Will it all fall on deaf ears?

[anotheoldgit]

http://tinyurl.com/2u2do7y

David Cameron tells us that the terrorist threat to Britain is "as serious as it has ever been".

/// He also suggests that Britain faces fundamental questions about why young Muslims continue to be drawn into violent extremism. The Islamic community must help address how their minds are "poisoned", he says. ///

Will the indigenous population sit up and take notice, let alone the moderate Islamic community?

[naomi24]

Sandy, yes exactly. The people do still have to live in their communities, and apart from the loyalty issue, that's another of the reasons the moderate Mulsim won't inform upon his neighbour.

Your posts don't advocate murder, but you seem surprised that you are perceived to be ignoring and exusing the intent of the people who do.

They came first for the Communists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.

Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.

Then they came for me
and by that time no one was left to speak up.

Pastor Martin Niemöller

[jno]

let me see, I'm a troll, I've taken leave of my senses, I'm an utter imbecile. Vicious personal attacks are so often a sign of people infuriated by someone who dares to disagree with them. In their ideal country I would have been denounced (secretly) for dissident tendencies long ago and whisked off to the gulag.

Abuse away, you know it makes your argument stronger!

[sandyRoe]

Someone reading Pastor Niemuller's words in this thread might be forgiven for thinking that the Devil can quote scripture for his own purpose.
Terrorists can plant bombs, kill some people, and leave their families with a lifetime of grief, but they won't change this country. What might change it is an over the top reaction to terrorism. Identity cards, house arrest, and detention without trial are all steps to a sort of society I'd not be happy to live in.

[naomi24]

jno, but the non-argument you offer which amounts to nothing more than an ill-thought out statement or two doesn't make your argument stronger, jno. You may disagree with Birdie - and me - but you give no reason for doing so and therefore your objection becomes even more ridiculous.