Really?
Here is a major case where the victims were all English girls and the perps were all Pakistani taxi-drivers, and liberal progressives want to throw it all under the rug.
Depends on how you define abuse doesn't it? When I was a kid, pretty much all of us got lightly spanked at some point, sent to bed without food for back talking, yelled at, told to stop talking when adults were speaking, publicly embarassed and shamed and more. As far as I know, every kid I grew up with turned out ok, other than me of course
Your right but this thread isn't about the Catholic church.
And all of the other cases in the UK? Do we just ignore those?
Which would be useful if this were about wider abuse and neglect, but its not and as the stats linked to were specific to sexual abuse I'm not quite sure what a definition for wider abuse and neglect has to do with it.
There's not an "unlike" button you can use for any post.
You made your assertion and used the link as reference. I thought I'd take a look to see what it was about. If you don't want your links to be questioned you should say so.
As I understand it, abuse within the Catholic Church, while heinous and unacceptable obviously, was no more, and probably less widespread, than abuse in the general public.
It covers something much wider however, so as such it doesn't question my source in aa comparative nature.
The point was, as well you know, that you are deliberately over-sensationalising the scale of the raids. Why? Well, only you know that - but quite what you have to gain from scaremongering and portraying Europe as a major terrorist hotbed escapes me.
I think you are actually doing the opposite and playing it down to much, the army is patrolling on the streets right now and the whole country is on high alert. Luckily these hatebeards got stopped before they unloaded their Kalashnikovs on police officers or police stations. We didn't experience a situation like this since the early eighties when the 'bende van nijvel' was around.
That's probably a result of a shift in the extremists' approach.
There is a colossal gulf between an "anti-terror" raid with its associated tension and "blowback from the war in the Middle East has now spread across Western Europe in a major way".
Well i agree that people shouldn't panic and news reports like the one on Fox showing the "no go areas" in Paris only serve to make people panic. Yet those lone wolf jihadis that came back from Syria and Iraq and are trying to attack inside Europe now should definitely be taken serious. Yes there will always be more attacks in countries like Pakistan, but what ISIS and amigos are trying to do now is to provoke and install fear so people in the west become more extremist as a consequence and they get closer to their goal of having a clash between civilizations.
They are taken seriously, but they also have to be taken into context.
Which is exactly why comments such as "blowback from the war in the Middle East has now spread across Western Europe in a major way" are not only grossly inaccurate, but also unhelpful in the extreme.
Indeed. Claiming that terrorism is spreading across Western Europe in a major way (when it isn't) only adds to the fear and hysteria - which is why I have no truck with oversensationalised claims of this type.
I take it you will now put that into context and compare it to all other form of terrorism that occur in Europe, the threat they pose and the level of policing that they require.
