How dare you judge these nice young men by their appearance!

There's a vast difference between trying to understand why and being an apologist / sympathiser. I think some on here have neglected this fact.

Edited by nickgusset (05 Jun 2017 7.59pm)

Do you deny that this is exactly what will happen?

If you do then you are deluded.

Don't waste energy. Nick wheels out that old crap every time British people die.

I don't honestly think that anybody on here is a sympathizer (with the possible exception of that vegan gent from a couple of weeks ago, from whom pretty much nothing would surprise me...). Apologist is a softer accusation, and I think that some people transform into apologists without meaning to, in their efforts to try to comprehend why somebody would do something so horrible. It's human nature to try to ascribe a rational motivation to something so horrible. And to try to identify in some way with the enemy, to make them seem less scary. I'm no psychiatrist, but I would guess that Stockholm Syndrome is based on the same emotional defense mechanism. It's a natural human reaction to fear. The truth is that we're faced with a heavily armed and fanatical cult of delusional sociopaths hell bent on inflicting as much destruction on our society as possible, under the fervent belief that an invisible man with magical powers who lives in the sky will send them to eternal paradise if they torture and murder as many of us as possible as painfully as possible. The fact that people like that exist, and have the means to infiltrate our countries is frankly terrifying. This truth makes us understandably uncomfortable. A natural reaction, which happens perhaps even subconsciously, is to convince oneself that the enemy can't possibly be as monstrous as they seem.

I think he's right,and I think the only reason ak47s aren't involved is the fact we have a body of water between us and mainland Europe.

always a Norwood boy, where ever I live.