Keith - I have described your actions on another thread - whatever Joe decided at a later date, you overruled his decision and faked an identity. I don't follow football, but it amazes me that you weren't asked to leave the field and take an early shower (and debarred from playing in ---- future matches). The fact that you are still unable to see this says all that needs to be said.
"If it were true, would it be racist to say so."
Your quote
"I believe that sexual repression is behind this crime.
It is well known that it drives some men to commit sex crimes.
Apply it to a close knit community and it is a reasonable extrapolation that some will conspire in the crime."
"A sect in India called Thuggee were predisposed to murder."
Members of a 'sect' in Ireland were found to have raped children - probably for generations.
It is not racist or sectarian to point this out.
It would be sectarian to claim that all Catholics are potential rapists.
It would also be racist to claim that all Irish Catholics or Irish Catholics living in England, or Scotland, or wherever were potential rapists because they had been brought up in that religion.
"BPs are predisposed to marry cousins"
I really wouldn't go there if I were you, considering the history of our Royal family, and some of our own great and good.
I haven't witnessed anybody defending the darker side of Muslim culture (my own two favourite books of all times are 'Kite Runner' and, better still, 'A Thousand Splendid Suns'), but if history should have taught us anything it is (a) That it should be the job of members of any said culture to comes to terms with problems that aspects of that culture raises and put them right, and (b) Something about glass houses and stones!
Disapproving of aspects of any culture only when we are not depending on them for oil can be said to be selective racism, yes.
I understand that 'our friend in Libya' is no longer acceptable, though I did hear a nice Conservative lady minister tell an audience on Thursday night that it was ok to have sold the weapons that are now being used against demonstrators because "It is the right of all nations to defend themselves". It took an audience member to mention oil!
Jim Carroll