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Originally posted by Time
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Originally posted by MC Inferno
jus out of intrest... who do you vote for?
It's a secret ballot for a reason. Heh.
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Originally posted by Chrono
It's a part of their culture/religion/whatever. You just cant go against them, it's stupid. They can wear whatever they want.. i agree that for must of us it's weird, but it's the way they see the world. you cant expect them to stop doing it cause we dont like it. It's as if at some point they decided that underwear is bad and expected us to stop wearing them too (it's a silly example but you get the idea).
This just underlines my point about how they enforce their ideals on us with a totalitarian brutality when we visit Arabic countries. Wear a bikini in Dubai? End up in prison! Drink alcohol in public in Iran? Lose your hands! Oh, sure, embrace a multicultural stance on the world but double standards are just plain ignorant. So, yes, they expect us to stop eating bacon because they don't like it. But, Jack Straw wants to be able to see the people he is discussing issues with in meetings and they hold protests and cry that their way of life is being attacked and denigrated.
I love all the hypocrisy that a lot of Muslims exude. Take the tiny faux pas the Pope made the other week: basically a sly jab about how Islam is a violent religion... so what do they do? Attack embassies and lynch Christians in an outburst saying "we're not violent" - irony much? The problem I have with it is that they travel all this way to live in this country, specifically THIS country, because we offer welfare, a stable state and we're tolerant of other cultures; yet once they get here they do not offer any sacrifice to conform to our way of life screaming that their culture is superior and they insist upon thinking of themselves as Muslims and not British citizens. Well, sorry, but that is an abhorrent logic.
It is a simple courtesy to remove a veil for important meetings; as simple a courtesy as not eating bacon whilst on holiday in an Arabic country. But, hey, if they want to blow themselves up over being asked to not wear a piece of cloth for an hour a day in a meeting then they deserve all the prejudice and discrimination they have engendered towards themselves over the years. Props to a society that encourages teenagers to become sick 'martyrs' in some cause that is so buried in tradition, superstition and false religion that they cannot see beyond the mirage in the sand.
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exact views on it all, it's the height of all hypocracy!
