Well said. Too many people are incapable of living without an 'us vs them' mentality, its a mentality thats no different to that held by the islamist fundamentalists. its childish, simplistic, incorrect and dangerous and the sooner people improve their thinking of other people the better.

News just in: Hell has now been privatised.

Horrible case. No reason to think this is a beginning of a trend among gay adopters though.

Advocating genocide? Of course you were joking and in no way serious

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-20336811

And so the fighting, retaliatory strikes and counter-retaliatory strikes begin again. I'm not going to come out and demonize on side or the other, though I'm sure there will be plenty of that on this forum very soon. Israeli or Palestinian, its people and families on both sides who will suffer until both governments can start getting their act together for peace. But that is far of yet

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2203026/Sorry-America-Libyan-protestors-tout-pro-America-posters-day-U-S-Ambassador-killed--angry-mobs-storming-embassies-Middle-East.html

You may have to rethink your idea of all muslims being identical clones who all think and act alike.

Yeah, they'll allow it, they wouldn't have much choice in the matter. As for who keeps how much of what and splitting out the oil and debts and military and so on will need to be discussed and agreed upon first, divorces are very rarely mess free, after all. England will get to keep the Welsh tho

The Native Americans had to learn english, did they not?

I doubt this is big news anywhere outside the UK but Scotland is thinking of breaking of from Great Britain and going it alone as an independent country. Some within the UK think this is a terrible idea while others think its a reat idea (and not ll of thos in favour are Braveheart fans...)

I was just curious to see the oppinions of those outside the UK. Is it wise for a wee country to try and make it alone in all the ecenomic mess? Should it stick with the UK to keep its power? (however slight tha actually is). or is it a good idea to take all those risks and challenges if it meant a more representative democracy?

any thoughts? just curious

And do you know the real scary horror in all this? ... genetically altered humans are SOCIALISTS! We are doomed.

Exactly

Violence has been done in the name of both religion and secular ideoligies. Religion is not special, it is just more widely available to be used to justify violent actions. If there was no religion people would just look for other sources to justify violence

Obama's secret is out ... he is a commie. The red revolution is starting ...

get your hammer and sickles out folks ... :P

its true, as much as its 'trendy' to blame america in europe the fact is europe, UK especially are largely responsible for a lot of problems ... but hey, we spread the english language so its not all bad ... ...

quite a few, I'd think

that is the exact playground bully mentality. the last thing the world needs is a super power acting like some playground bully

The Iranian regime, actually all Islamic extremists would love you and your sentiments. They would wish all americans and westerners would speak just like you, seriously they would. You validate their veiw that the 'west' hates them and wants to destroy them.

Genius!!!

If Iran did start something stupid and Russia got involved then i'm sure Iran would be Putin its place ... Putin, put in? ...

you speak as if all muslims are one closely knit group of people rather than a vast and diverse population. you also speak as if the minority extremists are somehow indicative of the entire population of muslims ... i mean, really??

the westboro baptist church are christians ... so all christians all over the world pickit funerals of dead soldiers and spout hateful homophobic rhetoric ... every single christian the world over are all the same ... if all muslims the world over are identical in their worldview and outlook ... right?

this attitude of your towards muslims, a people numbering over a billion, is validating the argument of the extremists. they claim the west hates islam and muslims and here you are, proving them right.

long, slow applause ...

totally missed my point.
1, the koran is more important to muslims in their faith than the bible is to christians. the koran itself is sacred to muslims, while to christians the book is not as important as the message within.

2, most afghans are illiterate and uneducated, one of the downsides of which is an inability to accept attacks on their belief from opposing points of view (some which never happens on this thread, i might add)

3, say hypothetically america was invaded and occupied for 10 years by a foreign power, during which time americans suffered thousands of deaths and chaos. and then after all that the invaders then attack something most americans hold very important, free speech for example. would most americans simply accept an attack on their right to free speech at the hands of occupiers or would some get a little angry and start causing some ruckuss to show how angry they are?