Immigration and Ireland - MEGATHREAD *Mod Note Added 14/08/25*

I made up the term there and then because we were discussing what might potentially be a 2nd generation immigrant, to make the difference between a Irish person born to indigenous Irish parents or born to 1st generation immigrant parents. Does it make sense to you now? Do you think it's time for a bit a relaxation tea and a lavender bath?

And don't you dare suggest that I wouldn't support our non-white Irish athletes. Those are your words not mine and I want nothing to do with it. Stop putting words in my mouth to support your incorrect viewpoint.

A couple of reasons IMO. First is that the Dublin West constituency has a large number of new to the parish who would be more likely to vote for anyone that wanted to bring in more of the same. Second, and more importantly, it was expanded to a five seat consituency and he scraped into the last seat. If it wasn't expanded he would now most probably be heading some immigration NGO, or some NGO that prioritises the rights of immigrants over the rights of Irish like Joe O'Brien, now executive director of ICCL.* Joe, you may note was Roddy's number two at his department, so also bears responsibility for the mess that immigration currently is in. You may note that Roddy posted a video recently defending such NGO's. He knows what side his bread is buttered on.

Edit: Also don't look at the elephant in the room of the voting register not being fit for purpose with an estimated 500,000 more voters being on the rolls than are eligible to vote. If this didn't suit establishment parties then it would have been fixed overnight.

*Wrongly named in my view, in a cynical attempt to wrap the green flag in order to try to gain some credibility.

I'm against racism, discrimination and stupidity.

If you believe the problem with immigration policy in Ireland is the fault of the WEF not FF and FG you are stupid.

If you are racist or discriminatory and dislike people because of skin colour, country of origin or the religion they were raised in you are most likely a stupid racist.

So your opinion is, the thread needs to allow bigotry to muslims.

Wikipedia has that well defined, so I will just leave this here.

Islamophobia is the irrational fear of, hostility towards, or hatred against the religion of Islam or Muslims in general. Islamophobia is primarily a form of religious or cultural bigotry; and people who harbour such sentiments often stereotype Muslims as a geopolitical threat or a source of terrorism. Muslims, with diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds, are often inaccurately portrayed by Islamophobes as a single homogeneous racial group.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamophobia

Bigotry, racism and stupidy.

The overwhelming majority of Muslims are not criminals or terrorists.

To assume all people of a religion act a way because of the actions of a small subset of such a diverse group is plain stupidity.

You could not put 10 irish people in a room and predict how the will act but you are certain you can make factual statements about 2 billion people spread about the globe.

That is stupidity borne from bigotry and racism.

All very nebulous - as per usual you have entirely shirked the question and you haven’t given any indication as to what your level of satisfaction is with the current immigration policies or what you’d like to see change from FF and FG

What is your arbitrary line of what constitutes discrimination?
Is it “Islamophobic” to note the fact that rights of women and LGBT people have not progressed at the same rate in Muslim countries as they have in “Christian countries” (to use Arthur Daynes term)

I don’t see how that is possibly “hateful”, it is literally a true statement - if you choose to ignore the truth to satisfy your own agenda you are most likely a stupid ideologue

Ad hominem bullshit.

I answered the question I was asked!

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I didn't answer a question I wasn't asked Stephen!

Strange the description uses the term irrational, I find most people who are wrongly (imo) called islamphobic, have a fairly rational fear of the consequences of embracing a religion that is opposite to most of the morals and values we have come to expect and live with in the west.

This is a good point. I would wonder if the posters pushing the racism conspiracy theories here could even countenance the existence of a rational fear of Islam

I haven't encountered anyone here yet that hates all muslims

You believe there's a conspiracy by the WEF, I think most would say that's pretty irrational.

Quite frankly, I don't care what most people say, I'll contuine to believe what I do and in the concept of the 80/20 rule.

https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/courtandcrime/arid-41678963.html

The last time the suspect was a white Irish male. This time it's merely an Irish citizen.

These fools don't seem to realise that their selective report is what's feeding into the disinformation.