"Your trouble Jim, is that you don't live in the real world, but in a "liberal" fairyland."
My "liberal fairyland" envisages a situation where human beings are treated as such and not as a source of cheap goods and petrol
Muslims have more right to better themselves than we do at their expense
You dishonestly raise my "transplanting our democracy on the Middle East for the umpteenth time when you have been answered on every occasion- nobody is suggesting such a thing.
These people are fighting for the right to stay alive and feed their families - not for "western", or any other form of democracy - that was what The Arab Spring was about.
We plundered the world for centuries and left out "subjects" with a horrendous mess to clean up after us - the couldn't find their own self-determination under Imperial rule and they have been unable to do so since because of the predatory nature of Western society
They try to better themselves and meet with sneers from the likes of you - and we rely on filling our shops with slave produced goods
You insist they have no lace here when they move to make a living and you describe them as throat-cutting savages - you just have.
You woud rather see drowned children carried out of the sea than have them 'pollute our way of life'
What kind of people are you that do that - beyond my experience
I would rather have a Muslim as a friend and neighbour than a hate-mongerer like you who might just latch onto the fact that I have Irish ancestors
Please add "national" to your claim of socialism - that's where yours is coming from
Jim Carroll