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Norfolk,

that’s my point.

You can’t trust polls any more, and if you’re going to call an election that will be another couple of months of uncertainty. The clock is ticking on the Brexit negotiations

Sure, ge,

I was referring in the original post (now in the mists of time) to teachers rather than police.

Though I realise that it may probably come to the same thing.

it’s not really a coalition, Tinks.

It’s a minority government – a Tory govt without an official majority.

They can still govern, but it’s more difficult.

I don’t think I said anything about 9/11, Linda.??

I was shocked and shaken when it happened, I remember.

I also remember two guy at the scene saying that they only hoped that the US government wouldn’t use the terrible carnage in NY to go and drop bombs on a lot of innocent, poor people.

Not sure whether you’re misunderstanding me Jamie.

I was referring to Muslims brought up in British schools and under British law.

Or am I misunderstanding you??

I am not an expert on any of this. just keep my eyes open. The information about Muslim children not ratting on their radical mates came from a Panorama tv programme a while ago. if…[Read more]

Linda, as a follow up to my previous reply to you,

religion needs churches or mosques or synagogues for people to worship. We can’t be a church on our own.

but to live outside the law you must be honest, as someone once said.

They seem like latter-day pharisees in all the churches, people who think that we were all made for the sabbath, not the…[Read more]

Jamie,

it’s hard to keep this thread on track isn’t it?

The problem is that jihadi radicals – and they are the ones who, in this country, are carrying out the attacks, so far anyway – are isolated form non-Muslims. At school, the teachers are seen as the grownups, and you don’t inform the grownups on what your mates are doing. That was as…[Read more]

With Labour in the lead by 6 points in the latest opinion polling (for what that’s worth), I don’t see another election as a way out of the mess that May has got her govt. and her country into.

We’ve wasted months of essential brexit negotiating time in party manoeuvring and electioneering, and we’re about to waste more time in a crisis over who…[Read more]

Linda, what can I say?

You’ve lived your life as you wanted to live it, rather than the way someone wanted you to live it.

Not many of us do. It’s so much easier to do whatever anyone expects us to do.

faith is something odd, and something I’ve spent a long time thinking about – a lifetime.

And going through the motions of the title makes…[Read more]

Linda,

in one inter-Church discussion on The Ten Commandments, an enthusiastic Anglican evangelical looked at me with disgust and anger (no, I didn’t touch her) and said that I was the incarnation of Satan.

I smiled and nodded slowly.

Linda,

in one inter-Church discussion on The Ten Commandments, an enthusiastic Anglican evangelical looked at me with disgust and anger (no, I didn’t touch her) and said that I was the incarnation of Satan.

I smiled and nodded slowly.

I was waiting for serendipity to answer for himself, but

I don’t think Sikhs and Muslims are on the same wavelength, Ms K.

Sikhs are an ethnic group (in practice) as well as a religion. You’re literally born a Sikh, You can give up being a Sikh in terms of religion, but you remain a member of the Sikh community.

Muslims belong to a religious…[Read more]

Ms K, when i say that sharia law has to be subordinate to UK law, it means that UK law takes precedence.

I’ll try to expalin to avoid misunderstanding

Most Christians have laws of their own (it’ used to be called canon law, and there were special canon courts _ thin theoretically that a British Catholic can still be imprisoned in the Vatican…[Read more]

I’m glad you’re getting this important thread back on track, Jamie.

Sharia law is fine with people in this country as long as it is subordinated to British law.

many Muslims do this.

But many – not just radicals – carry on secretly with practices whihc are barbaric – fgm is the most spectacular and horrid.

So Sharia law is fine, but those…[Read more]

With Boris “on manoeuvres”, her enemy Hammond confirmed as Chancellor, and her allies Amber Rudd and Michael Fallon going snake-eyed, I don’t think May will last long, Arc.

She’s lost all credibility.

With Boris “on manoeuvres”, her enemy hammond confirmed as Chancellor, Amber Rudd going snake-eyed, I don’t think May will last long, Arc.

She’s lost all credibility.

Theresa May warned throughout the campaign of a coalition depending on terrorists. The one thing she forgot to mention was that she would be at its head.

her days look more and more as though they won’t be long. A prize duffer – she starts with a 20 point lead against the most widely-mocked politician of modern times, and ends with having…[Read more]

Norfolk, linda, Serendipity,

Norfolk, it’ not true that we don’t accept the slaughter of civilians.

Think of the bombing of Dresden in 1945, a firestorm which killed over 20,000 people, mainly women and children. Many people support this bombing to this day. Also think of Hiroshima and nagasaki. I was told by those who know that it was safer on…[Read more]

Norfolk,

the Christian West has done a pretty good job at being savages just in the last century, butchering many millions during the two big wars alone, with horrible acts of cruelty and sadism flung in for good measure. The US wars – eg, napalm attacks and civilian massacres such as My Lai in Vietnam – are hardly the work of civilised people.…[Read more]

Norfolk,

the Christian West has done a pretty good job at being savages just in the last century, butchering many millions during the two big wars alone, with horrible acts of cruelty and sadism flung in for good measure. The US wars – eg, napalm attacks and civilian massacres such as My Lai in Vietnam – are hardly the work of civilised people.…[Read more]