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    In a previous life I spent around four years in Kuantan, east side of Peninsula Malaysia.

    I even learnt the language... satu laggi, dua laggi, tigga laggi, etc...

    The east side is way more Muslim than the west side, KL, Penang, etc but I have fond memories of those four years.

    Mind, I was still glad of the occasional long weekends to Phuket to escape... KUA-KUL-HKT, leave Kuantan early doors and on the golf course by lunchtime.

    Three days of hangover golf.

    And Disney world.

    It feels so long ago that it's almost like someone else.

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    I know that feeling.

    My someone else once enjoyed trying my, sorry, his skills at a 'top spinning' 'event' at a cultural 'festival' in Khota Bharu.

    Khota Bharu is way up NE coast.

    That was in 1988.

    There were still platform shoes on display at the shoe shops.

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    ^ Ten years before me... I was in Pahang, relatively moderate.

    Kota Baru... Terranganu? (sp). I remember when PAS won an election and took over that state... stopped all alcohol and killed toursim overnight!

    Any pics of the spinning event, btw?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mendip View Post
    Any pics of the spinning event, btw?
    Lost in the mists of time.

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    Quote Originally Posted by cyrille View Post
    It was the same in 1930's Germany.

    People were short of money, especially disposable cash.
    and now as then it wasn't difficult for those who had the money to convince those who had less that the immigrants were the root of the problem.

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    the immigrants
    there's immigrants, and then there's immigrants.

    which sort are you referring to? the engineers, the doctors, the pharmacists, the nurses and the teachers?

    or the fucking hopeless parasitic neanderthal dross males that wash up to europe and especially the uk in dinghys?





    Afghan women die in rubble as male rescuers refuse to touch them
    Two powerful earthquake aftershocks on Friday raise fears more people are at risk


    Samaan Lateef

    05 September 2025 2:38pm BST


    Afghan women were left to die in the wake of the country’s 6.6 magnitude earthquake because of Taliban rules forbidding unrelated men from having contact with them, The Telegraph has been told.

    The quake killed thousands of people and devastated homes across the country’s mountainous areas on Sunday, with two powerful aftershocks on Friday raising fears of more death and destruction.

    Survivors say the Taliban’s draconian restrictions – as much as the tremors – have cost Afghan women their lives.

    It took rescuers 20 hours to reach Devagarh village on Monday in one of the worst-hit areas. When they did arrive, the women hid behind the broken walls of their houses after seeing the all-male rescue team, one rescuer told The Telegraph.

    “We can’t speak with the women or try to contact them because it’s prohibited. Touching even a dead woman will have consequences,” he said, seeking anonymity.

    Afghan cultural norms, strictly enforced by the Taliban even in emergencies, barred the male rescuers from pulling out female survivors.

    The strict rules also ban women from being employed as rescue workers themselves.

    Ban on ‘negative news’

    “Taliban has not allowed women to rescue, but a few women from the UN aid agencies are on the ground,” said a senior journalist in Kunar on condition of anonymity. “There are complete restrictions on any negative news.”

    In Mazar Dara village, emergency workers carried away men and children, but left behind several women. “They pushed us aside and took men for the treatment,” said a woman, who Telegraph spoke with through a women’s rights activist, Humaira Alim.

    “We were left bleeding. No one offered help,” she said.

    Hamid Badshah, a resident of Kunar Province, said injured women were left under the collapsed houses because the members of the all-male medical team were hesitant to pull them out.

    Mr Badshah described women fleeing the tremors, then turning back midway for headscarves. “I heard women turning back midway looking for hijab after fleeing from tremors and then came under the collapsed houses,” he said.


    More than 2,200 people have been killed and several thousand injured in the earthquake in Afghanistan’s eastern province of Kunar.

    Kunar is a conservative area, so for cultural reasons women might end up being treated later. It’s feared some women may have chosen to stay, or to wait for daylight to be taken to hospital by their families.

    At Jalalabad’s provincial hospital, doctors admitted that in the initial hours, female patients were refused treatment by male staff.

    A Community Health Worker confirmed to The Telegraph that more than three pregnant women died because they were not treated by men. “I believe their number could be too high, in hundreds,” he said.

    During a major 2023 earthquake in Herat, western Afghanistan, nearly six out of ten of those who lost their lives were women, and nearly two-thirds of those injured were women.

    Susan Ferguson, the special representative in Afghanistan for UN Women, stressed the need for Afghan women humanitarians to be part of the response.

    “Women and girls will again bear the brunt of this disaster, so we must ensure their needs are at the heart of the response and recovery,” Ms Ferguson said.

    “This includes supporting the vital work of women humanitarians – otherwise women and girls could miss out on lifesaving assistance or information in the days ahead.”

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    Quote Originally Posted by taxexile View Post
    it is sad that condemnation of these attacks is rarely heard from moderate muslims,
    That's a you problem.

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    After Israel's inexcusable and insatiable bloodlust against Gaza.


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    Terror attacks and random savagery are part and parcel of European life now
    These are the visible consequences of a society that refuses to speak plainly about what threatens it


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    05 November 2025 2:55pm GMT




    Not so long ago we did not have second thoughts about going to a concert, the cinema, a walk on the beach, a ride on a train or a stroll through a Christmas market. But years of random acts of violence and terror have turned what should be spaces for everyday pleasures into zones of fear.

    This morning a man shouting “Allahu Akbar” drove a car into a crowd on the French holiday island of Île d’Oléron, leaving at least 10 people injured. It was the latest example of something that has become commonplace across Europe, something that our leaders refuse to deal with.

    Instead we must learn to live behind barriers, with concrete blocks and assault rifle-toting police becoming a kind of set dressing for leisure.

    The security is to a certain degree theatre. It’s there to reassure us and it’s better than nothing, but it also a reminder that things were not always this way and that governments are too ideologically-bound to actually tackle the issue.

    Nowhere is that more visible than in Germany, where the tradition of the Christmas market is being quietly dismantled. In several towns and cities they will not go ahead as normal this year.

    Overath, in North Rhine-Westphalia, has cancelled its market altogether as it cannot afford to defend itself from potential attack. It isn’t an isolated case. The market in nearby Kerpen, has also reportedly been cancelled.

    In Hamburg, one of the city’s busiest districts has no market this year. In Munich, would-be stall-holders are waiting on a committee that may never meet. Piece by piece, the map of German Christmas is being dismantled not by war or pestilence, but by bureaucracy, timidity and fear.

    These cancellations are not simply administrative matters. They are the visible consequences of a society that refuses to speak plainly about what threatens it. Islamist terror – or even the fear of it – now impacts the architecture of public life. The markets that survive do so behind “controlled zones”: fenced pockets of reassurance in cities that pretend the danger does not exist.

    The theatre of denial that surrounds the problem effectively kills debate. When any one politician dares to question the moral dogma of our age, others fall over themselves with performative outrage.

    It extends beyond politics. When a Syrian asylum-seeker murdered three people at a city festival in Solingen this August, the national discussion quickly shifted from the act to the instrument: knife control, not ideology.

    The weapon, not the wielder, became the story.

    It is as if much of the West has agreed that certain truths are too dangerous to articulate: that some realities must be processed through euphemism or not at all.

    The result is paralysis dressed as compassion. Rather than confront insecurity, we cancel our traditions.


    Tolerance without limits is not a virtue; it is surrender. A society that cannot even defend its Christmas markets will struggle to defend anything else. The markets that survive do so behind ramparts that would have seemed absurd a generation ago. Children now grow up thinking police at Christmas are as traditional as gingerbread.

    This is how cultures fade – not through sudden collapse, but through small, well-meaning surrenders. Each cancelled market, each renamed festival, each silence accepted for the sake of “safety” is another retreat from the public square. need not strike again; the mere possibility has achieved their purpose. The attack in France on Sunday showed how fragile the ordinary has become. Germany’s response shows how easily fear can be mistaken for compassion.


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    and people like kingwilly, cyrille, troy and now even norton fall over themselves with "performative outrage" and refuse to confront the ideology that fuels these violent outrages.

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    Quote Originally Posted by taxexile View Post
    Tand people like kingwilly, cyrille, troy and now even norton fall over themselves with "performative outrage" and refuse to confront the ideology that fuels these violent outrages.
    And idiots like tax wonder why so many people are desperate to get out of these shitholes while we bomb them or support vicious regimes and enable the thugs that take over.

    Not the sharpest tool in the box, is he?

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    Quote Originally Posted by cyrille View Post
    It gets worse for TD's islamophobes.

    There's one of these stories every day!
    Cryall quoting the left wing main stream media.

    The real hero of the attack..

    Islamic terrorism attacks in the UK-k-jpg
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    Quote Originally Posted by taxexile View Post
    islamic terror attacks in the uk

    21 December 1988: Pan Am Flight 103 was blown up by a bomb in a suitcase while in flight over Lockerbie, Scotland after taking off from Heathrow. All 259 of the plane's passengers and crew were killed, along with 11 Lockerbie residents, claiming a total of 270 lives.
    What's "islamic" about Lockerbie ?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Joe 90 View Post
    Cryall quoting the left wing main stream media.

    The real hero of the attack..
    By a crazed christian.

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    The full blown idiocy on display here from TD's two chief islamophobes is quite something to behold.

    Of course they were never going to do the sensible thing and just pipe down.

    Do carry on digging.

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    Quote Originally Posted by cyrille View Post
    two chief islamophobes
    Make hay whilst the sun shines, your mates in Labour are about to try to bring in a Blasphamy law, then we won't be able to criticise the islamic medievil doctrine, grooming gangs, pedophiles, suppression of womens rights etc etc

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    Quote Originally Posted by helge View Post
    What's "islamic" about Lockerbie ?
    Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was convicted in 2001 of the murders of 270 people by the introduction of an explosive device onto a civilian aircraft.

    probably state sponsored, but put together by ragheads who had no problem with killing 270 people, most of whom were returning home to celebrate christmas.

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    This is a futile debate... the cultists on so-called "left" (I don't think they are particularly "lefty" really) will never hear a word of criticism, and look down on ordinary people and call them names if they dissent from their cult's sacred cows; and the so-called "right" don't really understand what's happening and why, and pick the wrong targets - the correct targets are not the exotic incomers, but the cult-members who seem to suffer from a range of ailments, including suicidal empathy and malicious altruism, depending on how deep the fungus is inside their skull. The tendency is for "the right" to call "the left" traitors, and "the left" to call "the right" imbeciles, and so there's not really any room for compromise, it's just handbags until death, which I suppose will keep a forum thread going for a few frenzies iterations. There are better things to do...

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    Quote Originally Posted by CaptainNemo View Post
    suicidal empathy
    Elon Musk made a similar quote recently.

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    Quote Originally Posted by taxexile View Post
    Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was convicted in 2001 of the murders of 270 people by the introduction of an explosive device onto a civilian aircraft.

    probably state sponsored, but put together by ragheads who had no problem with killing 270 people, most of whom were returning home to celebrate christmas.
    Much like America rewarded a Captain who shot down an Iranian airliner full of shoppers with a fucking medal.

    You idiot.

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    Quote Originally Posted by taxexile View Post
    Originally Posted by helge
    What's "islamic" about Lockerbie ?
    Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was convicted in 2001 of the murders of 270 people by the introduction of an explosive device onto a civilian aircraft.

    probably state sponsored, but put together by ragheads who had no problem with killing 270 people, most of whom were returning home to celebrate christmas.
    Okaaaay

    You mean that because Gaddafi or PFLP-GC or....., etc are likely to have done the ugly deed, it's an example of "islamic terror"?

    Because, although as secular as they come, they are.....muslims or from predominantly muslim countries.


    Was the ....Vietnam war a christian war/crusade then ?

    Is Epstein an example of jewish behaviour against minors ?


    Logic is a bitch

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    Quote Originally Posted by helge
    Is Epstein an example of jewish behaviour against minors ?
    Racist's playbook.

    'Race only matters when it's one I don't like'.

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    Quote Originally Posted by cyrille View Post
    Racist's playbook.

    'Race only matters when it's one I don't like'.
    I saw a video this week from one of these Pauline Hanson-type c u n t s moaning that a Melbourne hospital was going to prioritise First Nation patients, stating that they should be seen by a doctor within 30 minutes.

    Despite ample testimony from numerous staff that they tended to present later and with more severe symptoms - a direct result of reluctance to go to hospital because of systemic, racist treatment when attending emergency rooms - the bigoted little wankers have been having a field day with it. Notably of course Sky News Australia and the Daily Mail (no fucking surprise there).
    The next post may be brought to you by my little bitch Spamdreth

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    I take it " first nation" means " drunken abbo, wallowing in victimhood, entitlement and self pity"

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    Quote Originally Posted by harrybarracuda View Post
    prioritise First Nation patients
    Bad idea

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    Quote Originally Posted by CaptainNemo View Post
    There are better things to do...
    There certainly is. Chances of being killed by an Islamic terrorist in the USA is 4.5 million to 1.
    Chances of being killed in a car accident are 1 in 107.
    Be afraid! Never get in a car.

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