Posted on 07/14/2013 10:08:06 PM PDT by GraceG
There are lots of Pollyannas who live in the U.S. and specialize in telling us that everything is just great.
Turns out they're full of crap too.
As a matter of fact, I AM emotionally invested in the fate of Great Britain, for several reasons.
The U.K. is America’s strongest ally for many decades standing. Our cultural, legal, & linguistic bonds go back much further than that.
Scotsman says London is not the U.K., I agree, of course since New York City is not America. But what happens in a nation’s cultural capital tends to spread to the larger society.
Britain’s Muslim infestation (yes, that’s what it is) is proportionately far worse for them than our little Dearbornistan. Essentially, the descendants of their former empire are coming to roost. The confines of an island nation complicate things further.
There is no upside to Islam. Bottom line. The only good Muslim is a bad Muslim. A Muslim who treats women as equals, scorns the notion of a global Caliphate, and who does not seek special privilege or wall himself off from the larger non-Muslim society, isn’t much of a Muslim. But he is a better human being. And even if he is a tolerant person while identifying as Muslim, his views are not the views that drive the agenda of the Muslim Brotherhood, Al Qaeda, or the Taliban.
Britain’s Muslim problem is far worse than Anjem Choudary & his jihadi thugs. Someone here has pointed out that huge amounts of money from the Gulf states are pouring in and buying up large portions of financial infrastructure in U.K. and that can’t be a good thing.
The Scotsman is a British patriot and optimistic about his country’s future. But in my opinion the news crossing the Atlantic about the growing invasive Muslim presence in Britain may only be the tip of the iceberg (another Titanic metaphor) and Scotsman’s assurances to the contrary sound more & more like whistling past the graveyard.
Finally, my belief is that as Great Britain goes, so goes America. For many years I believed that the greatest threat to individual liberty was the world communist movement. As evil as it was, communism did not even last for a century.
Islam, also a totalitarian movement, began fourteen centuries ago in the Arabian peninsula and is now resurgent and threatening to all in the world that is non-Islamic, by its own Koranic teachings.
And that’s why I’m concerned about Britain.
“There are lots of Pollyannas who live in the U.S. and specialize in telling us that everything is just great.”
I don’t think anyone here is sasserting that things are “just great”.
“And that’s why I’m concerned about Britain.”
As are we all, and nobody more so than someone who lives there. (Well said, btw)
That’s why I’m gladdened when someone who is 100% invested in his own society, tells me things aren’t as bad as we think. That means there’s still time for the British people to wake up.
The Hindus and Shikh’s I meet embrace other cultures. They adapt to new surraondings.
My experience, and observation, is that mooselimbs replace the (in this case British) culture for Sharia. The mooselimbs do not adapt or integrate into other Culture’s.
Hence, the constant conflict, then fighting
“The mooselimbs do not adapt or integrate into other Culture’s.”
They do exactly the opposite! The “invade” a non-mooslimb country and immediately start their “mission” to “convert” the place to Sharia! They continually use our religious freedom requirement to gain advantage at every turn of the road. Before long, we will be having to wipe our a$$es with our hands if we aren’t careful. Unlike Australia where the government has told them to either accept the country’s morals and values, or leave, most of the rest of the world lets them get away with their game through abject “tolerance.”
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