Fundamentalist Christians who believe demons are controlling the world, or hard core Catholics who believe a cracker is human flesh are also probably not reliable on conveying reality. Christians who torment their kids with stories of hellfire, Mormons and others who abuse young girls, rabbis who do circumcision unsafely and barbarically are all just as deserving of our disrespect.
And yet you, Dawkins and Harris love to hurl your vitriol at one particular religious group which is comparably much less powerful in the West. I wonder why?
Your declaration that I only stand against Islamic religion and damage is a mistaken mind reading attempt. It is pure straw. You seem to need that straw to prop up your demand that we tiptoe around Islam and keep the spell alive. Religious belief and action is the root problem. Islam is just a special case today.
These days it is moreso Islam than any other religion that responds to criticism and ridicule with violence and hatred. So the spell cast by Islam needs especially to be broken. The taboo of criticizing all religion needs to end but Islam makes itself the poster child for this.
Book of Mormon and South Park ridiculing Judaism, Jesus, Scientology, and Hindus is good, but we need more ridicule of Islam and less fear of offending Muslims. Je suis Charlie.
We've all heard this tired, self-righteous spiel before, mate. I don't give a shit about you criticizing religion; my problem is with your sweeping generalizations about an entire group of people you know fuck all about. Something you and your fellow faux liberals love to try to pass off as some grand defense of Western values rather than the bankrupt ignorance it really is.
Only in your imagination.
Unfortunately for you, the forum is itself a record, and your history of hypocritical, stupid statements re: Islam are all available for everyone to see. We'll get to that in a second.
It isn't dishonest nor bigotry to criticize, mock, or ridicule Islam.
If there is bigotry here, it is the mindless defence of this religion over all others because people associate it with third world brown people. That's why we often hear criticism of Islam branded as "racist", when of course Islam isn't a race, but a group of bad ideas and flawed ideology.
I don't think you're a racist, just a disingenuous axe grinding dipshit who tries to slap some lipstick on his garden variety bigotry, and then play the victim when he's called out on it.
As I said, the forum is a record; there's years worth of posts of you saying stupid, dishonest things and then backpedaling like a chickenshit.
This exchange is a good illustration - you know, when you likened Muslims to white supremacists, said the good ones aren't "true Muslims," that they can't put their religion aside and integrate the way Christians do, blah blah blah.
But the best part? I linked to polling data shooting your argument in the balls, which you ignored at first, and when pressed said was all a lie because Muslim respondents were biding their time until they become a majority and can force sharia law down our throats.
You post fucking ridiculous shit like that and expect to be taken seriously? Sheesh - no wonder you've been hiding behind the ignore function for so long. I'm sure you'll be back there soon enough.
