Derek, "OG it's good to see that you now regret making your original bigoted comments, using the age-old excuse of 'tongue-in-cheek' to justify them, usually the reserve of backbench Conservatives, employed when they make questionable remarks about ethnic minorities." Er, no. Je ne regrette rien. The balaclava remark was tongue in cheek. I'm not making an excuse, I'm telling the truth. I'm quite happy for peop
Derek, Wow, obviously touched a nerve there. As I think should be obvious, the remark about balaclavas and Rangers tops was made with tongue in cheek. I doubt the very small number of people who wear such attire could even spell "Protestant" let alone explain what it means. As for the bonfires, let's keep what's good and lose what's not. Getting pissed and having a sense of community is grand. Burning effigies of the
Thanks all for the comments. jennifer 1, Just to clarify, in the part you quoted I was talking, not about Muslim women, but about non-Muslims who hide behind the metaphorical veil of respecting the burqa. Hope that clears that up. adnauseum, "Because I live in the Middle East I don't want to comment on this veil controversy too much." Says it all really, doesn't it? Cikomyr, One pea
It was in America, of all places, in the bosom of the Great Satan, that I first saw burqa-wearers "in the flesh" so to speak. Standing in a shopping mall in Baltimore six years ago, I noticed these two things - presumably human beings - walking past clad head-to-toe in grim black. As a wee boy from Belfast - where religious attire is a Rangers top and a bal
Well, it's good to see the usual considered criticism. ParaTed2k, "All I need to see is that waste of human flesh ColGene agreed with you to know that I wasted my time in reading it." So you can't make up your own mind? You have to let him do it for you? "You can sleep with the jihadists all you want, have their kids for all I care." I can think of one or two biological obstacles to that propos
"The Iraq conflict has become the ‘cause celebre’ for jihadists, breeding a deep resentment of US involvement in the Muslim world and cultivating supporters for the global jihadist movement." April 2006 National Intelligence Estimate on Trends in Global Terrorism The final damning indictment of "Operation Iraqi Freedom" has come and, in a twist of ir
On BBC 2 last night a Catholic archbishop and a Muslim Council of Britain spokesman slugged it out over Pope Benedict’s speech at Regensburg in Germany on Tuesday which some believe insulted Islam. Seeing the pair offer their competing truths was like watching two five-year-olds argue over who would win in a fight between Batman and Spiderman. For all the
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Evening all. I didn't comment coz I didn't feel like it. Simple as that. But I will point out the irony that, speaking of non-Americans, Charles said: "I personally don't give a rats behind what they think" but he obviously does care what I think.
"I think amongst the leaders in Europe I think it is clear. Amongst the people in Europe and Western opinion there is a big battle to be won. I mean, I'm being just honest about this. And I think there is a desire not to face the fact that we are fighting a global struggle." Tony Blair, Ha'aretz, 10th September 2006 <a href="http://www.haa
foreverserenity, "Will they feel any differently if there is suddenly a tirade of assualts on their country?" There are millions of us around the world for whom terrorism has long been a reality, way before 9-11. cactoblasta, "That's a bit much. World opinion is drifting away from Bush, sure, but it's hardly heading towards Osama. I'm fairly sure most people, even in Muslim countries, would prefer Bush's N
"I hope their lights stay off, I hope they sweat buckets without their air-conditioning. Let them live for just 24 hours the way the people of Baghdad live every fucking day." So said a friend of mine back in 2003 when I told him there had been a major power cut in New York. He is no jihadist, certainly not a Muslim, nor a man of any religious belief
I think he will go witihin a year but not because of Iraq. More and more Labour MPs realise that the longer Blair stays in power, the less chance they have of keeping their seats at the next election. It's a shame because, by rights, Blair should be kicked from office, not because of self-interest from his backbenchers, but because he is responsible for a calamitous and criminal war.
In the newspaper world we call them nibs, stories which merit no more than a few paragraphs. Thursday’s Independent gave the news that bombs in Baghdad had killed 40 people a 100-word nib on page 26. Had these murderous outrages been perpetrated anywhere else, they would have made the front page. But not in Iraq. Day after day after day, dozens of pe
"One of the reasons I left Germany is because I didn't want that any more. I left a country where synagogues are always guarded by the police for a country where synagogues are only occasionally vandalised when a few idiots paint swastikas on them, presumably to protest Jewish barbarism or something like that." As I'm sure you are aware, Ireland has never had a Jewish population of any significant size, so to praise the Irish for a lack of anti-Semitism is a moot point. <br/
MasonM, "Yeah, there are no terrorists bent on death and destruction in the Western world. It all made up.Wake up and smell the coffee already." To whom is this statement addressed? No-one on this thread has said anything remotely like this. What's the point of making up imaginary opinions and then knocking them down?
terpfan1980, "Is it wrong of me to think that those that don't want to trust their governments should just get the F--- out...??" Yes.
"This is a great world when we have people who need others to actually die just so they can feel 100% sure that terrorist are still active." Charles, if you're going to critique a blog at least take the time read it. This is what I said: "There are thousands of people around the world who would gladly murder British civilians." I am not in any way saying that an attack on Britain can be ruled out. If we can ge
Well it must have seemed like a good idea at the time. To emphasise the drama of today’s alleged foiled terrorist plot, the BBC news was presented from the side of a runway at Heathrow. And there was poor Huw Edwards trying to do a live link while a plane took off behind him. But still the point was made. The auto-cuties don’t leave the comfort of their st
A Semite is one who speaks a Semitic language. In the modern world this includes Hebrew and Arabic. Hence the Palestinians, the Lebanese et al are also Semites. However, anti-Semitism is used only in reference to Jews.
Good Point, "Hell, I'll even throw the Irish in there." You'll throw me nowhere.
Moderateman, "It gives me such a laugh to see MOST of you falling all over yourself, patting each other on the backs reassuring each other, "nope not me, I ain't no anti-Semite" Your own words condemn you!" But why do they feel the need to say "I am not an anti-semite"? Because the accusation is leveled so frequently against anyone who criticises Israel.
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"I know, that's what I don't get. I was talking about terrorists, he starts saying that Arabs feel this way and that way, and yet somehow I am the one likening Arabs to terrorists? To me it sounded an awful lot like he was saying he had insight into the minds of terrorists by listening to "arabs" argue with one another." My last comment was in two parts. In the first part, I addressed your point about "terrorist" groups splitting.
"You simply refuse to see the convenience in disavowing yourself from a 'wing', while secretly supporting everything they do. You should be able to understand it, considering such a maneuver always seems to placate people like yourself. Arafat wept crocodile tears and said he wished he could do something about the attacks he cut checks to fund, and folks like you ate it up." I don't refuse to see the convenience, I refuse to see the ubi
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