freediver wrote on Jul 7
th, 2016 at 12:14pm:
Quote:Islam deserves to be condemned when I have decided to condemn it, FD.
Does that mean never Brian? Can you give an example?
Islam has inherent in it's makeup, like Christianity and other major religions, a core of sexism and misogyny which is not commendable, FD. It's over-emphasis on masculinity, like Christianity is a fault of when and where it was founded.
Quote: Quote:I cannot read what is going on insider a person's head, FD. Can you?
Earth to Brian: they tell you. How is it that you know what so many Muslims think, despite never actually asking them, but in this context you reject the idea of being able to know what people think on principle? Are you capable of answering a hypothetical? You would know they think these thoughts because they say them occasionally. Suppose they didn't realise what an apologist you are at first. Would they only be a bigot if you heard them say it enough times? What is the magic number Brian?
If they tell me, they are making statements - something which you didn't make clear in your original statement. Then, I can condemn them, just as I condemn you, FD.
Quote: Quote:I refer you to the past events which occurred on Friday, 25 October 1415, with reference in particular to the massacre of the French prisoners.
So I am a bigot because of something that happened in 1415? Good one Brian. How about something I actually said? Would you say I am a bigot for calling out Muslims who use the "mindless collective of treacherous Jews" argument to justify the slaughter of hundreds of innocent people? Or would you only say I am a bigot for doing it too often and with the wrong attitude?
Did you find out what happened on that date? Did you discover the controversy which has grown around that event? Yet, at the time, Henry was not condemned because it was expedient. Ever consider that what Mohammed might have been forced by expediency to kill all the Jews?
As I have said in the past, FD, I prefer L. P. Hartley explanation for events of the distant past, before there were written records, "The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there". You should think about that. If your bigotry allows such thinking about other peoples.
Quote: Quote:FD have you ever posted a criticism of someone making a porky about Islam? ever?
Sure. That is part of the reason why I started the wiki. Now we can criticise things Muslims actually say rather than relying on answering Islam etc. It has worked out well, don't you think?
You have? Where? When? Why don't you ever criticise the more outrageous claims by your fellow critics? Oh, thats right, their bigots too...