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originally posted by: TonyS
a reply to: Indigo5
I didn't mention anything about deportation, but.....hey, you supporters of open borders and refugee relocation with no meaningful vetting, when the chickens do truly come home to roost, don't look to me for sympathy or support; you won't find any.
originally posted by: DJW001
a reply to: RoyBatty
When the economy began to tank and unemployment began to rise, the working class began to blame Muslims for a wide variety of ills. Banning headscarves was seen as a direct attack on their culture. Naturally, there was resistance to allowing them to take time off to pray in the middle of the work day, and there were claims that some Muslims were polygamous, and that these extra wives were a drain on the social welfare system. When you live in public housing in the banlieu and can't find honest work... what would you do?
You'll never convince them that not kowtowing to every last demand......isn't the same as "hate, racism, xenophobia, destruction".
originally posted by: RoyBatty
originally posted by: DJW001
a reply to: RoyBatty
When the economy began to tank and unemployment began to rise, the working class began to blame Muslims for a wide variety of ills. Banning headscarves was seen as a direct attack on their culture. Naturally, there was resistance to allowing them to take time off to pray in the middle of the work day, and there were claims that some Muslims were polygamous, and that these extra wives were a drain on the social welfare system. When you live in public housing in the banlieu and can't find honest work... what would you do?
You turn to violence? Is this what you are suggesting? Headscarves are worn every day on the streets of France. They were banned from schools because schools are secular. The hijab was banned for identification (LOGICAL) purposes. France has accepted Muslim immigrants with open arms but that is not enough, somehow France has to adopt the laws (and prayer schedule) of a Muslim country? It is not a Muslim country, the immigrants chose to migrate there, is it not customary to keep one's culture while assimilating to those of your home country as well? I know I did.
Suggesting that they are "second class citizens" thus entitled to violence is unacceptable.
originally posted by: MystikMushroom
If we want to preserve our Constitution, if we want have the freedom to worship our traditional religious beliefs, if we want to be patriotic and courageous Americans, if we want our children to have the freedom of religion that we have, then we have to take action and lead by examples that allow us to maintain these traditions that we care about. If this means allowing refuges into our country under tough scrutiny -- then so be it.
We're Americans, and we're tough. Are we going to let a terrorist network win? If we start taking away someone else's religious freedom, soon it could be our very own that is being taken away. If we want to preserve what we already have -- we need to make sure we afford it others equally.
originally posted by: ManBehindTheMask
originally posted by: DJW001
a reply to: RoyBatty
When the economy began to tank and unemployment began to rise, the working class began to blame Muslims for a wide variety of ills. Banning headscarves was seen as a direct attack on their culture. Naturally, there was resistance to allowing them to take time off to pray in the middle of the work day, and there were claims that some Muslims were polygamous, and that these extra wives were a drain on the social welfare system. When you live in public housing in the banlieu and can't find honest work... what would you do?
Oh of course, naturally killing people is the most logical choice......
I can't even
If you don't like the culture of the place you move to, DONT MOVE THERE
originally posted by: ManBehindTheMask
If you don't like the culture of the place you move to, DONT MOVE THERE
originally posted by: Indigo5
originally posted by: TonyS
a reply to: Indigo5
I didn't mention anything about deportation, but.....hey, you supporters of open borders and refugee relocation with no meaningful vetting, when the chickens do truly come home to roost, don't look to me for sympathy or support; you won't find any.
Why would I look to you? Or your ideological kin? What you don't seem to grasp is that your fear mongering, bigotry and intolerance shares a common lineage with ISIS. You don't murder men, women and children who don't look like you or follow the same god, you just dehumanize them on the internet.
Democracy, freedom and liberty are ideals that are fundamental to mankind's survival. The sociopathic agenda of groups like ISIS are the antithesis to those ideals. Choose where you sit, but do not lie to yourself and pretend to be defending a free way of life while deriding and dehumanizing others based on their ethnicity or faith.
What was the goal of the attacks in Paris? It wasn't a military target...no fewer soldiers from france...no fewer bombs...just the opposite.
What does ISIS need to grow and prosper? To recruit?
They need hatred, bigotry and intolerance to grow toward Muslims in general.
Your ilk serves ISIS's agenda...mostly unwittingly...but the outcome is all the same.
The bigoted, dehumanizing rhetoric aimed at the 1.5 Billion Muslims of the world is gleefully received by ISIS. It is the best recruiting tool they could imagine.
They measure their success by how much the world blames Muslims at large and by how much the world trades liberty for fear.
originally posted by: Indigo5
originally posted by: ManBehindTheMask
If you don't like the culture of the place you move to, DONT MOVE THERE
You seem ignorant of the point...what if you aspire to a culture, a way of life, but you are not accepted and instead alienated because of your color or faith?
Intolerance is without a doubt the wind that spreads the seeds of terrorism.
ISIS began with the new post war Gov. in Iraq and the utter alienation and disenfranchisement of the Sunni's. Thousands of people immediately unemployed, stripped of their pensions and half the country not permitted to be represented in government.
They were able to grow their numbers by exploiting the status of equally alienated and hopeless pockets of Muslims across Europe.
With each fit and seizure of hate and intolerance toward Muslims at large by the West ...ISIS grows stronger.
What does that tell you?...Is the solution greater intolerance and more alienation? Or do we double down on the principles of liberty and freedom that we claim to be fighting for in the first place?
originally posted by: ManBehindTheMask
originally posted by: MystikMushroom
If we want to preserve our Constitution, if we want have the freedom to worship our traditional religious beliefs, if we want to be patriotic and courageous Americans, if we want our children to have the freedom of religion that we have, then we have to take action and lead by examples that allow us to maintain these traditions that we care about. If this means allowing refuges into our country under tough scrutiny -- then so be it.
We're Americans, and we're tough. Are we going to let a terrorist network win? If we start taking away someone else's religious freedom, soon it could be our very own that is being taken away. If we want to preserve what we already have -- we need to make sure we afford it others equally.
Double edge sword , argent could be made that if we import 10s of thousands that could hold extremist views that our freedoms that you just mentioned could be quashed by those that would like to see their version be the law of the land
Question, why won't the Muslim majority nations around Syria take them? Why is no one asking this?
originally posted by: soficrow
The vast majority of Europeans are of Middle Eastern or North African Descent[/url] - 35% African and 65% East Asian, mostly Middle Eastern to be genetically precise.
...There is not a place in the world that is not peopled with ancient AND modern immigrants.
originally posted by: RoyBatty
originally posted by: DJW001
a reply to: RoyBatty
When the economy began to tank and unemployment began to rise, the working class began to blame Muslims for a wide variety of ills. Banning headscarves was seen as a direct attack on their culture. Naturally, there was resistance to allowing them to take time off to pray in the middle of the work day, and there were claims that some Muslims were polygamous, and that these extra wives were a drain on the social welfare system. When you live in public housing in the banlieu and can't find honest work... what would you do?
You turn to violence? Is this what you are suggesting? Headscarves are worn every day on the streets of France. They were banned from schools because schools are secular. The hijab was banned for identification (LOGICAL) purposes. France has accepted Muslim immigrants with open arms but that is not enough, somehow France has to adopt the laws (and prayer schedule) of a Muslim country? It is not a Muslim country, the immigrants chose to migrate there, is it not customary to keep one's culture while assimilating to those of your home country as well? I know I did.
Suggesting that they are "second class citizens" thus entitled to violence is unacceptable.
originally posted by: stevieray
originally posted by: Indigo5
originally posted by: ManBehindTheMask
If you don't like the culture of the place you move to, DONT MOVE THERE
You seem ignorant of the point...what if you aspire to a culture, a way of life, but you are not accepted and instead alienated because of your color or faith?
Intolerance is without a doubt the wind that spreads the seeds of terrorism.
ISIS began with the new post war Gov. in Iraq and the utter alienation and disenfranchisement of the Sunni's. Thousands of people immediately unemployed, stripped of their pensions and half the country not permitted to be represented in government.
They were able to grow their numbers by exploiting the status of equally alienated and hopeless pockets of Muslims across Europe.
With each fit and seizure of hate and intolerance toward Muslims at large by the West ...ISIS grows stronger.
What does that tell you?...Is the solution greater intolerance and more alienation? Or do we double down on the principles of liberty and freedom that we claim to be fighting for in the first place?
Yes, everybody but you is ignorant. I love that lead-in.
There already is a failure to assimilate and growing idleness / violence. Happened and grew long before this new invasion, and it came right along with the original weak, wimpy immigration.
So, no, any semblance of common sense non-suicide WON'T be the thing that makes them hate us. They already do. After kissing their butts and begging them to take advantage for the past 20 years.
originally posted by: amazing
Too much propaganda and lies on this issue.
There aren't 10,000 able bodies Syrian men moving to New Orleans this month. All the refugees are not hugely steroid muscle goons with military training.
If you dig into this issue the one I just researched. It was a family with little children that had been living in Jordan for 3 years waiting (legally) to get into the USA. That would appear to be who we're turning away and who these brave governors are rejecting.
It's so hard to find a reliable news source on this stuff though. You start googling it and you get right and left wing propaganda up the wazoo. What ever happened to truth?
originally posted by: Indigo5
originally posted by: stevieray
originally posted by: Indigo5
originally posted by: ManBehindTheMask
If you don't like the culture of the place you move to, DONT MOVE THERE
You seem ignorant of the point...what if you aspire to a culture, a way of life, but you are not accepted and instead alienated because of your color or faith?
Intolerance is without a doubt the wind that spreads the seeds of terrorism.
ISIS began with the new post war Gov. in Iraq and the utter alienation and disenfranchisement of the Sunni's. Thousands of people immediately unemployed, stripped of their pensions and half the country not permitted to be represented in government.
They were able to grow their numbers by exploiting the status of equally alienated and hopeless pockets of Muslims across Europe.
With each fit and seizure of hate and intolerance toward Muslims at large by the West ...ISIS grows stronger.
What does that tell you?...Is the solution greater intolerance and more alienation? Or do we double down on the principles of liberty and freedom that we claim to be fighting for in the first place?
Yes, everybody but you is ignorant. I love that lead-in.
No...Only those that prove themselves ignorant?
There already is a failure to assimilate and growing idleness / violence. Happened and grew long before this new invasion, and it came right along with the original weak, wimpy immigration.
Hmmm...Failure to assimilate?...where have I heard that before...oh yah..every IGNORANT person through history said the same about immigrants...
See the IRISH in the USA a 100 years ago..
So, no, any semblance of common sense non-suicide WON'T be the thing that makes them hate us. They already do. After kissing their butts and begging them to take advantage for the past 20 years.
Who is "they"? Cuz your brain doesn't seem capable of discriminating between 1.5 Billion people and a bunch of terrorists.