Consistently? Nope, sorry. Look at that other thread where I prove you wrong by quoting you.
I did look and I saw one thread that you had a number of my quotes in and nothing that I disavow and none that was bigoted.
http://www.intensitysquared.com/index.php/topic,23712.0.htmlI have stated some uncomfortable truths and said that I support in principle the idea of preventing ALL Muslim immigrants until the Radical Muslims can be identified within the Muslim immigrant applicants..
Actually, you've stated some uncomfortably bigoted views--parroted Donald, essentially--and then failed to provide anything to support them. Just like Donald.
Actually, that is completely false.
Here is a little thought experiment consider all your biases and preconceptions of what I think and support to one side.
If I said
"I think that no radical Muslims should be allowed or able to travel outside their country because they are a threat to any other country they visit"Would you agree, in principle?
If I said that
"These radicalised Muslims are hateful, zealous, ideologues with death and suffering on their mind and are perverting Islamic Belief systems in order to do these terrible things with righteous justification".Would you agree, in principle?
If I said that
"Americans should not have these people in their country and they ought not feel obliged to have hateful radicalised Muslims in the country"Would you agree, in principle?
If I said that
"The screening processes in America and the investigative FBI processes seem a little below par".Would you agree, in principle?
If I said
"It is difficult without good screening measure to know what is in another person's head. Radicalised Muslims do not come with a tattoo on their forehead and the decent Muslim man or woman or child that wants to make their home in America and contribute to the society and culture in America is sometimes very hard if not impossible to pick from the radicalised or the potential radical."Would you agree, in principle?
Now what is the next step? To my mind if you cannot screen properly and there is a threat (you can argue all you like as to whether there is or how great it is - just as you could about New Years Eve in a German Town or a quick dip in a Swedish pool outside of segregated hours if you are a woman), but I am going to say that we have a difference of opinion on the degree here. So if I am closer to you in the degree of threat then the next step is if you cannot screen effectively and you are at risk of things going really badly, then put a hold on the immigration and direct energies into developing better screening processes and coming up with better options. Simply hold off on the risk of working with flawed systems and wait until a better replacement is in place. If you are unable to differentiate good from bad and radical from moderate do not take the risk until you can reduce it down further.
Its a pretty simple logical follow through. I understand your saying
"I don't believe the threat is a bad one". You are entitled to that opinion but it is only an opinion. I have a different opinion. You can say if you stop all Muslim immigration that is bigoted. Okay you can take that position. Its rather sad, but that is fine. I do not think so. I can swing the pendulum back your way and say,
"Acknowledging that the FBI are doing a pretty average job with what they have at the moment, How can they better differentiate good moderate Muslims from Radicalised Muslim Extremists if those extremists are trying to immigrate by pretending to be good moderate Muslims?"You got nothing. You want to take a dump on the concept without being able to offer a better option? Great. Nice talk.
If a particularly infectious and often fatal disease that was at risk of causing damage to the US and it was difficult to detect the host of said disease in a given community BUT you knew for certain that the country the immigrants were applying to come from was where it was running rampant, then it may well seem unfair, injustice or even putting the poor healthy non-infected people at risk of harm not letting them in.
In this example the difficult to detect infectious disease is Radical Muslim ideology.
I like the next part of your reasoning.
"Muslim radicals? Pfftt...American doctors suck. Americans have guns and guns kill people, be outraged over that. What do you suggest about that" (paraphrased)
Huh? You're not making any sense. I take it this was supposed to be witty?
Not making any sense. Okay I will spell it out to you:
If a disease like Ebola on steroids that spreads quickly and is really deadly but also difficult to detect, starts in a country like.....I dunno....Iran. It spreads like wildfire and is not contained before it crosses the border into nearby countries and population. People flee in terror of this horrid disease and try to escape to other countries as refugees. Many do not know they are infected. Some do but are hiding their secret. Many are not infected yet. They all want to immigrate to the United States of America. Three options:
A) Bring them in at normal rates, business as usual - subpar screening.
B) Bring them in at accelerated rates - subpar screening
c) Acknowledge you have subpar screening and cannot detect all the sick ones and do not let any in until you can differentiate healthy from sick and sanction America from the diseased ones even if not allowing perfectly healthy ones in (as they may actually be sick but unable to be diagnosed) and that not doing so may place these innocents in harm's way.
C is not a nice option but it is not bigoted against Iranians.
(Oh yes swap ebola on steroids with Radical Islam and the point should make itself. If not I could make another analogy with Swedish Swimming Pools and the need for segregated swimming times.)
What the Americans do or don't do about this entirely up to the Americans. There was a guy who used to argue a lot about guns in America. Hostage was Piers Morgan. A lot of similar talking points. He was shut down in the end after being slammed again and again by his opponents, his ratings died and he got dumped
Let's pretend for a moment that this was another gun problem. Being that Americans are not going to stand for restrictive measures on guns...what would be your answer to that? Nothing? Great conversation.
Actually I believe a sizable portion of the US are in favour of the gun control measures suggested by President Obama. Great conversation.
I believe that Americans are most reluctant to be disarmed by the Government and that they are wary of any restrictions placed on their "gun rights". But we are simply disagreeing on this. We are both foreigners. I know what guns were in Australia prior to Port Arthur and now and it did not stop or impinge on my family's gun ownership or gun use. But we have a different culture here. I am sure Sweden has different culture again, around guns.
As for it doing nothing to stop US nationals shooting each other, well that's just stupid. That National was a radicalised Muslim. He and Nationals like him (and the Chattanooga gunman) are no less Radicalised Muslims for being raised in US. FBI is stretched too thin and if the can be left to stop problems with who they have here and work out how to differentiate decent Muslims from Radicalised crazies, then they have a chance to check the potential menace.
You do know that immigration is not a right? It is not assumed that any country has to take any particular immigrant. It's not what a country owes you.
See I told you I answered this. You asked me again though you know you had asked it and I had answered it. Damn!
You do know that refugees have rights, don't you? There was also this silly little thing written in the late 40s and early 50s, about universal human rights that just happened to include religion. I believe one of its original authors was an American.
Of course I do. Why do I care the nationality of the author or about religions being included. I think that Muslims can practice their Islamic faith and should. I am not religious myself but I have no care if others are. If it brings them joy and comfort, fine. If they pervert the religion and introduce other hateful ideologies and interpretations to foster something that we see with the Radicalised Muslims and ISIS or ISIS inspired terrorists, then I got a problem with them.
SO I know you were trying for implicit but you came across as just vague.
Whatever
Oh, and I have shown that you were bigoted, as you included every Muslim (and anyone living in Muslim-dominated countries I believe it was), without exception, in your post in the Orlando thread. Here it is in its entirety:
The comparison with the Paris attacks is an odd one--that one was a well-planned attack, carried out by a terror organisation cell. The Orlando attack was the act of a loner, a US citizen who bought the weapon legally, no questions asked, in spite of having been previously questioned by the FBI.
Of course it's a gun problem.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/obama-remarks-gun-control-hauntingly-000000581.html
It was from a radicalised Muslim man on behalf of ISIS (that is that he did this based on what he thought would please them and they were so pleased and took credit for it).
BUT he used a gun. So what?
Paris http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34818994
Brussels https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Brussels_bombings
Rotherham https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotherham_child_sexual_exploitation_scandal
Cologne http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3408033/Muslim-cleric-says-Cologne-sex-attacks-victims-fault-wore-PERFUME.html
Cause and effect. Ascribing the wrong cause is almost as harmful as excusing it
Like this bloke https://www.rt.com/news/338779-somalian-refugee-raped-politician/
Just a gun problem. No. It is an ideological problem. It is NOT a gun problem or a toxic masculinity problem as some Feminists were happier labeling it. It is a problem with radicalised Muslims committing terrorist actions on behalf of a horrible ideology.
End of.
Now Hillary Clinton believes that increasing 500% the amount of Syrian Muslims immigrants into America is a great idea. Trump thinks placing a freeze on immigration of Muslims and folks from Muslim dominant countries is the way to go.
I think Trump is being rational but I don't think his immigration policy would be easily implemented or adhered to. It is something though.
Of course one could say, "Why are they displaced from their country in the first place and as a result of who's actions? Surely not the countries they are immigrating to? If they are immigrating there are they likely to be happy with the host country or not? But that is an entirely different point.
I've highlighted the relevant bits.
I don't think we have a peanut gallery (people are probably avoiding these callouts like the plague by now), so I guess we'll just have to leave it at that.
Oh, and one last thing:
I like it how you tend to try and use the fact that I pay for our host against me when you are in a sufficiently pissy mood. The subject line of this callout is just the latest example. Is it that you feel intimidated?
You keep saying that I am in a pissy mood. It looks like projection. As for intimidated? By what? You? YOUR opinions? God, why?
The reason why I did it is quite easy to ascertain. You said that you were not going to answer my callout. I made this callout, bought up the fact that you were boss and could make your own rules, I changed my signature and showed you a number of times of you banging on about the importance of backing yourself. What do you think the result was? Callout answered. Pissy? Please. But I am glad you like it all the same. I will remember that you do.
I see all of what I wrote and you still are not making a point. You were trying to show blatant bigotry. You posted what I said but I saw what I said and what is more I KNOW what I said and so showing me what I wrote is simply copying me not proving a point not showing me.
There was a very specific claim and I think you should back it.
I do think that IF there is a big threat to US (which I believe there is) through the Muslim immigrant population, of radicalised Muslims, AND the FBI is not doing a sufficient job of screen due to either poor records to screen or poor processes (which I again believe), then the concept of stopping this yet unquantifiable risk to US by preventing Radicalised Muslims that are (I believe) very difficult to differentiate in Muslim immigrant populations, stopping all Muslim immigrants until you can improve your screening process is a rational and logical conclusion.
That is the concept. It makes sense in theory. How does it work in practice? I don't know. But what I do know is that the alternatives seem pretty thin. That is fine if you do not believe that there is a big threat
in Swedish swimming pools to the US through immigration of radicalised Muslims, OR if you believe that the FBI is managing this screening process fine.
If you do not believe these things then it becomes "What is the alternatives?" Cross your finger and hope for the best? If you are saying that "These things are a problem but it is ONLY radicalised Muslims and not Muslims as a whole", I never said otherwise and in fact went to great pains to never do so and be VERY clear I was singling out radicalised Muslims.
That said and agreed with, if you say "JUST stop radicalised Muslims from immigrating then if they are the problem", we are back to square one. It does not square away if FBI do not effectively screen the radicalised Muslims. Therefore the threat that is not reduced more than it is already.
Again you made no point. You did not back your position and your sure as Hell did not show where I was blatantly bigoted. It would be super if you could though. You have written enough now to flesh things out and lay the groundwork (hopefully). Now actually show where i am blatantly bigoted.