Annie Anthrax wrote on Sep 26
th, 2014 at 6:35am:
Soren wrote on Sep 26
th, 2014 at 1:08am:
Brian Ross wrote on Sep 26
th, 2014 at 12:33am:
I note no condemnation of the religious persecution of Muslims here in Australia, Baron. How unsurprising. ::
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There is no religiou persecution of Islam in Australia.
There is frank and forthright appraisal of it, often in choice language. Violence or threats of violence against muslims, damage to property are subject to police action.
Your attempt to balance out the murderous evils done in the name of Islam every day around the world with the robust rejection of it is spinless and disgustingly so.
Look who's talking about spineless and disgusting.
The post you quoted didn't say attacks on Islam. It said attacks on Muslims. You know - like when people threaten to behead a woman walking down the street because she's got the hijab on. Do you support that?
We both know you won't answer that because you are so entrenched in your hatred of all things Islamic you have long since stopped recognizing the basic humanity of Muslims.
Your dismissal of these incidents as trivial and "subject to police action" is piss weak. Rape is subject to police action - are you as cavalier about that?
Not in the islamic state, not in Dubai (if you are Norwegian woman).
I know the victim mentality is dear to islam when ir is in a minority. However, it is so intolerant when it is in full control that the crocodile tears in its defence are indeed trivial.
Many muslims in the west - those who constantly parade their muslimness - go out of their way to live AS IF they were still in a pallace where Islam is in full control.
There is nothing in the segregation of women, the niqab, hijab, sharia,shaggy beards, howling incessantly about ’our honour, the halal racket, the open opposition to liberal democratic politics and an enlightened intellectual and artistic life to recommend them. Not compromising with such islamic values is not extremist at all.
To repeat - if you treat islam as a personal inner devotion, you are welcome to it and nobody will bother you because what is in your heart is only your business. But if you treat it as the means of setting yourself not just apart but in opposition, don’t kvetch if people call you out for being overtly against their values, their society in which you parade your aliennes but which is home to them.