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13-03-2010, 01:30 PM | #1 | |||
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The Booker Prize winner said those who claimed judging Muslims was "de facto" racism were playing a "poisonous argument".
McEwan, 61, the best-selling author of novels including Amsterdam, Atonement and Saturday, thought many in the left wrongly took this position because they had an anti-Americanism shared with Islamists. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/b...ot-racist.html I think he has a point re: the left and the anti-American thing. |
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20-03-2010, 05:51 PM | #2 | ||
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Muslims are always screaming that Islam is a universal religion, not just a religion for Arabs, accessible to all of mankind, blah blah blah...and then as soon as someone criticises Islam, the Muslims immediately scream "racist". They're so hypocritical and full of ****.
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25-03-2010, 11:26 PM | #3 | |||
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There are a lot of things I strongly dislike about Islam. We just need to draw the line when it comes to targeting muslims as a community and demonising them. For instance stereotyping them as terrorists and assuming everything about their religion is "poisonous" when in fact there's a lot we could learn from Islam.
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No matter that they act like senile 12-year-olds on the Today programme website - smoking illegal fags to look tough and cool. No matter that Amis coins truly abominable terms like 'the age of horrorism' and when criticised tells people to 'fuck off'. Surely we all chuckle at the strenuous ennui of his salon drawl. Didn't he once accidentally sneer his face off? - Chris Morris - The Absurd World of Martin Amis |
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26-03-2010, 09:28 PM | #4 | ||
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26-03-2010, 11:12 PM | #5 | |||
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Thats very true, my mentally ill RE(in those days) teacher told us Islam was a threat to all civilisation, they intended to either start wars and use weapons of mass destruction, or worse yet if all else failed send over an invasion force of seemingly innocent people who would breed like rabbits and take over the country.
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26-03-2010, 11:16 PM | #6 | ||
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sovietunion01 - I wouldn't believe all the right-wing propaganda you read either.
Last edited by Ellis; 26-03-2010 at 11:24 PM. Reason: oops, double post |
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27-03-2010, 09:20 AM | #7 | ||
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In a democratic society - any religion is open to criticism - Islam is no different! If they can't handle it - they shouldn't live in a democratic society! SIMPLES!!!
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27-03-2010, 10:19 AM | #8 | |||
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27-03-2010, 11:33 AM | #9 | |||
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Its not the criticising Islam that people (non muslims and muslims) dont like its the generalising and assumptions that they all think the same way and interpret their religion in the same way...and get the likes of Abu Hamza mixed up with ordinary muslims Last edited by NettoSuperstar!; 01-04-2010 at 08:06 AM. |
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27-03-2010, 12:24 PM | #10 | ||
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I agree with Netto and BBEye, Not all Christians, Hindus, Jews ETC approach their religion in the same way and it's the same for Muslims. The media's to blame for a lot of the hate really, they've demonised the religion to create moral panics and outrages. If there's a big attack tommorow with people from a certain religion or country then that country/religion would be demonised as a whole the same as Islam has.
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