That's the only alternative they've given people and at this point I think it has to happen before things get better. We'll see the extreme push back on immigration, race relations, LGBT rights and more and the left/EU-minded lot will be rightfully to blame for it.
It’s basically smooth brained thinking of “oh my tribe is taking this side? Well then let’s lump everything else tribe says is correct into it and let’s try spinning that’s a good trick.”
Like you, have lived in London my whole life (well, grew up in Watford but then Brixton, Kennington and Stockwell).
Probably more like The Expanse where nationalism sits on planetary / offworld lines.
To be fair, the big difference between protests by unions, climate people or years back when taxi drivers in major cities protested Uber setting up is that those mobs of people dont spew hate rhetoric or rip down kidnapping posters. Nor do they have tendencies for possible violence, vandalism or if it gets really worse like mid east tensions, kill or behead people.
I'm not from London, but when I was in London in 2018 just north of Hyde Park I walked through some streets that were pulled right out of the middle east. Afro-Caribbeans or Asians assimilate into the societies they immigrate to, they also don't aspire to replace the culture with their own. That is also true for Muslims who immigrated decades ago, mostly East Asian Muslims. Unfortunately, it is not the case for Arab Muslim immigrants in the past two decades.
Yes, London is a city of many different cultures. But most of them aren't 15% of the population (a figure which is growing fast), aren't concentrated in the same neighborhoods, and most of them try their hardest to assimilate into the existing culture while still preserving their own culture.London is a city of many different cultures, and some cultures are more concentrated in some areas more than others.
It makes me laugh when I see people writing stuff about how Muslims are taking over the city, or how western values are going to get overtaken, because I live in North West London. You know, the bit where all the rich white people with power actually are. There are some unpleasant ultra-religious people floating about the city in some places, but I ain't worried about them grabbing onto the levers of power any time in the near future.
Also... north of Hyde Park? Where do you mean, Paddington? Because fuck me, that's about as far away from the middle east as you can get
The problem IMO isnt even so much assimilating. It's simply not being assholes.
They don't understand this is a war. Before the dust had settled on the 7th, they knew what was coming. They were warned for weeks, were supposedly given support and the notice was global. No nation will ever be as formal as Israel was before this. These lunatics are saying "you're bombing babies" because they were setting Hamas/Gaza/Palestine as the victims day 1.
That's really disturbing. Granted the total population in the U.S. is far greater...it's still only about 1.1% in the U.S.
I can't remember the last time a "Chinatown" mob wanted me dead. Just saying. Anyway, what he said:
That doesn't sound good at all.
Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Filapino cultures have a big enough presence in Toronto. Ok, maybe not so much Japanese people. But there's Koreatown areas too.
Sometimes you should be tolerant of 95% of someone's culture while denouncing the 5% that spreads hate and counters every part of Western values. It should be well enforced, it should be clear that it's not OK.
I highly doubt that, the vacuum of power in the region would lead to an implosion that would affect any human being in the area right away. These morons can´t think one step ahead and comprehend the consequences.
Sorry, but no. I went to an extreme left-wing university and people there had no fucking idea that means "let's get rid of Israel". I don't like this extremist way of thinking. Ask them if they mean the jews should be exterminated and removed from there and see how many will actually say yes. Do many Arab immigrants think that? 100%
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Oh, I see what you mean. Yes, of course the people who said "gas the jews" mean what they're saying. I was referring to the people yelling "Free Palestine" and "From the river to the sea". I genuinely believe many westerners don't understand that it's not a peaceful two state solution in which Israel gives back the land they've taken since 1948, but basically the destruction of the Jewish state so that it goes back to being part of the Arab world.
Nope.
Wrong. No. Nope.
Again, we're lauding Uni students way too much here as being ignorant victims persuaded by a cause that 'they don't understand.' Why not ask these students then what "free Palestine" means? Why not ask them what "from the river to the sea" means? This isn't like the Twitter posts where people didn't know 'which sea' that was. I'm not giving credit that they know every detail because from the time I was nearly graduating from High School; teachers were giving 'lessons' on the difference between Sunni and Shi'a muslims to state: one side is peaceful vs. one side is violent. If you take their word for it without going through the history of Islam. They're the teachers...so they must be right. Because not all have to discern or ask questions. That's where most start.
In terms of the texts that inspired European culture to be less theocratic and more humanistic, it was totally the Greek cultural texts preserved in Constantinople that were a major inspiration. Subjects like mathematics and astronomy might be full of Arabic, but Greek is even more prevalent in western science and humanities. Abstract ideas like Arabic numbers and Star Names were not a challenge to the theocratic authority of the Roman Church in Western Europe when it came to having the last word on knowledge.
Are you trying to deny what the released hostages said? It's all Stockholm Syndrome?
Yes. Plato, Aristotle, Archimedes, etc., preserved in Constantinople. Some other works like De Rerum Natura were preserved by monks hidden away in Europe, too.
Yeah, I believe it is commonly accepted that the fall of Constantinople and the migration of scholars towards the west led to the Renaissance.
It is funny how people are trying to cancel, fire and "hunt" people over some stupid things said on Twitter, yet when people are openly chanting "gas the jews" then suddenly "they don't what they are talking about".
Stockholm Syndrome from the Hamas' released Israeli hostages? I think we're done here. Someone tripped and stumbled into a pitfall of cuckoo.
That's censorship and security to go about it that way too. They understood "gas the Jews" was bad but, "from the river to the sea" they just chanted coz' everybody was doing it? I used the 7-year old conscious as an example because if a child knew this was wrong; parent or guardian will correct them. Someone who's over 18 and in college someone how didn't know what they were doing before putting on a keffiyeh, holding up anti-Semitic posters and chanting 'free Palestine' doesn't know what they're talking about? Right.
Arab muslims didn't went full Aloha Snackbar until later. They had quite the brainpool then, of which two stand tall in many ways, one of them philosophy: Avicenna and Averroes.
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indeed.
That’s because gender reassignment can be used as a form of conversion therapy to get rid of homosexuality. So it’s fully compatible with Islamic and Sharia law. Iran is one of the biggest countries for transgender surgeries, it fully embraces it and forces it on homosexuals because the alternative is death.
