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Wayne:
Iraq
Palestine
Western support for crooked regimes like Saudia Arabia
Impenetrable Regional Accents.
hillhunt:
How odd that you’d have to Google Muslims to find them.
You obviously didn’t bother.
My mates Zaiba and Feisal and Siddique live in the real world. My world. And I see their tolerance and decency every time I talk to them.
Everybody that knew the 7/7 bombers said what nice people they were.
I’d like to hear what Zaiba, Feisal and Siddique say about you and the rest of us kuffars when you’re not around.
Comparing Islamic jihad to Northern Ireland is like comparing chalk and cheese.
Plenty of tolerance here right?
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/index.html#Attacks
… and I hear not one voice of tolerant Islam speaking out against it.
Debating with trolls like you is akin to teaching a pig to sing: it tires you out and irritates the pig.
Biodegradable
You have opened my eyes. They’re all at it. All of them. Even my mates, that conniving bitch Zaiba, that fathead Feisal, even silly old Siddique.
We’re doomed.
But it’s OK. I’ve seen 28 Weeks Later. We call a Code Red. Firebomb the bastards. Every single one. Rub ’em all out.
Sorted.
Then we can start on those “excitable young folk with impenetrable regional accents”.
Boy, do they hate us. And you know what? They claim that theirs are the accents of peace.
Bastards
Solutions to the grievances which are the root cause of Islamic terrorism:
Iraq
Pull troops out against the wishes of the Iraqi government.
Palestine
No such place, but the solution is to drive all the Jews into the sea according to the wishes of Hamas.
Western support for crooked regimes like Saudia Arabia
Perhaps better to stop Saudi support for mosques where radical Islam is preached in the UK.
http://www.melaniephillips.com/diary/?p=1514
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/book_extracts/article1685726.ece
Impenetrable Regional Accents.
hillhunt | 15.05.07 – 10:54 pm
Are you sure “Hunt” isn’t spelt with a “C”?
Biodegradable
You had me at hello.
They’re toast, all those hate-filled Muslims. Toast. I’m with you every step of the way. Code Red. Maximum Force. Extreme Prejudice. Let’s Lock & Load.
Now for those “excitable young folk”.
They hate our freedoms, too. The freedom to hear nice accents. The freedom to hate Northerners. And Brummies. And Glaswegians. And the Welsh. Especially the Welsh.
Code Red on “impenetrable regional accents”. Let that be our rallying cry in the brave, Muslim-cleansed world of tomorrow…
I’m with you every step of the way. Code Red. Maximum Force. Extreme Prejudice. Let’s Lock & Load.
Where did I suggest any of that?
OK HH let me see if this is correct.
You stated that these were the reasons for successfully ending terrorism in Northern Ireland:
Rigorous policing
Ending human rights abuses
Righting electoral wrongs
Reforming police so not to be sectarian
Talking to leaders
Negotiating away weapons
And these are the issues that need to be addressed to eliminate Islamic militancy:
Iraq
Palestine
Western Support for Saudi Arabia
Impenetrable Regional accents
Aren’t we rigorously policing Iraq? Haven’t we stopped a bucket load of human rights abuses there? Which electoral wrongs need righting in Iraq? Aren’t we trying to eliminate secterianism in the Iraqi police force? How many more Iraqi leaders do we need to talk to? I’m sure that there are daily negotiations to try to reduce the number of arms on the streets in Iraq.
Palestine – Too long a list to be bothered.
Saudi Arabia – Are you suggesting forcible regime change?
Impenetrable Regional accents – The USA and UK have sent thousands of representatives to the Middle East in order to improve this situation at great cost to the taxpayer. It’s about time we started seeing some results. Nori Al Maliki should set an example here IMO.
Iraq
Palestine
Western Support for Saudi Arabia
Impenetrable Regional accents
You forget the French.
Al-Qaeda group threatens attacks in France
DUBAI, May 15, 2007 (AFP) – An Al-Qaeda front group in Europe threatened on Tuesday to launch bloody attacks in France in response to the election of “crusader and Zionist” Nicolas Sarkozy as president.
“As you have chosen the crusader and Zionist Sarkozy as a leader … we in the Abu Hafs al-Masri Brigades warn you that the coming days will see a bloody jihadist campaign … in the capital of Sarkozy,” the group’s “Europe division” said in an Internet statement addressed to the French people.
The campaign will be “against all those who allow themselves to follow the policy” of the US administration, said the statement whose authenticity could not verified.
CNN’s #2 watched video…’Scientology and Me’ (3:45)
Nice one Sweeney!
Wayne:
Glad to see a man willing to negotiate, but I’m meeting you the whole way. Those effing islamics just can’t be trusted. Biodegradable let me in on the truth: Even my Muslim mates call me names behind my back.(See above)
Code Red it is. And may the Lord have Mercy on their Souls. (And their “impentrable regional accents”)
Real life Code Red alerts from hillhunt’s friends:
http://www.israellycool.com/blog/_archives/2007/5/15/2951648.html
http://www.mererhetoric.com/archives/11273760.html
UPDATE 02 (12:50 PST):
Hey, you know how you’re going to be hearing that the Palestinians dropped a dozen rockets on schools and houses today because of their “legitimate grievances” about the “occupation”? Yeah, that’s a bald faced lie:
According to Hamas’ armed wing, it fired the rockets to mark Nakba Day, on which Palestinians commemorate what they call the catastrophe of Israel’s creation.
Their grievance is the existence of the Jewish state. Don’t let the LA Times tell you otherwise.
Not a word from the BBC about the 30 rockets fired at Israel.
HH, what an interesting way to admit defeat!
Meanwhile, on the subject of Iraq, Des Browne has this to say:
“What is happening in southern Iraq is a competition between the militia for political or economic advantage. In Basra city and its immediate surroundings, we are what stands between the militia and the damage that they would do to the people of Basra city. We attract the preponderance of the attacks because we stand between them and their objectives, but we hold that position until the Iraqi security forces, particularly the army, are able to take over from us. Increasingly, during the transition in Basra city, they have proved able to do that. We are not the cause of the problem; the militia are the cause of the problem. We just happen to be the people who stand between them and their intentions.”
Add to this the following from Reuters:
BASRA, Iraq, May 15 (Reuters) – Basra, the richest city in Iraq and gateway to the Gulf, could erupt into all-out war between rival Shi’ite groups seeking control of its vast oil wealth as British forces prepare to draw down.
The power struggle between factions of the Shi’ite majority that has dominated Iraqi politics since the first post-war general elections in 2005 threatens to affect oil exports accounting for virtually all of Iraq’s income.
In view of the above and your thoughts regarding the reduction of Islamic militancy, I’d be very interested which course of action you think might be appropriate to achieve such a reduction.
Wayne:
I’m red-eyed and snivel-faced. You guys. You convinced me. It is all hopeless. All f***ed up.
The Muslims lie, they cheat. They call me names behind my back. They can’t help it. Thedir religion makes ’em do it!
Des Browne, as ever, is right on the money(and charismatic with it)
My solutions were so stupid. So naive. Talk to them. See if there’s common ground. Listen to their grievances. Pointless… effin’ pointless.
THEY CALL US KUFFARS ferchrissake! KUFFARS!
BEHIND OUR EFFING BACKS! How could I be so stupid?
I’m in a blind alley here. Help me, guys. It’s got to be Code Red, hasn’t it? Firebombs, snipers, Apache Gunships above and nerve gas below to flush out the stragglers.
Harsh work, but what options have we left. THEY CALL US NAMES BEHIND OUR BACKS.
KUFFAR!
Don’t get me going on the impenetrable regional accents. Just leave it, OK?
Really HH, I’m glad that you’ve seen the light but there’s no need to be so racist about it all. You really must learn to be superior in a graceful manner.
And don’t be too hard on yourself for you earlier beliefs either, I think you’ve done extremely well. After all, not everyone can be enlightened as quickly as you.
I totally agree with you regarding those damned regional accents.
Getting back to the Beeb, while “I was away” I heard that Abu Izzadeen (AKA “The Preacher of Hate”), was arrested and later charged with inciting terrorism overseas and fundraising.
I remembered that back in August last year, Newsnight had given this deranged swivel-eyed oik a platform to spout his seditious, vicious (Sed-Vicious?) views, on this basis:
“The issue is whether the BBC should specifically exclude anyone known to favour (or at least not to condemn) terrorist acts either here or elsewhere. We do not operate such a policy of exclusion.”
(‘Scuse me while I puke.)
The following month, the BBC gave this same embittered homicidal nutcase another platform, on the Today programme, in its prime time 8.10am slot, provoking this report in the Mail:
The BBC was deluged with complaints yesterday after the Muslim extremist who heckled John Reid was given 12 minutes of airtime on Radio 4’s flagship Today programme. Abu Izzadeen used the interview to denounce Tony Blair as a ‘murderer’ and to call for democracy to be replaced by Sharia law in the UK. Hundreds of listeners emailed the show to complain and almost 50 more called the BBC’s switchboard … A BBC spokesman said there was ‘an even split’ between listeners who has complained and those who felt it was right to let him air his views. Defending the decision to have him on air the spokesman added: ‘He was invited on the show because the Today programme interviews and challenges the views of people with a wide range of opinions.’
(‘Scuse me again)
Now then, even I can work out that if this utter filth of a bloke can be charged, and hopefully banged up for a few good years, for inciting terrorism, then surely the BBC can be charged with inciting terrorism too for giving the man a sodding platform.
And for crying out loud, compare the BBC’s behaviour here, with its behaviour in my own case.
Now then, I’m fully aware that there’s obviously contributors to this blog who make a point of remaining silent about my work as a case study of BBC bias, perhaps because they don’t like northerners for all I know, but ask yourselves how on earth can the BBC justify airing the known seditious views of Izzadeen on the basis that a) the BBC does not have a policy of exclusion; and b) has a duty to air a wide range of viewpoints, when for the last ten years the BBC has failed to assess, still less actually report, an exhaustive, acclaimed, independent journalistic investigation into the controversy that “helped bring down the last Conservative government” which claims to have unearthed a criminal cover-up – claims which have been examined and endorsed by a great many people of standing and refuted by no one. Not one single person.
So, is this blog just a chat room? Or is it me? And if it is me, what the Flying Flipping Heck am I doing wrong?
To Hillhunt, the troll
Can you also explain the grievance that the Muslims have against Buddhists in Thailand? 3,000 killed since 2004. Just normal people, (including children) who were going about their normally daily life. Their preferred method is chopping the head off.
You make me sick!
So Hillhunt has abandoned all attempts at arguing with facts and has resorted to rhetorical hyperbole. The hysterical rantings he is now emitting demonstrate that he has officially lost the argument. A typical neo-leftist, he is very adept at screaming insults, but hopeless at arguing through reason and evidence.
I suppose it’s back to Lenin’s Tomb for him.
Game, set and match B-BBC.
Hillhunt: Rhymes with a word that my wife hates and I won’t type.
Meggoman:
That would be blunt, I imagine.
Dave Hill can hide his name but he can’t hide the fact that he is an idiot.
Can anyone enlighten me about John “Exploding Tomato” Sweeney’s conviction for criminal libel?
Anonymous:
He tweaked the tails of the adorable Barclay Brothers by doing an interview for Radio Guernsey, having tried to land on their private Channel Island. They chose to sue in France and claimed he’d portrayed them as corrupt. He was fined 3k Euros, as was John Birt – sorry Baron Birt – I believe.
Say what you like about Sweeney: His enemies are more lovable than most people’s friends. Only thing I dislike about him is that I suspect he has buried his “impenetrable regional accent”. He used to work on the Sheffield Telegraph.
I understand that Gordon Broon has been having elocution to get rid of his own impenetrable regional accent.
The accent is not, however, the main problem with Broon. The problem with Broon is his stance on green issues.
That is, as this video clip shows (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VaP1HB7Vew), he likes to hook greenies out of his nose and eat them. Then he wipes his fingers on his tie.
Say et lood. Say et prood. Gordon Broon eats hez bawgies!
GBEHB-
LOTFLMOA!
This is the funnest thread in yonks!!
BTW-Hat Tip wayne…
Stop feeding the hillhunt troll.
He needs his time to pay attention to his lessons or he might fail geography and physics and what would that do for his chances of getting the course he wants at sixth form college one day.
BaggieJonathan | 17.05.07 – 10:44 am |
physics? what good is physics? do you need it for bbc – er, i mean meedja studies?
I’m sure the Scientologists will be glad to hear from you all, you seem to have a lot in common.
It’s not surprising that you are unable to distinguish between an impartial report and the very organised and well run smear campaign by the Scientologists.
One thing is for sure, fundamentalism is on the rise!