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Steve Walker

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  • Birthday 01/26/1973

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  1. We had one summer when I was a teenager when we absolutely murdered the roach in the park lake on hemp and tares. We fished short poles to hand using tiny pole floats with spherical bodies and cane stems and just a few #10 down the line. Bites were on the drop and often hooked themselves against the elastic. The fish were a better stamp than we got on maggot. Never fished it since!
  2. You appear to have a particular and specific hatred for Islam. You fear that Muslims are going to enact the ludicrous bits of their scripture in ways you dont fear Christians will. People used to believe absurdities of Jews. Anyway, I think I am done with this. We seem to have wandered a long way off topic, which was ordinary men women and children being murdered by someone who was so blinded by hatred that he was unable to see through their religion to their humanity.
  3. The Muslims I know are no more likely to do that than my mother is to commit genocide or smash infants brains out. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/6120373/Top-10-worst-Bible-passages.html
  4. The question is about personal behaviour and what the scripture says, not who has sympathy for what or what they would like the law to be. They are required by their own religion to obey the law unless in doing so they sin.
  5. Depends on the conflict and whether obeying the law would mean that they personally were in sin. In that situation, they have to conscientiously object. I am not aware of any such cases, though. They are not obliged to stop others sinning.
  6. The Soviets and Yanks are waging a proxy war here?
  7. And your explanation for those complex bits of history is that Muslims are bad people?
  8. Absolutely. I'm quite shocked by the question, to be honest.
  9. In the same way, I'm not sure what mum does at church, but I've seen her wearing mixed fabrics and I haven't caught her burning any witches recently.
  10. They also codified the obligation to obey the laws of the land in which one lives. All the Muslims I know seem to manage to muddle along reconciling their faith with not overthrowing secular democracy.
  11. Islamism is a political ideology based around structuring a society and its governance on Islamic principles. Islam is a religion. Muslims are people. I find that easy to differentiate. We are a secular democracy in which live many people of different faiths and none, all of whom are equal under the law. There is no room for Islamism here. I'd happily get rid of all the faith schools, and not especially because of the Islamic ones. I think that might be easier said than done, though, and I think the real religious fundies of whatever creed will just home educate, which might actually make matters worse. I'd also be happy to lose homeschooling, but that would be highly contentious. Not sure that these, nor any of the other points, would address John's concerns about the nature of neighbourhoods changing with demographic change.
  12. Does anybody defend "Islamism"? That is not the same as "having Muslims living in the UK". Anyway. Ken, John - the only way forward I see is that we make sure that the laws of the country are applied without fear or favour, and we all learn to live together. Do you have a better solution?
  13. The answer to that kind of harassment is fair and equal application of our laws. Not shooting up a mosque, or supporting hatred.
  14. Hmm, but those Muslim families in Leeds are British citizens subject to British laws and they buy or rent their land. They haven't turned up, slaughtered the natives and stolen their lands. I don't think it's the same thing at all. I don't think the issue in the US and Australia was really the acceptance of living side by side with people with different ways of life so much as the genocide. If someone is brown, and wears different clothes to me, and doesn't consume pork or alcohol, and goes to a mosque instead of a church, they're not dictating anything to me.
  15. John, I'm just saying that places change, it's always been the way of the world and always will be. Different groups move in and out. Ways of life change. People are basically the same.
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