(December 29, 2014 at 5:54 pm)lifesagift Wrote: I don't really do politics, apart from local politics where local MPs (in the UK) can make big differences to peoples' lives.
But mainstream politics has always left me feeling unfulfilled.
I don't consider myself left or right wing (although others would be able to pigeon hole me I suspect), I don't follow a party or a club or a doctrine, I just believe what I believe and usually I can find what I want in many different parties, even alleged extreme ones.
So my point, let's take the recent horrific Islamist attack in an Aussie café. It's clearly wrong to take and kill hostages. It's clearly done in the name of a religion. So what's with the hashtag #illridewithyou?
Seems like the victims of this atrocity has become muslims, and not the two members of staff that died, and the other folk caught up in the horrible event.
My question is what is "the left" and why does it make excuses for such actions?
The truth of this situation seems to be a disgruntled man who took it out on innocent people using some Islamic fundamentalist crusade as a cover for his inability to deal with a self-made situation. The man was an inept moron with access to a gun.
It has almost nothing to do with left or right wing politics.
MM
"The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions" - Leonardo da Vinci
"I think I use the term “radical” rather loosely, just for emphasis. If you describe yourself as “atheist,” some people will say, “Don’t you mean ‘agnostic’?” I have to reply that I really do mean atheist, I really do not believe that there is a god; in fact, I am convinced that there is not a god (a subtle difference). I see not a shred of evidence to suggest that there is one ... etc., etc. It’s easier to say that I am a radical atheist, just to signal that I really mean it, have thought about it a great deal, and that it’s an opinion I hold seriously." - Douglas Adams (and I echo the sentiment)
"I think I use the term “radical” rather loosely, just for emphasis. If you describe yourself as “atheist,” some people will say, “Don’t you mean ‘agnostic’?” I have to reply that I really do mean atheist, I really do not believe that there is a god; in fact, I am convinced that there is not a god (a subtle difference). I see not a shred of evidence to suggest that there is one ... etc., etc. It’s easier to say that I am a radical atheist, just to signal that I really mean it, have thought about it a great deal, and that it’s an opinion I hold seriously." - Douglas Adams (and I echo the sentiment)
