"Put 'em in blue coats, put 'em in red coats, the bastards will run all the same!"
"The English are a strange people....They came here in the morning, looked at the wall, walked over it, killed the garrison and returned to breakfast. What can withstand them?"
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"Topic is tired and needs a nap." - Tosa Inu
Yeah, well, if I told you you can live in a trashcan here and return to live in a toilet in five years, or you could try to go get a good life in a faraway land, what would you prefer? If money is their sole motivation, how come they didn't all come before there was a war?
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"Topic is tired and needs a nap." - Tosa Inu
And if Britain is any indicator, you can leave for a faraway land to make your fortune, be welcomed by the locals, integrate yourself into British society, raise a family that's as inculcated in local norms as any other British family. And your children decide this isn't for them, decide to identify themselves with the Muslim nation that their parents left rather than the British nation that raised them, and become a jihadi to kill abroad or even in Britain. And aside from those who take violent action, there are quite a few who cheer them on, even though they too were born in and raised in Britain.
For every other community, you can expect a process of integration, but once that process is done, future generations are accepted as indelibly British. Only among the Muslim community do you have such a proliferation of de-integration, so that at no point can you be confident that integration is done, and there is a good chance that those who de-integrate themselves will turn to violent action against Britain and Britons. And such is the loyalty of British Muslims to Britain, that they're more likely to fight for ISIS than to fight for Britain.
Nope, as MSK says, his people is not the British people. We don't need any more of his people here.
That is actually not true.
There are some 650 Muslims in British Armed Forces and some 450 British Muslims fighting in Syria, in all groups, although the estimation is that the majority of those 450 are indeed with ISIS.
There have been more British Muslims in Syria but they became disillusioned with various opposition forces who either collaborated with fundamentalists or were in fact fundamentalists themselves.
Don't think every single person who went to Syria is a traitor.
"quite a few" meaning a respectable number. Russia wasn't a target of Middle Eastern terrorists before Russia started meddling in Syria.
Point being, it contradicts the notion that terrorism isn't connected to a political goal.
I'm sorry but.....this is just rabid BS. I live in Leeds. We have a large Muslim population here, Muslims come from surrounding areas to work here (Bradford, Keighley, Huddersfield etc.). I know a lot of Muslims and, there are not "quite a few" who "cheer them on". They go to mosque, a number of them take their own annual leave to do charitable work. They are, in other ways, remarkably like the other human beings I live and work alongside. Who'd have thunk it, eh? That they might be like...people.
I don't see the menace you describe, it has no reality.
Last edited by Gaius Sempronius Gracchus; 02-28-2016 at 13:52.
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