Brian did they teach you the meaning of words like 'before' and 'after' when you did your history degree?

Brian Ross wrote on Oct 19^th, 2017 at 3:43pm:



Yeah - that's why I asked you for evidence for your assertion about China - to be able to tell the difference between lies and truth.

Brian Ross wrote on Oct 19^th, 2017 at 9:20pm:


Is this known as "crapophobia" Brian?

None, on this forum are as blind as You.

Brian Ross wrote on Oct 20^th, 2017 at 4:12pm:


More crapophobia from the charlatan.

Brian Ross wrote on Oct 19^th, 2017 at 9:20pm:


I don't think google is going to help people figure out why Brian can't tell the difference between before and after.

In Britain, phobia is hardly the right word for any fear Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic Verses, might feel. Sir Iqbal Sacranie, the former secretary general of the Muslim Council of Britain, said: ‘Death, perhaps, is a bit too easy for him. His mind must be tormented for the rest of his life unless he asks for forgiveness to Almighty Allah.’ A Muslim who is losing his faith would have good reason to fear the penalty for apostasy, which is death. When I taxed Sir Iqbal with this on television, he said, ‘It’s very rarely enforced’. That’s good to hear. But a would-be apostate doesn’t have to be ‘phobic’ to still feel a reasonable fear.

The All Party Parliamentary Group on British Muslims’ definition of Islamophobia, which was published in 2018, begins with the statement that it’s a form of racism. In a new paper for the Free Speech Union, Tim Dieppe makes the obvious point that Islam is not a race, and he very well develops the inconsistencies that this remarkable solecism leads to.

I would make one further observation. A religion is something you can convert to, or opt out of. Your race isn’t like that. You can’t convert to a race or leave it. The fact that you can’t leave your race means that, if Islam is indeed a race, apostasy is literally impossible. Yet apostasy has to be possible in Islam or it couldn’t be punishable by death. So the statement that Islamophobia is a form of racism is more than just incorrect. It contradicts a fundamental, and incidentally obnoxious, tenet of Islam.

Here I have not considered the issue of freedom of speech. Tim Dieppe covers it so well that I have nothing to add, except this final thought. If ‘Islamophobia’ becomes punishable by law, will it be illegal to even state, as a matter of fact, that a woman in some Islamic countries can be stoned to death for the crime of speaking to a man other than her husband? Will I be arrested for stating the undenied fact that apostasy carries the death penalty?

If so, bring it on. I look forward to defending myself in court.
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Richard Dawkins is an evolutionary biologist and author. The above is an edited version of his introduction to the Free Speech Union’s latest briefing paper, Banning Islamophobia: Blasphemy Law by the Backdoor.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/03/04/some-fears-about-islam-are-entirely-rat...

Would it be awkward to walk around with a boner that doesn't go away?

sunnah.com/ibnmajah:4337

By rebranding legitimate criticism of Islam as racist bigotry, religious extremists like the Muslim Brotherhood now have a terrifying grip on public discourse.




Last month, the French government published a shocking report on the influence of political Islam, particularly in the form of the Muslim Brotherhood, in France and beyond. The report detailed how the Muslim Brotherhood, a transnational Islamist movement, and the Council of European Muslims (CEM)—a group believed to be disseminating the Brotherhood’s ideology in Europe—have managed to infiltrate mosques, schools, sports clubs, and local politics in France and elsewhere in Europe. More worrying still, it found that “the movement has developed a network of pan-European institutions established in Belgium close to the EU institutions.” While the group attempts to appear outwardly moderate, the report states that internal documents contain anti-Semitism and calls for Muslims to avoid integrating into Western societies.

One of CEM’s chief concerns, according to one expert, is for “criticism of Islamist positions to be seen as Islamophobia.” For example, “the Muslim Brotherhood calls it Islamophobia to want to ban the veil in the public sector,” as France has done. In other words, it aims to rebrand legitimate debate about gender equality and secularism as bigotry, in an attempt to shield Islamism from criticism.

https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/france-finally-admits-muslim-brot...
https://europeanconservative.com/articles/commentary/crying-islamophobia-is-a-gi...



Bbwiyawn is a Muslim Brotherhood dupe or an operative.