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I appreciate the corrections regarding the difference between race and religion. I actually did mean "racism" when I wrote it - the rhetoric on which I was commenting gave me the impression ("comes out as") that its author's intention was xenophobic "other bashing" rather than any intelligent discussion of the dynamics of people of different religious backgrounds. I specifically chose to make a comment instead of ignoring it, specifically because I find the assertion "ive been studying islam over 25 years and have worked among them and its only by doing so you begin to understand theyre not in the west to integrate" to be potentially interesting.

This is an extraordinarily prejudicial statement. If you are going to make this sort of assertion, it really needs to be backed up with actual facts. As it is, it comes out as racism plain and simple.

Indeed, as a headline in a US news source (and we all know how much reportage they have of anything overseas, i.e. bupkis) reveals, the real hazard in London would appear to be... (wait for it...) People with Swords. From the Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/04/30/london-hainault-sword-attack/?utm_campaign=wp_evening_edition&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&carta-url=https%3A%2F%2Fs2.washingtonpost.com%2Fcar-ln-tr%2F3d90564%2F66315bf5f121ba062b185aaf%2F5a5bbbecae7e8a0f03325814%2F25%2F43%2F66315bf5f121ba062b185aaf

This is awesome. And twisted. Awesomely twisted!

You really need to clarify whether all of that was in the dream, or whether the part after the "and so" actually happened. Also, if you want to discuss bugchasing more than obliquely, please use the report function to ask a moderator to move this topic to the Backroom.

On the other hand, if the media report that pro-Palestinian protesters are "blocking access to Jewish students" when really the protesters are blocking the access of everyone, then the media are definitely contributing to the problem. Hence the need to assess the facts carefully before condemning anyone. On BZ we try VERY HARD not to contribute to hatred, propaganda, and other things that harm our community. Certain forums get extra attention from the moderation staff for that reason.

He's in the UK - mentioned offhandedly in the first post in the thread. I had to look for it, though; it seemed initially that the information was not available. Presuming, of course that his current residency is the same as his "home country", which it might well not be. Does beg the question of what traumatic horrors the local Muslim residents have inflicted on London. At least by comparison with other maladies.

You *can*, but it doesn't necessarily work because of drug resistant strains, which are becoming much more common. In the USA, the CDC recently changed the recommendation to advise always using the injection (ceftriaxone) as first-line therapy.

Did you try any other sites that use one of the new top-level domains? It might simply be that whatever local/regional ISP you were connected to hasn't implemented that system yet. It's not insanely new, but still less than a decade old if I remember right.

My answer to the OP's title question: no, I won't. Firstly, we have troubles of our own over on this side of the pond. Secondly, fundamentalist Mosaic religions of any of the three main branches are prone to totalitarianism, discrimination, and denigration of the "other", and as such I despise them all more or less equally. If I pay a bit more attention to Christianity it's because I live in West-By-God-Virginia and see it every damned day. If Judaism has less blood on its hands it's because they've been dispersed over the face of the Earth for the last two thousand years, so they haven't had the luxury of armies, Crusades, and Jihads. Thirdly, the hypothetical is extremely unlikely in the European Union as it exists today. And let's not forget that Spain has been there already, though it was a while back.

Somehow I never read this whole thing before. The characterization is beautiful! 💓

You had the status updates disabled on your profile. I have enabled them. It should work now. I'm a little puzzled, because I was under the impression that members could always add a status themselves, and that the enable/disable feature was only for other people. @rawTOP would know for sure.

I don't know of one. If you had a private message thread with them, you can view your entire inbox (there's a button at the bottom of the recent private message pop-up window).

You must have had your curmudgeon pills this morning... I feel your pain. Perhaps both of us would do better to focus on getting laid. Or failing that, getting off? My, how my standards are slipping!

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Reminds me of my student days. We slept on futons on the floor, and when one bought the futon it had a couple of straps that held it rolled up for storage. They were about an inch wide by four feet long strips of heavy cotton fabric. And of course once the futon was unrolled for sleeping, they were conveniently available for other purposes. It was a trivial matter to insert a couple of screw eyes into the baseboards...

Anyone know who the top is here?

Y'all are vastly off topic. At least one of you has no conceivable excuse.

From that description, you've almost certainly wandered into the wrong site by mistake. This site is unapologetically about bareback gay (mostly) sex and is mostly a discussion forum with a little bit of hookup on the side (but the membership is spread so far apart geographically that the hookup bit really doesn't go much of anywhere a lot of the time).

Of course they are. Or with anyone else who is easily manipulated. Doing it that way keeps the power almost as firmly in their hands, and has much better optics.

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@norefusal - I believe @topblkmale actually was trying to clarify whether your first post (quoted above) was referring to a COUNTY (in a US state) as rather than a COUNTRY (elsewhere in the world), the latter having been the way I also first read it. It was not a question about the segregation (which is a very real thing for much of the US, especially the large part of it more than 100 miles from the coast).

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