Well Done Denmark

[Mich the Tester]

Historical note"
They were kicked out of England in 1290 and not allowed back in until 1656 - mostly fleeing to France - since Edward I relationship with the Scots is well known I doubt few made it up there

ALL of them?

[SueEllen]

There have been Jews in Britain since at the latest 1066, and probably before then under Roman rule; I take it they have carried out kosher slaughter all that time. When does a cultural practice cease to be 'imported'?

(NB I am not asking about the merits or otherwise of different slaughter methods)

When people can't use it as away to discriminate against others.

Anyway in Britain people tend not to try and be openly antisemitic. Posters on here are one of the exceptions.

[Troll]

ALL of them?

Estimates of the numbers were only around 4000 - bit like the Spanish kicking the moors out - some may have stayed hidden overtly converting to Christianity but covertly carrying on their practices

[Mich the Tester]

When people can't use it as away to discriminate against others.

Anyway in Britain people tend not to try and be openly antisemitic. Posters on here are one of the exceptions.

Well if Jews were in Britain with the Romans, then their cultural practises are surely no more 'imported' than Christian practices, and actually less 'imported' than Saxon practices.

[pjclarke]

Sorry to pollute a thread on General with a few facts, Delingpole, who we know has no time for academic papers, reckons the average wind turbine kills a minimum of 2 birds a week, based on Spanish and Swedish studies by ornithological groups. But the wind farms studied were old, and poorly sited. Modern farms are sited away from flight paths, and operators take measures such as feed stations away from the turbines and closing down when the radar detects flocks in the area.

A study published in Nature found a large variation in mortality, in the US turbines are responsible for up to 4 deaths / year each with an average of 0.03 birds per year. In the same country nearly 100 million birds die by flying into glass windows.





£1 million over 10 years from SSE, (no source given), well it sounds a lot, but £100,000 per year is less than 0.1% of the charity's £88m annual revenue, about 10p/year per member. Other charities and The Church of England have a similar arrangement with Ecotricity.

So there you have it, Delingpole hates cats, skyscrapers and Christians.

[Troll]

Anyway in Britain people tend not to try and be openly antisemitic. Posters on here are one of the exceptions.

Thought Admin/Mods were hot on stopping that - any linkies to back it up?

[Gittins Gal]

When people can't use it as away to discriminate against others.

Anyway in Britain people tend not to try and be openly antisemitic. Posters on here are one of the exceptions.

Sorry, I'm reading into your post that not liking ritual slaughter == racist.

Please tell me I'm wrong..

[Mich the Tester]

Sorry, I'm reading into your post that not liking ritual slaughter == racist.

Please tell me I'm wrong..

I don't think that's what anybody meant. Personally I am just questioning somebody's assertion that kosher and/or halal slaughter can really be seen as 'imported' practices, seeing as there was probably kosher slaughter in Britain before the country was formed.

[Gittins Gal]

I don't think that's what anybody meant. Personally I am just questioning somebody's assertion that kosher and/or halal slaughter can really be seen as 'imported' practices, seeing as there was probably kosher slaughter in Britain before the country was formed.

Well it doesn't really matter if they were imported or not. Such practices are outside of the parameters that have been collectively defined over many years as acceptable for a civilised society.

[original PM]

Well it doesn't really matter if they were imported or not. Such practices are outside of the parameters that have been collectively defined over many years as acceptable for a civilised society.

by you

who is not a muslim/jew

and therefore your comment is racist/antisematic because you disagree with them.



however it is okay to say white christians beliefs and practices are wrong -- thats acceptable