Like oil and water. Unfortunately oil floats on top and can be highly flammable.

Kuwait was freed?

What others? Another claim with no source!

I know that you're not known for having subtle opinions but avoid this type of analogy. Many supremacist claimed the impossibility of certain people to mix with "whites" and literally burned them in ovens.

oh, sorry, that's not what I meant at all...

IMO there's no incompatibility of people, only of ideas.

"There aren't 1.6 billion white supremacists out there, thank goodness." Indeed there are many white people but very few extremists same as there are many Muslims but very few extremists!

"Over a million white supremacists weren't let into Europe last year I don't think." Maybe you mean 2015, not last year? In 2015 there were ca. 2.7 million immigrants from non EU countries of whom only 1.4 million were classed as asylum seekers and refugees. So maybe a million white supremacists were let into Europe; how would I know?

Source

"Yeah, the Christians were the crusaders." Crusades are defined as each of a series of medieval military expeditions made by Europeans to recover the Holy Land from the Muslims in the 11th, 12th, and 13th.
centuries.

The Muslims used the terms expeditions or conquests; it can be confusing if you do not use the correct terminology and say the Muslims were crusading.

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Well, that certainly killed a 53 page conversation.

Just out curiosity how many agendas exactly should each post have ?

Coming onto EF with an axe to grind, posting the same bigotted sentiments over and over again across multiple threads and adding almost nothing else. This is a community where we also help one another, discuss life in Switzerland etc.. its not a soapbox. If that is your thing then there are plenty of other forums where that behaviour would be tolerated, but just not here.

Hope that answers the question.

We are discussing international affairs and politics in a section called "Off-Topic > International affairs/politics"...we are in the wrong place?

..and "bigoted statements"? Maybe some "uncomfortable truths", or disagreements of viewpoints...sometimes put in agressive ways...coming from both sides...but I don't see many, or any, bigoted statements.

Strictly speaking that's not true one chap said that the only good Nazi is a dead Nazi (replace Nazi with "socialist" if that doesn't immediately strike you as obvious bigotry) and another chap referred to non whites as "brownies".

Neither of whom seemed to have been banned ... but I'm sure that'll be remedied now won't it ?

We can argue all day but I think the statement posted above by 22 Yards speaks for itself. When you join EF you agree to abide by certain rules as put forth by The Local, you can obviously disagree with them in which case this forum is not for you.

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Better late then never - You referred to the Muslim Brotherhood as democratic in previous posts.

Basic cause in a nutshell - Muslim world failure to reform and importing failed ideologies to the west.

Other cultures suffered major defeats before reforming (for example: China early 20th century, Japan middle 20th century). The Muslim world does'nt yet show signs of reforming.

And I agree and abide by those rules 100%, and really haven't seen any violation of them here either.

FYI, if somebody points out that the majority of Terror attacks today are carried out by Muslims, that's not "bigotry" or "encouraging hatred or violence" towards a group, that's more of an "uncomfortable fact".

And how is saying that "the only good XXX is a dead XXX" abiding with the above ???

The inconsistency of the application of the rules here has always been apparent.

Good point. That is clearly inciting violence towards a certain group. Has that person been banned?

This is surreal but nonetheless I can take this to the Moderator Zone for discussion i.e. In the interests of balance, should the rights of 'Nazis' be respected?

I think inciting violence towards ANY group of people needs to be respected, regardless of the group. Is it legal to commit murder in Switzerland, so long as the person you kill is a "Nazi"?

Self-censorship is working for me. A short ignore list has worked wonders, unfortunately I cannot add one particular mod to that list. it would be good if that could be fixed.

It is legal to commit murder if the person is terminally ill and has an EXIT membership card.

But it's still not OK to say the only good terminall ill EXIT member is a dead EXIT member.

All sweepingly negative statements need to be treated with great care. I don't think any groups should get special treatment in that respect.