hotpotatoes2001

How does criticising the practice of executing gay people make us as bad as people who execute gay people?

That isn’t what happens at all though, you are terribly naive if you believe that.

I have been physically attacked by islamists for what I presume was holding hands with my girlfriend, the police had no interest at all in investigating it when reported. This was in France though, not the UK.

That is quite a claim, please provide some evidence.

Certainly in other countries this is a problem, and it is wrong that they do that. But I am not in that country, and I have no power to change the society there. I can chance society here, I can have these discussions, and I can vote.

Why?

I don’t think anyone here is really argueing otherwise, maybe BB.

The problem we are discussing here is the radical parts of the Islamic community that will violently reject anything other than Islamic rule.

I’m not sure how you came to that conclusion from what I said, but if I said it in plain English then i’m sure you can quote it for me.

The only thing I could be described as forcing is making Sharia illegal. I don’t really think I should be stoned to death because i’m gay, sorry if you disagree with that. I don’t think you have actually…[Read more]

The thread is called “Muslims must integrate more”, which is why I was talking about Islam specifically.

Shooting someone is also illegal, but if you are willing to break that law, then I don’t see why you would be deterred by carrying a gun also being illegal.

This is the main problem I have with ‘hate crimes’ making something doubly illegal is no more effective than it being normally illegal. You could just increace the punishment for shooting…[Read more]

Islamophobia is a concept created by the muslim brotherhood to enable a way of shutting down criticisms of Islam. Can you explain to what was said that is Islamophobic, and why it is bad.

Even what BB has said is a very accurate representation of a litteral interpretation of Islam, although this is not what is practiced by most muslims (in…[Read more]

Islamophobia is a concept created by the muslim brotherhood to enable a way of shutting down criticisms of Islam. Can you explain to what was said that is Islamophobic, and why it is bad.

Even what BB has said is a very accurate representation of a litteral interpretation of Islam, although this is not what is practiced by most muslims in my…[Read more]

I didn’t say that demand wasn’t also a problem, lol. It is one, and probably the biggest one. But I don’t think you should ignore the other factors that contribute to it as well. I know that foreign investment is a problem specifically in London, but I think it also happens in other developed areas of the country.

This is difficult to do in the UK, as the monarch is head of the Church Of England. Technically the monarchy is chosen by God under the UK constitution, so entirely seperating the church from the state would probably also mean becomming a republic. Religion also isn’t very important in politics in contrast to somwhere like the US that does have…[Read more]

This is what Bank Of England said, recent trends of immigration have been mostly unskilled workers, and we have seen a depression in wages in those jobs. I think if we saw large scale skilled imigration the same would happen there.

This is one cause, there are also others. One other major cause of this is foreign investors buying houses to…[Read more]

The general idea is that the more extreme you get on the left / right spectrum the more similar to each other they become. (I.e. State censorship of media, abandonment of individual rights, ect).

It can, but I think in this case they are right. Increaced competition for jobs lowers wages.

I don’t use Facebook, so I don’t know exactly what is said on there.

That isn’t strictly true, as ISIS is very strongly in the Sunni branch of islam. I think a ‘normative’ version of islam would just be a literal interpretation of the Quran, without using the Sunnah or the Hadiths. Which is something that doesn’t exist as far as I know of.

You can tollerate moderate (I don’t think a lot of people the media…[Read more]

That isn’t strictly true, as ISIS is very strongly in the Sunni branch of islam. I think a ‘normative’ version of islam would just be a literal interpretation of the Quran, without using the Sunnah or the Hadiths. Which is something that doesn’t exist as far as I know of.

You can tollerate moderate (I don’t think a lot of people the media…[Read more]

If socialism is right wing to you, then you might actually be a communist, lol.

My categories are based on ecconomic policies, I don’t really see how social policies can be classes as either left or right wing, especially taking into account how accurate the horseshoe theory seems to be.

I guess i’m daft and gullible for believing Bank Of England then.

And also racist.

Probably throw in islamaphobic too for good measure.

Really?

I don’t know if that’s true or not, but that was 70 years ago. It doesn’s seem very fascist to me, mostly it focuses on celebrity gosip more than actual news. Celebrities who mostly repeat the left wing propaganda pushed by the Guardian and sometimes the BBC.

If you want to see actual facist news coverage go to somewhere like…[Read more]