So hatred is expressed through any opinion that happens to impinge upon your world view. Such arrogance does you no service whatsoever. If you really expect me to believe that the muslims who share my corner of the world are all pretending so as to lull all of us into a false sense of security then you need a serious reality check. As for research - you seem to have fallen into an awful trap. My research is wide ranging... (I don’t even dismiss you without a deal of fact checking) but you seem to be trapped in a narrow world view where your source of reference is pre-ordained by a right wing myopia. Can you not find a charitable bone in your body to consider that difference may be one of the strengths of humanity rather than something to fear. The Christian church says and has done (in my name as much as in yours) many things for which it should be ashamed but you do not seem to suggest that any hand that we hold out to muslims is only to fool them so that we can cut their throats later. You speak of research and pontification which I find particularly interesting since I have never met anyone who pontificates as much as you. I do not in any way desire to force an opinion upon you but only to attempt to force a chink of light into that closed mind of yours. I reserve the right to disagree with you as I see fit and as an advocate of freedom (albeit US style) you should afford me the same honour. If you wish to trade historical research - then try this. You have written (and if I am wrong about this I will apologise in advance) about how the US saved all of our scrawny asses in WWII. That is a fascinating claim more or less identical to one made by your president today. Consider this:
US casualties in WWII 0.3%
British casualties 0.6%
Soviet casualties 14%
The russians that you so despise sacrificed 27 million people in the fight against fascism and when the war ended the carving up of Europe was not some covert commie takeover it was a negotiated settlement between Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin which kinda means that we’re just as responsible as anyone else. I do not in any way hold that Stalin was anything other than an evil man but I think your dismissal of the whole of the old soviet union as some evil empire is the same as me condemning all US citizens because of Bush. I could not and would not do so (except in jest). Some of the best people I know are American. By the way, I used to have a boss whose last resort when losing was to assert his supposedly greater intellect by throwing in various foreign words with explanations for those he thought were inferior to himself. He was known by everyone who met him as an arsehole.
So hatred is expressed through any opinion that happens to impinge upon your world view. Such arrogance does you no service whatsoever. If you really expect me to believe that the muslims who share my corner of the world are all pretending so as to lull all of us into a false sense of security then you need a serious reality check. As for research - you seem to have fallen into an awful trap. My research is wide ranging... (I don’t even dismiss you without a deal of fact checking) but you seem to be trapped in a narrow world view where your source of reference is pre-ordained by a right wing myopia. Can you not find a charitable bone in your body to consider that difference may be one of the strengths of humanity rather than something to fear. The Christian church says and has done (in my name as much as in yours) many things for which it should be ashamed but you do not seem to suggest that any hand that we hold out to muslims is only to fool them so that we can cut their throats later. You speak of research and pontification which I find particularly interesting since I have never met anyone who pontificates as much as you. I do not in any way desire to force an opinion upon you but only to attempt to force a chink of light into that closed mind of yours. I reserve the right to disagree with you as I see fit and as an advocate of freedom (albeit US style) you should afford me the same honour. If you wish to trade historical research - then try this. You have written (and if I am wrong about this I will apologise in advance) about how the US saved all of our scrawny asses in WWII. That is a fascinating claim more or less identical to one made by your president today. Consider this:
US casualties in WWII 0.3%
British casualties 0.6%
Soviet casualties 14%
The russians that you so despise sacrificed 27 million people in the fight against fascism and when the war ended the carving up of Europe was not some covert commie takeover it was a negotiated settlement between Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin which kinda means that we’re just as responsible as anyone else. I do not in any way hold that Stalin was anything other than an evil man but I think your dismissal of the whole of the old soviet union as some evil empire is the same as me condemning all US citizens because of Bush. I could not and would not do so (except in jest). Some of the best people I know are American. By the way, I used to have a boss whose last resort when losing was to assert his supposedly greater intellect by throwing in various foreign words with explanations for those he thought were inferior to himself. He was known by everyone who met him as an arsehole.