by the way, for those who can understand, I was merely pointing out that you did not support your views with evidence. It was an analogy, if that makes sense to you?
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Simply pointing out that your lack of comprehension skill is preventing you from fully participating in a coherent manner. This is resulting in people's comments being repeated by you with a false slant. That's unfair.
Again, you have incorrectly linked my suggestion of taking a break to improve your language skills to the treatment of refugees. Go back and re-read what I have written and you will find no evidence of a link.
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And that's the point. My statement concerned very few amoungst many within a group, your analogy of that was all within a group. Better comprehension skills will enable you to avoid these mistakes in the future.
No,you made sweeping unsubstantiated generalisations. You desrved to be challenged,for the sake of the forum and intelligent, informed debate. If you find that difficult,i wont try to exclude you from it,i will simply suggest that you try to deal with it.
And where is this sweeping statement? Yet again, your reading and comprehension skills have let you down.
Im confident that you won't be able to quote this sweeping statement because it doesn't exist. This is the point I'm making. You really need to get this sorted derf.
I am dreadfully sorry for the victims of the Nice massacre, as I was for the 7/7 events in London and 9/11 in New York.
I am also very sorry for all those murdered in Turkey because of the hatred of a group of people occupying high positions with the ability to order other people to do their bidding.
It make me sick to my stomach to read some of the drivel spouted by some correspondents to this thread whereby the answer to what has become a global rather than a regional problem is to tighten up border security and treat everyone as terrorists.
With such views abroad, I sincerely fear for those British people who are not white-skinned, cannot claim centuries of British heritage or are attracted to people of the same gender.
Clearly, racism is alive and well along with every other 'ism' one might think of. The arrogance of a sizeable proportion of English people, judging by some of the input in this and the 'Brexit' thread, really is quite breathtaking.
Tom
I am also very sorry for all those murdered in Turkey because of the hatred of a group of people occupying high positions with the ability to order other people to do their bidding.
It make me sick to my stomach to read some of the drivel spouted by some correspondents to this thread whereby the answer to what has become a global rather than a regional problem is to tighten up border security and treat everyone as terrorists.
With such views abroad, I sincerely fear for those British people who are not white-skinned, cannot claim centuries of British heritage or are attracted to people of the same gender.
Clearly, racism is alive and well along with every other 'ism' one might think of. The arrogance of a sizeable proportion of English people, judging by some of the input in this and the 'Brexit' thread, really is quite breathtaking.
Tom
It's unfortunate, but greater border security can contribute to reducing the ease with which terrorists move between countries and continents. We are all affected by this and I am quite happy to be checked out and to put up with the inconvenience of the checks when visiting another country.
Can't quite see where racism comes into it. I think you might have made that bit up.
I wonder if a bit of checking and profiling could have prevented the innocents being badly injured on that German train yesterday?
Keen on having a police state? It would need to be to monitor an entire population.
Wrong approach that will simply inflame the situation
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Don't think we need a police state. Just a few sensible checked on people arriving. Not guaranteed to work, but it would lower the probability of an attack such as this happening.
As I've said before, personally I have no problem with checks being carried out on me when I travel. I've got nothing to hide.
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Oldtom,
your pathological altruism is getting stupid.
You take what you consider the 'high moral ground' and deprecate others.
Yet, you offer no solution other than to let the current state of affairs to continue, with people being murdered on a regular basis by a 'religion' that borders on Nazism.
your pathological altruism is getting stupid.
You take what you consider the 'high moral ground' and deprecate others.
Yet, you offer no solution other than to let the current state of affairs to continue, with people being murdered on a regular basis by a 'religion' that borders on Nazism.
I think only the current right wing Hungarian government is actively repelling Muslim immigrants due to a long history...
The 'bacon sarnie test' was part of a series of 11th century laws imposed by the Catholic Church against non-christians but was directed principally at Muslims - folk could be put to death and/or the accuser get the property of those accused. Quite a few pragmatically 'ate the sarnie' and converted to Christianity but still secretly practiced Islam.
Didn't do Hungary much good as Ottoman Empire in 16th Century took over and ruled over Hungary - hence why Hungary today is relatively anti-muslim/anti-immigrant...
Hungary’s government says: Eat more pork, it’s good for you!
The 'bacon sarnie test' was part of a series of 11th century laws imposed by the Catholic Church against non-christians but was directed principally at Muslims - folk could be put to death and/or the accuser get the property of those accused. Quite a few pragmatically 'ate the sarnie' and converted to Christianity but still secretly practiced Islam.
Didn't do Hungary much good as Ottoman Empire in 16th Century took over and ruled over Hungary - hence why Hungary today is relatively anti-muslim/anti-immigrant...
Hungary’s government says: Eat more pork, it’s good for you!
I've just got back from camping in France with my GF. We camped in the Alps about an hour drive north of Nice.
Wednesday July 13th, we made our plans for Thursday and Friday. Thursday was a drive to Nice on Bastille day and Friday was white water rafting on the Verdon river. The woman on the campsite recommended we go white water rafting on the Thursday instead and then Nice on the Friday due to Nice being very busy on the Thursday due to Bastille day. We took her advice..
RIP all the poor people that fell under that mad mans truck. We feel very very lucky to have not been there.
Wednesday July 13th, we made our plans for Thursday and Friday. Thursday was a drive to Nice on Bastille day and Friday was white water rafting on the Verdon river. The woman on the campsite recommended we go white water rafting on the Thursday instead and then Nice on the Friday due to Nice being very busy on the Thursday due to Bastille day. We took her advice..
RIP all the poor people that fell under that mad mans truck. We feel very very lucky to have not been there.