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With the current obsession over the pointless Brexit dominating politics many other critical priorities are being left in the long grass. We need to bury Brexit and then reset our priorities. Climate change is one but countering Islamic fundamentalism is certainly another.

People are not born fundamentalist. They are just people. It's only the environment in which they develop which produces fundamentalism. We clearly cannot remove all babies born within Islamic families for "re-education". The Chinese might, but not us. We need to be more subtle, but still very determined and forthright.

My answer is to ensure that religious teaching is removed from every school. I am not a teacher but my understanding is that the schools these days do teach British values and the benefits of diversity and tolerance. Such things are vitally important in areas where kids come from homes and communities where other values may be common and programmes need to be ramped up in such areas with appropriate resources directed to them. We need to open minds and encourage challenge, so that as the generations change so the level of intolerance goes on the down slope. It will take time, but it can be done.

If you have other ideas then let's hear them. Just identifying problems is not an answer.

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We do already stop immigration that isn't necessary! If we stop free movement after Brexit then for sure less from Eastern Europe will arrive but I suspect that will mean that more from other places will, to replace them, and they are more likely to be Islamic than those from Europe. Asylum seekers from war zones will continue to arrive too.

One problem is the family members of those already here. It's pretty much impossible to find legal ways to restrict such immigration.

There already are requirements on people being able to speak English, both for their original entry visa, to be granted further leave to remain after 30 months, and an even tougher one after 5 years for the indefinite leave to remain, plus a "Life in the UK" test. These things exist, so why they aren't working and what we need to do to improve things are the real questions.

I agree that no-one should get away with breaking any law, including using hate speech. Deportation is though not always an option because of the state of the countries involved. It's very easy to recommend it but much harder to actually accomplish.

Where I agree is in the schools. We need to work with community leaders so that they can explain things. We need to train teachers from Islamic backgrounds but who have embraced western culture. If we concentrate on the girls first they will relish the freedoms it brings them and fight to hold onto them. Then the men will fall into line, so as to avoid losing their women. Just my ideas.

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This is what you have learned?

I have learned to avoid fighting battles you can't win.

It saves a lot of casualties.

This battle was avoidable and it's not as if we haven't had plenty of experience with the folly of religious zealotry.
We are allowing this country to be invaded by medieval minded individuals and you think that we can 'educate' them in a few years when their dogma has lasted for thousands of years?

That isn't detirmination. That is delusion.

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It is the language of defeatism!

We are where we are and not where we might have been.

Of course the battle was "avoidable" if we had taken another course. Pretty much every battle is the same, especially if you run away from them.

We didn't take another course though. Whatever the reasons were for that is now irrelevant and bitching about it won't change anything.

No-one is "allowing the country to be invaded"! There are very strict immigration controls in place that I can personally testify have markedly increased in complexity in recent years. Illegal immigration remains a challenging problem. Family member immigration is also a tricky area.

So if the battle must be fought then we need to fight it and not just complain that we don't have the resources to win. We need to find modern weapons and use them with skill and patience.

Sitting in the trenches moaning that the commanders don't have a clue what they are doing has been the province of the foot soldier since wars began. That's why they are foot soldiers and not commanders.

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Literally the most tedious nonsensical 'insult' out.

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Cheer up Castro, you are really grumpy today aren't you.....what's happened? Aren't you feeling the 'Boris Bounce'?

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