reddevil
12th December 2008, 23:31
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article4749183.ece
reading the comments on this article just gets my blood boiling. as a staunch secularist, i'm against sharia law being implemented in the uk. it is right that this was challenged but the debate was hijacked by american neocons who wanted to use the non-existent threat of an "islamic takeover of europe" to justify more zionist and imperial warmongering.
i mean just listen to them. they refer to us under the blanket term "europeans" as though we were a monolothic bloc rather than a large and diverse continent with countless different cultures and histories. they take the words of the vile mark steyn as gospel, despite his arguement being rejected by all serious demographers. the of course we're told we need jesus, that we are "too socialist" and that they don't want to "save us" again. and i'm sorry to say this is a typical american attitude. they have become so powerful militarily and economically that they do not feel the need to learn anything about the rest of the world. so they just talk down to us, suggesting, often without any knowledge or experience of the subject, what is best for people who reside in foreign lands. of course when imperial powers used to do this it was in the name of "civilisation". now it's about "freedom and democracy". but the principle is the same.
reading the comments on this article just gets my blood boiling. as a staunch secularist, i'm against sharia law being implemented in the uk. it is right that this was challenged but the debate was hijacked by american neocons who wanted to use the non-existent threat of an "islamic takeover of europe" to justify more zionist and imperial warmongering.
i mean just listen to them. they refer to us under the blanket term "europeans" as though we were a monolothic bloc rather than a large and diverse continent with countless different cultures and histories. they take the words of the vile mark steyn as gospel, despite his arguement being rejected by all serious demographers. the of course we're told we need jesus, that we are "too socialist" and that they don't want to "save us" again. and i'm sorry to say this is a typical american attitude. they have become so powerful militarily and economically that they do not feel the need to learn anything about the rest of the world. so they just talk down to us, suggesting, often without any knowledge or experience of the subject, what is best for people who reside in foreign lands. of course when imperial powers used to do this it was in the name of "civilisation". now it's about "freedom and democracy". but the principle is the same.