(May 9, 2016 at 11:03 am)MrNoMorePropaganda Wrote: So you commit the Fallacy of the Poison Well, eh? People like you make me sick. We have enough haters on this forum; we don't need more.
The right is scared of everything so they have to take away peoples' freedoms. I don't understand why people are so afraid Sadiq. He's qualified as a human rights lawyer; of course he cares about people. Probably just Fascists unhappy that he isn't agreeing to the imperialist agenda.
I've yet to see any evidence that Sadiq is a Wahaabi-Salafi or a Twelver Shia. I'm not going to shit my pants over the new mayor. There's no evidence he currently holds "extremist" views.
I agree, everyone is shitting their pants even before he has put ink to paper on anything. I will always fight pulpit politics, and yes, currently speaking Islam is the most political when it comes to mixing religion and government. But I see tons of hypocrisy in the west about how we tout civil liberties, and we say we protect religious pluralism, but then react like this.
I can tell you right now if our Muslim Congressman Keith Ellison suddenly started acting like the Muslim version of Judge Roy Moore, damned right I'd demand he stopped or get removed from office, or vote him out. But to this day Keith Ellison has not given me any reason whatso ever to think he wants to legislate from the Quran.
It is possible, like I said, to attack bad claims, and criticize and blaspheme ideas of pulpit politics and bad climates regionally wise. But I refuse to assume the guilt of the individual as a starting position. The west even with our secular laws still have attacks by our Christian right which could, if given enough power, destroy our western concepts of common law.
Islam certainly has lots to criticize and blaspheme and ridicule as we rightfully should. But in doing that, I refuse to lose my humanity for the individual in the process of doing such. I will not fear my fellow human as an individual until you give me something to fear.
