Off Topic Paris Attacks !

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Do keep up! ISIS initially were part of the rebel groups in Syria....Al-Nusra are part of ISIS who we fund as well and various other rebel groups.

Do keep up! ISIS initially were part of the rebel groups in Syria....Al-Nusra are part of ISIS who we fund as well and various other rebel groups.

Yes, the group split and ISIS went off on their own agenda. Nobody's denying that. At this time, they are two separate groups, hence the dispute between Russia and the U.S. over the targets of Russian bombing.
 
Yes, the group split and ISIS went off on their own agenda. Nobody's denying that. At this time, they are two separate groups, hence the dispute between Russia and the U.S. over the targets of Russian bombing.
There's ****loads mate <laugh>

YPG, YPJ, PKK, PESHMERGA, IRAQI ARMY, FREE SYRIAN ARMY, ISIS, AL-NUSRA, SYRIAN ARMED FORCES, SYRIAN RESISTANCE

There's probably a hell of a lot more as well...

I support the first 4 groups on there...
 
Thank you for this.

And for the part about the Quran being written in a language that is open to interpretation (a bit like the parables in the Bible ...)

To me it seems that anybody with a dogmatic agenda will cherry pick, twist and warp a Holy text to suit their own ends. Europeans were doing it throughout the world during their colonisations of Africa and the Americas and fighting amongst themselves in their homelands, whilst sending crusades to the middle east.

To me, killing somebody because they don't believe in the same spiritual leader as your own is a complete contradiction to the core message of any religion.

Wrong. Most religions preach they are superior.

Stop looking at then as moral compasses and see then for what they are. Political parties. Each has its own agenda and while thousands of years on, those original agendas have been forgotten about by most, it doesn't mean it didn't happen.

People are aware the world was a brutal place in Muhammeds time, Jesus time etc. People rarely had rights, the very poorest and worst off people were the easiest to recruit with promises of a better life. This better life often involved the forceful conversion of others, regardless of the religion.

Created as a means of control, spread through violence, defended to the hilt.

Religion. Pure Evil.
 
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Wrong. Most religions preach they are superior.

People are aware the world was a brutal place in Muhammeds time, Jesus time etc. People rarely had rights, the very poorest and worst off people were the easiest to recruit with promises of a better life. This better life often involved the forceful conversion of others, regardless of the religion.

Created as a means of control, spread through violence, defended to the hilt.

Religion. Pure Evil.

That is also my personal belief.
 
Cant do that because then who will be the big bad wolf! We need someone to churn out the war propaganda and arms sales all over the world.

Don't worry, the Jews will pony up £20 each and chip in for a nre puppet. That's what you believe right? That Jews run the world in secret.

The current propaganda in the middle was revolves around Iran and Saudi Arabia claiming Israel is responsible for Isis. This is based solely on the fact they haven't attacked Israel... Now I know Israel isn't popular and most Muslims in that region are less than complimentary to Jews bit even Isis are not so stupid to bring Israel into it just yet. They are clearly building support.

And if it held any truth, well Israel would have bombed itself and blamed Isis by now. That's how paranoid conspiracies work? Right.
 
Did try and understand that in context and the messages before that? or is there going to be too many skeletons coming out of the cupboard if we bring them alive and bring them to justice!

I wouldn't bother with them....I've been where you are...at least with me he was not trying his version of Internet shouting and typing in bold <laugh>
 
Wrong. Most religions preach they are superior.

Stop looking at then as moral compasses and see then for what they are. Political parties. Each has its own agenda and while thousands of years on, those original agendas have been forgotten about by most, it doesn't mean it didn't happen.

People are aware the world was a brutal place in Muhammeds time, Jesus time etc. People rarely had rights, the very poorest and worst off people were the easiest to recruit with promises of a better life. This better life often involved the forceful conversion of others, regardless of the religion.

Created as a means of control, spread through violence, defended to the hilt.

Religion. Pure Evil.

Possibly a little harsh. But yes, religion promised people that if they did what they were told they would go to heaven. It was the way to control them, and get the money to support and grow the religion.

Plus, of course, nobody was going to come back and complain that they'd been conned.
 


"And yet he says were all against him. Do keep up Page."


Considering he's British and some British people agree with his view on the subject who are these "all" you're referring to and most importantly who are the us you're a part of?[/QUOTE]

All = those asking questions.

Look, the way I see its Spurlock, Jonny and Highal are people. However they choose to be labeled as Muslims (if that's the case for Highal). I don't give two ****s about their religion, its nothing more that a personal choice they have made. If it wasn't a choice, well, that's a whole different debate entirely.

If religion makes the man, then I don't want to know that man.
 
At least they not banging on about proving your Britishness now...looks like the issues have evolved <laugh>
 
Possibly a little harsh. But yes, religion promised people that if they did what they were told they would go to heaven. It was the way to control them, and get the money to support and grow the religion.

Plus, of course, nobody was going to come back and complain that they'd been conned.

Christians threaten people with Hell....

Nowadays most would laugh but in the relatives dumb world of 2000 years ago, people would have shat themselves. People were sacrificing animals ffs. That world, or it's teachings have no basis in this world.
 
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At least they not banging on about proving your Britishness now...looks like the issues have evolved <laugh>

When did anyone but Page mention your Britishness?

Were talking about your faith. You can choose one, the other not so much.

Edit - to clarify, I dont mean your own faith personal to you, merely the umbrella term that is Islam.

Incase anyone gets confused, Page...
 
Look, the way I see its Spurlock, Jonny and Highal are people. However they choose to be labeled as Muslims (if that's the case for Highal). I don't give two ****s about their religion, its nothing more that a personal choice they have made. If it wasn't a choice, well, that's a whole different debate entirely.

If religion makes the man, then I don't want to know that man.

Something makes us all....you need to accept that..it's obvious you have an underlying hatred for religion....maybe you was in the choir as a kid...I'm beyond rationale with you.
 
<applause> it's a shame you had to publish a biography and a microscopic view of your daily life and thoughts for some of these people to realise that Muslims are normal people @ johnnykopblaws.

Sorry, I've got to step in here. I'm glad JB did make his post, but it only re-iterated what most of us had already posted re our experience of everyday Muslims. Please go back and see what I said re Muslim professionals and work colleagues, for example. That wasn't the point.

Early in the thread a view was expressed that the Muslim community (albeit the French one, in this case - surely no-one believes every Muslim is part of some worldwide homogeneous blob, continuously plotting and communicating with every other Muslim on the globe) don't/isn't doing enough to condemn the perpetrators from their community. To be fair, it's the same reaction many had in the 70's with the Irish community after mainland bombings, oblivious, in most cases, that the Irish were mostly killing each other in Ulster at the time. Nevertheless, a terrorist group primarily identifying ITSELF with a version of Islam commits these atrocities - and analysing that link (in as much to dismiss it as invalidate it, as with the IRA and Roman Catholicism, or indeed Christianity and say the KKK) is seen as 'racist', in some quarters? This is ****ing insane.

The problem with religious tracts written and based in antiquity and the Dark Ages is that power hungry group and individuals will try to use them to, er, gain power. We surely we have the right to critique them (or political ones such as Marx or Hayek, or Adam Smith) without their adherents throwing their teddies out of the cot?
 
Something makes us all....you need to accept that..it's obvious you have an underlying hatred for religion....maybe you was in the choir as a kid...I'm beyond rationale with you.

****ing bingo, in my case. A deep seated SUSPICION, anyway. I don't term that racist, as I don't distrust your version of Sky-Goddism any more than the others, including the High Anglicanism I was brought up in and, hypocritically, Christened my daughter in. But let me ask you this then - if Humanists/Atheists committed this attack in, say, Mecca, do you not think Moslems may, perhaps, be catagorising the attack as a Secularist attack and questioning the involvement of and loyalties of non-believers in their community?

FFS, riots and prison sentences have ensued when people have innocently given teddy bears the wrong name in some Moslem societies.

Sorry you feel threatened, feller, I do. Heaven knows the fear you'd experience if this situation was transposed to some parts of the world. I'm truly glad that isn't the case.
 
I've followed some of the argument on here and wanted to add my thoughts.

The Paris attacks have caused a lot of media attention and people have taken to the usual social media to vent and to show support, it's sad that the same attention was not given to the people who were killed in Turkey and it's sad that the usual idiots turned it into an anti Islam campaign one person stood out to me as he posted a comment condeming Islamic leaders for not coming out speaking against IS, they certainly did come out and condemn the attacks but one idiot not bothering to actually check this caused a huge amount on anti Islam comments. People are too quick to wade in without knowing the facts.

Some have then highlighted the attacks on Syria and Yemen and highlighting the suffering of those people and the wrongs inflicted upon the region by the Western world, this has to stop, intelligence has to improve. Legitimate targets have to be identified correctly and the attack has to be accurate, in any war there are casualties (not that I accept this) but imo not enough is done to keep them to a minimum.

My main point is that regardless of what is happening in Yemen and Syria, the slaughter of innocent people in the name of IS is an outrage that cannot be left unanswered, the intelligence services need to up their game and halt this organisation, they wont stop them I don't think you ever can but at this point they need curbing as they are finding it too easy to carry out their operations.

I ended up in a Turkish Restaurant on Saturday night quite late and it was really quiet in there the owners brought up the attacks and were at the point of deperately trying to distance themselves from any kind of hatred or and dislike for the country they now lived in, I found it really sad. They are nice people who bring a lot to our community and are more welcome than the bigoted idiots I occasionally endure on moronic websites like Facebook.

That's all very well but how was the schwarma mate?