“Have not the Islamophobes already won the day when a person dare not speak on controversial matters because he is Muslim?” asked Simon Longstaff on Twitter last week.
That was a very strange rhetorical question in the circumstances.
He was commenting on the fact that Uthman Badar, spokesman for the radical Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir, had had his invitation withdrawn to speak at the Sydney Opera House on the proposition that "honour killings are morally justified".
[A COMMENT] Of the 3 Abrahamic major religions, Islam is by far the most rigid. From Nigeria to Kenya to Egypt to Iraq to Pakistan to the Phillipines and to Indonesia, the actions, not just the ideas of Islam are laid bare for us all to see. And rightfully we are very hesitant in embracing it.
I consider myself a progressive on most issues, but allowing a platform for bigotry, intolerance and mysogeny which conveniently hides behind an all powerful invisible sky daddy, who just happens to encourage the same bigotry, intolerance and mysogeny as his earthly deciples is beyond the pale.
When Islam can take the same criticism and ridicule that Christianity and Judaism endure without advocating violence in retaliation, then I might agree with Mr Longstaff. But that day is a very long way off.
[ANOTHER] To demonstrate this ignorance of the core differences between Islam and Christianity I predict there will be many who will post the usual 'the Bible says this or that too'. We need to understand the Muslim concept of abrogation in the Quran and that the Quran is the unalterable word of God for all men for all time and that Mohammad set the example for all men for all time.
If you read the Quran & Hadith you will understand the Catch 22 bind that leaves reformist moderate Muslims weak and the extremists, with the assistance of the PC crowd, strong and in control of Islam.
[ANOTHER] While all religions are pretty backward in todays terms you only need to look at what countries ruled/crippled by islam have given us in regards to science or technology in the past 200 years. Nothing.
They rant and rave about the west and how morally bankrupt we are and that with the power of alah we will all be destroyed. Interestingly all scream into a Sony microphone and camera while waving around a gun made in Russia, uploaded through satellite technology developed in the US. When they go to the doctor or hospital they are treated with western science by people often educated in the west
They go home and watch religious vitriol on DVD's burned on a Korean made laptop running an operating system developed in the US and watched on a TV and DVD player made in Japan. [The Sydney Morning Herald] Read more
