I never kiss, it costs extra.

"One Nation Under God, has turned into One Nation Under the Influence of One Drug"
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Maybe the rise of Nationalist parties in much of Europe, and far-right openly National Socialist parties in Eastern Europe, Austria and Germany is the new Nazi?

I went to a Terry Eagleton (he is a marxist academic, historian, literary critic and social commentator) paper a couple of years ago where he suggested that Islam and the 'War on Teror' can perhaps be equated to the new 'cold war'.
To wrongly sum up his argument, he theorised that the 'West' needed an enemy to continue the capitalist, industrial complex, high defence spending and monitoring of its people that the 'Western' governments and companies required to continue with their hegemony over the rest of the world.
In looking for a new scare after the fall of the USSR the agents of government needed to look no further than the East again. This time in the guise of the muslims, who even more luckily for the west, also had rich pickings of natural resources to steal at the same time, whilst lacking the ability to defend themselves against the mighty USA.
I thought the lefties on here might like this. To an extent I agree but as I don't like Terry Eagleton at all then I am largely ambivalent. Admittedly, he does have rather a catchy name for an academic but I can't quite put my finger on why.

Red and Blue Army!

I thought that the Nazi party was illegal in Germany & Austria?

Islam as practiced by ISIS has a very good shout as the 'New Nazi'

Wow, what a bunch of crazees they are.

My username has nothing to do with my religious beliefs

I'm not sure where the charge of stirring up 'racial hatred' comes from.

Someone was engaging in illiterate investigative journalism and was found out.....That's pretty much it.

Edited by Stirlingsays (06 Jul 2014 4.58pm)

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

If you have people posing as extremists, they will incite racial hatred. How many other similar pieces of 'investigative' journalism have there been, stoking hatred?
Seems attacks on muslims(particularly women) has increased a lot lately. Posting s***e like the journo wrote will only exacerbate the problem.

Stroking? Aboard?
Seriously, I think posting pro jihadist stiff on Twitter when you are a journalist is out of order. Tweets like that would be used by the likes of Britain First for anti islamophobic reasons.

Stalin's purges and Pol Pot's atrocities were all committed by 'non religious types'. These are two are largest mass murders in history. Unfortunately, 'non religious types' are just as keen to murder people as some fanatical religious types.

Edited by matt_himself (07 Jul 2014 9.13am)

"That was fun and to round off the day, I am off to steal a charity collection box and then desecrate a place of worship.” - Smokey, The Selhurst Arms, 26/02/02

Technically Pol Pot is among the most genocidal of Genocides, not necessarily for numbers but for the percentage of the population (over half the adult population).

I wouldn't generally say the genocide is a particularly religious trait, historically purges, inquisitions and the like were conducted to political purposes rather than religious ones. The justification was simply religious sectarianism.

"One Nation Under God, has turned into One Nation Under the Influence of One Drug"
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I like your posts on the whole, but come on, this is bollocks.

We set our arbitrary measures on what is 'extreme' on either side, then kid ourselves that there is some mathematical mid-point we can work out and say that's what we should do.

Take your point about Colonialism and the Native Americans. I assume you didn't, but someone could suggest the extremities on offer are: no Colonialism, or extinction of a whole race. Thus the moderate position may be said to be moderate Colonialism, but were China to march troops in to Parliament and declare that we were now under their benevolent rule, I imagine the reaction on HOL would not be 'oh well, at least they acted in moderation'.

Back to the thread point, I find the whole thing f*cking depressing. It's like Islam is some new idea which has only just found credence and is now going to take over the world, rape your kids and punch your wife in the face. It's been around for millennia and, like other ideologies, had and has some nutters connected to it, but actually on the whole it's also done a lot of good and the only person suffering from you pissing your knickers over it is yourself.

If punk ever happened I'd be preaching the law, instead of listenin to Lydon lecture BBC4