered this has very little to do with Christianity except there are a few christians who may use this to stir up trouble (although I doubt the vast majority of christians would, and the head of the Church of England has certainly been vociferous in not supporting ventures into the Middle East in the past), and there are many others, not christians, who would also like to stir up trouble.
Your choice of term 'Islamophiles' is telling. Islamophobe and Islamophile are no more than nonsense terms with no relevance.
The issue is a wider one than Islam or muslims. The issue is being reasonable, whether the terrorists are Jewish, muslim, christian, whatever; and maintaining the foundations of liberty which are not being the victim of mob rule and not being placed on trial for (non-existent) association.
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ORIGINAL: DaddySatyr
I think people need to get their heads out of the sand before it really is too late.
Too late for what, Michael? What is your prediction?
And, you still haven't answered my question put to you as a result of your statement: "the terrorists are winning by effecting political change".
What political change are you talking about?
< Message edited by NorthernGent -- 1/14/2015 6:18:24 AM >
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