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Chris_Sleeps

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  1. Indeed. They're also the group of people who are most likely to be killed by Islamic extremists. To make the victims apologise for the crimes done against them seems a backwards leap - for me.
  2. Regardless of the semantics, which group should apologise for which people? The British Muslims should apologise for British suicide bombers? The French Muslims should apologise for French suicide bombers? If you want to make religion the unifying factor, then you'll get swamped in creating universal responsibility anyway. All Muslims should apologise for the actions of all Muslims?
  3. Like Sunday School. What would you suggest as a solution? I acknowledge that there is a problem of being raised just in a narrow world view of one religion, but I don't know a simple answer. I've written this before, about a Muslim girl I used to work with. Her knowledge of Christianity was virtually non-existant. She was suprised that Christians think Jesus was the same as God. She had no idea what the Pope was. Or Immaculate Conception. Her ignorance was outstanding. A collective punishment that only applied to one set of people. Okay.
  4. No it wasn't, very specific blame and punishment was dispensed - on the English. There would be a ban on all football if it was to be done collectively.
  5. So all football fans are responsible for hooliganism? because they follow and perpetuate that culture and thus have responsibility.
  6. The fact also remains that the evidence showing Jimmy Savile to be a rampant child abuser is so strong that history will condemn him where a court cannot. That stance is a little redundant for the dead.
  7. I voted, but not for Tony Blair. As an adult and a believer in our democracy, I accept the outcome. Some of you need to stop being a whiny so and so and get on with your life.
  8. Just to make it clear - if your husband and his ex are joint-and-severally liable for the mortgage shortfall, the money that needs to be paid after the house is sold; paying 50% does not clear the debt. He doesn't owe half the money - the couple jointly owe it all. So if the house sells and there is £10,000 left to pay - then your husband needs to borrow £10,000 to pay that. He cannot pay £5,000 and claim the other half belongs to his ex - it doesn't work like that.
  9. A legal defence, but certainly not an historical defence. The evidence is insurmountable.
  10. If the house is in negative equity then the mortgagee (bank/building society) may not be willing to discharge liability so easily. In layman's terms, they may not be willing to take your husbands name off the mortgage while there is still a debt in place following sale. It's another factor to consider when you get back in touch with your solicitor - especially if you're looking at buying property yourselves. ----- Relating to the £6,000 loan by parents; if the house is in negative equity than that money has gone. Was the money lent contractually to the couple, or given as an aid? The parents could argue that the couple (your husband and his ex) are joint-and-severally liable, and a court may support that, but it doesn't bring the money back, and creates a problem for the parents to chase that debt through a court if it isn't paid. The simple answer - parents accept the money has gone or the son pays it back himself out of obligation.
  11. Yet they dont fund me to the level of private jets and luxury hotels. I want upgrading.
  12. The writer was on the tele during last weekend. He argued it was 30 years late.
  13. It's Thursday. --- I've been beaten. My droll one line only worked if I was first.
  14. The politics of envy. Yuck. Shame on you, ya big commie.
  15. That is notoriously false. Firstly, it is hardly mocked. At points it is openly celebrated. Secondly, class is a human issue. As social animals we have a way of breaking ourselves down into groups and sub-groups, and sub-sub-groups, and all the inherent values and negatives that this has. India even built it into a form of religion with the notorious caste system. Class is an inherent political force in virtually all societies, and many people have built their ideologies on it. Your statement is so fundamentally untrue. Inverted snobbery. The same way some people would consider being called working class an insult. The Hyacinth Bucket school of thought.
  16. Not just the French. The British didn't turn their noses up to EU subsidies. (Source: Gaurdian) (Source: New Statesman)
  17. Where would you fit 'eating out of a bin'?
  18. I've never done it, and I really should. My mission in the next few weeks, I think.
  19. There's a very interesting book called Hitler's Pope, but do bare in mind that the author changed some of his views later on. It's open to criticism but it does give an outline of the case. It's difficult history also because the Vatican still guards it's own paperwork on the subject closely. Time will tell. --- It is also worthy to note that fascism existed in Italy before Germany, and didn't have the same brutality or virulent anti-semitism. While Catholic Italians may not have been enamoured by the Jews, it certainly never crossed their minds to put them into camps.
  20. I shall expand, because I wouldn't argue that he wasn't a Christian either. Hitler's religious views are obscure, contradictory, and more than that - endlessly tied to his politics. Was it true religious belief or pragmatic political posture? Who knows. His acts speak for themselves however. He only persecuted Christians when they stood against his political aims, or had other traits that he condemned them such as being slavic. He never persecuted the Church per se, just de-politicised it, and he also used religion to unite people to the Nazi party. I went to Dachau recently and saw the Priest Barracks. Hitler's anti-clericalism is mixed with the odd history of the Vatican's support for his work, and even more - their assistance to help Nazis escape after the war. A truly complex history, the role of the Catholic Church in WW2.
  21. Utterly false. He allied with the Catholic Church in Rome and protestant churches in the north of Germany. I wouldn't argue that Hitler was a Christian, he was far too invested in his pagan aryan-blood myth, but you've over stretched the point a little.
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