I never intended this to be a row about abortion- though it has brought out the fact that the USA and UK have different internal tensions. I was actually thinking of a visit to a local Asian supermarket, Moslem run. Outside, there was a group of (to me rather hostile) militant Moslems distributing literature (to other apparent Moslems- I wasn't offered any), inside nothing but courtesy. My reflection was on the difficulty of achieving a rational discussion when one (or more) parties takes an absolutist stance.

I would like to put a few questions to the Islamists: if you can't Islamise Britain, what kind of compromises will you need make to reach a modus vivendi? What kind of concessions would you like in return? If no compromise is possible, and you can't succeed, what will you do? If you could Islamise Britain, would you be happy with a state in which you violated the conscience of many of the population?

And in the absence of Islamists on the Cat, I suppose I'll have to put the questions to those absolutists on the abortion issue. If you succeed in outlawing abortion, how do you propose to deal with the social pressures that will cause? 40 million abortions means tens of millions of women you will have forced NOT to have an abortion, presumably against their beliefs as it's not compulsory.

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Post is from GUEST,PMB, who needs to remember to fill in the "from" blank.
-Joe Offer-