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On 6/22/2025 8:59 AM, Paul S Person wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Jun 2025 09:56:59 -0700, Dimensional Traveler
> <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> Well, after bombing Iran I think the Orange One can kiss that Nobel
> Peace Prize goodbye.
> 
> Bombing other nations just to keep your name in the headlines is /not/
> the sort of thing the Nobel Committee wants to see.

"But I'm ending a war by bombing the Iranians!  That's got to be worth 
another couple Prizes!"

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