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Seventy two years ago now men were dying on the beaches of Normandy.

Hmmm ..... So you call for the "rounding up" of a certain group of people, someone responds with "Try it!", you claim emotionalism to justify making that group illegal? Logic and common sense really escapes the right, doesn't it.

It's not a phobia even if they aren't trying to kill you. If they represent a system which threatens your view on how society should be ordered, then there's nothing wrong to oppose them.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/saudi-arabia-cut-ties-with-qatar-gulf-nations-diplomatic-rift/ Qatar is Sunni, hence the ties with Iran in a sense. But that even makes less sense with the US's 5th Fleet having their home there. They are really closing Qatar off from all angles. So something interesting is about to happen with a major power struggle or power shift in the Arabic nations in the M.E. I can see that Saudi Arabia (Shiite) and Qatar with the Sunnis that this would be an inevitable conflict. What is going on over there???

How do you expect to round people up without resorting to violence in the first place? My call is for our defence against that.

Behold the leftist immediate reaction to adversity- direct call for violence. There will be casualties, apparently. Just as we see in the behaviour at university campuses these days. Eyeball's (and others) emotional, violent outbursts exemplify the very problem with leftism that should make it, yes my friends, illegal.

All unilaterally opposed by your friends, the Taliban.

And why hasn't he been turned in by any mosques/congregations/whatever ?

Poor Sadiq. When he said Islamic terror is part and parcel of living in London, he meant it in the most peaceful way. Dirty kuffar always getting it wrong...

The zionist conspiracy bullshit part.

Debates, criticism of extremist, terrorist or fundamentalist views or for that matter anything is not a phobia. If someone deliberately smeers an entire people with negativity they might be afraid of something which drives their hatred and scapegoating of these people.. but not all the time. Some people use Islamophobia to refer to what they see as unfair attacks lumping all Muslims as evil saying its fueled by ignorance and fear of what Islam actually is. Some use the word Islamophobia to try shut down any legitimate as well as illegitimate criticism of Islam. All depends on who is using this word and how. Certainly the MP never denied it nor did Trudeau because they leave it as an open ended Catch 22 label for any criticism of Islam. As for bigots, I prefer myself they speak out and their beliefs challenged then sweeping them into the same category as legitimate debaters and shutting them both down. Words without context just in themselves have become very powerful tools now to be used to shut people down from the full context of what they say or mean once they utter such words.. Like you suggest one man's paranoia may be another's reaction to perceived real danger. Its a line-a line of subjective perception right now blurred precisely because terrorists take on the uniform and appearance of ordinary people making it hard to differentiate them from peaceful people. Hey yesterday the news comes out that one of those terrorist idiots in London was on the police radar and even in a documentary about radicals showing himself with a Daesh flag and spewing out epitaphs to the public. Because the UK is a democracy it did not arrest him simply for his opinions. People now understandably are asking do we wait for an actual act of terror or arrest them before they engage in the act. Well if you did on what grounds in a democracy like Britain? You have the right to be an extremist idiot as long as you do not actually say you will kill someone or someone else should. Terrorism is designed to test our freedom of speech, our very thresholds of tolerance. Its designed to get people to fear. Terrrorism-is deliberate psychological warfare too have people fear so the very civility of their lives breaks down into base primal reactions of anger, aggression, hostility. Wen someone is afraid they are easily manipulated. So look to who most benefits from having people manipulated. Three kinds of leaders emerge in the midst of terror and chaos. One is a tyrannical bigot exploiting the fear and anxiety to call for Draconian measures. The other is a Queen Elizabeth-Truman-Churchill-Golda Maer warrior like leader who rally people around their hope and strength not fears, The third is the Martin Luther King-Ghandi-pacifist. I think the world misses its Bobby Kennedy Martin Luther King figures and they are valuable in times of uncertainty but the cold reality is we need Churchill-Truman like leaders and their are none at the moment. We have a vacuum in world leadership to rally us in the face of extremism.. Certaily China does not offer it. Putin is no visionary just a thug for the Russian mob and Trump is the ultimate legacy of Americans brought up on junk food-stunted in intelligence and rotted by over saturated food. Well I certainly don't sit around waiting for a Messiah. You, me. each one of us as an individual becomes the Messah by refusing to fear, refusing to give in to hateful stereotypes and by continuing to go about our business as best we can. That stiff upper lip may seem ridiculous but it sure as hell is what defeated Hitler. It can defeat him it can defeat any two bit terrorist. No cowering. No stupid knee jerk reactions, resolute, focused calm. Takes more then some terrorist scum to manipulate my emotions. Maybe Jennifer Lopez in olive oil and nude dancing but, not terrorists.

So about 9,000 years ago. 3,000 years before the creation of the universe.

"History" refers to events after the discovery of writing. "Prehistory" refers to events before writing. Chinese history goes back a little over 4000 years. The record of chinese "civilization" (agriculture, villages, etc.) goes back many thousands of years before that.

Gotta run. Bye.

You have been misinformed. While the fossil record is obviously not complete when you are relying on an event (fossilization) which occurs only under extremely rare conditions, but (like most critisisms of science) the "confusion" is grossly overstated and limited to details, and not the overall picture. And one thing that is not confused is that fossils are layered and not mixed. They could not have been layed down in a flood.

Let's freaking hope so.

And it happened twice: Adam and Noah.

Not really if by traditional scholars you mean Islamic authorities. No authority anywhere on the planet will tolerate their great unwashed thinking for themselves.

Trudeau snatches Seacrest's phone for a selfie...he is the Selfie King ! http://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/trudeau-live-kelly-ryan-1.4146085

I not only believe we should be able to remove the citizenship of immigrants who turn out to be our enemies, I think we should be able to remove the citizenship of the native born who turn out to be our enemies. The US should remove his citizenship and send him to Afghanistan, where he can be with those he loves.

It's not a phobia if they really are trying to kill you... and they really really are trying to do that.

Yup, totally fine. I can tell you to shut the fvck up for whatever reason I feel like. That speech is protected too. Look... you blab on about the "forces of the left" and that kind of moronic bullshit. The reality is that 90% of this country is to the left of you. So you and people like you feel like you are VICTIMS. The media is out to get me! The schools are out to get me! The poor are out to get me!. People don't want to here what your acolytes have say because they think its stupid. Get used to it, because its not going to change.

You make a good argument ... for atheism. "God's plan" is unknowable, capricious, and as likely to take the guilty as the innocent. So, exactly the same situation as if there were no plan and no God. Therefore by Occam's razor... God willed the children dead, and it was Good because he is Good. Inarguable, but empty of meaning, and so not very convincing.