From: Don(Wyziwyg)T - PM
Date: 06 Jun 13 - 07:45 PM
""I expect Don will see this as further evidence of my imagined imminent application to join the EDL. Others less tunnel-visioned by their conditioning, which even a man of his apparent intelligence seems unable to break out of, will recognise the truth of what I have said.""
Now, where and when have we seen the followers of a religion used as a bogeyman to arouse fear and hatred in a population before?
I would have thought that Mike would be the very last to follow that model!
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""He still remains oddly cagey about whether he actually dared to watch that Luton demo video; or to report, if so, how he reacted to it.
Why so, I wonder?""
He watched it, end to end, and found it just as offensive as most of your recent posts Mike.
See my last post for the reason!
Don T.
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I would have thought Don would have been the last person so hidebound by his conditioned preconceptions as so wilfully to misinterpret what has been, IMO & with all due modesty, quite clearly stated.

No-one is 'using {all] the followers of a religion as a bogeyman'; only a minute but unhappily prominent & effective segment from within the followers of a religion. You know that, Don; don't pretend you don't. This constantly adduced but weary old argument that most Muslims aren't Islamists makes as much sense as to urge, when a hydrophobic dog is on the loose, that there is no need for alarm because the vast majority of dogs are not hydrophobic.
& you have seen that programme, then? So you will appreciate that there may in fact be a fair element of the 'bogeyman' in the population of a town where there is a high proportion of the followers of a religion concentrated [14.6% acc to wikipedia].

But the thing that I really would not have expected from Don is that he would have resorted to name-calling ['EDL', 'offensive' ...] instead of actually engaging, point by point, with the arguments I have postulated. Try reading my last few posts again, Don, with as much objectivity which the natural distaste your conditioning and preconceptions will allow [more than they have allowed so far, that is to say!]. Till then, I regret we can have no more to say to one another on this topic.

~M~