Posted on 06/27/2016 4:27:05 AM PDT by Eurotwit
We — non-Muslims — cannot solve the problem; we cannot brainwash them out of their fundamentalist beliefs. The Islamicists last week horribly and irrefutably asserted the supreme importance of that faith, overriding all worldly considerations, and it will take a huge effort of courage and skill to win round the many thousands of British Muslims who are in a similar state of alienation, and to make them see that their faith must be compatible with British values and with loyalty to Britain. That means disposing of the first taboo, and accepting that the problem is Islam. Islam is the problem.
To any non-Muslim reader of the Koran, Islamophobia — fear of Islam — seems a natural reaction, and, indeed, exactly what that text is intended to provoke. Judged purely on its scripture — to say nothing of what is preached in the mosques — it is the most viciously sectarian of all religions in its heartlessness towards unbelievers. As the killer of Theo Van Gogh told his victim’s mother this week in a Dutch courtroom, he could not care for her, could not sympathise, because she was not a Muslim.
When Thatcher was PM, a young Boris Johnson was one of her favorite columnists.
This was Boris Johnson in 2005, not yesterday.
Now being on his way to become PM, I doubt he’d say this again. Well, let’s wait and see...
This was Boris Johnson in 2005, not yesterday.
Now being on his way to become PM, I doubt he’d say this again. Well, let’s wait and see...
It would be a mistake to trust Boris Johnson because there are plenty of corportists on the Leave side. You can bet they are looking for a backdoor to defacto keep GB in the EU.
He’s changed. She probably liked George Will, too.
No, a bunch of it is his own use of character assassination.
No, a bunch of it is his own use of character assassination.
Character assassination? Like Ted Cruz personally smearing Trump supporters as “low info”? That kind of character assassination?
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Are you suggesting he is being mischaracterized because he is calling out Hillary as a liar? Essentially correct. His hard judgements, while true, are too harsh for the marshmallow set.
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