Quote Originally Posted by Ellis_D View Post
I agree with you 100% regarding forced mixing in schools. We DO need to do everything we can to integrate everyone. I do, sadly fear, that it might not work with a huge amount of Muslims, but we all know that there are A LOT of Muslims who HAVE managed to integrate into society. As a long term plan, this would be a positive step. Faith schools of all religions should be banned. The local councils already decide who goes to what school, so it would be down to them to make sure children from all walks of life are mixed. I also strongly believe that the government should be teaching evolution in school as fact and religion as man made rubbish. Obviously that would be met with polite resistance from the Christian community and from fierce, violent resistance from some members of the Islamic community. So we are probably a long way off from that yet..........

So as a long term strategy, of course, children are the future, we should start by banning faith schools, mixing races and religions in schools and therefore encouraging integration..... But will our government do it? They wouldn't dare. We can but hope.

Even so, that long term plan is sound. We still have the problem, though, of 4000 Muslims being suspected of being potential terrorists, being watched. We also have the problem that 50,000 Muslims downloaded the ISIS terror manual......
At last some positive, sensible thinking Ellis, i totally agree with you about faith schools, also about being a secular society, but we should teach about religion, all religion, and let the children make their own minds up, we should be shouting from the rooftops how great our country is, because the truth is, there isn't many better.

As for the 4000 you keep mentioning, do you not think that these are being monitored, that our security is actually gaining good information from them and their cohorts, who they're talking to, who they're interacting with? I'd like to think they are.
As for those 50,000 who downloaded stuff, wrong, of course, but there's millions of British people downloading all sorts of crap that isn't ever acted out