I never realised actually that the Rainbow flag had one less colour than the actual rainbow, everyday's a school day :laugh:

Still isn't a fact.

More likely to be fact than anything else though :thumbs:

Yes, I said that :pipe:

If you're willing to suggest it's a very strong possibility it's a Muslim because of Islamic teachings around homosexuality, you are conceding it's an act motivated by homophobia.

Only now you're suggesting it's cynical to suggest it's homophobia-related, despite your confidence that it's highly probable to be Muslim because...of... homophobia.

Eh.

Personally, I blame Irving, he is the most likely culprit

Oh so it's unacceptable for myself and others to say it was highly likely to be a muslim but totally fine for Glenn to say it was definitely 100% certainty to be homophobic. You see the difference?

The only people that have said otherwise are the ones triggered by the very flag the homophobe thought it was when they painted over it.

I didn't say otherwise. I said it was highly probable but not a fact.

Yes, one is using something that actually happened to come to a likely conclusion on motivation, the other is blaming a specific demographic for no reason.

One does no harm, the other perpetuates racial division based on nothing.

but its not raising a flag without reason though is it, when it's built into a particular demograhics religion

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Exactly. It's just as likely it was a muslim.

So still homophobic then

Sigh, yes I said that several times. Stop going on. No matter what we think it is only probably the case. Not fact. Why so hell bent on saying it is.

But it's needless, because there is no evidence it was religiously motivated, so it's all just finger-pointing. Again, you're focusing on the statistics of that demographic's religion which ignoring the statistics surrounding the demographic in the town it took place, which once again I will state is almost 99% white and made up of basically Catholics and Atheists.

According to the latest Census, the number of Muslim residents are: 71, compared to over 9,000 Christians and 12,000 atheists, just to put that into context.

With this in mind, and as stats are so important to you, do you not think it' wild you're prepared to point the finger at a group that make up 0.2% of the towns population without just cause. Does that not strike you as a weird thing to do?

Those damn statistics huh

Atheists don't give a crap about anything spiritual and Christians are pretty accepting of most things, so you would seem to be destroying your own argument

The mental gymnastics on display here are Olympic

Yes there's a fair bit of destroying own arguments going on.

People of any faith or non-faith can be homophobic.

Some people don’t even know what the argument is. It’s the ones that see the pride flag as the enemy that don’t seem to be grasping it. Out of lack of perspective or just willingly ignorant to it.

i never said otherwise. I just find the intentional blindness to an ever increasing immigrant population that have homophobia written in to their religion and way of life quite staggering

Why would I, I haven't claimed it was religiously motivated.

I pointed out the other religious (or lack of religion) demographics for perspective on just how few Muslim residents there are.

If you can explain how me highlighting the minute number of Muslim residents destroys my argument that would be great.

Aside from that obvious flaw in logic, it seems you have a habit of painting all religious demographics with the same brush - most positive and negative - which is poor form. The idea no atheist or Christian is homophobic is a wild claim.

Although not many have it written into their rules nor abide by it so vigorously as Islam does. And even if they do... Jews and Christians for example, both acknowledge the book of Leviticus, but apart from your weird, joyless fundamentalists, they're pretty accepting of gay people. Islam is about 300 years behind other religions, though.


I'd like to say for the record, what was the point of painting over the bench? I thought it looked very nice...