Quote:Context, FD, context. It as said in what context? In the context of criticism of the nation of Saudi Arabia imposing legal punishments on it's own citizens. While I know you'd prefer to keep stripping what I said of it's context so it is easier to criticise me, it doesn't work.
I am not stripping it of context. I am deliberately including that in the quote because it makes your views look all the more horrid. Why do you think the context somehow diminishes the spinelessness of your views? How is it even possible to make your views more spineless by stripping the context? The absence of context could only allow people to give you the benefit of the doubt. Including the context removes any scope for doubt.
Quote:However, as I said I, "recognise I have no right or ability to criticise them."
Well done Brian. This is one of the spineless bits that any reasonable person would feel great shame for uttering.
Quote:In otherwords that as a non-citizen of the nation of Saudi Arabia and as a non-member of Islam, I can't change those laws merely by typing something on an Australian internet bulletin board. To believe you can is delusional, FD.
Duh. What about not having the right to criticise? You and Gandalf seem to be playing the same trick - pretending that the entirety of your post is the little bits of it that are not quite as spineless as the bulk of it (and you have to look pretty hard to find them).
Quote:That this thread has reached 21 pages shouws that your bigotry knows no depths. You simply cannot tolerate any difference of opinion from your own or the possibility that people may see Islam and Muslims in a different light to you. It is most unAustralian that you cannot give them a fair go, FD. Most unAustralian.
So it is unAustralian to criticise pedophiles and murderers? Or to insist you have the right to criticise and that it is spineless to pretend you don't?
Quote:However, I have also maintained that there are reasons, often because of their circumstances which explain why they made those decisions.
Spineless apologetics.