Posted on 11/10/2013 2:01:25 PM PST by jocon307
The annual [Passion for Freedom] exhibition is as close as London gets to underground art. That claim may surprise you. If you listen to artists, writers, academics and journalists, you would think that thousands of them operate in a radical underground. They say the right things. They ‘speak truth to power’, ‘transgress boundaries’, and all the rest of it. But you will have noticed that they are careful only to challenge religions that won’t hurt them (Christianity) and governments that won’t arrest them (democracies). The London-based Polish intellectuals who organise this artistic protest against abuses of human rights are braver. Passion for Freedom is not devoted to anti-Islamist art. But its curators are not frightened to show it either.
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.co.uk ...
Well, you and I know that. But in UK people who speak out against Islam are prosecuted under racial hate speech laws.
Possibly I should have been more clear. My experience is when there is an article of this type in a Brit newspaper, half the comments are of the “racism is the greatest possible crime, and anti-Muslim is racist” type. I found it surprising that this article didn’t seem to draw that response.
And do I care what they do and do not recognize? I know I’m supposed to be “sensitive” to their beliefs while they are free to spit on mine.
I understand.
I see what you mean. I misunderstood. Thank you.
Islam is a war plan.
I’ll have to go back and read the comments, I didn’t notice them before.
“I’m not afraid of Islam.”
That’s the problem with sticking with the original headline.
The author is chiding the left (or maybe more the media mainstream) for their denial that they avoid “insulting” islam out of fear.
One day it occurred to me that he might need a new laptop computer and I asked him what he wanted most .. his answer .. "Peace for all men". At that instant I could not longer generalize about Muslims.
And just today I was watching a TV program about how the nation of Turkey joined the modern world. There are millions of Muslims who simply are not radical, and I'll no more generalize about religion than I will about race - you just end up throwing out too many babies with the proverbial bath water.
Well..., that’s rather apparent isn’t it.
That’s how I see it.
Diversity is king...
We’re all surfs.
I agree with your take on it.
Still had some other points to make regarding the Islamist and their fear.
:^)
>>>The Left isn’t afraid of Islam. They see it as tool to dismantled Western Civ, and to subjugate the West.
Then its off to the camps with ‘em.<<<
Exactly. And Islam sees the left in the same way, with the roles reversed. Although the “camps” for Islam would be simple slaughter and torture, without any of the trappings of civilization that the left likes to parade around to show off their progressive nature. Same result, though.
Thank you! I’d agree with you, except...
“Peace” in Arabic doesn’t necessarily mean the same thing as “Peace” in English. When we were in the Cold War, “Peace” in the Soviet’s mouths meant “lack of resistance to socialism (communism).” To a Moslem, “Peace” means “Submission to Allah.” I am kinda keen on resistance to both Socialism and Allah, myself.
In any case, it may simply be that your employee is simply not a very good Moslem (which is a GOOD thing...)!
More for me to study. This is something that I absolutely dont’ want to get wrong! Thanks for the thought about the definition of “peace” - it is not something I had considered.
http://www.linkedin.com/in/arjudba
Were all Muslims in possession of his high character the world would be much less troubled.
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