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15 years ago @ Islam in Europe - UK: \'Honestly, the bu... · 0 replies · -1 points

What makes you think we don't criticise what we tolerate? Many people who oppose a ban on burkas and similar clothing also criticise people who wear them. Whether people have the right to choose what they wear and whether they are foolish to wear particular clothing are two distinct questions and should not be combined.

15 years ago @ Islam in Europe - Denmark: Correction to... · 1 reply · -1 points

Well, while you're correcting, you should have said that non-Western immigrant women had fewer children, not less children.

15 years ago @ Islam in Europe - Finland: Foreign minis... · 0 replies · +1 points

As Syria's governmenti is a singularly murderous Ba'athist- secular and supposedly pan-Arab- dictatorship they aren't a good example to follow.

15 years ago @ Islam in Europe - Germany: Proposal for ... · 1 reply · 0 points

Of the two main Turkish police forces, one- the Gendarmerie- is part of the armed forces and the other- the National Police- has close connexions with them. The idiosyncracies of the Turkish police compared with E.U. policw services probably derive from those connexions with the determinedly secular armed forces rather than from islam.

15 years ago @ Islam in Europe - Germany: Proposal for ... · 0 replies · 0 points

Apart from the assumption,as you say, that German citizens are not really german, given the training, organisation and some of the methods used by the Turkish police I'd be rather dubious about admitting them at all.

15 years ago @ Islam in Europe - UK: Muslim drivers ref... · 1 reply · +3 points

This is illegal in Britain. Quite a few deivers have been fined for behaviour of this sort. Obviously they haven't been fined enough.

15 years ago @ Islam in Europe - Norway: Rejected refug... · 0 replies · +1 points

For everyone unless they'd had long-term malnutrition before. The diet may have been unsuitable for your other health problems but bodily reserves of vitamins would see you through eight days, though the psychological effects of knowing you would become vitamin-deficient would kick in sooner. Incidentally, what does low blood pressure have to do with your diet? I have low blood pressure myself and I understood it meant you don't need to worry about all of the enjoyable but heart-attack inducing foods we're meant to abandon in middle age.

15 years ago @ Islam in Europe - UK: Burka ban \'un-Bri... · 0 replies · +1 points

There's a long British tradition of people wearing silly clothes for eccentric reasons as the ceremonial opening of Parliament shows and there's no reason why burkas should not become as accepted the costumes worn there as kilts, morris-dancing costume, mayoral robes of office, MCC blazers and evening dress. Unlike France there is no state commitment to secularism so what people wear oir don't wear is entirely up to them, just as it is entirely up to other people whether they laugh at what people wear..

15 years ago @ Islam in Europe - France: Doctors have d... · 0 replies · -1 points

I think you had better look up Einstein's ancestry.
I am a kindly person, so I will attribute your error to ignorance rather than dishonesty.

15 years ago @ Islam in Europe - France: Doctors have d... · 0 replies · -2 points

What is genocidal about "Well,if the health risks are that great, people who behave llike that will effectively remove their themselves from the human genepool to everyone else's benefit. "? If I had said "We should remove people who behave llike that from the human genepool to everyone else's benefit. " you might have had a point,

The same applies to your blanket condemnation of eugenics: it is just as much a latter of eugenics to recommend that people do not marry their first cousins- especially if most of their ancestors had married their forst cousins- as it is to abort the severely disabled foetuses produced by people who disregsrded that advice and married their first cousins.