Karnal wrote on Mar 11^th, 2013 at 12:30pm:


You haven't watched the news lately have you Karnal? (BTW, nice to see you return to making sense at least)

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Muslims have even taken soccer hooliganism to a whole new level.

aquascoot wrote on Mar 11^th, 2013 at 2:12pm:


Good question. Why do people get all hot under the collar on the internet?

The old boy's an exception - he has important things to get hot about. I forget what they are, but we excuse him because he's an unassimilated cheese-head. We like to accommodate, you see.

There is no standard Muslim culture, set or laws or values. Arabs seem to be hotheads - maybe they eat a lot of cheese. South East Asians are generally polite and easy going, whatever religion they are.

Including Yadda's Malaysians.

Iranians are very welcoming and friendly to foreigners, as are Turks (so I'm told). Turkey's one of the biggest tourist destinations in Europe right now - particularly for middle-aged women who want to get laid. Former Soviet Muslims seem just like Russians to me - although I'm sure there are differences. They seem to have a similar taste in clothes, particularly tracksuits - and underpants at the beach.

Pakistanis and Indian Muslims can be quite intellectual - as distinct from Hindus, who are all colour and emotion.

And before anyone makes out I'm categorizing (I am), some of these nationalities have told me this about themselves.

But yes, why do people on the internet go on murderous tirades so easily?

My guess is that it's safe. You can say what you want and you don't have to back it up. Yadda would never carry on like he does to a group of Muslims. Like most people, he'd have grave doubts about actually implementing the sort of things he says. Like most, I think pulling the trigger or pressing the button would be a very hard step for Yadda to take.

The only reason we can be like this on the internet is we're isolated from the consequences of our words. If the consequence is right there in your face, people talk differently. We choose our words and tone depending on the response we receive from our audience.

My guess is the most extremist posters on the net are the most lonely - but this is just a hunch.

The "behead all those who insult the prophet" line is an internet thing to say. As soon as the woman who made that sign was confronted with an angry response, she backed down. She pretended she didn't know what she was saying.

Crap. She just had no idea she'd provoke such anger - she forgot that she wasn't on the internet anymore.

Just as video games do not, in themselves, create violent people, I doubt internet extremism does either.

Still, every time a war comes round, it gets more and more dehumanized.

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Yadda's Madrid bombing photos are designed to......create enough anger in his audience to justify his position on Muslims. Yadda is attempting to humanize the victims in that bombing. It's an ill-judged move because it's very hard to humanize the dead. Much better to promote empathy with a humanized object like a child's teddy bear, a sandal, or a set of rosary beads.

The moral equivalence being played here of internet extremism and bombings is very ordinary.

Internet extremism????

Is this the latest slogan of the trendy left to silence any opposition?

I’m sure they have hotel swimming pools in Saudi Arabia, Aquascoot.

The way they get around the strict laws there is blockout curtains and walled compounds.

We don’t need strict laws here. People are happy to live this way on their own accord.

Freewill, you see?

Yadda wrote on Mar 11^th, 2013 at 12:50pm:


hmmm I don't know Yadda, I've never really thought of it like that...

I guess I'm just a 'death cult' kind of a guy