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Post by Young Ireland on Nov 25, 2017 11:15:55 GMT
I think it is good to remember, a propos of Ratko Mladic's conviction of genocide a few days ago, that the sort of rhetoric being waged against Muslims now is an awful lot like the rhetoric that justified not only Srebenica, but also Rwanda and the current Rohingya genocide.
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Post by kj on Nov 25, 2017 11:22:57 GMT
Except that Europe does have a problem with Islamic extremism, as the hundreds of dead civilians over the past 15 years or so testifies.
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Post by Maolsheachlann on Nov 25, 2017 11:42:21 GMT
Perhaps we can soon look forward to every country in Europe becoming a multicultural paradise like the former Yugoslavia.
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Post by Young Ireland on Nov 25, 2017 16:42:04 GMT
Perhaps we can soon look forward to every country in Europe becoming a multicultural paradise like the former Yugoslavia. I am sure you agree that doesn't make what the Serbs did to the Bosniaks right. |
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Post by Maolsheachlann on Nov 25, 2017 16:59:17 GMT
What exactly is your argument? What particular utterances are you comparing? Are you saying Irish people should pretend jihadism isn't a danger because of something that happened somewhere else?
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Post by Young Ireland on Nov 25, 2017 17:04:20 GMT
What exactly is your argument? What particular utterances are you comparing? Are you saying Irish people should pretend jihadism isn't a danger because of something that happened somewhere else? My argument is that much of the rhetoric being used about ethnic homogenity and Muslims as a whole (as distinct from jihadists) being undesirable by many on the far right is very similar to the rhetoric that was used by the Serbs towards the Bosnians during the Yugoslav civil war. In short, those who refuse to learn from the mistakes of history run the risk of letting history repeat itself. |
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Post by Maolsheachlann on Nov 25, 2017 17:58:42 GMT
Well, now you have specified the far right. But I think few if any people on the forum sympathise with the far right.
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