It's not irrelevant at all or you wouldn't keep doing it; you're trying to inflate the impact of his statement by making him out to be a patriot / military man fighting for his country because you know fine well that the opinions of a private military gun-for-hire who is in Iraq for cold hard cash (also known as, a mercenary) is slightly shakier ground. If you thought otherwise, you wouldn't keep referring to him as a soldier.

whether he is a serving soldier or a vet is not really the point. He is active in Iraq on a day to day basis and works with actual Iraqis face to face so probably even better placed to state what he did.

I also would not want to debate with him if he should be called a soldier or an ex soldier as he looks like he could kill me in under 1 second.

We were there in Oct/Nov and we got zero grilling, I was surprised

Yes, funnily enough it seems to have been a discussion he was having with other Iraqi civilians who were... :omgno:... discussing global politics and engaging him in conversation. Weird! They didn't even behead him a little bit. It's almost as if the suggestion that every Iraqi native is a secret ISIS supporter is slightly exaggerated...

See? It clearly doesn't work. They detain totally innocent people from the Middle East but they let the likes of Niamh in without question? Broken system.

Someone mentioned the boston bombing..you swept it to one side rather than address it....:shrug: why?

Then you had that muslim soldier who shot up a few people at his american air base.

He is still a muslim terrorist.

Since when was 9/11 "evidenced to be Libya" :umm2:

Oh bolox to that. Why would Right wing America, the very people who want to manufacture fear of Muslims, hide anything heinous about Muslims? Anti Muslim sentiment has been gathering pace since 9/11 and hate crime has increased at an alarming level.

If you aren't talking about letting in potential terrorists, your moaning about them not being able to adapt to Western ways or how they are trying to take over with Sharia Law or how they marry 13 year old girls. This isn't just about terrorism, its about hate and fear of an entire religion.

What I get, which you seem to have difficulty accepting is, Islamophobia is government policy.

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What don't you get about an executive order to stop Muslims from entering the U.S? The Boston bombing was committed by Muslim Americans and not by people who had cunningly entered the country.

The only way we can curb Islamic extremism in the West is to stop the internet.

do it tbh.

I get it..i'm just answering kizzys question...what don't you get about that?

But you didn't answer her question did you? Oh and this is an open forum so if you want to answer Kizzy without any of us reacting to your reply, you need to do so privately.

Look back and read her op

You are deliberately fudging the issue, my question has nothing to do with intelligence, but incidence.

He was a home grown radicalised terrorist, nothing to do with anyone coming into the US with the express intent of terrorism.
He isn't banning all Muslims, so where is the logic?

Sorry I got my planes mixed up I'm thinking of Lockerbie, my mistake, I meant there is said to be evidence against Saudi Arabia, who are not on the list.

15 of the terrorists in 9/11 were Saudi citizens. The other 4 were from Egypt, United Arab Emirates and Lebanon. None of these countries are on Trumps Executive Order. I know people are going to say it was Obama's list and maybe it was but it was Trump who implemented it.

Would you mind removing my thread on the Hungarian village from your rant about Islamaphobic threads, if you can't read and understand what is being said in an OP maybe you shouldn't be blogging, thanks in advance I would have posted on the blog but couldn't find how to, and your wall is closed to messages

Could you not have PMed this and not derail my thread?

Hardly derailing the thread - surely your threads should be made of stearner stuff than that.

Do you have a comment in relation to the topic in discussion?