Cooper IV wrote:
Subway Surfers Addiction wrote:Must admit I never thought he was Gay. None of my business.
It was as clear as day. There is so much sugar in Colin's veins, the American Dental Association had to put him on the banned eating list.
😂 this is hilarious 😄
Coevett wrote:
DivineBlissisMine wrote:I met Colin once, years ago... this was even then well known, indeed. Even if you never met him, but just watched his interviews, this cannot possibly surprise you. Glad to see we basically don't give a rats ass anymore, at least about being gay.
His commentary OTOH is truly awful, I must agree, he is so twee and superficial and altogether uninformative. I could never figure this out, because I must tell you, Colin Jackson was respected as one of the most professional British T&F internationals of the late 80s and 90s. He trained like a demon and except for Barcelona 92, produced the goods in championship finals.
He is black, he is gay, he is Welsh...he has a job at the BBC for life. Or at least until GB becomes an Islamic republic in 25 years or so.
Try 7 years if Jeremy Corbyn and Labour ever come to power.
Subway Surfers Addiction wrote:
Coevett wrote:He is black, he is gay, he is Welsh...he has a job at the BBC for life. Or at least until GB becomes an Islamic republic in 25 years or so.
Try 7 years if Jeremy Corbyn and Labour ever come to power.
LRC is such a cesspool of right wing hate and bigotry. I feel like I need a shower after every visit.
El Keniano wrote:
I feel like I need a shower after every visit.
But you never shower, amirite?
Coevett wrote: He is black, he is gay, he is Welsh...he has a job at the BBC for life. Or at least until GB becomes an Islamic republic in 25 years or so.
Yes, true enough...although he is part Panamanian. His accent is strongly Welsh, in fact, Tom Jones would love it...CJ should now move to The Voice because no place on earth will welcome a gay black Panamanian Welsh athlete more than that.
Out and proud. Glad he has the confidence to to this, hope more athlete's feel free to be who they are.
El Keniano wrote:
Subway Surfers Addiction wrote:Try 7 years if Jeremy Corbyn and Labour ever come to power.
LRC is such a cesspool of right wing hate and bigotry??
So let's get this straight. You object to people, who are a different skin colour to you and have a different religious persuasion to you, coming into your country, spending ten years there exploiting the local infrastructure and institutions, then slagging off the country, saying they hate the place after all your country has provided them (the Robertson twins). Apparently that isn't "right wing and bigoted," yet when some of us object to uncontrolled immigration of people who don't like our countries but expect us to feed them, clothe them, house them while turning a blind eye to their revolting hatred of gays, Jews, Christians and women's rights. Or when we put our children on the bus to school, when we walk through a public market or stadium or use the metro or run a marathon we wonder if some crazed religious zelot is trying to blow the place up or drive a bus or a van through there. Or if we object to the barbarous way animals are killed. Not to mention the fact that they disrespect the local customs ie "when in Rome dress like Romans." Somehow anyone who objects is a racist, bigoted and right wing. Yet anyone with a sophisticated knowledge of history knows that these hate groups like the KKK were aligned with the Democrats. The Labour party in South Africa helped establish apartheid, the Labour party in Australia brought in the 'white Australia policy' which was protested loudly by businessmen who preferred Fijian labour. While the Fabian Socialists in Britain (Keynes, Virginia Woolf, Bertrand Russell and George Bernard Shaw) applauded the near genocide of Aboriginal Australians. British Labour party supporters were fiercely antisemitic blaming "Jewish financiers" for their problems. As for the National Socialist party of Germany in the late-1920s, they were anti-capitalist and anti-conservative. So go figure.
rooftops wrote:
Coevett wrote:He is black, he is gay, he is Welsh...he has a job at the BBC for life. Or at least until GB becomes an Islamic republic in 25 years or so.
No contradiction there.
No contradiction in keeping his job as a national tv presenter as an obviously gay man when GB becomes an Islamic republic? Hmmm..
There are 13 countries in the world in which homosexuals are being put to death for their sexual orientation. Every one of them is a Muslim majority nation. There are over 50 Muslim nations on Earth and in only 2 or 3 is homosexuality legal, or rather 'tolerated'. While over 20 countries now allow gay marriages, not one of those countries is Muslim majority. In the United Kingdom, something like 90% of the population feels that there is nothing wrong with being homosexual. Yet according to a recent survey, that drops to closer to 50% in London. Can you guess why that is? In European cities such as Amsterdam and Cologne which have close to Muslim majority populations, gay men are afraid to openly show their sexuality, such as holding hands or kissing in public, for fear of being beaten up, yet those cities are in countries that are the most liberal in the world and with the most progressive gay rights laws.
Good luck with being a gay man in 25 years time when GB is likely to be a Muslim majority nation.
I'm confused. Hasn't he been out, with this well-known for years?
Coevett wrote:
rooftops wrote:No contradiction there.
No contradiction in keeping his job as a national tv presenter as an obviously gay man when GB becomes an Islamic republic? Hmmm..
There are 13 countries in the world in which homosexuals are being put to death for their sexual orientation. Every one of them is a Muslim majority nation. There are over 50 Muslim nations on Earth and in only 2 or 3 is homosexuality legal, or rather 'tolerated'. While over 20 countries now allow gay marriages, not one of those countries is Muslim majority. In the United Kingdom, something like 90% of the population feels that there is nothing wrong with being homosexual. Yet according to a recent survey, that drops to closer to 50% in London. Can you guess why that is? In European cities such as Amsterdam and Cologne which have close to Muslim majority populations, gay men are afraid to openly show their sexuality, such as holding hands or kissing in public, for fear of being beaten up, yet those cities are in countries that are the most liberal in the world and with the most progressive gay rights laws.
Good luck with being a gay man in 25 years time when GB is likely to be a Muslim majority nation.
Same sex marriage is illegal in Israel.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-sex_marriage_in_IsraelYehudi Gaybo wrote:
Coevett wrote:No contradiction in keeping his job as a national tv presenter as an obviously gay man when GB becomes an Islamic republic? Hmmm..
There are 13 countries in the world in which homosexuals are being put to death for their sexual orientation. Every one of them is a Muslim majority nation. There are over 50 Muslim nations on Earth and in only 2 or 3 is homosexuality legal, or rather 'tolerated'. While over 20 countries now allow gay marriages, not one of those countries is Muslim majority. In the United Kingdom, something like 90% of the population feels that there is nothing wrong with being homosexual. Yet according to a recent survey, that drops to closer to 50% in London. Can you guess why that is? In European cities such as Amsterdam and Cologne which have close to Muslim majority populations, gay men are afraid to openly show their sexuality, such as holding hands or kissing in public, for fear of being beaten up, yet those cities are in countries that are the most liberal in the world and with the most progressive gay rights laws.
Good luck with being a gay man in 25 years time when GB is likely to be a Muslim majority nation.
Same sex marriage is illegal in Israel.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-sex_marriage_in_Israel
And meanwhile they're pushing gays off of the top of tall buildings in the Gaza Strip. Same sex marriages are illegal in the vast majority of the countries in the world btw. There's a difference between keeping the institution of marriage as that of a contract between a man and women to raise children, and making homosexuality itself illegal. Marriage is about women (and society) needing a male to be around to care and protect her and her child. The benefit to the man is that 'his' (hopefully) child gets to continue his paternal line. Hence a formal ritualized contract. None of these things apply to gay men and the need to marry. Gay men are being co-opted by traditional society when it comes to the whole 'same sex marriage' rights campaign. It's an effort to control gay promiscuity by conservatives.
https://www.whaleoil.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/palestine-homophobia-meme-1-630x423.jpgCoevett wrote:
There are 13 countries in the world in which homosexuals are being put to death for their sexual orientation. Every one of them is a Muslim majority nation.
Does Trump know that North Korea is a Muslim-majority country? If Uganda's law providing for the execution of gay people hadn't been overturned on a technicality, would they have become Muslim-majority, too?
Coevett wrote:
There are over 50 Muslim nations on Earth and in only 2 or 3 is homosexuality legal, or rather 'tolerated'. While over 20 countries now allow gay marriages, not one of those countries is Muslim majority.
Azerbaijan and its 97% Muslim population legalized consensual same-sex relations in 2000. Does that confuse you?
Coevett wrote:
In the United Kingdom, something like 90% of the population feels that there is nothing wrong with being homosexual. Yet according to a recent survey, that drops to closer to 50% in London. Can you guess why that is? In European cities such as Amsterdam and Cologne which have close to Muslim majority populations, gay men are afraid to openly show their sexuality, such as holding hands or kissing in public, for fear of being beaten up, yet those cities are in countries that are the most liberal in the world and with the most progressive gay rights laws.
You haven't given any studies to support your claims.
Coevett wrote:
Good luck with being a gay man in 25 years time when GB is likely to be a Muslim majority nation.
A gay man of Indian descent is Taoiseach in Ireland. In 25 years, it's more likely that England find itself in a similar situation than with an Islamic Church of England, despite what you're hearing at the EDL meetings.
Jeff Wigand wrote:
Coevett wrote:There are 13 countries in the world in which homosexuals are being put to death for their sexual orientation. Every one of them is a Muslim majority nation.
Does Trump know that North Korea is a Muslim-majority country? If Uganda's law providing for the execution of gay people hadn't been overturned on a technicality, would they have become Muslim-majority, too?
Coevett wrote:
There are over 50 Muslim nations on Earth and in only 2 or 3 is homosexuality legal, or rather 'tolerated'. While over 20 countries now allow gay marriages, not one of those countries is Muslim majority.
Azerbaijan and its 97% Muslim population legalized consensual same-sex relations in 2000. Does that confuse you?
Coevett wrote:
In the United Kingdom, something like 90% of the population feels that there is nothing wrong with being homosexual. Yet according to a recent survey, that drops to closer to 50% in London. Can you guess why that is? In European cities such as Amsterdam and Cologne which have close to Muslim majority populations, gay men are afraid to openly show their sexuality, such as holding hands or kissing in public, for fear of being beaten up, yet those cities are in countries that are the most liberal in the world and with the most progressive gay rights laws.
You haven't given any studies to support your claims.
Coevett wrote:
Good luck with being a gay man in 25 years time when GB is likely to be a Muslim majority nation.
A gay man of Indian descent is Taoiseach in Ireland. In 25 years, it's more likely that England find itself in a similar situation than with an Islamic Church of England, despite what you're hearing at the EDL meetings.
What has Trump and North Korea got to do with anything.
Now name 3 more countries than Azerbaijan and I might be slightly confused.
So you assume the Muslim majority will be largely atheist wirhin a generation, as the 'Catholics in Ireland are, despite each British Muslim generation becoming MORE radical?
The Catholic church has been homosexual for hundreds of years btw.
Coevett wrote:
Jeff Wigand wrote:Does Trump know that North Korea is a Muslim-majority country? If Uganda's law providing for the execution of gay people hadn't been overturned on a technicality, would they have become Muslim-majority, too?
Azerbaijan and its 97% Muslim population legalized consensual same-sex relations in 2000. Does that confuse you?
You haven't given any studies to support your claims.
A gay man of Indian descent is Taoiseach in Ireland. In 25 years, it's more likely that England find itself in a similar situation than with an Islamic Church of England, despite what you're hearing at the EDL meetings.
What has Trump and North Korea got to do with anything.
Now name 3 more countries than Azerbaijan and I might be slightly confused.
So you assume the Muslim majority will be largely atheist wirhin a generation, as the 'Catholics in Ireland are, despite each British Muslim generation becoming MORE radical?
The Catholic church has been homosexual for hundreds of years btw.
And why do alt-left Marxists insist on branding anybody who doesn't share their extreme politics as 'far right'. Half of the UK are honest enough to admit that Islam is a threat to Western values. In Eastern Europe, which doesn't suffer from so much extreme left media brainwashing and thought crime laws (they still remember life under the Soviet Union) the figure is much higher.
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/half-britons-think-islam-threat-west-according-worrying-new-study-080611464.htmlCoevett wrote:
What has Trump and North Korea got to do with anything.
North Korea has executed people for homosexual activity. You wrote that such atrocities were found only in Muslim-majority countries.
Coevett wrote:
Now name 3 more countries than Azerbaijan and I might be slightly confused.
Albania
Indonesia
Jordan
Turkey
I know you asked for three, but Turkey actually legalized consensual gay sex in the middle of the 19th Century while part of the Ottoman Empire. Confused yet?
Coevett wrote:
So you assume the Muslim majority will be largely atheist wirhin a generation, as the 'Catholics in Ireland are, despite each British Muslim generation becoming MORE radical?
Are they? Sadiq Khan is more radical than his parents?
Coevett wrote:
The Catholic church has been homosexual for hundreds of years btw.
This is why the Roman Catholic Church has been performing gay marriages since the Reformation. Right.
Coevett wrote:
In the United Kingdom, something like 90% of the population feels that there is nothing wrong with being homosexual. Yet according to a recent survey, that drops to closer to 50% in London. Can you guess why that is?
Your figures are almost certainly bullsh*t. I simply do not believe that Londoners are less accepting on average of homosexuality than the UK population as a whole, let alone by those kinds of margins.
Anyway, given that Muslims make up just over 12% of the population of London, if it is true it surely isn't for the reason you're suggesting here.
Jeff Wigand wrote:
Coevett wrote:What has Trump and North Korea got to do with anything.
North Korea has executed people for homosexual activity. You wrote that such atrocities were found only in Muslim-majority countries.
Coevett wrote:
Now name 3 more countries than Azerbaijan and I might be slightly confused.
Albania
Indonesia
Jordan
Turkey
I know you asked for three, but Turkey actually legalized consensual gay sex in the middle of the 19th Century while part of the Ottoman Empire. Confused yet?
Coevett wrote:
So you assume the Muslim majority will be largely atheist wirhin a generation, as the 'Catholics in Ireland are, despite each British Muslim generation becoming MORE radical?
Are they? Sadiq Khan is more radical than his parents?
Coevett wrote:
The Catholic church has been homosexual for hundreds of years btw.
This is why the Roman Catholic Church has been performing gay marriages since the Reformation. Right.
Can you supply some evidence that North Korea executes gay people? According to the top Google results including Wikipedia, homosexuality is not even illegal there.
Oh yea, Turkey, where transgenders are regularly being beaten, raped, and dismembered and the police shoot at anyone attempting to hold a Gay Pride march. And no I'm not confused if 5 out of 50 Muslim countries ostensibly allow homosexuality instead of 3. Take your head out of your ass.
I don't know how radical Khan's parents where. And why does one person out of 5 million Muslims in the UK mean anything. I know that Khan mixed with radical Islamists in his past and defended 9/11 terrorists as a lawyer. He also never mentioned Islam when speaking about the Manchester and London attacks and has told Londoners that terrorism is part of living in a big city.
The figure of 11% Muslims in London comes from the 2011 census. The Muslim population in the UK is doubling every decade and even more since 2011 with the European refugee crisis. At the same time, white flight is occuring in London. It also depends how you define London. If you include the leafy Surrey suburbs then you might get a low figure like that, but for London proper, closer to 30% today would be more accurate. Also, Islamic culture is influencing the non-Muslim culture of London, especially with a Islamic mayor. London is now the only city in Europe that bans public pictures of bikini clad women as 'offensive'.
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/05/23/asia/indonesia-caning-homosexuality/index.htmlhttps://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/aug/23/murder-transgender-lgbt-hande-kader-turkeyhttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/johann-hari/can-we-finally-talk-about_b_828037.htmlhttp://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/istanbul-pride-riot-police-turkey-lgbt-rights-march-dogs-rubber-bullets-tear-gas-a7807656.htmlCoevett wrote:
Can you supply some evidence that North Korea executes gay people? According to the top Google results including Wikipedia, homosexuality is not even illegal there.
It was reported that the North Korean government had executed a lesbian couple for having been "badly influenced by capitalism from Japan and brought corruption of public morals." In fairness, it's tough to figure out if their murders were more politically or socially motivated. But it doesn't take much to end up on the firing squad.
https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2011/09/182_95702.htmlCoevett wrote:
Oh yea, Turkey, where transgenders are regularly being beaten, raped, and dismembered
Violence against the LGBT community is horrifying and not confined to any particular place. In one year, Grupo Gay da Bahia reported that 159 members of the LGBT community were murdered because of their sexual orientation and/or gender identity. Islam to blame?
Coevett wrote:
and the police shoot at anyone attempting to hold a Gay Pride march.
It's terrible what happened with the suppression of the Pride Parade. Like what happened when civil rights leaders were violently suppressed in the US. The arc of the universe bends towards justice. But consensual gay sex is legal in Turkey and has been since 1858. How do you feel about the fact that Alan Turing would have been safer in Turkey than in Manchester?
Coevett wrote:
And no I'm not confused if 5 out of 50 Muslim countries ostensibly allow homosexuality instead of 3.
You asked and I answered. How are reconciling your firm belief that anywhere with a Muslim-majority population must be so anti-LGBT as to ban it while at the same time learning that there are multiple Muslim-majority countries that have no bans and have even formally decriminalized gay relations, the Ottoman Empire beating the UK by over a century?
Coevett wrote:
Take your head out of your ass.
Read a book. What do you know about the Middle East before the founding of Islam? Do you think it was an oasis of social liberalism?
Coevett wrote:
I don't know how radical Khan's parents where. And why does one person out of 5 million Muslims in the UK mean anything.
I would ask you why millions of Muslims in the UK are being judged on the actions of a few brainwashed souls. What was insidious about the Irish that led to the Troubles and the deaths of over 3000 people?
Catholics in Croatia murdered over 300,000 people in the first half of the last century to make a purely Catholic state. Should we blame all Catholics for the atrocities that a minority committed in the name of their religion?
Coevett wrote:
I know that Khan mixed with radical Islamists in his past and defended 9/11 terrorists as a lawyer.
He didn't. It blows my mind that you think a 9/11 defense attorney was elected mayor of London. You never stopped to ask, "why was a British attorney defending a French citizen accused of terrorism in the United States?" or "why wasn't this all over the news?"
Khan worked on the release of three British citizens in Egypt who were tortured into giving coerced confessions. Amnesty International implored for their release, which happened, years later.
http://www.snopes.com/sadiq-khan-video/During the mayoral campaign, David Cameron and the Conservatives attempted to link Khan to hardline cleric Suliman Gani, who is on record as being against gay relations and women's rights. The Conservatives said that Khan had shared multiple public platforms with Gani and appeared with him at local functions. Khan pointed out that Conservative candidate Zac Goldsmith actually invited Gani to a campaign event at the Tooting Islamic Center. Khan first engaged with Gani in 2004 as a local MP and the two had a huge falling out over the question of same-sex marriage. Sadiq worked to have Gani removed from the local mosque due to his extreme views.
Coevett wrote:
He also never mentioned Islam when speaking about the Manchester and London attacks
And? The fact that Eric Rudolph murdered people and committed acts of terrorism in the name of a Christian holy war in no way impinges on Christianity, even though we can cite passages from its ancient holy book to justify violence against outsiders.
Coevett wrote:
and has told Londoners that terrorism is part of living in a big city.
Do you want a police state? Terrorism isn't an issue in Pyongyang because there is no freedom. We want a free society. There are some risks with that and we impose reasonable restrictions on our freedom to achieve a measure of safety. Show me a city where terrorism is impossible. It doesn't exist.
Coevett wrote:
The figure of 11% Muslims in London comes from the 2011 census. The Muslim population in the UK is doubling every decade and even more since 2011 with the European refugee crisis. At the same time, white flight is occuring in London. It also depends how you define London. If you include the leafy Surrey suburbs then you might get a low figure like that, but for London proper, closer to 30% today would be more accurate.
The data you have is six years old so when we have more current data we can come back to this and not rely on your assumptions.
Coevett wrote:
Also, Islamic culture is influencing the non-Muslim culture of London, especially with a Islamic mayor. London is now the only city in Europe that bans public pictures of bikini clad women as 'offensive'.
Way to twist the facts (or believe the ones twisting the facts).
Adverts promoting negative body images will be banned across the Transport for London (TfL) network from next month.
As part of his mayoral election manifesto Sadiq Khan pledged to ban adverts promoting "unhealthy or unrealistic" body images.
The advertising watchdog received 378 complaints in 2015 about a weight-loss advert that asked customers if they were "beach body ready?"
The Protein World "beach body ready" promotional posters were defaced in Tube stations and a petition was started calling for the adverts to be banned, however the Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) watchdog later ruled the advert depicting a bikini-clad female model was neither offensive nor irresponsible.
The steering group will advise TfL's advertising partners and stakeholders of the mayor's new policy and will ensure adverts continue to adhere to the regulations set out by the ASA.
Mr Khan said: "As the father of two teenage girls, I am extremely concerned about this kind of advertising which can demean people, particularly women, and make them ashamed of their bodies. It is high time it came to an end."
Graeme Craig, TfL commercial development director, said: "Advertising on our network is unlike TV, online and print media.
"Our customers cannot simply switch off or turn a page if an advertisement offends or upsets them and we have a duty to ensure the copy we carry reflects that unique environment."
Previously, the eating disorders charity Beat said while it recognised advertising and media could not cause eating disorders it was aware of how toxic images could be to an individual.
Totally agree. HE is an absolutely abysmal pundit.
Jeff Wigand wrote:
Coevett wrote:Can you supply some evidence that North Korea executes gay people? According to the top Google results including Wikipedia, homosexuality is not even illegal there.
It was reported that the North Korean government had executed a lesbian couple for having been "badly influenced by capitalism from Japan and brought corruption of public morals." In fairness, it's tough to figure out if their murders were more politically or socially motivated. But it doesn't take much to end up on the firing squad.
https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2011/09/182_95702.htmlCoevett wrote:
Oh yea, Turkey, where transgenders are regularly being beaten, raped, and dismembered
Violence against the LGBT community is horrifying and not confined to any particular place. In one year, Grupo Gay da Bahia reported that 159 members of the LGBT community were murdered because of their sexual orientation and/or gender identity. Islam to blame?
Coevett wrote:
and the police shoot at anyone attempting to hold a Gay Pride march.
It's terrible what happened with the suppression of the Pride Parade. Like what happened when civil rights leaders were violently suppressed in the US. The arc of the universe bends towards justice. But consensual gay sex is legal in Turkey and has been since 1858. How do you feel about the fact that Alan Turing would have been safer in Turkey than in Manchester?
Coevett wrote:
And no I'm not confused if 5 out of 50 Muslim countries ostensibly allow homosexuality instead of 3.
You asked and I answered. How are reconciling your firm belief that anywhere with a Muslim-majority population must be so anti-LGBT as to ban it while at the same time learning that there are multiple Muslim-majority countries that have no bans and have even formally decriminalized gay relations, the Ottoman Empire beating the UK by over a century?
Coevett wrote:
Take your head out of your ass.
Read a book. What do you know about the Middle East before the founding of Islam? Do you think it was an oasis of social liberalism?
Coevett wrote:
I don't know how radical Khan's parents where. And why does one person out of 5 million Muslims in the UK mean anything.
I would ask you why millions of Muslims in the UK are being judged on the actions of a few brainwashed souls. What was insidious about the Irish that led to the Troubles and the deaths of over 3000 people?
Catholics in Croatia murdered over 300,000 people in the first half of the last century to make a purely Catholic state. Should we blame all Catholics for the atrocities that a minority committed in the name of their religion?
Coevett wrote:
I know that Khan mixed with radical Islamists in his past and defended 9/11 terrorists as a lawyer.
He didn't. It blows my mind that you think a 9/11 defense attorney was elected mayor of London. You never stopped to ask, "why was a British attorney defending a French citizen accused of terrorism in the United States?" or "why wasn't this all over the news?"
Khan worked on the release of three British citizens in Egypt who were tortured into giving coerced confessions. Amnesty International implored for their release, which happened, years later.
http://www.snopes.com/sadiq-khan-video/During the mayoral campaign, David Cameron and the Conservatives attempted to link Khan to hardline cleric Suliman Gani, who is on record as being against gay relations and women's rights. The Conservatives said that Khan had shared multiple public platforms with Gani and appeared with him at local functions. Khan pointed out that Conservative candidate Zac Goldsmith actually invited Gani to a campaign event at the Tooting Islamic Center. Khan first engaged with Gani in 2004 as a local MP and the two had a huge falling out over the question of same-sex marriage. Sadiq worked to have Gani removed from the local mosque due to his extreme views.
Coevett wrote:
He also never mentioned Islam when speaking about the Manchester and London attacks
And? The fact that Eric Rudolph murdered people and committed acts of terrorism in the name of a Christian holy war in no way impinges on Christianity, even though we can cite passages from its ancient holy book to justify violence against outsiders.
Coevett wrote:
and has told Londoners that terrorism is part of living in a big city.
Do you want a police state? Terrorism isn't an issue in Pyongyang because there is no freedom. We want a free society. There are some risks with that and we impose reasonable restrictions on our freedom to achieve a measure of safety. Show me a city where terrorism is impossible. It doesn't exist.
Coevett wrote:
The figure of 11% Muslims in London comes from the 2011 census. The Muslim population in the UK is doubling every decade and even more since 2011 with the European refugee crisis. At the same time, white flight is occuring in London. It also depends how you define London. If you include the leafy Surrey suburbs then you might get a low figure like that, but for London proper, closer to 30% today would be more accurate.
The data you have is six years old so when we have more current data we can come back to this and not rely on your assumptions.
Coevett wrote:
Also, Islamic culture is influencing the non-Muslim culture of London, especially with a Islamic mayor. London is now the only city in Europe that bans public pictures of bikini clad women as 'offensive'.
Way to twist the facts (or believe the ones twisting the facts).
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-36516378Adverts promoting negative body images will be banned across the Transport for London (TfL) network from next month.
As part of his mayoral election manifesto Sadiq Khan pledged to ban adverts promoting "unhealthy or unrealistic" body images.
The advertising watchdog received 378 complaints in 2015 about a weight-loss advert that asked customers if they were "beach body ready?"
The Protein World "beach body ready" promotional posters were defaced in Tube stations and a petition was started calling for the adverts to be banned, however the Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) watchdog later ruled the advert depicting a bikini-clad female model was neither offensive nor irresponsible.
The steering group will advise TfL's advertising partners and stakeholders of the mayor's new policy and will ensure adverts continue to adhere to the regulations set out by the ASA.
Mr Khan said: "As the father of two teenage girls, I am extremely concerned about this kind of advertising which can demean people, particularly women, and make them ashamed of their bodies. It is high time it came to an end."
Graeme Craig, TfL commercial development director, said: "Advertising on our network is unlike TV, online and print media.
"Our customers cannot simply switch off or turn a page if an advertisement offends or upsets them and we have a duty to ensure the copy we carry reflects that unique environment."
Previously, the eating disorders charity Beat said while it recognised advertising and media could not cause eating disorders it was aware of how toxic images could be to an individual.
No, I've wasted too much time already today on this forum trying to defeat stupidity. I'm not going to even read all of your post but just answer two bits of stupidity I scanned.
You actually are defending Islam on the basis that life in the 6th century wasn't a socialist paradise???
Oh - Khan claims he is banned exposed female flesh in support of feminism. Those 'feminists' themselves want such posters banned simply because they're jealous fatties. Do you understand that it's possible that a person might not be publicly honest with their motivations? Images of slim women turn girls into anorexics? Oh, but increasing images everywhere of size 18 models are fine, and you're a body shaming sexist if you say otherwise, despite 100x more teenage girls suffering ill health through obesity rather than anorexia (which is a complicated mental health problem unlikely to be caused simply by images of bikini models).
What's the next step? All attractive women in London must cover themselves in the hijab, otherwise it might cause insecurity and eating disorders in young girls?
