Comments by "" (@titteryenot4524) on "Five die crossing the Channel hours after Rwanda bill passes" video.
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In this whole wider immigration debate, there’s a subtle difference between ‘multiculturalism’ and ‘multiethnicism’. I have a problem with the former if it means each separate cultural group living their own lives parallel and separate from the broad main national culture, which I really only see in a cohort of Muslims. However, I have zero issue with multiethnicism. The colour of your skin bothers me not a jot; it’s only your ideas I care about, and the ideas tend to come into play with ‘multiculturalism’ and separate cultures living side by side. I tend to see only a lack of integration in a cohort of Muslims. I don’t see it in Chinese/Indians/Poles/ etc. Another thing I would say is that I have lived for long stretches in several places around the world and in every single one of these places only 3 things was asked of me: speak the language, pay taxes and don’t break the law. Now, obviously, I wasn’t living in these places permanently, but tbh, that’s all I really ask of those who come here. Most do these things and as they produce generations, these generations tend to meld with the whole. It’s only a rump of Muslims who want none of this.
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@andrewgreen5892 I would generally agree with most of that. However, as a lifelong agnostic, I have very little time for any organised religion. However, the thing that should be said is that I feel zero threat from any organised religion, bar one. If I were a public figure and publicly castigated Jesus, or Moses, or Krishna, or Buddha, or the Flying Spaghetti Monster, it’s very likely nothing would happen to me. If I publicly slagged off Muhammad, it’s quite likely there’d be a backlash and I’d be watching my back for the rest of my life. That’s the difference. Just ask Salman Rushdie or the Batley teacher who, btw, didn’t even criticise Muhammad; he just showed a damn picture! Imagine living in a society where certain people are so offended by a cartoon, they threaten death to the person who showed it! If certain people are so ‘offended’ by a cartoon, then it’s time to question the belief, not the cartoon. It seems Islam is so trigger-sensitive it can’t take honest criticism, when it’s just a bunch of manmade ideas like all the rest. Never let anyone tell you it’s ‘racist’ or a ‘hate-crime’ to criticise Islam. Islam is a belief-system held by people of multifarious races. Islam seems to think it’s entitled to a free pass when it comes to scrutiny. If Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Spaghettiism, etc. are subject to criticism, then Islam is too.
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