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You really are something special Better go to sleep before mummy ad daddy realise your up
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There is arguably an equal evil rearing its head in germany right now as was apparant with the marches in Dresden etc. Ok, its not so religiously charged as the Islamic extremists are but it is still effectively a religious group denouncing another religious group. (Stereotype alert)Personally I think its all about education, we are generally more tolerant as a society compared to many islamic societies towards other ways of life and I think its because we are more educated. There are however three things that control radicalisation; Oppression (or the belief of such) - As is apparant in Germany(past and present scarily), possibly in factions such as the EDL and in islamic factions such as IS etc. Impressionable characters - Who I suggest tend to be more mentally fragile or less educated IMO. Can be convinced that they are being oppressed. Fear - IS and factions such as the original Nazi's were good at this, effectively threatening people to see things there way.
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In all honesty you cant. There is a conceivable threat that there could be a retaliative attack on mosques or worse etc from christian groups. Unfortunately its so difficult to police. Personally I think that certain immigration should be curtailed, to a degree, but thats a different situation. Effectively banning Islam will, IMO, have a greater effect of pushing practising islamists into the arms of the extremists. The only real way is to effectively brush it off and not change as a society. Removing the right to follow a religion etc will be more damaging to our rights of freedom then it will be effective at stopping extremism
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The flipside to that is that it creates extreme ideology, insular societies and distrust between different religious groups and in some cases encourages violence (and lets be honest that is the case of both Christianity and Islam) There is no right or wrong answer, I am deeply Athiest, does that mean I am going to chastise people for believing in something that is so very unlikely ? No, everyone is entitled to their beliefs rightly or wrongly. The truth of the matter is there is a black and white in everything. For all the good religion brings there is bad. Religious extremism isnt anything new, and as barbaric as the shootings are it probably isnt anywhere near as barbaric as history suggests. Clamping down on islam isnt the answer, as others have said before there was no clamping down on christianity due to the rise of neo-nazism or the breivik incident. Tolerence needs to be applied on both sides.
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Andy Townsend to leave ITV (ITV.... that's ITV, not Sky!!)
Smirking_Saint replied to 5string's topic in The Saints
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We could buy someone very good in a position we actually need for that money
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It was all going well untill you mentioned Hermandez in the hole....
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Even Jovetic on his day can be a great player but yes, saying Dzeko isnt a similar player to Pellè is odd. But then SRL is the only target man in europe ?!?
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As good as Matic is, and he is better than Morgan you pay a premium for Prem players. I think its more like 30m personally
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Ive commented that just maybe a deal could be done if Bony went to City. If he played for us for 6 months im sure he could do damage to Citys rivals, highly unlikely but not out of the realms of possible. Permanent ? No chance at all
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True but I thought exactly the same, should bony go there then the obvious two in frane for the chop are jovetic or dzeko, both I think would be excellent for us if available and possibly City would like to get them to someone like us to help harm other teams
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Dzeko on loan then
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Choices choices I suppose. Personally I wouldnt want to go out with someone 30 years my senior but there you go
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I wouldnt be so sure, there were some massive percentage wage rises included in contracts which came into effect sooner than the club expected which apparantly caused us issues getting rid of some of our league 1 deadwood that didnt want to go. I fully expect Gaston and certainly Osvaldo to be arpund tobys wage level. This isnt the championship, we wont be paying 40k to our top players, fonte will be on around 50-60k pretty easily id of said. Like Steve says, if our genuine ambition is top 6 then 75k a week shouldnt be something we would baulk at IMO. As without players at that level we wont stay there.
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Id of said a fitting way would be to run yourself over ? Or alternatively go vigilante on those mason mother****ers
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Ahh no thats not it clarkey, boy gets plenty of unfair criticism
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Lallana and schneiderlin, hoovield, maya, fox, davis, boruc, forster, guly, manè The list continues, JWP has somehow got a bit of stick of some people after arsenal. The problem is we have some kneejerk thickos that dont seem to understand football
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Pirate bay can be accessed through a proxy very easily
