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Tangle Member Posts: 9581 From: UK Joined: Member Rating: 6.5
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Yesterday afternoon a history teacher was murdered - decapitated with a kitchen knife - by a Muslim maniac. His 'crime' was to teach part of the French national curriculum about freedom of speech using the Charlie Hedbo cartoons showing images of Mohammed that caused the mass shootings a few years ago as an example.
Muslims in the class were warned in advanced and told that they could leave if they had a religious objection. All but one did. That one went home and told his parents. And then this happened. I find it hard to maintain a liberal attitude throughout all this. I have thoughts that I would regard as racist in others. Somehow we've allowed these primitive, alien and evil beliefs to exist inside 'our' own culture and been frightened to voice our opposition to them, allowing 'diversity' to prosper. It's sickening and it threatens our democracies by corrupting our view of difference and tolerance of others. We mustn't allow this. Terror inquiry after teacher beheaded near Paris - BBC NewsJe suis Charlie. Je suis Ahmed. Je suis Juif. Je suis Parisien. I am Mancunian. I am Brum. I am London.I am Finland. Soy Barcelona "Life, don't talk to me about life" - Marvin the Paranoid Android "Science adjusts it's views based on what's observed.Faith is the denial of observation so that Belief can be preserved." - Tim Minchin, in his beat poem, Storm.
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AZPaul3 Member Posts: 8654 From: Phoenix Joined: Member Rating: 6.7 |
I find it hard to maintain a liberal attitude throughout all this. I have thoughts that I would regard as racist in others. Ok. You're feeling abhorred, mad and vengeful. You're human.
Somehow we've allowed these primitive, alien and evil beliefs to exist inside 'our' own culture and been frightened to voice our opposition to them, allowing 'diversity' to prosper. Yeah! And they're so different, too. But in this case just WHO is trying to excuse this crap as a prospering of diversity? Or is it the community that spawns the extremists that is being objected to? You been at a kool-aid party lately?Factio Republicana delenda est.
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Tangle Member Posts: 9581 From: UK Joined: Member Rating: 6.5 |
AZP writes: Yeah! And they're so different, too. There's nothing wrong with different so long as it's not the kind of different that thinks it's ok - even required - to murder people.
But in this case just WHO is trying to excuse this crap as a prospering of diversity? Or is it the community that spawns the extremists that is being objected to? It's the West's culture of tolerance of extreme difference that has allowed a communities of difference to grow inside it unchallenged and protected. There's been a fear in our institutions to confront really obnoxious practices imported from less developed societies that allowed some of those practices to continue here. Honour killings, repression of women, white girl rape, female circumcision, Shariah law, illegal religious schools. We really should have not turned a blind eye to practices that we would normally abhor just because they're 'cultural'. Now all that could sound like a racist rant but it doesn't come from that place. Over the last 20 years or so I think we're beginning to understand that we can't let septic differences grow and the decent majorities within those cultures may be - may be - turning against them too but some of these beliefs are deeply ingrained. In the latest Charley Hebdo killing all but one of the Muslims in the class being taught about free speech left the class because of their religious objections to it. The one that stayed went home, told her parents and her parents tweeted their outrage leading to a minor twitter storm amongst other Muslims and then the avenging angel arrives with his kitchen knife to put things right for God. All that is really difficult to accept. Not just the murder but the general outrage within the Muslim community against a fundamental facet of the host culture. If whole communities disagree with the fundamental founding beliefs of the country they wish to live in, how can they exist comfortably within it? I used to believe in multiculturalism, but that was before it became clear what it actually really meant.Je suis Charlie. Je suis Ahmed. Je suis Juif. Je suis Parisien. I am Mancunian. I am Brum. I am London.I am Finland. Soy Barcelona "Life, don't talk to me about life" - Marvin the Paranoid Android "Science adjusts it's views based on what's observed.Faith is the denial of observation so that Belief can be preserved." - Tim Minchin, in his beat poem, Storm.
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Hyroglyphx Inactive Member
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I find it hard to maintain a liberal attitude throughout all this. I have thoughts that I would regard as racist in others. Somehow we've allowed these primitive, alien and evil beliefs to exist inside 'our' own culture and been frightened to voice our opposition to them, allowing 'diversity' to prosper. It's sickening and it threatens our democracies by corrupting our view of difference and tolerance of others. We mustn't allow this. There is a fundamental rift in what it means to espouse liberal policies. This inner conflict you seem to be feeling, although well-intentioned, is misguided. There is nothing liberal about defending people who want to saw your head off for free speech. Free speech is a liberal principle (excuse me, used to be), not defending diversity for the sake of diversities sake at the risk of being inclusive to a belief system that emphatically hate your diversity, hate your liberal ideas, and are willing to kill you over it. You're goddamn right that cannot be tolerated. This rift in liberal ideology was beginning to blossom at the time the clip below was aired, but now Ben Affleck is becoming more representative of the "Left" than champions of real liberalism, Bill Maher and Sam Harris. Do you think if Sam was being critical of Christianity, which he often is as an atheist, that Ben would have been incensed the way he was? No, because Ben is of the New Left -- the religion of the Woke Left. In this camp, to be liberal means to be intolerant towards anything that remotely resembles Western Civilization, while being tolerant to literally anything outside of that... up to and including defending a religion that doesn't defend you, at best, and one that wants to eradicate any notion of your belief system. In the brave new world of the Woke Left, its not at all uncommon to see white agitators attacking a black man because the black man is racist against black people. You can't make this shit up... And these are the people that swear they occupy the moral high ground... There is nothing liberal about this. What a spectacular descent from the Hippies of the 1960's to now. Absolutely disgusting and reprehensible behavior Edited by Hyroglyphx, : No reason given. Edited by Hyroglyphx, : No reason given."Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it" -- Thomas Paine
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Phat Member Posts: 18651 From: Denver,Colorado USA Joined: Member Rating: 4.3 |
After reading your opening post, I went on a bit of an internet surf to try and understand the story(stories) from France in context. I found an opinion piece from an earlier story where a teenage girl was ostracized and criticized for her own denunciation of Islam.
quote:. In summation, the parts of this commentary that struck me as relevant I underlined. Tangle writes: And of course I fully agree. In extreme beliefs, religious figures such as Muhammad or Jesus Christ are believed to be actual living people and thus it is not the religious beliefs being criticized so much as it is personal. Now...for the record, I would NOT get that offended if anyone ridiculed or criticized Jesus. He is quite capable of taking care of Himself. There's nothing wrong with different so long as it's not the kind of different that thinks it's ok - even required - to murder people."A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes." ~Mark Twain " *** far from science having buried God, not only do the results of science point towards his existence, but the scientific enterprise itself is validated by his existence.- Dr.John Lennox The whole war between the atheist and the theist comes down to this: the atheist believes a 'what' created the universe; the theist believes a 'who' created the universe.- Criss Jami, Killosophy
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Phat Member Posts: 18651 From: Denver,Colorado USA Joined: Member Rating: 4.3 |
The problem with the Left is that they believe in mandating morality and eventually want to forcefully limit the expressiolns of religion.(even if it can be argued that bad ideas flow from religions) I reject that typoe of thinking because i believe that the secular Lefts emphasis on evidence-based thinking, humanistic principles, and freedom from religious expression is itself no better solution and is at its core just as evil. Humans are in a spiritual war whether they believe it or not. Its that absolute.
"A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes." ~Mark Twain " *** far from science having buried God, not only do the results of science point towards his existence, but the scientific enterprise itself is validated by his existence.- Dr.John Lennox The whole war between the atheist and the theist comes down to this: the atheist believes a 'what' created the universe; the theist believes a 'who' created the universe.- Criss Jami, Killosophy
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xongsmith Member Posts: 2620 From: massachusetts US Joined: |
AZPaul3 asks:
You been at a kool-aid party lately? lately i've been liking the Q-laid version i saw either on facebook or appearing there via something else. but i have not been able to get back on facebook because ubuntu 14.10 was deprecated yet a 3rd time and now i cant see anything there or even login."I'd rather be an American than a Trump Supporter." - xongsmith, 5.7d
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Hyroglyphx Inactive Member |
If whole communities disagree with the fundamental founding beliefs of the country they wish to live in, how can they exist comfortably within it? I used to believe in multiculturalism, but that was before it became clear what it actually really meant. There's nothing inherently wrong with multiculturalism. For the most part some of the greatest nations on earth, yours included, have had tremendous success with multiculturalism. More homogenous nations, like Russia or Japan, have always had some great successes being homogenized. But both have pro's and con's. Japan has a shocking lack of criminality in their culture, most likely because in their homogenized society there is a cultural pressure to conform. There is a strong social stigma attached to criminality. But their weakness in this regard is their inability to compete in a market of diversity. England, the US, Australia, etc are able to import brilliant minds from a panoply of cultures. Their inclusion makes us, 1. infinitely more interesting as a nation and 2. able to meet challenges that homogenized nations have difficulty competing with But there is a trade off.... America and Britain's openness, although one of their greatest strengths, is also paradoxically one of their Achilles Heel. If your sub-communities are so large, then there is no incentive to assimilate within the greater culture. There are so many Muslims in England right now that there are large pockets of have intentionally segregated themselves into insular communities -- building up their hatreds and animosities piece by piece. They also happen to not be very quiet in flatly shouting their long-term plan -- outbreeding you from existence and forever changing the landscape of the United Kingdom. The UK, being a very tolerant society, has rightly wanted to be inclusive and to shun racism. Obviously that is a wonderful ideal, but they have gone so far that to be thought of or labeled as a racist, somehow presents a greater internal danger than actual racist or religiously intolerant people from using that to their advantage. The only way out of this is by pushing back. Stop being so goddamn afraid of people branding you as a racist. Its a cheap, shitty tactic... If you are in someone else's house and don't have the fucking courtesy to play by their rules; rules infinitely better than the shit holes you fled from, then expect to be sent back. I wouldn't have the balls to go into Pakistan, start throwing my weight around, and demand that Pakistani's kowtow to my demands... and if inversely you have the balls to do that in our nation, then you don't get to live here. I don't give a fuck if you think its "racist." We both know it isn't. If it were racist you would have never been afforded the opportunity to be here to begin with. So show some fucking respect Conform or leave. End of discussion. Cuz there are MILLIONS of foreigners who assimilate just fine and contribute wonderfully to our societies. If you can't do that then you can't be here. Edited by Hyroglyphx, : No reason given."Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it" -- Thomas Paine
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Tangle Member Posts: 9581 From: UK Joined: Member Rating: 6.5 |
Hyro writes: Conform or leave. End of discussion. The glaring problem of course is that many are UK or US (etc) nationals having been born here or become citizens. They can't be sent home because they are home and they can't be forced to leave. Edited by Tangle, : No reason given.Je suis Charlie. Je suis Ahmed. Je suis Juif. Je suis Parisien. I am Mancunian. I am Brum. I am London.I am Finland. Soy Barcelona "Life, don't talk to me about life" - Marvin the Paranoid Android "Science adjusts it's views based on what's observed.Faith is the denial of observation so that Belief can be preserved." - Tim Minchin, in his beat poem, Storm.
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Hyroglyphx Inactive Member |
The glaring problem of course is that many are UK or US (etc) nationals having been born here or become citizens. They can't be sent home because they are home and they can't be forced to leave. You're right, good point, then expect heavy sentencing. "Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it" -- Thomas Paine
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Tangle Member Posts: 9581 From: UK Joined: Member Rating: 6.5
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Hyro writes: ... then expect heavy sentencing If they break a law, they should be treated the same as anyone.Je suis Charlie. Je suis Ahmed. Je suis Juif. Je suis Parisien. I am Mancunian. I am Brum. I am London.I am Finland. Soy Barcelona "Life, don't talk to me about life" - Marvin the Paranoid Android "Science adjusts it's views based on what's observed.Faith is the denial of observation so that Belief can be preserved." - Tim Minchin, in his beat poem, Storm.
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ringo Member (Idle past 668 days) Posts: 20940 From: frozen wasteland Joined: |
Phat writes:
Wrong.
The problem with the Left is that they believe in mandating morality... Phat writes:
Wrong.
... and eventually want to forcefully limit the expressiolns of religion. Phat writes:
The results prove you wrong. To paraphrase Winston Churchill, the system has its flaws but it's the best system we have.
... i believe that the secular Lefts emphasis on evidence-based thinking, humanistic principles, and freedom from religious expression is itself no better solution and is at its core just as evil. Phat writes:
There may be a psychological war in your own mind. Humans are in a spiritual war whether they believe it or not."I've been to Moose Jaw, now I can die." -- John Wing
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Taq Member Posts: 10302 Joined: Member Rating: 7.1 |
Tangle writes: I have thoughts that I would regard as racist in others. It is worth remembering that Islam is a religion, not a race.
Somehow we've allowed these primitive, alien and evil beliefs to exist inside 'our' own culture and been frightened to voice our opposition to them, allowing 'diversity' to prosper. It's sickening and it threatens our democracies by corrupting our view of difference and tolerance of others. We mustn't allow this. How do we balance freedom of religion while protecting the citizenry? That's a tough one, and always has been. The early liberal philosophers (e.g. Locke, Rousseau) spoke about the struggle between human rights and security, so this isn't a new thing. Do we go beyond punishing actions and legislate against a religion? I don't think that would work, in the US or in the UK. I wish there was an easy answer, but I don't think there is.
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Taq Member Posts: 10302 Joined: Member Rating: 7.1 |
Phat writes: The problem with the Left is that they believe in mandating morality and eventually want to forcefully limit the expressiolns of religion. The evangelical persecution complex is alive and well:
quote: I reject that typoe of thinking because i believe that the secular Lefts emphasis on evidence-based thinking, humanistic principles, and freedom from religious expression is itself no better solution and is at its core just as evil. I guess you forgot that freedom of religious expression is one of the cornerstones of humanistic principles.
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