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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 3rd 2023 at 11:15:30 AM
A procrastination in of itself
Considering the Galloway is an anti-Semitic mouthpeice for several of the most brutal and dictatorial regimes on the planet (Iran, Russia, North Korea, Syria) it's possible it was something along the lines of "you racist asshole, if you had your way all Jews would be dead in a new holocuast". Which isn't that unfair a representation of Galloway's political belifes, though it doesn't justify assaulting him.
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Now, now, don't put Iran and Russia on the same level as North Korea and Syria. That's just inaccurate.
Except for gay people.
And Ahmadinejad appears to be popular with transgender people.
edited 29th Aug '14 4:09:33 PM by TheHandle
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A procrastination in of itself
I ws simply listing the regimes that he supports because they fight against the west, I'm pretty sure Saddam and Gaddaffi were both also on hue he list of people he's supports until they got removed from power.
Plus Russia might not be as bad to its own people as Assad is, but they're the ones keeping him in power (well them and Iran) so both the Russian and Iranian governments are in part culpable for Assad's crimes.
edited 29th Aug '14 4:32:54 PM by SilasW
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I'd imagine that depends entirely on what the man was shouting about the holocaust.
'It was aimed at the wrong Middle Easterns', apparently.
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What a cunt.
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I'd be lying if I thought Galloway wasn't asking for something like what happened — it was inevitable that something like that was going to happen at some point.
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Generally, though, it doesn't take all that much to be mugged by a neo-Nazi regardless of who you are.
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Isn't only one of them an anti-Semite?
Sunday newspaper review:
edited 31st Aug '14 1:13:32 AM by Greenmantle
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Only one of them is a Britain First supporter who's saying stuff like this on his Facebook:
If we fail to check Islam in precisely the same way as we, using the most advanced laws of the day, did against Catholics for centuries, then a greater antisemitism with a far greater darkness than the Nazis will be sure to follow.
Where Jews suffer, we are all doomed to suffer... eventually.
Kill the beast, it must be slain. Keep destroying it until it starts to destroy itself.
PS Catholics have paid their dues to the protestant ascendancy and are now reconciled; why does Islam get the free pass...? Now that is an infinitely more unfair form of discrimination against humanity if we fail to stop it.
The fact is that many (though not all) neo-Nazi groups have switched over from bashing Jews to bashing Muslims. Sometimes this is a tactical decision due to the bad PR associated with antisemitism (because, y'know, the Holocaust), and they want to target an ethnoreligious minority who are getting worse press in their home countries. Those folks still tend to come out with anti-Semitic stuff every so often because neo-Nazis are thick and bad at staying on message. Others, meanwhile, are sincere about their belief that Israel is Western civilisation's bulwark against the teeming brown hordes, which is how you get bizarre shit like this.
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* Sigh *
So it's a right-wing extremist attacking a left-wing...whatever he is?
Other News:
UKIP, Missing Children & Obesity:
- Stuart Wheeler: More Tory defections to UKIP 'odds on'
- Ashya King found in Spain as father speaks in video
- Rona Fairhead to be BBC Trust chairwoman ...no Charlie?
- Health leaders call for emergency taskforce on obesity
Europe, Syria & John Major speaks on Immigration:
- David Cameron welcomes new European Council president's pledge
- Islamic State extremists threaten all of Europe, says Cameron
- UK must offer asylum to terror refugees - Archbishop of York
- Sir John Major praises immigrants for 'guts and drive'
Scotland:
- Scottish independence: Jim Murphy suspends campaign tour
- Scottish independence: How might a currency change affect the rest of the UK?
Others from The BBC:
- Why I took off my headscarf... only to put it back on again
- A Point of View: Why Orwell was a literary mediocrity — Anyone else know about Orwell's listnote ?
edited 31st Aug '14 1:56:18 AM by Greenmantle
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@ "A Point of View": how many synonyms of "boring" can you cram into a few paragraphs? At any rate, that article is full of crap.
@Headscarves: those aren't prohibited?
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...no, why would we ban a piece of clothing?
Orwell's list is a list of people he considered unsuitable for a job with the IRD, not exactly a list of people to be purged by those noted terrorizers, the Attlee government.
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I dunno, ask the French. I'm pleasantly surprised, really.
edited 31st Aug '14 2:54:50 AM by TheHandle
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Because several other countries do place restrictions on 'em, I guess. Like our neighbours across the Channel.
edited 31st Aug '14 2:53:43 AM by Iaculus
What's precedent ever done for us?
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@ Handle: Anyhow, we're apparently more concerned with the Burqua then the headscarf...
@ Achaemenid: Just strikes me as an awfully right-wing thing to do, that's all. Then again, the Attlee Government were a patriotic lot.
edited 31st Aug '14 2:57:52 AM by Greenmantle
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We are too busy working hard and inventing things to ban burkas, not like les communistes du laziness. 
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Is it possible for a parent to kidnap their own children? Who'd be paying the ransom?
Kidnappings don't happen just for ransom purposes. They also happen if you think that the child is better off with you than with whoever is currently in charge of it.
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Or for... creepier reasons. See also, what Josef Fritzl did to his daughter. Or don't, if you want to sleep at night.
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The public health professionals' body will call for a national food policy, including a sugar tax, as concerns rise over malnutrition and vitamin deficiencies in British children. It will also appeal for all political parties to back a living wage to help combat the illnesses.
Doctors and hospitals are seeing a rise in children suffering from ailments caused by poor diet and the faculty has linked the trend to people's inability to afford quality food. Latest figures show there has been a 19% increase in people hospitalised in England and Wales for malnutrition over the past 12 months but experts say this is only the extreme end.
Dr John Middleton, from the FPH, said the calls would come in the faculty's manifesto to be published next month and warned that ill-health arising from poor diets was worsening throughout Britain "through extreme poverty and the use of food banks".
Bloody hell.
"Yup. That tasted purple."
I'd imagine that depends entirely on what the man was shouting about the holocaust.
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