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"As for race relations, Britain has long been acting like Florence Nightingale: selfless, dedicated, bandaging every wound, but ignorant about the genesis and gestation of gangrene."
The truth of the matter.
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An excellent discussion point.
Give me one example besides the heavily armed camp of Turkey to maintain a secular government where this is/was the case.
True, passages in the Quran urge believers to "kill those who join other gods with God wherever ye shall find them" and to wage war on neighboring infidels. But a hundred suras of the Quran also enjoin the faithful to tolerance: one specifically says that killing one innocent person is akin to the murder of the whole world.
First, define innocent person in the Quran. Does this include "non-believers"? Based on actions to date, I think not.
As for the officials of America and Britain, they need to redirect the effort and money that they have poured into race relations and multiculturalism into a clear, reasoned, energetic defense of the values of freedom and democracy. Their future depends on it.
Agreed, and we need to fight for these ideals not only externally, but internally as well, against the very muslim movement he discusses.
It's not our job nor our charter as a nation to reform a religion, except by attrition at the point of a bayonet if that religion either overtly or covertly (or both) attempts to overthrow our way of life.
After spending considerable time pointing out the abuses inspired by his religion, bemoaning it's backwardness and admitting that all those problems are directly attributable to followers "going by the book", the writer clings to the unrealistic hope that an Islamic Martin Luther-style reformist will arise to somehow reconcile a tradition of intolerance with civilized modern reasoning.
I suspect in his heart he knows better and is using this article as a fishing expedition. If that's the case I'm afraid all he's going to catch is a visit from Abu "Cpt. Hook" Hamza's fanatics when he least expects it.
".........After the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, Hamza was wheeled out again, together with the poisonous Omar Bakri Muhammad, who had been expelled from his native Syria and is funded by missionary money originating in Saudi Arabia.........."
Good find Dennis..
Muslim Terrorists in the West swim in the sea of Arab and North African immigrants. But it isn't only Muslims that provide them cover, it is all the multiculti denizens of the modern West, all the Farrukh Dhondys. During WW2 Nazi agents found it almost impossible to operate in Britain because no matter how fluent they were in English and regardless of whether they had spent some time living and working in Britain in the past, they just couldn't blend in. There was always something a little "foreign" about them that caused suspicion. In (non)nations like those of the new multicultural West, where everyone in the world is a Briton or American who just hasn't arrived yet, there is no such thing as foreign anymore.
the Rushdie affair, which uncovered a multicultural fifth column, whose literary criticism entailed book burning and death threats.
The only country in the West that has free speech, virtually the only one in the world, is the United States (and even in the U.S. there is constant pressure to criminalize speech and effective non-governmental methods of suppressing it as well). The British government also bans and burns books. It threatens their authors with, not death, but jail, as in the recent case of the journalist Kilroy-Silk. Fundementalist fatwas are not confined to Muslims.