But as assistance to him in his search for truth, I went to You Tube and found this video of the protest in London, along with several other videos that I didn’t waste my time watching. Mabruk can use his own time on that.

No objective, fairminded individual can claim that these are fake.

Jeffery Hodges

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I have no quarrel with Muslims as people. I do, however, have rather a dim view of religion generally (Christianity included), and of certain forms of religious thinking in particular. What I have consistently expressed in these pages is criticism of a set of ideas that I see as starkly incompatible with, and inimical to, the foundations of Western culture.

You are entitled to your own opinions, of course, and in this culture (unlike Islamic societies), you enjoy the freedom to express them. Given how utterly unproductive this conversation has been, however — and given that I am, as you say, a “pig” who is “unworthy of intelligent conversation” — I’ll be grateful if you would henceforth express them elsewhere, “dude”.

It is my custom, when these conversations have reached the point of diminishing returns, to offer my interlocutors the last word. So go ahead, if you like.

Well, let’s check and see if you’re prone to any exaggeration: “i have been asked millions of questions every time i fly.”

I rest my case.

Jeffery Hodges

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If you want to be harder on radical Islam than I am, as you suggest, then you certainly have my blessing. But you needn’t tell me; you’re preaching to the choir. Go find some more effective venue.

I can assure you that I haven’t been making any faked photographs, and I doubt very much that these are fake. If you look at the first two photos (we are talking, readers, about the pictures at this post), you will note that the same poster, carrying the friendly slogan BEHEAD THOSE WHO INSULT ISLAM, is visible in both, from different angles (this is true of other signs as well). Compare the details.

The pictures, I think, are real.

By the way: if you are trying to demonstrate that is unfair to single out Muslims as dangerous and easily provoked, and as not fitting in well here in the secular West, you could do better than to go around calling people “pigs”, and talking about “reporting” them for expressing their opinions.

If you would like to lobby for better treatment of your co-religionists (who are not exactly working hard, I must say, to curry favor amongst the infidels), you are welcome to do so, but please find a more appropriate venue, or at the very least a more appropriate post. Perhaps this one.

Kevin

“Now we should act as a country the same way we acted the last time we had an act of terror like this. Let’s round up all the christens in this country . . . .”

I cannot read your mind, just your words. You would communicate better if you would write with precision. I’d suggest that you begin by exaggerating less.

Jeffery Hodges

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