Pro-choice people haven’t gotten this memo yet either - they regularly ask pro-life people how many kids they’ve adopted. Maybe we can eventually agree all questions of the sort are dumb, regardless of whom they’re asked of.
**Gary Kumquat, **I’m trying to understand what you’re aiming at in this thread. “We, the West, are no better than those we criticize?” “The attacks were unrelated to Islam or culture?”
“I think chaos such as the NYE issue in Cologne is inevitable when hundreds of thousands of refugees from some of the worlds poorest regions arrive en masse, fleeing carnage and war. So the trick is to ensure those conditions don’t happen. Which brings us back to the whole “why is the middle east so completely fucked” topic, which funnily enough has not much to do with religion, and huge amounts to do with the predictable consequences of imperialist meddling.”
If that’s not clear, feel free to point out the bits that you don’t follow.
It is alright playing the blame game the trouble is it all comes down to who wrote the history book you are reading, the problem is what is happening now and how can the disaster sorted
I think someone who did those things in Texas or Glasgow *would *be safer than someone in the Middle East claiming that Mohammed was a fraud. So I don’t see what you’re trying to get at here.