More killings by Islamists:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-30167886

http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/boko-haram-kills-48-nigerian-fishermen/1/403410.html

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-30167891

Notice how the BBC does not mention that they were Christians killed.(?)

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/22/us-kenya-attacks-idUSKCN0J604W20141122

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Poirot, you have nothing to say - only personal attacks. Juvenile tactics.

Constance,

"Poirot, you have nothing to say - only personal attacks. Juvenile tactics."

Come now....surely I'm afforded an opportunity to reply to this:

"I have previously named some certain females on this forum, Stepford sisters or wives. These people are like robots and always predictable. The supposedly university educated. They’ve been brainwashed by the Marxist academics and are totally intolerant of free thought. I find them very scary."

If personal attacks are juvenile tactics - then you're a hypocrite.

Hi Poirot,

Yes, I think you've been called out on this one too.

Do you have anything whatever to say in relation to the topic ? Any suggestions on how Islamic values can co-exist alongside secular values ?

Yesterday, 45 people killed by a Taliban suicide bomber in Afghanistan. 28 people shot in Kenya for not being Muslim. 56 [people killed by Boko Haram in northern Nigeria. That's called terrorism" using terror as a weapon to silence people.

You're silent on all that, too ? Any chance you can use anything other than ad hominem attacks ? No, I don't think so: prove me wrong :)

Joe

Loudy,

I'm addressing Constance's pearler of an ad hominem - if yer don't mind.

I do apologise though for interrupting the precious flow of daily bile on this thread.

I know how you all get your jollies.

Carry on.....

Constance,

Regarding your post this morning containing links to misery.

Here's some advice from your friend and mine, Tom Hodgkinson.

"....Newspapers set out to provide entertainment and gossip, stories that feed our need for shock and horror. They do it well...you'll find that nine out of ten stories are negative and unsettling. Every radio bulletin, every TV news show, every newspaper and many of our daily conversations drive home the same message: worry, worry, worry. It's a dangerous world out there, filled with crazy, suicidal bomb-hurling terrorists and murderers and thieves and rorters an natural disasters. Stay home! Watch TV! Buy stuff on the web! Curl up on the sofa with a DVD!...As in George Orwell's "Nineteen Eight-Four", we're told that we are in a perpetual state of war - it's just that the enemy sometimes changes. We are no longer at war with the IRA; we are now at war with AL-Qaeda. Different enemy, same anxiety and the same end result: mass powerlessness."

"...Fear is an efficient controlling device. It also helps us to fulfil our roles as consumers. It is fear of life itself that keeps us spending in the arcades and typing our credit-card numbers into websites. Fear that will prevent us from breaking out, fear that will stop us, like Chief Bromden in ken Kesey's "One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest", from tearing the control panel out from the floor in Nurse Ratched's ward, hurling it through the window and vaulting over the fence into the wild prairies, escaping into ourselves. Much easier to line up with the others and take the pills."

(Banish Anxiety; Be Carefree & Smash the Fetters of Fear..."How to be Free":)

Floundering Swan,

So, nothing of your own then ? No idea about one of the crucial issues of our times ?

Another hope dashed :(

Joe