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Thread #135090   Message #3090748
Posted By: Keith A of Hertford
07-Feb-11 - 06:23 PM
Thread Name: BS: Muslim prejudice
Subject: RE: BS: Muslim prejudice
Josepp, no Englishman would ever put cream in tea.
A little cold milk.
We argue about whether it should go in before or after the tea.
The cream is added to jam, which is a distant relative of your jelly, spread upon scones, baps, or similar bakery products.

Good post Lox.
Thank you.
Who could doubt your motivation after reading it?

The trouble is that there will never be "evidence, that proved beyond doubt that Pakistani culture was at the root of these crimes."

My opinion, which I do not put above yours, is that that does not preclude critical consideration of the possibility.

It can never be proved why priests abuse children.
(Similarly, a tiny but significant minority.)
No one ever suggested that it was wrong to speculate about that.

Vaz says that it is dangerous to speculate.
Oxygen for the EDL.
He is right, but it is also dangerous to be seen to suppress debate.
To make them a special case.
That suggestion, of a conspiracy of silence, is meat and drink to EDL.

So, we can agree that there is no proof.
I disagree that it is wrong to make reasoned, sensible conjecture.
Luckily, what we say here on Mudcat makes no difference to anything.
Just old folkies putting the world to rights.
Or not!