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“We in Australia in the twentyfirst century are in fact a great deal more fortunate than the folk of Tudor England, simply because we have a strong legal framework within which we pursue criminals, without checking first which church they go to.”

Why do we have a Middle Eastern Police Task Force? Legal frameworks cannot control the concerns and anxieties of humans.

“But the key point I was trying to get across is that the difference between being deported for being Muslim, and being kneecapped for being Protestant, is almost non-existent. If we haven't learnt that little lesson from history, then we are in for a very hard time indeed.”

Western countries and also Thailand, The Philippines and various parts of Africa are ALL having problems with Muslims who are a minority, and also give problems or at least many restrictions and different rules to non Muslim minorities in majority Muslim countries.

“The implication is that you prefer not to learn from history, but wish to keep making the same mistakes all over again.”

Progressives would not have defended Europe from Muslim invasion as the Crusades did.

But, “The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes.” – GK Chesterton

Don't worry, Peri I do take note of history, past and in the making.

And now in the history in the making the progressives did not protect the 1400 girls in Rotherham and the rest of Northern England it seems.

The normal people in the majority do have concerns.

Constance, you forgot China, India, Russia and the Balkan states, they're all dealing with Muslim aggression of one sort or another.
What's obvious is that "progressives" respect no law save that which is within themselves, they don't trust God nor do they abide by the laws of men.
Jihadist warriors are at least following Sharia law, they're predictable and people know what to expect when they roll into town.
We in the West don't know what to expect from our Social Justice Warriors, you'd think that because everyone knows that sex with children is illegal they'd protect children from molestation but as we see they might or they might not depending on how they weigh up the situation, even as public officials they clearly don't place the law of the land above all other considerations.

It's not what you look at that
matters - its what you see.
Foxy,
Well, in that case what do you see in that link with the reply to the Muslim woman ?

It is difficult to work out whether you are deliberately avoiding the point, Constance, or whether you genuinely don't understand it. Or maybe you are just too time poor to work through it..

>>Paedophilia is not exclusive to the largest institution in the world that is the Catholic Church<<

The comparison is: you want to blame all Muslims for the acts perpetrated by a few. Which is like blaming all Catholics for the acts perpetrated by a few. Too difficult?

>>For a start, I don’t consider Islam a religion, it is more of a political cult<<

There's your first problem. Islam is a religion. Particularly to its adherents. Your opinion is quite irrelevant.

>>You’re talking of another era and it is irrelevant as your comparison is Medieval vs Medieval, now it is Medieval vs Modern which is very different.<<

Tell that to the Protestants and Catholics of Belfast.

>>Progressives would not have defended Europe from Muslim invasion as the Crusades did.<<

There you go again. Let's start another religious war. All the previous ones worked out so well, after all.

>>Don't worry, Peri I do take note of history, past and in the making.<<

Then you are giving a very good impression of doing exactly the opposite.

Pericles,
You want to say something just for sake of saying something, not progressive at all. We know about the Catholics & we know about the Islamists. You are defending the Islamists. Any particular reason why ?

In every case where Islamist extremists attack they kill men, gather teenage girls as wives and women of murdered husbands as concubines [spoils of war] and force them to convert. I attended meeting on Monday night of persons currently working in Syria and Iraq and this is happening right now. Woman are seen merely as lesser creatures to be subdued and for the procreation of more Muslims.