Quote Originally Posted by Philipvs Vallindervs Calicvla View Post
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Hey, we spent pages on Islam in Europe!

We got bored, mostly because there are no Muslims in the argument to actually provide the opposing position. The closest we have is Hax, and he's a Dutch Buddhist.
All I remember is that I wrote a reply and next thing I noticed was the thread was three pages longer and somehow about "Scotland vs the american Civil War" now.
Being a Conservative myself I would like to conserve the original topic and if these pinko progressive thread hijacking terrorists from Scotland and america think they can take over our thread, I'll defend it with my god-given second forum rule right!

Let me tell you I'm foaming at the ears right now!

So basically my point was that

a) the issue is exaggerated, I don't even get why people have a big problem with Salafists handing out free korans, should we also ban the Marlboro Baptist Church from handing out free bibles? I also think that we can have Islam here as long as it's not a radical Islam that wants to take over and/or convert us all violently.

b) does it really reflect that much on Merkel when a close ally from her party says something like this? Is it not possible that people in the same party have different views on one subject?
And can we learn from this that americans assume other political systems are just like theirs, where every politician is "gleichgeschaltet" (aligned) to the official party view via corporate identity and the removal of his free will and individuality? Also is that a good thing or does it make america's two parties communist?