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Agreed Stuart.
Sharm el-Sheikh ...........
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I've no doubt the UK and every other intelligence agency has information 'claiming' it was a terrorist action. Whether there was a bomb or not the UK upping the ante like this usefully puts Russia on the spot as they now have to do something more concrete about IS in Syria rather than just attacking Assad's dissident enemy (US backed).
It also suits No 10 nicely to jump on the fear of terrorism to justify conveniently timed new surveillance powers at home, not a criticism if that's the case as it's clever, just an observation. Or am I overthinking this? :shifty:
It also suits No 10 nicely to jump on the fear of terrorism to justify conveniently timed new surveillance powers at home, not a criticism if that's the case as it's clever, just an observation. Or am I overthinking this? :shifty:
Longtallhowie
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Make the most of your holidays while you can, give it another 5-10 years it won't be safe to go anywhere 
ben g said:
..... as it was once explained to me when I was there ......... " if you truly believe that an Egyptian soldier who gets paid 70 dollars a month is going to take a bullet to protect you ....... you are indeed naïve"
jimmybell said:
Religious extremists though, so a religious war. No?
Stuart Truman said:
Sure they're 'Religious Extremists', but it's not the religion that's declared war, it's the extremists (using religion as their excuse). Religion is part of it, but by implying that anyone who's aligned with a different religion to you and works in an airport should be of concern (which my post was in response to) suggests that everyone within a religious group is involved, and they're simply not. It just means the you live in a little bubble and haven't ever integrated with people outside of your particularly small view of the world.
If i was an extreme Humanist (not sure if this exists, but i like the sound of aggressive secular humanism), and a group of my close extreme Humanist friends declared war on all people that aren't in my small insignificant sub group of morals, that doesn't mean instantly that everyone is at war with me and anyone else who's a Secular Humanist is at war with the world, it means i'm a naive ignorant idiot trying to impose my subset of ideals on everyone else whether they like it or not. Nazi Germany was primarily Protestant/Catholic, they declared war on the world - particularly other faiths, it doesn't mean i was fighting for them.
Saying that, as a Humanist i should probably declare war on all religion as it clearly poses a threat to our existence.
When looking to book the honeymoon, I excluded any Muslim country. Upon our return it seems my fears are well founded. We enjoyed the Caribbean. Some countries will loose out, but others will gain. I never thought I would see this kind of nonsense in my lifetime again. Post 'the troubles' that is.
jimmybell said:
As a pantheist (based on the Dawkins definition) I can sympathise with that view, but as a pacifist, I'm declaring war on nobody