Brussels Zaventem bombing

[d000hg]

The small minority argument is tulip. No one wants to speak truthfully about how widespread the 'minority' thinking exists.

Only a tiny minority are willing to use violence. A much wider subset of Muslims may approve of the violence, or not actively disapprove, but this isn't quite the same. Again isn't it comparable to the Troubles? Lots of people supported the IRA or would for instance not tell the police if they knew where an IRA member was hiding, but they were not in the IRA or prepared to use violence.

[PurpleGorilla]

That's right.

So why tease them like in Charlie Hebdo!!! So who are missing the point here.

Should we just leave them to destroy liberal democracy, secularism, and freedom of speech?

I don't want Shariah thanks. And I don't want my wife to wear a Burka.

[BrilloPad]

That's right.

So why tease them like in Charlie Hebdo!!! So who are missing the point here.

Cartoons are hardly teasing. What they do in Muslim countries is up to them. In Christian countries we have our own standards.

[d000hg]

We had a bomb scare in Durham today, they brought in one of those robots to blow it up:

Suitcase destroyed by controlled explosion in Durham was harmless, say police (From The Northern Echo)

[NotAllThere]

If only we could have Martin Scroatman's take on the situation (please stop banning people who you don't agree with)

If I banned people on the grounds of not agreeing with them, you'd be long gone - along with 95.6% of the members. Now come along - there's being a troll and just being dim.

You think it's a Jeffery Archer novel!!!
Try to explain to a group of terrorists that there is no need to gunned down people.
You are so naive.
We need more centuries to learn how to respect other religions.

With your lack of arguments you have to attack my English.

No problem, It's normal in this forum.

No - you have entirely missed what was being said about Jeffry Archer, you've not understood the comparison. Replace "it's a Jeffry Archer novel" with "cheese is tasty", and you'll see pretty much what a non-sequitur your comment was.

You were not making a cogent point badly. You were simply not making a cogent point.

[Platypus]

If you're going to have security to enter the terminal, then you need the same at stations, theatres, stadiums, large department stores etc.

Ever been to Turkey? They have airport-style scanners outside stores, office buildings, etc.

[Bee]

No - you have entirely missed what was being said about Jeffry Archer, you've not understood the comparison. Replace "it's a Jeffry Archer novel" with "cheese is tasty", and you'll see pretty much what a non-sequitur your comment was.

You were not making a cogent point badly. You were simply not making a cogent point.

I don't get it

[original PM]

So - maybe the writing has been on the wall for a while now...

Oh look someone wrote a book which could be considered mildly offensive and got a death threat from the Muslim community

All this talk about not integrating - if you are the outsider you need to integrate - not the other way around - the country you are supposed to be integrating into is not to blame cos you know they let you live in their country so you could integrate.

Or by integrate do they mean have a completely separate little community?

Also one thing which is starting to annoy me is the immigrants - so someone with guns comes and takes your land - so you then go and expect to be able to take someone else's land - and if you do not get what you want you then decide to riot etc.

As others have said the only way to deal with this is to stop trying to make excuses for people based on what we perceive and start to address the issues we see.

Turn the area to glass and make it a quiet neighbourhood for the next 20,000 years

[OwlHoot]

Refugees Welcome in Brussels

(click button near top of page to enter main site)

Oh dear. I wonder if any of the hand-wringing ninnies who set up that site may now be having second thoughts

[sasguru]

Reading this thread I can see that the forum hasn't changed and that a substantially large minority (probably larger in percentage than those Muslims who are extremist) are thick as mince.