(01-14-2016 12:47 PM)Lime Wrote: If you speak up about immigration, leftists say: "go ahead and enjoy having fear". Who knows a good come back on that one?
(01-14-2016 01:13 AM)quino_16 Wrote: Professional Atheist Dawkins Says Christianity 'Bulwark Against Something Worse'
Quote:“There are no Christians, as far as I know, blowing up buildings,” Dawkins said. “I am not aware of any Christian suicide bombers. I am not aware of any major Christian denomination that believes the penalty for apostasy is death.”
In a rare moment of candor, Dawkins reluctantly accepted that the teachings of Jesus Christ do not lead to a world of terror, whereas followers of radical Islam perpetrate the very atrocities that he laments.
Because of this realization, Dawkins wondered aloud whether Christianity might indeed offer an antidote to protect western civilization against jihad.
“I have mixed feelings about the decline of Christianity, in so far as Christianity might be a bulwark against something worse,” he said.
This guy spent the majority of his literary career slandering Christianity. Now, when he realizes the natural conclusion of his arguments, he says he is perhaps wrong.
Honestly, fuck this guy and all the other stupid atheists. They helped destroy one of the pillars of Western Civilization and as a result contributed to the overall decline in the West.
(01-14-2016 12:47 PM)Lime Wrote: If you speak up about immigration, leftists say: "go ahead and enjoy having fear". Who knows a good come back on that one?
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Quote:President Paul van Holt explains: there isn't enough time to ensure the safety of the city, that's why we decided to cancel the festival.
(01-14-2016 02:34 PM)iop890 Wrote: FIRST KARNEVALSUMZUG CANCELED BECAUSE OF RAPEFUGEES
http://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/a...en-ab.html
Quote:President Paul van Holt explains: there isn't enough time to ensure the safety of the city, that's why we decided to cancel the festival.
@Going Strong, can't say I'm too broken up about that one. It's a good illustration of that snake song Trump has been reading though.
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(01-14-2016 02:43 PM)kaotic Wrote: The boyfriend won't even learn a lesson from this and will just grieve.
Quote: Police first began to consider him as a suspect earlier this week and pulled him in for questioning.
In the course of the interrogation, officers offered him a cigarette. After he discarded it they retrieved the butt and recovered DNA from it.
Quote:Miss Olsen, originally from Florida, had been living in Florence for three years, working for a British event management firm.
She was rebuilding her life after the trauma of a divorce in the US.
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Quote:Bei ihren Ermittlungen rund um die sexuellen Übergriffe auf Frauen hat die Hamburger Polizei erste Ergebnisse vorzuweisen. In acht Fällen sei man inzwischen zu Tatverdächtigen gelangt, sagte Polizeipräsident Ralf Meyer am Donnerstag im Innenausschuss. Es handele sich um Männer verschiedener Nationalitäten. Auch Innensenator Michael Neumann und Cornelia Schröder, Leiterin der Davidwache, stellten sich am Donnerstag im Rathaus den Fragen rund um die Übergriffe.
Während die Beamten erste Festnahmen planen, haben Clubbetreiber und Türsteher aus der Großen Freiheit sich jetzt zum Krisengipfel getroffen. Und überlegt, wie sie nach den sexuellen Übergriffen tun können, damit sich die Frauen auf Hamburgs Partymeile wieder sicher fühlen.
Auch Cornelia Schröder hat mit einem ihrer Kollegen bei der Krisensitzung mitdiskutiert – immer wieder sei sie heftig angegangen worden, heißt es. Weil die eingesetzten Polizisten "keinen Plan" hätten und nur "wie Römer hin und her laufen" würden ohne zu wissen, was zu tun sei, soll einer der Anwesenden gesagt haben.
Die Lösungsvorschläge, die bei dem Treffen gesammelt wurden, scheinen die Betroffenen in zwei Lager zu spalten: Während ein Großteil der Betroffenen nach "Welt"-Informationen auf eine noch engere Zusammenarbeit mit den Beamten von der Davidwache setzen will, sollen andere angekündigt haben, das Problem selbst in die Hand nehmen zu wollen. Man werde die Große Freiheit absperren und in Zukunft selbst entscheiden, wer die Straße betreten darf und wer nicht, soll einer der Türsteher gedroht haben. Man werde alles mit Kameras überwachen, und "den Mob verjagen", dafür auch Anzeigen "von diesen netten Asylanten" in Kauf nehmen.
Bei dem Treffen sollen Zweifel daran geäußert worden sein, dass die Polizei die neue Dimension an sexuellen Übergriffen erst seit Silvester auf dem Radar habe: Schließlich gehe das schon seit Monaten so mit "den Flüchtlingen und der sexuellen Belästigung, immer wieder, die ganze Nacht". Cornelia Schröder soll diese Vorwürfe zwar weit von sich gewiesen, gleichzeitig jedoch von einem Personalmangel in ihrem Einsatzgebiet berichtet haben: Mit begrenzten Ressourcen habe man nur begrenzte Möglichkeiten, um auf dem Kiez für Sicherheit zu sorgen.
Man müsse die weiblichen Gäste mit allen Mitteln zurückgewinnen, sagt einer der Clubchefs. Man dürfe nicht zulassen, dass Flüchtlinge stigmatisiert werden, sagt Julia Staron.
Quote:"Every new jihadist attack seems, as if by a kind of reverse inductive reasoning, to make some liberals even more confident in their judgment that there is no essential connection between Islam and terrorism, and that Islam and liberal values are ultimately reconcilable."
"As Minogue also observed, one of the ritualistic liberal expressions of Islamophilia is an incessant “apologizing for the Crusades” -- this despite the fact that the Crusades, while far from morally spotless in their execution, were essentially defensive responses to medieval Islamic aggression, as actual historians of the Crusades like Jonathan Riley-Smith and Thomas Madden never tire of demonstrating. Modern Westerners apologizing for the Crusades is like Eliot Ness’s descendents apologizing to Al Capone’s descendents for some of Ness’s men having gotten a bit rough with some of Capone’s men."
"So, we have a paradox. Considered both historically and in terms of its contemporary manifestations, Islam would appear to be the least liberal of religions. Nor is it easy to see why any devout Muslim would want to accommodate his religion to liberalism -- especially when he sees how liberals have come to treat Christianity after having tamed it. Yet liberals by and large seem to think such an accommodation is not only possible but highly likely. Why? Is there something in Islam that liberals have seen that others have not? Or are liberal hopes delusional?"
Quote:"Muhammad’s program was religious, to be sure, but by no means merely religious. Or to be more precise, he did not regard the cultural, moral, legal, economic, military, and political spheres as something distinct from the religious sphere, to which religion may or may not be applied. They were all just parts of one sphere, the religious sphere, from the get go. Muhammad was prophet, statesman, legislator, general, and cultural and moral exemplar, all rolled into one. And Islam was, accordingly, not merely a program of religious reform, but a program of complete social and political reform, every aspect of which -- not merely the theological aspect -- was grounded in the revelation Muhammad claimed to have received from God."
" But this opposition did not succeed for long, and soon the entirety of Arabia, as well as North Africa, the Levant, Mesopotamia and Persia, knew the power of Islam -- its temporal power, its political and in particular its military power, no less than its spiritual power. Muhammad’s kingdom, unlike Christ’s, was from the start very definitely of this world, and his servants certainly fought. And unlike the Church during the first centuries of Christianity, Islam was not in a weak position relative to the state. That is not because Islam controlled the state. It is because Islam was the state. The caliphate was not a secular power over which Islam had acquired an influence, not a state to which a distinct Islamic “Church” had been annexed. It was “Church” and state in one. Or rather, it was all just Islam, because there is in Islam no such thing in the first place as the notion of a “Church” understood as a purely religious institution, which might be distinguished from some other institution called “the state,” to which it may or may not be fused. "
Quote:". For the Quran is not to be understood on the model of the Bible as Jews and Christians understand it. The Bible was written by human beings, and bears the marks of the personalities of its authors and the historical and cultural contexts in which they wrote. No Jew or Christian, no matter how theologically conservative, denies this. They merely claim that these human authors were divinely guided in writing in such a way that they were preserved from error."
"That is not how the Quran is understood in Islam. It is not in any sense the work of Muhammad. He did not write it, not even under divine inspiration. Rather, it is the direct word of God himself, eternally pre-existing its revelation through Muhammad, which “came down” to him from heaven. To say that the Quran somehow got things wrong is not, for the Muslim, like saying that there are errors in the Bible. It is more like saying that Christ himself got things wrong. And to suggest that Quranic teaching reflects a merely contingent historical epoch is like saying that what Christians call the Word, the second Person of the Trinity, reflects a merely contingent historical epoch (whatever that could mean). For the Muslim to give up this view of the Quran would be like the Christian giving up the infallibility and divinity of Christ. It would be to give up the religion itself."
Quote:"Fourth, egalitarianism is one of the dogmas of modern liberalism, just as the divinity of Christ is a dogma of Christianity or the divine origin of the Quran is a dogma of Islam. Many liberals find it almost impossible to understand how anyone could rationally deny it, and thus how such denials could be anything but expressions of unreasoning hatred. Hence epithets like “bigot” play, within liberalism, the same role that words like “heretic” often do within religion. They are a means of silencing dissenters and sending a warning to anyone even considering dissent from egalitarianism. Many liberals are inclined a priori to suppose that any suggestion that Islam and liberalism are not compatible simply must be an expression of bigotry."
"Fifth, liberalism is heavily invested in a narrative according to which the pre-liberal European civilization against which it reacted -- that is to say, medieval and early modern Christian civilization -- was especially oppressive, both to Europeans and non-Europeans. Now, historically Islam has been the great political and military rival to Christianity. Hence, even though that history has largely been a history of Islamic aggression against Christian states, it is extremely tempting for the liberal to pretend that the Christian side was as aggressive, or even more aggressive. Hence all the absurd apologizing for the Crusades. It is also extremely tempting for the liberal to regard contemporary Muslims as allies in liberals’ political disputes with conservative Christians (even if Muslims are far closer to conservative Christians where “social issues” are concerned than they are to liberals). "
(01-14-2016 04:09 PM)Parzival Wrote: The Police say, they don't have the manpower to provide safety. In some states the police was reduced for a decade. Same for the court system. Its the results of the turbo capitalism. No money for the public service. People have to stand on their own.
Quote:A three-year-old migrant has allegedly been raped by multiple people at an asylum centre in the Norwegian city of Stavanger.
Police are investigating the incident amid claims the boy was abused in the shared common area of the asylum centre, possibly within view of many people.
“We have no suspects yet,” police superintendent Bjørn Kåre Dahl told local paper Stavanger Aftenblad. “We are investigating the case as if the worst thing has happened and that we are talking about the rape of a child.”
He did not rule out that there may be several perpetrators: “We will investigate further to find out what happened. If it is what we fear – a rape – then this is very serious. But we do not know for certain yet.”
The Local reports the boy has been taken to a rape crisis centre along with his mother and is now at the children’s ward in Stavanger Hospital. He has been questioned by authorities along with several others.
“We also had crime technicians on the site. Material was sent to the Norwegian Institute of Public Health for analysis. There, they will look for DNA among other things,” Mr Dahl added.
“We had many people at work, both sanitation workers and security guards, but nobody saw anything. But we immediately took the case to the police, as is the routine, and they came out. We have had a good dialogue with them throughout.”
A spokesman for the asylum centre said they received a phone call about the incident last Wednesday, but did not want to go into details about the conversation.
“We had many people at work, both sanitation workers and security guards, but nobody saw anything. But we immediately took the case to the police, as is the routine, and they came out. We have had a good dialogue with them throughout,” the spokesman added.
There are around 800 migrants at the asylum centre, including men, women and children. The boy was reportedly at the centre with his family.
(01-14-2016 04:55 PM)Samseau Wrote:(01-14-2016 04:09 PM)Parzival Wrote: The Police say, they don't have the manpower to provide safety. In some states the police was reduced for a decade. Same for the court system. Its the results of the turbo capitalism. No money for the public service. People have to stand on their own.
If you think this is capitalism's fault then sorely mistaken. These are greedy politicians who rob the police to pay for other pet projects.
Isn't America capitalist? Do we not have the largest police and army force in the world?