RE: Pat Condell: Goodbye Sweden
June 20, 2011 at 11:34 am
(This post was last modified: June 20, 2011 at 11:36 am by Darth.)
Defence:
If i remember correctly he had a rant about people conflating fear of islamic values, laws and a group of people with them having any political power, which he counts as perfectly rational, with islamaphobia, as phobia's are irrational fears of 'x', not saying that no islamaphobia existed. Fear of sharia law, honour killings, gross inequality, antisemitism, female circumcision and arranged marriages happening in your country (or people being flown out to have them done) isn't irrational (Not that I'm saying all/any (except for sharia obviously) of those are islamic things, I'm not sure which is cultural and which is religious, but there is a perceived correlation, they aren't all modern western values and practises at any rate).
Is the difference between the norwegian and Swedish news reports not factual? And yeah like the other guy said he said subsidised, not biting the hand and what-have-you.
I'd need to investigate his claims first.
If i remember correctly he had a rant about people conflating fear of islamic values, laws and a group of people with them having any political power, which he counts as perfectly rational, with islamaphobia, as phobia's are irrational fears of 'x', not saying that no islamaphobia existed. Fear of sharia law, honour killings, gross inequality, antisemitism, female circumcision and arranged marriages happening in your country (or people being flown out to have them done) isn't irrational (Not that I'm saying all/any (except for sharia obviously) of those are islamic things, I'm not sure which is cultural and which is religious, but there is a perceived correlation, they aren't all modern western values and practises at any rate).
Is the difference between the norwegian and Swedish news reports not factual? And yeah like the other guy said he said subsidised, not biting the hand and what-have-you.
I'd need to investigate his claims first.
