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Originally Posted by jhonnyking
hmmm shariah law thrust upon us in this nation..... it reminds me of something.. a bit like the british thrust upon, well lets see... south africa-just loved that aparteid, india-cant beat the british imperilaism, or yeh iraq-well done u liberators, how 'dead' happy that country is now, you can see their smiling faces on the news..
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1) The British were certainly not responsible for the policy of aparteid; that was the policy of the south africans of Dutch/German descent - the Boers, if you wish to call them that - and was formally developed in the late 1940's/early 1950's, aprox. 50 years after the Union of South Africa had full independence from the British.
2) There was no such nation-state as India or Pakistan prior to the arrival of the British; the Indian sub-continent was no more than a rag-bag collection of Princely states with no notion of national identity whatsoever. It was the British who introduced civilisation, the rule of law, cricket and the common language of English. Only on independance did the Muslims want their own religious state (Pakistan). What followed was several wars with India and millions dead and a now a nuclear standoff between the two.
3) Likewise, the British created Iraq in 1919 from the remains of the Ottoman empire. By my reckoning, that gives us every right to be there. If the Shia muslims want to murder and terrorise the Sunni muslims and they both want to kill the kurds , thats fine by me; let 'em get on with it - it is their affair. We'll just take the oil, thank you!
