They'd hate that, I'm sure. Like leaves on the line, we'd be the wrong sort.
Well put it this way, if a succession of unidentified individuals who had launched deadly attacks were all found to have the same book in their homes with the same title and the same directives within it about why undertaking such deadly acts would be a good and laudable thing worthy of the highest reward imaginable, do you think we would ordinarily agree that this is a notable common denominator worthy of further investigation?
Oh, I'm not arguing for such an escalation; I don't have the experience in these matters to predict the likely outcome. I'm just wondering how long it will be before governments are forced down this sort of road by popular opinion.
Valls' statements this morning have surely handed Ler Pen a million votes, for example.
I suppose the only real way of addressing the thing properly is to firstly turn off the source of the brainwashing, and that means taking out Saudi Arabia, and that means starting a world war.
It's going to take a US president with quite some strength of conviction to get into that little lot.
I'm not proposing investigating the millions of people who own a copy of The Book That Has Nothing To Do With Islam. But acknowledging this common denominator could, for example, force us to consider whether it may be worth promoting with greater force the idea that the book that they believe to hold the immutable truth of our existence, and that explicitly states that you will go to paradise by killing innocent people, is ****ing bull**** and, if you do not disown it, you will never be truly welcome in our society.
You're a genius Ash. The only way to beat a commie is to attack him from the left. It figures the only way to beat a fundamentalist is to denounce him as a poor muslim.
When Jihadi John was up to his nonsense I was all in favour of starting a Twitter campaign drawing attention to his antics as a DJ and calling him a fraud and a Godless infidel and seeing if we could get his head cut off.
All of the 'kids' I work with were uncomfortable with the idea because they thought it might just work and how terrible would we all feel causing another human being to be decapitated? Err....would've been fine with me :nod: