Attack on a German train

Your distinction is largely irrelevant. Everything feeding into it is the same. The tropes. The fear of the other. The actions that result from it are the same. Irrational fear, statements or behaviour. A fear of the other. Tarring a whole group of people with extreme actions in order to delegitimise and dehumanise.

Islamophobia, anti-semitism, sectarianism, racism are just triggers that lead to the same thing.

Racism is also a meaningless technicality in the world of Western European mutts, because of the exact opposite of racism, actually. People from different countries or cultures seeing past those differences and getting it on. They would have dealt with a lot of racism for doing that, btw.

If you’re 'fessing to being an Islamophobe, then you’re admitting subscribing to the same irrational pattern of behaviour as all of those other things. You’ve just got a different trigger, one which has been carefully nurtured for 15 years.

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Right, I think we need an intervention.

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Can I marry a practising Muslim and remain an atheist?

And you can’t help but cry watching long lost families…

They don’t like the gays v.much srs. The blacks ain’t v.keen either. I dunno why bros is fight barry on this, i thought it was fact. I saw tv show on it not so long ago. The white bros were most ok with homosex, but the blacks & asians was less keen. I don’t know if it cos of Muslim Bible tho, or cos of Other Reasons.

On other hand i think Musloids give most to charity, cos it is one of the five thingummys of their Faith*, or something. So what you lose in swings you gain in roundabouts i spose.

* Edit: The five thingummys are like the musloid commandments. One was you had to do prays. One was when ur not allowed to eat. One was give money to charity. I dont remember what the other two was. I dont think they was doing terror on trains & stabbing women tho.

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Thank you Bearsy, I think I don’t know I got confused halfway through.

I was going to reply but my pool team won our last 16 knockout game tonight (against a team that beat us 9-1 during the regualr season) and consequently I’ve had a few beers, actually more than a few, and non of them were Brewdog** Punk IPA

all I can say is Barry is, at the same time, correct and wrong!! If only the argument were that simple!!

**Possibly the most over hyped brewery in the world, ever…

If you’re that afraid of Islam, how about you just don’t practice it.

Like most religions, it has it’s draconian sects and intolerant sects, but it’s all based on interpretation of ancient scriptures.

If you look though the different Christian sects there are a lot of unsavoury sects that are homophobic and misogynist.

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Christian faiths are just are nearly as bad apart from the CoeE, but we’re going back into the realms of a pick and mix again. Its simply not tolerant of gays whatever way you choose, you can deflect and I’ll keep hammering away, play the post and not the poster so to speak.

I’m getting into Barryism. Just two commandments.

  1. Thou shalt not make sense
  2. Thou shalt not understand

Thats lovely Pap.

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OK, so why are such an islamaphobe, and concentrating on them rather than dealing with all religions in the same way.

I would venture it’s because of the colour of the vast majority of Muslim’s.

It’s about people and not faiths. You mention the CofE as being at least relatively tolerant, and yet there are plenty of Anglican churches that are anything but. In fact, homosexuality is an issue that still threatens to split the Anglican church apart.

In Islam, you will find imams who preach bigotry, hate and intolerance; you will find others who preach tolerance and peacefulness. It’s not about the faith as a whole, it’s about those who preach and teach it.

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Originally posted by @Fatso

Well, at least you’ve got some good company to keep now Paps dad has returned.

What a terrible thing to say. I’m one of life’s good guys and I certainly don’t subscribe to racism. A touch of intolerance to Muslims I suppose but certainly not enough to generally hate them en masse. I detest what the radicals and murdering bastards do and nothing anyone says will change my views on that.

Seriously though, some searching questions need to be asked. How long before one terrorist on a train, or one renegade lorry driver becomes an orchestrated mass attack in a shopping centre or football stadium? We’d be defenceless. No matter how successful our security services are at breaking up cells of terrorists they can’t possibly get them all. I don’t believe for one moment that the thousands of single male ā€˜refugees’ fleeing from Syria, most carrying state of the art phones and wearing designer gear, were seeking sanctuary. They, in my opinion, are a vanguard of Jihadists preparing the way for some major atrocity in Europe. They’re probably just waiting for the secret text from Meccaā€¦ā€œbingoā€ā€¦ and it all kicks off.

Feel free to slate this assertion and remember I’m not Barry Sanchez and my views are entirely mine.

This is an interesting article, which intentionally subverts the narrative of an incident in the Syrian war.

An interesting exercise in perspective.

AT LEAST 85 civilians, including 11 children, have been killed by Western led terrorists in air strikes near Manbij in north Syria.

Some eight families were obliterated using sophisticated missiles as they tried to flee their village after it was attacked in one of the single deadliest strikes on innocent civilians in the region.

Capitalist extremists were immediately held responsible for the attack by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

Originally posted by @Chertsey-Saint

Originally posted by @Barry-Sanchez

Christian faiths are just are nearly as bad apart from the CoeE, but we’re going back into the realms of a pick and mix again. Its simply not tolerant of gays whatever way you choose, you can deflect and I’ll keep hammering away, play the post and not the poster so to speak.

OK, so why are such an islamaphobe, and concentrating on them rather than dealing with all religions in the same way.

I would venture it’s because of the colour of the vast majority of Muslim

Because they’re the most right wing, if you to add all other religions you can if you want, some religions have fervent nationalists followers as well, all backward and colour has nothing to do with it, I don’t like the catholic faith for similar reasons, you presume all you want but you’re wrong, it’s nothing to do with colour but right wing religion.

The Anglican faith averted a split buft they should have and many wanted, the Islamic faith doesn’t allow you to be gay, tolerance isn’t acceptance, far from it, back to parallel lives again.

Yet you seem to predominantly concentrate on Muslim attacks.

I didn’t see you starting new threads for all the sectarian violence that’s taken place in NI this year, or is that because it’s white on white violence? That’s my guess.