Quote:Moderation of the Muslim section is biased.
As i have expressed previously on the Oz Pol board,
http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1226668280/62#62http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1226668280/63#63http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1226668280/65#65http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1226668280/68#68http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1226668280/91#91I have no objection to a 'moderator' having a bias, and expressing that bias.
What i object to is when a moderator will
censor others on a board, so that others are precluded from expressing an opposing bias.
Such a circumstance is not debate, or conducive to free and open debate.
If a particular person describes views, or presents information which is truly 'offensive', shouldn't others be exposed to those views, so that they understand what kind of person we have here?
How else are ppl to form opinions, except by being
exposed to such information?
Quote:"Open societies do not fear the opinions of fools.
....they rather, EXPOSE and laugh at folly!
In any free and open debate, if a 'position' is absurd, if an 'argument' is absurd,
...then the debater is [often] condemned to all, WITH HIS OWN WORDS.
And that result [i.e. the exposure of folly] is THE VERY FUNCTION, of free and open debate.
Free and open debate *is meant* to be A CONTEST OF IDEAS!
....where every folly is revealed.
And open debate is healthy, to all general freedoms in a society."
http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1226668280/62#62+++++++++
The dangers we face today,
are actually being promoted, by the very persons and institutions that we consider 'gatekeepers' of our rights and freedoms.
Quote:"January 14, 2009
NY Daily News: United Nations tries to outlaw criticism of Islam!
An ominous initiative that we have discussed many times here -- the UN's efforts to silence those who call attention to the ways in which Islamic jihadists use the texts and teachings of Islam to justify their actions and make recruits -- gets attention in, of all places, the New York Daily News.
"UN-acceptable censorship: The United Nations tries to outlaw criticism of Islam," by Floyd Abrams for the Daily News, January 14"
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/024395.php