quote from Spect8or
Places where you find the most religious difference, racial difference, linguistic difference, cultural difference are precisely the places where you find the most trouble, hatred and warfare.
Actually, the opposite seems to be the case. The major source of trouble, hatred and warfare worldwide is clearly religion alone, and usually involves peoples that, to our eyes, are indistinguishable, be it racially, culturally, religiously, linguistically or whatever. Ireland? India-Pakistan? Most white supremacists couldn't tell the difference between an Indian and a Pakistani if their life depended on it. Sunni-Shia violence, which caused the majority of Muslim deaths until this recent war (and even a lot during the war), and which has historically resulted in countless deaths? For the rest of us, it is indeed ironic that the fanatical Muslims rage against us in the west, in between attempts to murder and behead their co-religionists.
Rwanda? Are you telling me you could tell the difference between a Hutu and a Tutsi? Who were the immigrants there? Are these the cultural differences you are talking about? Did Stalin not murder millions of his own people? Were they immigrants who were causing problems?
Having said all of this, I totally agree that it is absurd for these Muslim fanatics to come to England and then try to say that they want Sharia law, either for themselves within their community or for all. Go back to a Muslim country with Sharia law. We don't treat women like animals here. We don't break people's hands for petty theft. We don't surgically shatter people's wrist bones of they were caught playing Beatles tunes on a traditional instrument. We don't hang a young woman for flirting with a young man, for the crime of 'acts inconsistent with chasity'. You came to our country to take advantage of the benefits that accrue from being here. You can follow our laws or leave.
By the way, Dan, I thought it was a bit misleading for you to say 'They call us nativists, racists, Anti-Semites...'. Actually, Anti-Semitism isn't a part of the immigration debate at all, owing to many things but mainly to the vanishingly small number of Jews worldwide. It is not the hordes of immigrating Jews that immigration opponents are worried about. Jews aren't claiming that we shoudl abide by their laws. Mostly they want to be left alone to outperform, which is what they tend to do, right? I felt like that was a bit of an attempt to disclaim your own Anti-Semitism as being a part of the more general attacks made against you for your eugenics. I don't think the two are related, necessarily.
