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by Robert_S » Thu May 10, 2012 9:41 pm
I think of self defense now and then. Some parts of US cities are as dangerous as parts of UK/Irish/Euro cities.
Without people like Yusuf, Rushdie would have had to think a lot less about self defense. Maybe mistermack watches what he says about Islam. If only Salman and Theo
had done the same one would be alive and the other would not have had to go into hiding.
For the record, if the UK would deny entry to Fred Phelps, any of out TV preachers, that asshole who recently said parents should beat up their kids of they don't quite fit the gender roles, Bush & Shrub, or any other of our nutters; I wouldn't blame them in the least.
Also, so what if people from the Middle East, or even if all Muslims go over the top in their speech (I don't think it's true, but for the sake of argument) and that can unduly alarm outsiders? Cat Stevens had a lot of experience in not being a Muslim and not being from the Middle East.
If, as has been claimed, all Muslims would support the fatwa and the Koran; then maybe we should deny entry to all foreign Muslims. I know plenty of Christians who have no problem disregarding parts of the Bible about homosexuality and divorce. Plenty more deny that Christ is the only way to avoid damnation.
I don't want to be Anti-Muslim. But I'm not going to give someone a pass just because they're Muslim. That's a very insidious and destructive kind of bigotry there.
What I've found with a few discussions I've had lately is this self-satisfaction that people express with their proffessed open mindedness. In realty it ammounts to wilful ignorance and intellectual cowardice as they are choosing to not form any sort of opinion on a particular topic. Basically "I don't know and I'm not going to look at any evidence because I'm quite happy on this fence."
-Mr P
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