As a result, Canadian Muslims (they do exist) have contacted LM and requested I provide evidence to substantiate my assertion that they are politically the most useless Muslims in the Western world.
Fair enough permit me to introduce Tariq Fateh, who
- is a secular liberal democrat
- upholds social and political pluralism
- promotes progressive ideas such as gender equality
- despises Islamic radicalism
- opposes shariah law
- supports Israel's right to exist as a Jewish state
Hang on though it gets better because this prat shockingly claims that anti semitism is rooted in the hadith and goes on to question the Quran's view of Jews.
Wtf, and to think this Muppet was actually the founder of the Muslim Canadian Congress.
Hang on a minute... are you against gender equality and political pluralism?
ReplyDeleteAnd do you support islamic radicalism and the introduction of sharia law into the UK?
I know that most Muslims now take an anti-israel position as a default - given that this hating of a country and the people in it have basically come to define the meaning of islamic culture - but I thought you were a "moderate"
Please explain
actually most people take an anti Israel position as a default supporting human rights, justice and the rejection of Israel's occupation and oppression.
ReplyDeleteTop of my list would be to prevent Koran burning, Mosque firebombing, rampant Islamophobia, defending our Mosques from your mates in the EDL, preventing the rapid increase in Muslim hate crime and being treated fairly like every other community.
Btw stop patronising me by calling me a moderate
Haha - I am not a member of the EDL! Even if I wanted to be (which I emphatically do not), I don't think they would exactly welcome me with open arms.
ReplyDeleteYour response to my post is very interesting and underscores the severe defficiencies in the multicultural model which this country misguidedly pursued over the last half century.
Why is islamaphobia higher up your "importance list" than gender equality or homophobia? They all use the same reason and logic and they cross arbitrary religious and cultural divides.
In all your posts you cast everything in a "muslim vs. the rest" context. And then, even when it is not a muslim, it is a "jew vs. us" context.
I remember you had a post a while back about the "jewish foreign minister" and some scandal. You complained that he was let off lightly because he was not a muslim - as if to argue that if only he had been properly vilified like us the islamophobia would be ok.
Guess i will have to find a new blog if i want the voice of moderate islam...
"- promotes progressive ideas such as gender equality"
ReplyDeleteAre you personally against gender equality?
"- despises Islamic radicalism"
What's your definition of radicalism? Are we talking those Muslims who wish to live in a full Islamic society/live fully Sharia compliant or those that choose to use violence such as bombings?
"- opposes shariah law"
While I have no problem with certain aspects of Sharia (those covering religious matters such as divorce, loans, interest etc.) I would fight tooth and nail to stop the implementation of the Sharia legal and penal system being introduced (if I thought there was ever a chance it could be). The Sharia legal and penal system has no place in a modern society. It's flawed at it's core. The whole thing needs to be rethought and reworked in order to bring it in line with advancements in investigative science, it needs the bias removed, the punishments need to be rethought to bring it in line with advancements in society in general. Although I know that it never will or never could be because the entire Qu'ran is set in stone.
Isn't it strange to base your whole life view on what someone wrote in a book, e.g. Koran. It could have been written by anyone, it's so long ago, it has no meaning just like the bible. I never understand this adherance to a book and not what really happens in natural life.
ReplyDeleteCould the Tales of Narnia or The Lord of the Rings, or Hans Christian Andersons tales be followed as a religion, it's madness pure madness.
Men are not identical to women in every respect & vice-versa, or the differences would not exist.
ReplyDeleteSo let us get real & avoid naive fantasies. Instead of Gender Equality I endorse Gender Complementarity. There may be a point of relative gender equality vs absolute gender equality though.
Those recalcitrants who cast their supercilious jibes are often hypocritical.
Do they believe that both sexes should compete in sports on an equal/identical basis e.g. Mike Tyson vs a woman? Do they believe that both sexes should share toilet facilities, hospital wards & that equal numbers of women are a threat of raping men as the other way around?
No the sexes are not identical, but complementary.
As for the ancient fables view. Well it may surprise you to know that many Muslims from a scientific background actually follow it exactly because it cannot possibly be manmade. As for religion, there is no intellectual void,any paradigm can in effect become a dogma. In this respect many Social Darwinist materialists are a case in point. Science is not static, but a constantly "evolving" work in progress, sometimes creating & sometimes destroying whole constructs in the process. Even Dwarkins believes in an alien intelligent Creator now!