Israel (now broader Mid East discussion) (8 Viewers)

[DaveXA]

Fyi. Check the thread this is in.

 

[baarbogast]

 

[baarbogast]

Fyi. Check the thread this is in.

I deleted it

 

[baarbogast]

 

[baarbogast]

 

[baarbogast]

 

[baarbogast]

I don’t blame them!

 

[baarbogast]

Wow!!!

 

[baarbogast]

 

[Arathrael]

1) Deport him where? He may well be British. We stopped shipping undesirables off to Australia ages ago.
2) Deport him for what? Being, e.g. homophobic? Having religious views that are bigoted? We'd be deporting a heck of a lot of people.
3) But if we were going to deport people for posting divisive, harmful, garbage, I'd start with posters like the above.

Rabble rousing demagogues who try to portray extremists as representative of entire groups of people are the worst.

 

[baarbogast]

 

[baarbogast]

 

[DaveXA]

Since when is Bibi the leader of the free world? That's news to me. And while don't have an issue with the destruction of Hezbollah which is long overdue, I'm under no illusions that Bibi is some sort of benevolent leader.

 

[KiwiSaint]

I know…intolerance, prejudice, racism! I don’t care and it’s about time that Western countries started taking the threat of radical Islam seriously. Kudos to the officials that are making these decisions to no longer tolerate the intolerant!

 

[Arathrael]

I know…intolerance, prejudice, racism! I don’t care and it’s about time that Western countries started taking the threat of radical Islam seriously. Kudos to the officials that are making these decisions to no longer tolerate the intolerant!

OK, first, what has this tweet about some guy being deported from France back in February (and the other one saying someone should be deported from Britain) got to do with Israel? Or is this just the 'baarbogast dumps anything in his twitter feed even vaguely related to Muslims' thread now? I keep checking in on this thread for news and discussion about the current events in Israel, Gaza, and Lebanon, not for random blowhards on twitter trying to use this stuff to amplify division and hatred.

And that said, what are you even on about @KiwiSaint? Since when have Western countries like France not been doing this? That guy, deported back in February, is one of many deported from France going back decades. Here is an imam being suspended and then deported to the Comoros in 2022 after making discriminatory remarks against women. Here is an imam being deported to Egypt back in 2010 for incitement. And from that article, "The Egyptian national was the 29th imam or Islamic preacher to have been deported from France since 2001, according to the interior ministry."

The notion that Western countries haven't been doing things like this for decades is fiction, and a key part of right-wing rhetoric that seeks to stir up hatred against minorities: "Group X is evil, and your government isn't doing anything about them! They're going to let them take over! Great replacement! Rise up! And don't forget to like and subscribe, also buy our cellular defense pills, dog food, and EMF badges."

It's all part of the grift - the dangerous, self-defeating, harmful, grift - and it's embarrassing.