RE: "nothing to do with Islam"?
August 3, 2015 at 8:29 pm
(This post was last modified: August 3, 2015 at 8:29 pm by Regina.)
(August 3, 2015 at 7:24 pm)MrNoMorePropaganda Wrote: In some ways, peaceful believers are as bad as violent ones because you tell them their religion is wrong and you get accused of pulling the rug from under their feet. And that is their way of saying "Don't criticize my religion".
This is true. I had a good friend who was Muslim and she kinda stopped talking to me after I aired some less than politically correct views about Islam. Not sure if it's just a coincidence but I don't think so.
I also find the term "radical" mis-used in the context of Islam. You're right in saying the Quilliam Foundation are the real radicals. They are radical, that's what radical means, pushing for change and being progressive. "Radical" isn't necessarily a bad thing. It's become a bad word by misappropriating it to Islamic terrorists, who are anything but "radical".
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"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
