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    Mr Self Important Senior Member Beskar's Avatar
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    Quote Originally Posted by Furunculus View Post
    i don't imagine there would be given the Mel was referring to france and not egypt.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Beskar View Post
    I can't seriously reply to this comment, without making 101 comments about 'France' in jest, akin to HoreTores'.
    Well Furunculus made a fair point. The radical Islam that tends to emerge in second generation immigrants in western Europe is a whole different matter from the makeup of religious views within Islam in its historic heartlands.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rhyfelwyr View Post
    Well Furunculus made a fair point. The radical Islam that tends to emerge in second generation immigrants in western Europe is a whole different matter from the makeup of religious views within Islam in its historic heartlands.
    Yeah that's true sadly. But at least here the ones who want to make the best out of it are getting increasingly vocal, Islamism is losing and badly. If I would do my best positive I'd say that the Islam is having it's enlightment as we speak and that it's only going to be slightly worse before things get better, Africa is screwed as always though

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    Yeah that's true sadly. But at least here the ones who want to make the best out of it are getting increasingly vocal, Islamism is losing and badly. If I would do my best positive I'd say that the Islam is having it's enlightment as we speak and that it's only going to be slightly worse before things get better, Africa is screwed as always though
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    So far no-one in europe has been put in camps yet either. Although we have gone as far as to put segments of the population under close watch for no reason other than their parentage/religion.
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    Quote Originally Posted by alh_p View Post
    So far no-one in europe has been put in camps yet either. Although we have gone as far as to put segments of the population under close watch for no reason other than their parentage.
    It's called screening. It's one of those damned if you do damned if you don't situations. If you want to be colour / age / gender blind you then end up wasting a vast amount of time and energy arresting 8 year olds / 90 year olds just to ensure that everyone is being equally treated. If you try to go for a subgroup based on age, gender, poverty level, education, geographical location, religion you will get accused of an -ism of one sort or other.

    My father in the 1970's was often picked "randomly" for drugs searches as he had long hair and a beared (still does). He did ineffectually ague that drug smugglers might look less obviously like a hippie, but to no avail (hippies and biology PhDs do look very similar).

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    (hippies and biology PhDs do look very similar).
    You never know man, maybe he took a minor in botany, duuude.
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    Quote Originally Posted by rory_20_uk View Post
    It's called screening. It's one of those damned if you do damned if you don't situations.
    That's not quite how I'd describe those security cameras put up in Birmingham somewhere, but anyway.
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