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Of course even though this is repeated constantly you'll still get the pathetic defenders of Islam saying that even if you hear and see this from senior Muslim clerics it's actually a conspiracy theory and you didn't actually see and hear it. It's pathetic how much people will pander to this particular religion especially as the people who love to pander to it seem to despise Christianity and all other religions.

The level of Muslim population in europe and the birth rates of this population is a massive concern, we managed to secularize Europe over the last 50 years and now we're taking a backward step.

For example

Barcelona City Council advises against dancing or playing music in schools during Ramadan

"Some Muslims may consider music or dance as an activity not suitable for the month of Ramadan, since it is considered a month dedicated to spirituality in which it is especially important to have a pious attitude. Therefore, it would be advisable to take this sensitivity into account when scheduling some activities or offering alternative activities,"

The fact that this is even being suggested is utterly depressing and extremely worrying in my opinion.

Tell me how it's not true then. Or can you only engage in snide comments with zero substance?

My point is we were no better off after they left, and worse off than Northern Ireland until we piggybacked first on the EU and then when we sucked that well dry, the US multinationals.

We only started to be prosperous when we let others take charge.

The likely outcome of legislation should be looked into in detail instead of being blindly passed. There has been so much unnecessary legislation passed/or talked about in the past - that is in in effect a rebranding based on lobby group pressure.

And it invariably ends up as a box ticking exercise. Often only symbolic with no hope of real and consistent enforcement, or unintended consequences. I would have much more respect for those in the Dail if they went against the lobby groups and do proper due diligence on the legislation. Even if the optics didn't look good. As such new legislation is only beneficial to the lobby groups as it gives them oxygen for press realeases etc justifying their existence.

Netanyahu has done the world a service in taking out Hamas, Hezbollah and their mother ship, Iran, since the October 7th terror attacks.

He may not be a favourite of the lefties on here but he has done a tremendous job in eliminating Israel’s enemies thus ensuring the safety of a country that has been under attack since 1947.

It’s going to make Israel a safer place into the future.

Ah you're being harsh. When you get rid of the leader, the next leader is bound to be better. Just because they changed the leader it in Iran before and it didn't work out great, or Iraq, or Afghanistan, doesn't mean it will necessarily work out badly this time...

Europhobic? Bizarre stuff there.

So you believe we didn't have to give up anything in order to piggyback on the EU?

You just use a phobic word to close the conversation.

You're saying we basically couldn't have done anything by ourselves, and still can't presumably?

So how is advocating for torture and the gouging out of prisoners' eyes as part of them being butchered to death not contributing to a mindless culture of violence?

I'd like to think we'd all agree that a mindless culture of violence in society leads to evil acts such as the rape and murder of children. A mindless culture of violence was what Donald Trump grew up believing in.

How is conspicuously baying for frenzied barbarism instead of actual plain old justice not calling for the overthrow of not just the state but any semblance of decent society?

It's quite clear some people don't just hanker for a return to the 1950s, but a return to medieval times where savagery reigns.

Given this, you can see how Trump is so popular.

It's a call for the justice system to be thrown out and be replaced by mindless butchery and savagery.

I know people tend not to want to ever consider the consequences of their mindlessness.

But that's what it is. Mindless, atavistic, bloodlust for butchery.

And that absolutely contributes to a culture where women, children and indeed everybody else are less safe.

Because, by nature, such a culture of atavism and bloodlust can never stop at mere prisoners. It inevitably goes beyond that into wider society because it's a craving for butchery.

What we see in Ukraine and Palestine and Iran today and through the horrific actions of the US, Israel and Russia proves that without any doubt. A culture of fantasising about mindless violence and butchery leads to actual mindless violence and butchery.

I think your phrase "even decades after independence" is misleading.

The Cumann na nGaedheal government (1923–1932) led by W.T. Cosgrave was packed with Anglo and Protestant supporters.

Republicans were excommunicated in 1922 and barred from taking sacraments and there wasn't an instant rapprochement with the Catholic hierarchy straight afterwards. C.S. Andrews said in his memoir that DeValera didn't really start taking their input until a few years after he came to power in 1932. McQuaid only became Archbishop of Dublin in 1940.

As Mary Kenny showed in her research most Irish Anglicans approved of bans on contraception and divorce. Irish Protestantism was never a bastion of political and social liberalism then.

Your post is just more nonsense, nobody is asking for the justice system to be thrown out, its simply asking for evil people to get what they deserve, nothing mindless in that. Just because you can see a link in your imagination doesnt mean theres one in reality. Its like the eejits who try to link violence in films/games to real life violence.