Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

Were is the voice of reason and the font of all knowledge today [ Fred ]

I think you will find that Christians largely marry just other Christians. The same applies to Jews, Hindus, Mormons, Jehovas, Scientologists, Jaines, Shintoists, Taoists, Buddhists. The same applies across ethnic boundaries. Somalis almost exclusively marry other Somalis.

See this news:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/04/world/europe/ukraine-united-nations.html?_r=0

with luck he's been taken into care at a secure centre

That is a link to a menswear advert!

sorry, updated.

Christians don't preach the killing of non believers , not in Western countrys any more.

edit: unless going to hell is classed as killing , but that is just to put the fear of God into them so the Church can control its members and grow rich and more powerful.

Islamophobia is just a form of paranoia. Very few Muslims care about the politics of islam. I know a lot of Muslims, some Algerian, some Turkish, some Egyptian, some Pakistani and a few other nationalities. At least three quartets of them are not practising Muslims. Of the rest, none of them are anything but peaceful. This type of paranoia has appeared before many times. In the East End, the Huganots came here a couple of centuries ago, Jews came to the same streets such as Brick Lane a hundred Yeats ago. Those street are now home to Bangladeshis and Brick Lane has a huge arch across the road announcing it as Bangla Town. We had the same type of influx of Irish and West Indians. Irish Protestants claimed that Catholics killed babies and drank their blood. That same story was told about the Huganots and the Jews.

Haystacks

Its 2014 now

Christians certainly used to advocate the killing of non believers. We are living in the 21st Century but we are dealing with people from third world countries who's stage of education and development is equivalent to ours a couple of hundred years ago.

Time will make adjustments. As muslims increasingly live in the West, so their offspring drift away from their religion and culture.

Im with alders on the present debate.

Been on TV todays news that our politicians need to be more sensitive when talking to muslims or more fighting in Syria will come back as terrorists.

More sensitive for f-cks sake what about MPs well tory MPs being more sensitive towards the needs of the poor.

Do you not think a lot of these young British muslims have a chip on their shoulder given that they have British passports and birth certificates , what the hell makes them a special case !!!!!!!!!! We bend over backwards in this country to cater for the needs of all ethnics.

HayStack, I agree with your last post, but disagree with previous ones.
I lived with them for 80% of my life. I am confident about what I say - simply, I know them better.

http://english.pravda.ru/russia/politics/03-03-2014/126997-russia_ukraine_crimea_crisis-0/

oops

Boris Johnson: "children being ‘taught crazy stuff’ at home should be taken into care"


I quite agree.

With a bit of luck the Con party and the Kipper party wouldn't have a future.


8-)

Warren Buffett: Last Thing You'd Want to Do Is Hold Money in Times of War - CNBC
Monday 3 March 2014


Berkshire Hathaway chairman and CEO Warren Buffett on Monday when asked about what's happening in the Ukraine said that the "last thing you'd want to do is hold money during a war."

"I will still be buying stock," he said on CNBC. "The one thing you could be quite sure of is if we went into a major war, the value of money will go down. That's happened in virtually every war that I'm aware of," he said.

"During World War II, you know, the stock market advanced."

"American businesses are going to be worth more money," he said. "You're going to be a lot better off owning productive assets over the next 50 years than you will be owning pieces of paper, or I might throw in Bitcoins."

Well you can always count on Boris to worsen the situation.

Yet another posh boy 'way out of touch'.

Russia has issued 3:00am deadline for Crimea to surrender or there will be a military assault. All military installations will be attacked.

What times that here Hays????

Ill be watching SKY news.

Haystack - was that 3.00am GMT?