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Can We Be Sure That This Type Of Thing Is Only A Birmingham Matter?
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http:// www.bbc .co.uk/ news/ed ucation -270248 81
I like the headline though "Extremist 'takeovers' in Birmingham schools" much less offensive than just "Muslim 'takeovers' in Birmingham.
I like the headline though "Extremist 'takeovers' in Birmingham schools" much less offensive than just "Muslim 'takeovers' in Birmingham.
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/The same thing applies when anything to do with WW2 is discussed these days, during WW2 we blamed the Germans, now this term is not very often used, much more PC to blame the Nazis. /
In fact aog, i think you'll find that is wrong.
analysis of references in popular media in the 50s and 60s to our WW2 enemies was more likely to be 'Nazis' rather than 'Germans'
These days, it is the reverse.
Of course this coincides with a lot more evidence emerging now of the atrocities committed by regular Wermacht troops rather than just SS Units.
The hypothesis is that in the 50s and 60s it was more comforting and enabling of reconciliation to imagine that the German people had been misled by a minority of evil fanatics.
And that we had been at war with an extremist aberration not the entire German people.
Today, sufficient distance exists to recognise that the rise of Nazism fulfilled deeply held needs of the German people and that the Holocaust and other atrocities such as the killing of civilians in Russia, Greece etc were only possible because of the participation of 'ordinary' Germans.
In fact aog, i think you'll find that is wrong.
analysis of references in popular media in the 50s and 60s to our WW2 enemies was more likely to be 'Nazis' rather than 'Germans'
These days, it is the reverse.
Of course this coincides with a lot more evidence emerging now of the atrocities committed by regular Wermacht troops rather than just SS Units.
The hypothesis is that in the 50s and 60s it was more comforting and enabling of reconciliation to imagine that the German people had been misled by a minority of evil fanatics.
And that we had been at war with an extremist aberration not the entire German people.
Today, sufficient distance exists to recognise that the rise of Nazism fulfilled deeply held needs of the German people and that the Holocaust and other atrocities such as the killing of civilians in Russia, Greece etc were only possible because of the participation of 'ordinary' Germans.
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DIVEBUDDY, I think you would agree there were more examples of terrorist incidents on a daily basis in some parts of Ulster than there have ever been in a year or more in Great Britain. There were paramilitaries walking the streets and it would be right for the squaddies to have been on their guard in your example but had the very same thing happened in Aberdeen, it's unlikely they would have had similar thoughts.
/Extremist or not, personally, I think the simple fact that these schools are teaching ridiculous science as truth should be enough to close them down. /
Indeed Naomi
Maybe the danger word should be 'Fundamentalist'
It suggests an unhealthy fixation with ideas from the distant past.
It would be alarming if Fundamentalist Christians or Fundamentalist Muslims were taking over schools because I expect both would have peculiar notions in their science lessons.
In fact, regardless of who 'runs' any school in Britain, the curriculum should be prescribed to a national standard and inspected.
Indeed Naomi
Maybe the danger word should be 'Fundamentalist'
It suggests an unhealthy fixation with ideas from the distant past.
It would be alarming if Fundamentalist Christians or Fundamentalist Muslims were taking over schools because I expect both would have peculiar notions in their science lessons.
In fact, regardless of who 'runs' any school in Britain, the curriculum should be prescribed to a national standard and inspected.
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