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On 6/21/2025 8:41 AM, Paul S Person wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Jun 2025 22:25:01 -0500, Lynn McGuire
> <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 6/19/2025 11:03 AM, WolfFan wrote:
>>> On Jun 18, 2025, Lynn McGuire wrote
>>> (in article <102vm13$3fd4k$1@dont-email.me>):
>>>
>>>> On 6/18/2025 6:22 PM, Graham wrote:
>>>>> On 18/06/2025 23:32, Lynn McGuire wrote:
>>>>>> The muslims are busy taking over Europe, up to somewhere between 10%
>>>>>> and 20% of the population now.
>>>>>
>>>>> [Citation Needed]
>>>>>
>>>>> As far as I can tell, it's a bit over 5%, but may reach 10% by about
>>>>> 2050 if immigration stays at roughly the current level, which is mostly
>>>>> driven by war.
>>>>>
>>>>> This isn't the most recent article, but it has a nice graph:
>>>>>
>>>>> https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2017/11/29/europes-growing-muslim-
>>>>> population/
>>>>
>>>> 6% according to this article:
>>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_Europe
>>>>
>>>> I read an article recently that claimed UK is at 10% and France is at
>>>> 20% so wiki may be understating the numbers.
>>>>
>>>> Lynn
>>>
>>> Interesting. Where was this article published? When? Who wrote it? Did it
>>> cite sources? I don’t have figures for France, but a lot of relatives live
>>> in the UK and depending on how you count the Muslim population is between 6
>>> and 8%... and a lot of those Muslims are either immigrants from the Caribbean
>>> (Trinidad, Guyana, mostly) or descendants of immigrants from the Caribbean.
>>> And Muslims in the UK are sufficiently a threat to The British Way Of Life
>>> that they often get onto the England cricket team.
>>> https://www.deenpost.com/cricket/list-of-english-muslim-cricketers/ (note
>>> that one was, gasp, shock, horror! the captain...) and play on Premier League
>>> footie teams. https://footiehound.com/muslim-players-in-the-premier-league/
>>>
>>> Scary stuff. Must be stopped.
>>> Remember always... the country with the most Muslims in the world is...
>>> India. And one of the first to be awarded theParam Vir Chakra, India’s
>>> replacement for the Victoria Cross, was Vikram Batra, killed in action
>>> charging superior numbers of Pakistanis while shouting the battle cry of his
>>> regiment,“Durga Mata Ki Jai” (Victory to Goddess Durga), a Hindi war
>>> shout. And Abdul Hamid, killed engaging Pakistani M60 tanks. He had a jeep
>>> with a 105mm recoiless rifle; they had six tanks. He killed five before the
>>> sixth got him. There have been 16 awards of the PVC, mostly to Sikhs and
>>> Gurkhas (as would be expected...) but the two awards to Muslims stand out. I
>>> don’t think that India fears Muslims just for being Muslim. Why do you?
>>
>> Sorry, I just read the article and moved on.  I did not note the source.
>>
>> And "Pakistan nominates Trump for 2026 Nobel Peace Prize"
>>   
>> https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/all-things-trump/pakistan-nominates-trump-2026-nobel-peace-prize
>>
>> "The government of Pakistan on Friday recommended President Donald Trump
>> for a 2026 Nobel Peace Prize for his role in de-escalating a brief
>> conflict between India and Pakistan earlier this year."
>>
>> Hat tip to:
>>     https://thelibertydaily.com/
> 
> Ah ... our Friend and Ally.
> 
> Maybe they are trying to make up for hiding bin Laden from us for all
> those years.
> 
> And giving the Taliban refuge from us when we booted them out of
> Afghanistan 20+ years ago. Only to have the Orange Taco negotiate a
> deal (which he left for Biden to implement, knowing it would blow up
> in his face) that got them back in.
> 
> Ah, the Taliban -- so brave when abusing women, so prone to running
> away when fighting men.

Or it could be their attempt to kiss up to the Orange One after he 
complained to reporters that he should get "five or six Nobel Peace 
Prizes" for ending the latest round of India-Pakistan combat.

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I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky 
dirty old man.