You're not always a bad poster, but you've been horrible in this thread. Just horrible.
(And yes. The proper response to violent attempts at silencing specific voices and perspectives is to take it as an opportunity to amplify said voices and perspectives. Not only is it a show of solidarity with the victim and with the cause of free expression, but it is a deterrent to anyone who thinks that this sort of action is beneficial to their cause.)
He's playing a role. But I'll use your post as a springboard to go on a rant.
The new left shares a serious problem with Islam. And that problem is a reluctance to self police and clean house. What do I mean?
Whenever an issue pops up they both play whataboutism or deflect at best, or give their cousins in ideology a sort of a pass by not being vocal in condemnation. Ffs something like 2 out of 3 Muslims in Luton knew about the grooming gangs for decades but kept their fucking mouths shut for fear of looking bad. When the french teacher for beheaded for showing a picture of the Charlie Hebdo cartoons, after excusing Muslim students from class, our resident Muslims statements amounted to "well that was wrong, but I get it". Or when the Quran burning in Sweden resulted in riots the response was "why would you want to burn a book?"
And our resident idiot in this thread is more concerned about being judged but at the same time won't condemn this stabbing? And he's playing the what about card for all it's worth instead of uttering a few words. My neighbor thinks this stabbing is lunacy and he's named after the prophet. Then again, he saw first hand what religous extremism will do to a society.
I'm a liberal and incessantly criticize the left as we need to clean house. There's lots of us and our numbers are growing despite efforts by those on the fringes to otherize us. The Catholic church is making a serious effort to change. The. Catholic. Fucking. Church. The historically most intolerant, controlling and judgemental organization. There's Catholics and Christians on this very board making efforts to do better and distance themselves from fuckery within their ranks.
But in this very thread we have people playing victim because, once again, one of their team affiliate did something that should be condemned. So it's what about white people, what about western society, what about Christianity? Guess what? Fuck those on my team who did those terrible things. And I'll say that to their faces. Change must come from within and if you refuse to acknowledge that there's problems within your ranks that change will never materialize.
There's problems within Islam, as there is within every ideology. Only Muslims can take the reins of their religion. But doing everything but admitting there's a problem will just see those problems grow worse. My neighbor knows this. Lots of Muslims know this. But the fucking extremists are as likely to go after reformers as people who draw picture or write and burn books. Sucks, but what next?
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