No, it just means that you write total nonsense.

Tom

I'm not sorry.

Am I allowed to dislike Islam?

And if you love it so much then why not move to an Islamic country?

So you just admit that you were wrong on this occassion?

Fill your boots. IRL I'm zero tolerance on bigotry and have no issue with calling it out and accepting the consequences. So my question is...Do you just dislike Islam online, or do you speak up IRL too?

That's a banal response and you know it. The parallel would be, if you don't like how Europe really is, why don't you leave? How does that make you feel?

We are not in Europe, we are in Switzerland.

Tom

Allowed to dislike it? Sure, knock yourself out.
Allowed to blame muslims for all the terrible things in the world, despite having no facts or evidence? No. that isnt preferential treatment, thats just common decency.


I dont love it fyi :-) I nothing it. Im quite happy for them to do their thing as long as it doesnt inconvenience me doing my thing. And, by and large, they're quite happy to do their thing without inconveniencing me doing my thing.


Honestly, hate is just so exhausting, as far as emotional baggage goes. You'll feel much better once you get over it.

And culturally, what continental group does Switzerland belong to?

While it is important to expose every case of racism - modern or not - if you expect an apology or a change of mind from those people you will probably wait for ever. That said, no reason to give up trying, just limit the expectation of direct improvement. The indirect improvement is already worth the effort.

The "shoot first, asked later" has become socially acceptable thanks to FB, Twitter & Co. The standard now seems to be, the speed is what matters, not the content. And the worst bit about this is, that people normally don't need to review their actions as thanks to the speed most around them have moved on and the "fauxpas" (to put it mildly) is forgotten .... the person "got away with it".
Except on a forum like EF, where most people still think before they write.
Thanks for your post. Being a antipole is all we can be yet I believe that is not as insignificant as it sounds.

I disagree.
I'm actually quite surprised we disagree here.

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If there is a God, then I believe he’s more insulted by religion than he is by atheism.

I don't! Do you?

I do actually.
Unless it's a banter thread

I somewhat agree with you there - but I also wonder if their numbers were to grow larger if they would remain content to do their thing without inconveniencing me doing my thing?

Is there anything else?

Actually at the time KK posted the data in question was already available (I checked). He/she simply didn't bother looking.

I tend to think so.
Silly me

Looking bears the risk of facts not suiting the prejudice.
Very risky, indeed.

Their numbers are already beyond the critical mass, where if they wished to impose their thing upon me, they would be doing so already.

They want to eat a different kind of meat? Fine, as long as they dont prevent me from getting and eating my type.
They want to wear different clothes? fine, as long as i can still wear what i want.
They want to gather in special buildings and pray their special way? fine, as long as i can gather in the buildings that i want to gather in and do as i please there.
They want to speak their language? fine, as long as they dont insist that i do as well.

I've no reason to be afraid of a bunch of people who pray to a figure that i dont. In many ways they support my community and i'm grateful that they do.

Plenty of my kind have, historically, done far worse to them then a few of their kind have done to a few of my kind. The only difference is that my kind called it empire-building or colonisation or whatever.

All that history ended up making things far worse than they needed to be. I have no intention of continuing that cycle.

Someone else has said this BS somewhere else on the forum - if the Muslims in Europe wanted to flex their muscles on the Europeans they would be annihilated.
Europeans are pretty good at the whole war thing if you hadn't noticed.

Oh, just like in all the Muslim-majority countries right? How’s that freedom of religion working out for minorities?

Not so good which is why we don't want to follow their lead?
Unlike you apparently?

What on earth are you talking about? Who's going to war? I just looked outside my window and can confirm that the Muslims have not invaded Aargau.

Nobody is talking about conquest of Europe here, apart from a few crazy morons on the fringe of the right wing, who believe there is some mad conspiracy about muslims conquering europe by manipulating the birth rate. You mentioned 'inconveniencing others'. Do you think that that excludes everything but war?

We're not talking about the Muslim majority countries, we're talking about Europe, where most countries are either secular or not that bothered about their state religions.

Are your your arms tired from moving those goalposts to basically the other side of the world?

And if a European country, CH hypothetically, was to become a Muslim majority country?

I think it would be fundamentally different, and not for the better.

There's absolutely no way that CH or any other Western European country could suddenly, or even over the course of several generations, shift to being majority Muslim.

Why do you keep banging on about this? We get it, you're a raging Islamophobe, why do you feel the need to keep reminding us?

Yeah, okay, who in his right mind would do that?
Sorry, couldn't resist.

Separation of church and state does wonders.