tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post4078589996159045841..comments2024-03-29T07:14:55.029+00:00Comments on All That Is Solid ...: Maajid Nawaz on Jesus and MoPhilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06298147857234479278noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-41542753732024389692014-01-26T20:04:28.027+00:002014-01-26T20:04:28.027+00:00Speedy is right of course. This political correctn...Speedy is right of course. This political correctness has done huge damage to the Left <br /><br />Bob Marshall Andrews pointed out in a Commons debate when New Labour was attacking civil liberties that you cannot protect the faith by law without protecting the fundamentalist and the bigot who lie within it. <br /><br />The common law of incitement and laws against breach of the peach is all that is necessary to protect vulnerable religious minorities. Roberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18097624792336619525noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-87448577123280129602014-01-25T09:51:17.154+00:002014-01-25T09:51:17.154+00:00I think he posted the images after he participated...I think he posted the images after he participated in a BBC programme about them that refused to actually show them - despite them being inoffensive to any reasonable person, most Muslims included. <br /><br />It speaks volumes that he should be subjected to death threats and the BBC afraid to show even this innocuous image for the fear of causing offence. <br /><br />Isn't it obvious that Islamic extremism is winning? That these people are imposing their values of intolerance on our society? That every time we give in they have won? <br /><br />I despair to watch the progressive cause in retreat across the country - whether it is letting young girls de-face themselves at Birmingham colleges (freedom of expression my arse, sexism of the highest order - something that had to be pointed out by a TORY MP!) or being afraid to show an inoffensive cartoon. <br /><br />The acid test - would they do the same if it was Christian? "Piss Christ" for example?<br /><br />If a section of the white middle class came suddenly under the sway of a way of life that was virulently anti-gay, anti-women, etc, it would be met by outrage, but because the majority of its adherents are from another ethnic background and class, that's alright then. <br /><br />Now I know there are lots of clever arguments to justify the racist, sexist, homophobic pandering of the Left (like inclusivity, cultural relativism etc) but actually for genuine socialists of any colour or culture (and socialism is UNIVERSAL) it is not rocket science. <br /><br />There is no ambiguity. Okay - one tolerates regressive religions and cultures, but one does not endorse, support, or approve of them. <br /><br />Yet in the UK the "Left" (certainly not Socialists) is one of their greatest enablers - the BBC in this instance feeding the most intolerant, festishistic aspects of Islam and smearing all Muslims with the same brush. <br /><br />A hate crime against all the women, gays and straight men trapped within a cultural "no go zone" because they are the wrong race and colour.Speedynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-48882850555439227682014-01-24T21:55:08.778+00:002014-01-24T21:55:08.778+00:00You're quite right that this cartoonist has th...You're quite right that this cartoonist has the right to operate and Nawaz to enjoy his work, and it's dismaying that anyone could hold it against him. That this is even news at all is just plain grim and a reflection of how much work I, as a secularist, think remains to be done. It's as though we are still having to defend the ground Bradlaugh and Foote must have thought they'd permanently won against the forces of unreason.<br /><br />The only good thing to come of this is that an excellent but obscure cartoon strip has been brought to public notice. 99% of people will decide no sane person has any grounds for "offence". With any luck significant numbers will take up reading it, as I've been profitably doing for years.<br /><br />And have you seen this?<br />http://kingofdawah.tumblr.com/asquithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14246701347539264295noreply@blogger.com