Ayn Marx wrote on Mar 12^th, 2022 at 8:02am:

A very stupid, Bbwianesquely stupid, mindlessly hastie reflex response, to draw a supposed equivalence between today and 500 years ago. Very stupid, very usual.

Ayn Marx wrote on Mar 12^th, 2022 at 4:48pm:


"Christian Country" has no meaning from a religious perspective. In Islam, religion and state are inseparable.

Paludan and his weird minions must have the right to express their opinion that Islam is evil and those who feel offended must have the right to protest against them. And yes, burning objects counts as an expression of opinion. For decades, American warriors for freedom of speech have insisted on the right of people to burn the Stars and Stripes because, in the words of US civil libertarian Nadine Strossen, even “deeply unpopular (and) offensive” speech should be free speech. So Paludan should have the right to burn the Koran and others should have the right to say: “Don’t do this, please.”

But rioting? That’s something else entirely. This is violence deployed to the end of shushing blasphemous commentary. This is an unstable, incoherent species of Inquisition, in which a menacing message is being sent: offend my religious sensibilities, offend me, and we will visit destruction upon you. No nation that believes in liberty should cave in to such threats.

The true problem here is an unwillingness among the European intelligentsia and political class to stand up for freedom and to make it clear to all social groups that their feelings carry less moral weight than the principles of freedom. In fact, too often the elites do the opposite – they send the message that some forms of speech are so hurtful, so “erasing”, that they may be legitimately sidelined or squashed, whether it’s “transphobic” feminism, un-PC humour or mockery of Mohammed. This gives a green light to violent fury against allegedly “violent” speech.

Those riots in Sweden can be seen as a physical manifestation of woke sensibilities, of the regressive belief that certain people’s self-esteem should trump other people’s liberty to utter their ideas – a belief held as firmly by the cultural elites as by regressive religionists.

Brendan O’Neill
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/commentary/even-offensive-speech-must-trump-feelings/news-story/df422a51844599a592ad00ce8af81ce9

issuevoter wrote on Mar 12^th, 2022 at 3:50pm:


Now .. but ask that question only a few hundred years ago and you would have been burned at the stake. Islam is still  playing  catchup

Frank wrote on Jun 9^th, 2022 at 11:05am:


I don't know . It took Christianity 4000 years to get to this stage. I'd say Islam has a little while to go yet.

freediver wrote on Jun 9^th, 2022 at 11:10am:



tell that to all the people that were killed in it's name.

The constitutions of seven American states ban atheists from holding public office.

A couple of them typify this:

North Carolina:  "The following persons shall be disqualified for office: First,
any person who shall deny the being of Almighty God."

Arkansas: "No person who denies the being of a God shall hold any office in
the civil departments of this State, nor be competent to testify as a witness
in any Court."

There are currently 16 states that have banned the burqa, including Tunisia, Austria, Denmark, France, Belgium, Tajikistan, Bulgaria, Cameroon, Chad, the Republic of the Congo, Gabon, the Netherlands, China, Morocco, Sri Lanka and Switzerland.  

When is Australia going to follow suit?  Or are we too politically correct, and/or
driven by the SJWs?