Karnal
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GordyL wrote on Feb 17 th, 2016 at 12:41pm: Karnal wrote on Feb 17 th, 2016 at 12:35pm: GordyL wrote on Feb 17 th, 2016 at 12:32pm: John Smith wrote on Feb 17 th, 2016 at 12:17pm: GordyL wrote on Feb 17 th, 2016 at 7:46am: John Smith wrote on Feb 17 th, 2016 at 7:32am: freediver wrote on Feb 17 th, 2016 at 7:30am: John Smith wrote on Feb 16 th, 2016 at 7:30am: freediver wrote on Feb 16 th, 2016 at 4:34am: polite_gandalf wrote on Feb 15 th, 2016 at 10:43am: freediver wrote on Feb 14 th, 2016 at 8:02pm: How far would you extend your silence? Would you still be telling us to mind our own business if they started methodically killing non-Muslims in an increasing number of countries? Or would common sense violate your carefully constructed moral cushion? Interesting question FD - by the way, how far would you extend your silence over the porkies and the "ban them, kill them, nuke them" attacks against muslims? If it led to killing of muslims in an increasing number of countries, would you continue grasping for endless diversions to avoid having to condemn them, or even address the issue at all? Or would common sense violate your carefully constructed moral cushion? If I was John Smith, I'd complain about you unfairly bringing it up more often than pedophile priests, or Islamic terrorists, and suggest you mind your own business. no, if you were john smith you'd stop pretending you had any motive other than your real motive What motive am I pretending to have John, and what is my real motive? you're pretending to care about womens rights, your real motive is muslim bashing. It's certainly true that homophobes, misogynists etc take shelter in Muslim bashing which is obviously a tad hypocritical. This is expected by such people. But what I find worse are people with progressive views on women, lgbt etc who in fear of the slightest chance of being labelled a racists side with theocrats, Muslim theocrats who hold repugnant views on just about everything they believe in. Bizarre world eh? I generally agree, if they restrict themselves to criticising a particular incident or person/s. But if the only time someone makes a comment is to make a derogatory or negative comment about a particular race or religion, then it's pretty obvious that they are racists etc. My views do not change how your views are seen, even if my views may be flawed. My problem is with their system because that's what creates the actions of the individuals. I've seen some absolute pearlers of examples where Muslims who pass themselves off as having modern values drop comments like 'we know exactly what to do with fags in Iran'. Who dropped that pearler, Gordy? I'm curious. A mate of mine is a music teacher, it was one of his students, an Iranian guy on a student visa. He (Iranian guy) worked in a cafe near the beach and we spotted him walking to work just after we'd been for a swim. We were having a chat, and it was around Mardi Gras time and a couple of big gay bears walked past. I wonder how he'd feel if he knew his favourite guitar teacher was a bisexual Jew. I'd honestly say this Iranian guy was moderate...for an Iranian but there are some things he just can't unlearn. Thanks, Gordy. You see, Homo? Details. This is how we know it's a true story.
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