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ANDREW NEIL: Britain's lack of resilience makes us a laughing stock dailymail.com/debate/article…
You call yourself ‘pretty plants growing in a nice field’ and you ask what’s wrong with me??!! Check yourself into the local sanatorium. Before it’s too late.
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One of the most powerful and memorable monologues ever produced by a UK journalist.
Lance can only be a shadow of a moron to not know of it.
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He probably hasn't seen your monologue tribute to Keith Palmer either. Now that was a powerful one and so good I transcribed it. It's the only bit of television I've ever felt the need to do that for. That's how much it resonated with me.
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I would like to give my informed consent to be putting back on display at Kelvingrove, I dont like it in this cupboard with the mops and buckets
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Saw you on Piers Morgan Andrew. Well done for setting out the facts in the age of disinformation. Thank you.
Macron has lost the plot. Sadly, it’s anything but the first time.
« Ce qui s’est passé aujourd’hui c’est un tournant. C’est la première fois qu’il y a un acte terroriste planifié pour tuer nos compatriotes, nos enfants, a raison de leur couleur de peau ou de la religion qu’on leur donne » « Ne baissez pas la tête »
Emmanuel Macron à Trappes.
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Ce que dit E. Macron est faux
2012 Toulouse Merah tue 3 enfants parce qu’ils sont juifs
2015 Coulibaly assassine 4 pers à l’Hyper Cacher, demandant aux clients s’ils étaient juifs
2016 le père Hamel égorgé dans son église
+ nb autres ex. actes "planifiés" déjoués ou non
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You clearly never saw my response to Bataclan. Watch this and apologise. Or forever remain a twat.
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I see you’re off your medication again. Don’t communicate with me again until the nurse has paid a visit. I’ll alert here now. Bye.
Have you read the quran, it states it is the absolute word of god. It is a fascistic misogynistic evil warmongering totality that destroys all forms of art sport and sublimation, it calls for total obedience ,on conversion or enslavement, extortion taxes, or death. Because it is directly from god 'according to these evil muslims', it cannot be altered and under sheria must be applied exactly. There cannot be a moderate Muslim ,it's a contradictions in terms. They are all, without exception jihadies, as said by many many many very prominent people, who do "unlike you" have some bollocks. You know who they are ,and I'm not just talking about Tommy Robinson. Andrew, do grow a pair.
Saturday's anti-National Rally march in Orleans has been rerouted away from the centre and must end by 13:00 say authorities. We’ll see if that holds. Reports say the court has upheld the ban on Sunday’s march.
French intelligence expects 400,000—500,000 people to march across France tomorrow. Warns of likely attacks on public buildings and other symbols of the state plus "opportunistic looting".
So a repeat of last Saturday expected.
But with some shopkeepers organising their own defence. We shall see.
Even more significant, French security services particularly concerned about 20,000 to 40,000 expected at Saturday's rally in Orleans organised by hard-left (communist) CGT union to protest against Marine Le Pen’s National Rally, which is holding its congress (conference) in Orleans.
The National Rally expects about 5,000 people there on Saturday and up to 10,000 on Sunday, when Le Pen launches her presidential campaign.
Protests on Sunday have been banned — though that doesn’t mean they won’t happen. Orleans will be a tinderbox.
All the polling I’ve seen indicates that the great majority of French Muslims are not Islamists. Have a look.
There was a poll last year showing higher than previous Islamist sympathies. Even in that one only 15% wanted sharia applied in full. Too many in my view but well short of a majority.
Also France's official radicalisation file holds about 15,800 people out of several million Muslims.
However recent polling also indicates rising religious conservatism among young Muslims. That is a concern if it’s a harbinger of political Islamism, not just religious piety.
I suspect conditions for the young in the banlieue = rich pickings for the Islamists.
I don’t deny that. I refer in my post to ‘crossover’ between the two groups. Hamas-adjacent views are an important area of crossover. So is a hatred of liberal democracy. They both want to destroy it.
So let’s unwind your response.
Correct: I do acknowledge a significant Muslim presence among those responsible for the worst violence.
Correct: I also acknowledge there are plenty of non-Muslims involved in that violence, including plenty of white French citizens.
Not correct: I don’t deny Muslims make up a disproportionate part of the violent. I don’t know. Since the ultra-left agitators and the looters all wear face masks and dress in black it’s not easy to distinguish between them. And, as I’ve already said/written, there’s also some crossover between the two groups.
What I do deny is that this is some kind of Islamist led/inspired insurrection. I see no evidence for that.
Yes, Islamists have been part of it and have willingly joined in/exploited the mayhem.
But the main folks behind the violence are the ultra-left activists, a majority of whom are white and non-Muslim.
I also reiterate a simple point, unpalatable to the bigots: the vast majority of French Muslims are not Islamists.
I hope that clarifies my stance for you. For a detailed 45-minute sober and reasoned explanation of what’s happening consult The Andrew Neil Report on YouTube.
PS What exactly do you think I’m frightened of?
Andrew Neil acknowledges that there is a significant Muslim presence among those taking part in the riots in France. He also acknowledges that there are plenty of non-Muslim, white, ethnically French people involved.
However, I suspect the ONLY reason he dismisses the idea that Islamist inspired rioting makes up a disproportionately significant part of the unrest is because he KNOWS that acknowledging such a possibility would risk getting him labelled a racist and an Islamophobe.
His reluctance has less to do with the facts of the situation or common sense, and more to do with one thing...
FEAR...