Independence
I don't think they do hate us because of those reasons, they hate us because we are non-Muslims and because we bomb Muslims.
Extending your argument we should therefore become even less Muslim and bomb Muslims even more to repulse the wee shits.
The 49 non-terrorists who died in London had not bombed anyone.
If they were really serious about unfairness in the war game, why then bomb people from a city where 2 million marched to prevent the bloodshed in Iraq from happening in the first place?
The reason why those four guys murdered those people was because they couldn't think of enough reasons not to. Their failure, no-one else's. Of course the invasion of Iraq can be "blamed" for the bombings, if we allow "blame" to reach beyond the responsibility of those who decided amongst themselves to murder innocent people.
Where does this end? Blame the parents of George W and Tony Blair for conceiving them in the first place? Four guys got on trains and a bus and murdered dozens of people. It was their fault. End of story.
Stuart I think he has started a second week now as well
Alan,
You must have been in Florida jetlag mode when you posted that, because I don't think you read the small print at the foot of that latest SPBR post: the author of the reminder was in fact me!
http://scotland-politics.blogspo...reminder-
2.html
Yes I believe I was, just saw that there
What's a good post on the SNP?
I'm a'merican, and usually associate "nationalism" with jingoism, flag-waving, and a bit of xenophobia.
"I'm a'merican, and usually associate "nationalism" with jingoism, flag-waving, and a bit of xenophobia."
So do most countries. In Scotland and Wales, and several other European countries, we are civic nationalists. I haven't the time at the mo to expound further, but a bit of Googling should help you out. Very briefly, civic nationalism is based upon shared institutions, as opposed to the old "blood and soil" ethnic nationalisms (eg. Leninism/Stalinism).
A good example of civic nationalism actually is the USA, where American identity is based upon strong shared loyalties to shared institutions (eg the Constitution, free-speech, non-conformism) rather than an ethnic group or a language, for example. In other words, YOU are probably a nationalist... a civic nationalist that is!
In fact, very, very, very few people are not "nationalists". If you believe that this world should have distinctive nations, then you are a nationalist.
I may add that although our opponents (Labour, Conservatives and LibDems) are usually referred to as "Unionists", an equally valid description of them is "British nationalists" - they believe in the value of a (largely invented) "British" nation. I do not.
Regarding xenophobia, I think that you will find that the average Scottish, English or Welsh nationalist is FAR less xenophobic than your average British nationalist (eg. did you know that the majority of Asian Scots support the SNP?). Ditto jingoism. Flag-waving is a draw!
By the way, what do you mean: "What's a good post on the SNP?"
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