I honestly understand your concerns, but we can't allow ourselves to be paralysed by fear of 'going too far', or we'd never do anything.
One reason why we're careful is that a little under a century ago, a certain someone decided that he needed to do everything in his power to ensure the dominance of the his race.
Really? Who? Please tell me more about this. I have literally never heard about it.
Come on now, stop pretending to be dumb here.
Also, you think that with the current situation our lives, culture and values will just vanish? The IRA did a way more effective job with their campaign of terrorism, and Britain, our values and our culture survived, and the British people are still around today.
The IRA never had thousands of people marching through the streets of our own capital holding banners that say 'Behead those who insult the IRA.'. Neither did the IRA infiltrate a large number of English primary schools in a conspiracy to institute 'IRA values', nor did they declare parts of London a Republican zone and then assault people for, I don't know, speaking the Queen's English inside it.
Aside from terrorism being involved, the two situations are very, very different. Let's not kid ourselves; we have a rapidly growing Muslim population - it's nearly doubled in the past decade - a large segment of which is not integrating into British culture and society to a degree that's anywhere near good enough. Did you know more British Muslims have gone to join ISIS than have joined the British Army? Or that a survey conducted by ICM Research (conducted for the Channel 4 documentary, "What British Muslims Really Think," aired April 13 of last year) found that only 34% of British Muslims would contact the police if they believed that somebody close to them had become involved with jihadists, and that 52% believe homosexuality should be illegal?
I worry about those things much more than the death toll we've faced, and will continue to face, from terrorists' bombs and knives and guns. The loss of life is tragic, yes, but overall it is most significant as a symbol and a warning. A symbol of what we will apparently accept, what we will submit ourselves to and bury our heads in the sand against rather than address openly and without fear. And a warning of the future.
I hope, more than anything, that we can stop hiding and ignoring things and pretending that despicable events like Rotherham* and the myriad other Asian sex gang cases (Telford, Rochdale, Derby, Peterborough, Leicester, Oxford, Keighley, and more) and all the other problems that this lack of integration is causing are all isolated incidents. I hope we can steel ourselves and say 'Right, things aren't pretty, we need to actually deal with this now'. I hope that the government takes sensible, proportionate action to address the problem before it becomes a crisis, though god knows there's already been a terrible cost to it already.
Because if they don't address it, well... like the Roman, I seem to see the river Tiber foaming with much blood.
Well, I hope we don't see the river Thames foam with blood.
*Did you know one victim of the whole Rotherham scandal was gang-raped by three different Asian 'gangs' in one day? I was reading sections of the report, and saw a bit saying how after being attacked, this young girl was walking home, obviously distraught and in bits. A taxi pulled up, one passenger inside, and they start talking to the girl 'Wow, are you alright? You look awful, obviously something bad's happened to you, poor thing, get inside, let us get you home'.
Instead of driving her home, they took her to a block of flats, where she was locked in a room for hours and suffered another horrendous gang-rape.
I don't know the details about gang-rape #3. Sometimes I just don't have the stomach to read any more.
While I agree with your earlier assertation that comparing the IRA and The Troubles with things now is by far not even an equivalent situation, that's a fallacious question there. It's fallacious because, well, 'sufficient response' would vary from person to person and you don't even tell whether they had been charged and jailed yet.
Obviously a basic 'sufficient response' would be "try the rapers like the criminals that they are and put them away, and possibly deport them", but I don't know anything about the case other than what you've said.
Also, humans are terrible.
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