"Jim's claim that I impugned Muslims is shown to be a lie"
""Don I do now " believe that all male Pakistani Muslims have a culturally implanted tendency""
Yeah - sure it is!
Can I make it clear - I have raised this comment regularly over the years, and will continue to do so, because I feel that it opitomises the racist attitude that makes the lives of non British subjects who choose to settle in Britain, as miserable and as dangerous as it is sometimes.
It is raw, crude racism aimed specifically at an entire community and their religion.
We were given dark hints of another explanation for the remark from Esmeralda the Good Fairy - none yet, and certainly none from our born again Christian, but early days yet; there'l be plenty of opportunities in the future (if the world hasn't ended by then, of course!!)
"More than 50 people have been arrested in the UK since 2013 for alleged Syria-related offences."
Those arrested weer detained for preparing to fight in Syrian - "heading for a "terrorist training camp" as oe paper puts it, referring to four arrests.
Others have been arrested for "withholding information" which breached security laws.
The police attitude is that some of those returning "MIGHT" brign violence to Britain on their return - nothing more tangible that that - the extension of the 'suss law' to include what might happen.
In order to do this, they have converted opposition to Assad to "terrorism" and the training for such opposition to "terrorist training camps".
If only those troublesome Syrians had done as they were told in the first place, we wouldn't have had all this mess, and Britain could have continued to supply weapons, chemicals and riot control equipment to keep them in their place, as Keith suggested ages ago.
Jim Carroll