It's not the norm but it's not uncommon either. I suspect it's most widespread in areas with a Muslim majority or significant minority since they are more culturally detached but I don't have any actual evidence to support that.
However, I do find it very strange that people are outraged by Muslims trying to spread their faith. Clearly they don't understand the religion and its history very well at all. Though, all Abrahamic faiths are as bad as each other and if it were up to me then none of them would exist in Europe.
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The problem is that the protests are basically the equivalent of lazy atheism - they don't believe in god but they can't tell you why. It's all very inarticulate, uneducated, uninformed, etc..
No, you think?
I do as well, but then again I hate all religions.
But, as Christianity is declining in the US, it's going to create a cultural power vacuum for other religions, much like in the UK. We're just going to have to stand steadfast with our secular government principles.
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how does this video shock anyone? search muslim on google and you'll get 100 more videos and a 1000 more pics just like it. seriously, this is how these "people" are.
Forgive me if my thinking is incorrect here. I'm just theorizing one possibility. If Britain continues to just allow these radical muslims to push on, and blindly, without just cause, call someone who speaks up against what these people are doing racist, is there not a possibility that one day Shariah law might actually overtake Britain and become law itself? I honestly think in America Political correctness has become severely detrimental, but in the UK, what I'm reading from you guys it seems that what I would call "Western guilt" and "self hatred" to an extent is going from annoying to extremely dangerous very quickly. Is there not such a thing as tolerance and such a thing as turning a blind eye?
If you read what I wrote you'd know I wasn't. Ironically, I imagine a good number in the EDL actually see themselves as Christian.
The point was that their protests are instinctive. They can't express why they take an anti-Islamic stance because they're either uninformed, incapable or because they actually are xenophobic. There are a number of figures who can do this and they are the ones who are mislabelled as racist.
there is 1.62 billion muslim, that is like 23-25% of the world population.
you are bound to find the bad ones.
Sadly UK is not the only one limited to such pricks, it's all over Europe.
And everyone is calling these islamic protestors overzealous, yet they still seem to go out and spread their hatespeech.
Who cares what people "call you," if you want to protest against these guys, bloody go out and do it.
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