[DaveinGermany]

Originally Posted by garinda

By the way, if you read the forum rules, it is against those rules to use alpha/numeric characters or asterisks, to get around the bad language/swearing ban, as this is a family site.

Secondly this is a thread about fanaticism, and since what you posted doesn't take into account that the vast majority of fanatics are born in the countries they live in, what you said is pointless.

Thirdly, if you think Germany is some harmonious Shangri-La, you're mistaken. I was working in Berlin, the largest Turkish Muslim city outside of Turkey, in the early eighties, and there was much more tension there, than there had been were I'd been living whilst studying, a post riot Toxteth.

Fanaticism, and intolerance, travels freely across man-made political borders.

Yes I am aware there are rules & regulations on the site and I do believe I have a fair idea how to follow such things as I spent several years in her Majesty's Armed Forces, so that people such as yourself, me and others could enjoy democracy & free speech (which right I am exercising now) on this forum. Should I make some social or offensive remark I'm sure the regulators would inform me forthwith, I would be chastised and said post deleted. As that doesn't appear to have happened I can only assume my comments may have been close but not deemed incorrect.