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Muslim terrorists do what they do in the name of their religion, which sort of negates your statement above.
On those last two paragraphs, I am in partial agreement.....
Try applying the same set of rules and generalisation we're applying to the Muslims. We're not going to like what we see in "ourselves".
So by all mean call out the terrorists, just don't think that they're terrorist because a religion or a culture tells them so.
You tell me, and then tell me if they are going around killing innocent people on the streets or planning terrorist attacks.
Emotive and not what was mooted Grasshopper. Additionally "the right thing to do" has hierarchial imperitives, sans hyterical appeals to emotion, in a msturely conducted debate.Any weak idiot can trample on the weak and the despised. What takes cajones is standing up for them because it is the right thing to do.
On those last two paragraphs, I am in partial agreement.
However, I do believe that the unabated practice of that most popular of all religions, namely HolierThanThouism, to be the more likely precursor to the emergence of zealous extremism.
Emotive and not what was mooted Grasshopper. Additionally "the right thing to do" has hierarchial imperitives, sans hyterical appeals to emotion, in a msturely conducted debate.
What is right for Yusaf the beheader from Syria, might not be the right thing for Janey the 16yo white girl from Balmain.
Let's have a *sober discussion my orthoptarian friend.
Judge, or not judge, people for their crimes and not the crimes of others. How's that for doing the right thing?
Pretty much what Ive been advocating all along. So let's investigate those who wish to enter, for both criminal history and cultural congruency.Judge, or not judge, people for their crimes and not the crimes of others. How's that for doing the right thing?
It's the ideology that is the problem, not the people themselves, but unfortunately they are bound to that ideology by intimidation and threats of reprisal from unknown lunatics, and that makes their ideology incompatible with a democracy where people have the right to leave a religion if they believe that it's not for them.
Pretty much what Ive been advocating all along. So let's investigate those who wish to enter, for both criminal history and cultural congruency.
Well unless there's a revolution you'll get the Dystopia you advocate.
Lets see how that turns out.. Hint, watch Europe.
Well unless there's a revolution you'll get the Dystopia you advocate.
Lets see how that turns out.. Hint, watch Europe.
Horse chit.Europe, like much of the West, and pretty much every nation state and imperial hasbeen and wannabes.. are in decline - if we judge its wealth or decline based on the living standards of its plebs rather than its lords and barons... they're in decline not because of refugees, illegal immigrants and whatever ethnic minority that's currently on the radar.
They decline because the social system got hijacked; public treasury spent abroad massacring savages for the business aka. national, interest aren't bringing the returns they used to.
i.e. those in charge take the taxpayers' cash, spent it on subjugating natives abroad, send in the entrepreneurs to exploit and most of it remain abroad.
The kind of imperialism where you create banana republics were somewhat, slightly, effective when the capitalists have some sense of love for their race; taxes were somewhat collected because the offshore havens weren't yet established.
Nowadays, the state send its (poor's) blood and its (working poor's) treasure abroad... and the only thing that comes back are the few illegals whose country got so properly liberated they can't live there anymore.
Horse chit.
A person close to me know of a friend who was very happy when she finally rediscovered her Jewish roots. Married a very religious guy... then soon enough regretted it. Her life was threatened when she wanted a divorce from both himself and his faith.
Some hard facts my good man. Hard facts.
Like it or not the top end cultural and innovation centres are still western societies, predominately those with innate or adopted British thinking.
Give China another couple decades and they will have downloaded all the tech and brainpower to leap frog ahead though.
All the big tech companies are scrambling into China. Opening up their source codes, secret hash and surveillance tech to please the comrades for promises of a slice of them billion+ people.
Then you have racist, anti-immigrant politics all over the West. That's not going to attract high minded people whether they're black or white.
My brother-in-law's younger brother is considering whether he should take a scholarship to study in the US or in Beijing. A decade ago there's just no question that you'd go to the US... now they're considering which police state is a better deal.
You know what the Chinese says... empire wax and wane. Those that used to ruled the world soon find themselves becoming their former peasants' vassal coolies.
Places like San Fran are awash with money to throw at new ideas and enterprise, and it's not govt stained money, but free capital.
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