Telling it like it is
Pat Condell on Archbishop’s comments about the Sharia law and the ensuing fiasco:
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Some quotes:
The Archbishop is a very clever man, but he is clever in a useless way. […] All this stuff is theoretical to him; none of this will have any impact on his life in any way.
Exactly. Pick any issue and you will find the religious heads expressing righteous indignation precisely because it does not affect their lives in any significant way. Although it affects a lot of people in what they are and how they live, all these people need to just shut up and screw themselves because some invisible entity in the sky might just wet his/her pants.
Whenever [Islamic and indigenous cultures in Britian] clash, the indigenous culture is always presumed to be in the wrong, in the interests of community cohesion. For example, polygamy is illegal in Britian, but Muslim polygamists […] now receive extra state benefits for their extra wives.
The reason we do not want Sharia law is because it is a manifestation of clerical facism and because it favors men over women, which makes it a violation of civilized democratic values. [R]ather than calling things honestly by their name, we are encouraged to hide behind cowardly euphemisms to avoid offending people who have nothing to be offended about.
[…] We are talking about terrorism carried out in the name of Islam by Muslims and justified using their holy scripture; and apparently, it has nothing to do with Islam. I am sorry, but just because every Muslim doesn’t support it doesn’t mean it is not Islamic [terrorism].
[…] Unfortunately, for all of us, that is Muslims and non-Muslims alike, the driving force behind the religion is Saudi Arabia[…] And this particular brand of Islam preaches intolerence, hatered and righteous bloodlust to children.
[T]he solution is to enforce the law, equally and impartially to everyone, regardless of whether it is inconvenient to some Muslims.
The solution is to enforce the law to everyone. Equally. Impartially. Needless to say, that includes nitwits like Raj Thakre and Modi and a whole bunch of others. Pat reserves punchline for the end:
Peace to everyone, especially to all the Muslims who are as embarrassed as I am by this cloistered bubbleheaded fool of an Archbishop.
And lest you think I am quoting a rightwing nut job, let me tip my hat to PZ Myers, who can be accused of many things, but not of being a rightwing hack.
I think something is wrong with the video embedded in this post. It wrecks the formatting of the page, and the text is all over the place, all spacing, borders, etc are lost. Could you fix this?