Anyone Going To Break Cover

You make a fair point. Those three were exceptions, but I should have made mention of them.

If you analyse the numbers you will see an overwhelming preponderance of Asians among the Islamic fanatics who threaten to visit death and destruction on Europeans.

Not sure where you can find any claims I've made about my ability or otherwise to express myself - but thanks for the compliment (even if it's is somewhat backhanded!)

I and others of sound mind make their own judgements about those who insult their intelligence. Obviously you are cleverer than us - or even those who govern us - because you can see things we can't.

 

Sorry. Irony doesn't play well on forums or, indeed in any written communication unless one knows one's interlocutor well, without insertion of the ubiquitous lol, does it? I thought because you were so bright you might also have been the exception to the rule and have spotted it. My mistake. I apologise.

 

In your opinion ...

 

I think it's the poor driving skills of other road users that puts them off. But my MTS gives me a totally false sense of security so I carry on!

 

Actually the Americans, the overwhelming majority of whom I could not count as friends, are delivering humanitarian aid and fresh water supplies to those areas of the Middle East ISIS claims to "control". As you know, they could probably nuke the whole area and regard the demise of local populations as collateral damage in the war on terror. But they don't, which, I believe, proves that they have a superior moral code to those who attack them with bombs and aeroplanes.

This point is reinforced by the fact that they, along with coalition partners, bombed Christian Serbs who were trying to ethnically cleanse areas of Muslims during the Balkans War, something that is always conveniently forgotten by the apologists for Islamic fundamentalism.

The Americans don't turn the other cheek: that would be ridiculous in the world today. But neither do the take the view that the abominations of others excuse them from taking as civilised a course of action as can be expected, under the circumstances, by refusing to employ their vastly superior resources to achieve their aims.

They have this superior moral code, I think, as a result of immigration from Europe, which experienced 15th-century Reformation of the medieval Catholic Church – tempered by the "benign secularism" introduced by The Enlightenment of the 18th century – both of which are yet to be experienced by the Muslim world, which flowered in the late-eighth century but was ineffective as a progressive force by the end of the 13th century.

Perhaps when it has had similar experiences, it will be able to make a more positive contribution to the world than building golden palaces and buying gold-plated supercars (in the case of its rulers) and flogging dissenters and adulterers and beheading foreigners (in the case of its theocrats). Let us hope so! My real issue is that despite all the Western learning and the history of the mistakes made by Christian states, all of which are available to the Muslim world, it refuses to modify its religiously driven behaviour.

Sorry for the long post, but a few ideas needed airing. Where would you live if could choose anywhere in the world? In other words, to whose world view would you be most comfortable contributing your taxes?

 

Denmark? Have you seen the price of cakes :Wideyed:

 

@TTonup ?

Where would you lay your hat/helmet? Obviously not the evil West, so where, if you had the choice?

 

Seen loads of rangers today, everything looking shiny and clean

 

@stretta - what have I said now?
You don't see irony where it is intended then think you spot it where none is intended. Can't win with you!

 

Making friends again?

 

Where ever is convenient and pays the goiing rate

 

Or perhaps irony doesn't play well in the written word when the interlocutors do not know each other?

And I have never made any claims about the quality of my communication skills. That is for others to judge ....