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Originally Posted by Eric
Nope ... don't agree with this one .... to say that someone else is brainwashed is to ignore that we too are locked inside an ideology. We have deeply held beliefs, the bad guys are brainwashed. I'm not saying that I agree with the act; but to write it off as "brainwashing", whatever that is, is to trivialize and oversimplify a complex issue. And it is dangerous. In the 1930s, many saw the Nazis as posturing clowns, not to be taken seriously ... a sort of lunatic fringe who would go away eventually. And go away they did, all it took was tens of millions of deaths.
I believe that Islamic extremism is the greatest threat to world peace to come along in quite some time ... if it is not dealt with in time ... well you get the picture. But this it too much of a wander.
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Not a wander at all...........I am really surprised that the ones who put so much store on 'Did you get the form' . who's drinking in Ossy today
..etc,etc ,etc are not joining in the serious debate.