As the world is rocked yet again by barbaric violent acts perpetuated by Islamic extremists, the Western appeasers appear like flies to wring their hands and demand that people not condemn Islam. When these timorous twits find themselves cornered in debate by the simple hard fact that Islam is the most violent, intolerant and troublesome major religion on the planet as is demonstrated by a plethora of Islamic dictatorships and theocracies that violate every human right imaginable, who are constantly at war with their neighbors (and factions within their own nations) and who spawn, train and sponsor murderous lunatics that commit acts of terror throughout the world the callow apologists will invariably scream RACIST in hopes of quelling discussion of these facts.
This concept appears so simple yet somehow is utterly lost among the politically correct. The word that clearly defines the difference between race and religion and culture is CHOICE! Anti-freedom types loathe choice of any type of course so I guess I can sort of understand how they are confused.
I cannot choose to be another race. I could aspire or wish to become another race I guess but I simply can’t change the reality of which race I was born to be. Michael Jackson proved that with almost bottomless resources, one still can’t change their race. That is why racism is so odious. How can you condemn somebody for a reality that they had and have no choice in? Racism is ridiculous, divisive and repugnant and is worthy of social condemnation.
Religion and culture are choices. I can choose and convert to any religion I like at any time. I can choose to practice any cultural thing I like as well. Because of this reality, I should be open to all and any critique of my choices in these regards and I sure as hell maintain my right to be critical and even insulting of the religious and cultural choices of others.
I am allowed to point out that the cultural practice of mutilating the genitalia of little girls and then trading them off like cattle in arranged marriages is a disgusting and unacceptable practice. I am allowed to point out that stoning women to death for their having been raped or whipping people to death for their being gay is vulgar and that the world must not accept this. I have every right to point out how forcing women to cover themselves and banning them from such simple things as driving and education is a stone-aged bullshit practice. The most important right that I have is in being able point out that all of these cultural practices and facilitated and justified by claims of being adherent to Islam.
I have no use for any religion personally. I can and will pick and choose however which ones I find to be the most destructive and repellent. I do think all races are equal, but I damn well know that not all cultures or religions are and I will point out the ones that are most egregious in the world. Today Islam is by far the most primitive and damaging religious choice on the planet and I am not a racist for saying it.
When I call out the religious or cultural choices of others, I can (and often am) called everything under the sun. I can be called intolerant, shallow, simple, stupid or simply an asshole. All of those are arguable. One thing I will not tolerate though is being called a racist as Islam is not a race.
We have a real and worldwide problem caused by radical Islam. It is hardly a minority thing when one considers that dozens of entire nations practice it. We need to discuss and address these issues. In order to do so, we must tell those who try to quell discussion by shouting “racism” to kiss our collective asses.
Rowan Atkinson (Mr. Bean) summarized it much more concisely than I in the image below as Britain fought a battle to protect free speech from Islamic nuts and their facilitating apologists.
Well said Cory, and quite correct. I will continue to offer my rosary up for your well being.
Of course claiming that anyone opposed to the militant, totalitarian ideology called Islam is racist is in the same boat as claiming that anyone opposed to the totalitarian ideology of communism is racist. You are correct that it is just an attempt to shut down any discussion or debate, and the interesting thing is that the appeasers only apply it to Islam, never to Christianity in the West. One can criticise and ridicule Christianity and Christians without a problem, and I venture the same for all other religions except Islam, which I consider wrongly classified as a religion. In a free society no religion, no ideology, no government, no person or group of people should be protected from criticism or ridicule, since that is exactly what freedom of speech entails. A line is only drawn when one incites violence, harm and/or death to others as it should be. But again how many times have we witnessed large groups of Muslims demonstrating in public calling for death to Israel, to Jews and to the West without authorities doing their job? It should be self-evident that Islam as it exists is not compatible with Western liberal democracy, and in fact numerous Muslim clerics have stated the same.
CHOOSING RACE: Suppose you are a white woman and you choose to procreate with a black man…aren’t you choosing the race of that child? And what of people of colour e.g black people who because of white-racism (as perpetuated via mass-media and education where all GOOD is White and ALL Black is BAD) resort to Racial Death Wish through miscegenation – mating with those in the population of ‘lighter-skin or white skin, but never black-with-black – Not to mention skin-bleaching chemicals to bleach the skin?.