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I am now back from my short hospital break. Thanks for all the good wishes
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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/10/30/fbi-investigates-anti-semitic-threats-at-cornell-university/
Nothing much happened while you were away. Never does when TSE is in charge.
Atb and stay well.
Rational Muslims probably have the second most, after Jews, to fear of Islamism
Where we in the west have made our bloomer, is in trying to be tolerant and diverse to all religions, which is admirable, without acknowledging the political aspects and tenents of radical Islam. What is happening at the moment is not about religion, it is about fascism. We believe fascism looks like Herr Flick in his dark uniform and leather coat. Unfortunately it takes other forms.
It is almost like watching programmers argue whether we should be using OOP or FP except programmers do not kill each other over it - possibly because computer code is a darn sight more useful than gods...
The clash of cultures comes when people oppose secularism and want their faith imposed by force as it is the "word of Yahweh/God/Allah/Buddha/FSM" himself.
Whether that be radical Islamists, radical Christians, radical Buddhist/Jews/Hindus/Vegans/whatever anyone who tries to impose their fundamentalism onto others is a problem.
Hope all went well on the health front.
Best wishes for a speedy and full recovery.
I hate it when people ask me to watch long videos, so if you can't be arsed, watch for one minute after 3 minutes in.
That will tell you all you need to know about how LGBT people are seen in Palestinian territories.
Cows for McDonalds, etc.
Interesting you replied like that. Nobody mentioned state subsidy for religous sects' indoctrination of children till you did.
Now you mention it, about time we closed down all sectarian schooling on council tax or central government money.
And welcome back.
Oh yes, he's definitely a moderate. Not!
Everyone keeps looking for the thing that will finally sink Labour. “This time they’re really going to be in trouble”. But the debate in Labour is pretty muted. This isn’t like the manoeuvres against Corbyn, or indeed the multiple rounds of internal fighting in the Tories while in power, which you’d think would make people first question whether they are a serious party of government.
If you want to sink Labour, elect them into govt
This is what people like him mean by calling to "free Palestine":
Susan Abulhawa is a Palestinian diaspora activist:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Abulhawa
He has hardly advocated abolishing democracy either, he was elected himself to his position and his seat
Apparently the mass shooting problem is entirely down to sexual permissiveness. Nothing to do with actual guns.
Why any woman would want to be a muslim is beyond me. Seriously. Why would you willingly subordinate yourself to that attitude?
I honestly think you would excuse any right-wing extremist.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Johnson_(Louisiana_politician)
...On November 17, 2020, Johnson said: "You know the allegations about these voting machines, some of them being rigged with this software by Dominion, there's a lot of merit to that. And when the president says the election was rigged, that's what he's talking about. The fix was in. [...] a software system that is used all around the country that is suspect because it came from Hugo Chávez's Venezuela".[83][84][85][86] By October 2022, Johnson said that he had never supported claims that there was massive fraud in the 2020 election.[87]
In December 2020, Johnson led an effort in which 126 Republican U.S. representatives signed an amicus brief in support of Texas v. Pennsylvania,[85][88][89] a lawsuit filed at the United States Supreme Court contesting the results of the 2020 presidential election.[90] The Supreme Court declined to hear the case on the basis that Texas lacked standing under Article III of the Constitution to challenge the results of an election held by another state.[91][92][93]
During the January 2021 United States Electoral College vote count, Johnson was one of 120 U.S. representatives who objected to certifying the 2020 presidential election results from both Arizona and Pennsylvania, while another 19 U.S. representatives objected for one of these states.[94] The New York Times called Johnson "the most important architect of the Electoral College objections" because he had argued to reject the results based on the argument of "constitutional infirmity" and persuaded "about three-quarters" of the objectors to use that rationale...
https://m.koreatimes.co.kr/pages/article.asp?newsIdx=362171
At this point we must remember that not only is Gaza ruled by Hamas, but a very large fraction of the people there actually voted for the fuckers. They like and approve of Hamas. They think they've got the right ideas.
One feels that one ought to be sympathetic to the predicament in which the Gazans now find themselves, but it's hard to care much about people that think you belong in Hell, and would rejoice at sending you there as soon as possible given half a chance.
A lot of religions are systemically misogynistic, homophobic and oppressive. Indeed Catholicism and Orthodox Judaism are in the frame too.
Some people just like a clear set of instructions on how to live, imposed from above. Not everyone can cope with freedom, and some people feel so threatened by freedom that they want to kill it.
It isn't just an Islamist issue. We have had the same here in the past.
Ruling your "flock" through coercion and fear. And this is supposed to be moral? Admirable?
Make all schools secular. The parents can still choose which school they like, but none of them should be offering mental torture as an option.
Religion is a human social construct though, and as we progress it is possible to reinvent it.
I will concede that I have no objection to an adult picking a religion or spiritual belief but it certainly should not be indoctrinated into those too young to object to what is being done to them.
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Fwiw I think Andy McDonald’s suspension is a bit OTT in the full context of his words.
Tbh I’m trying not to engage on this issue too much, but in the context of domestic politics I think it is fairly minor.
1967 in England and Wales, 1980 for Scotland and 1982 in Northern Ireland, 1993 in RoI.
It’s a very old tune. Every now and then, someone does a variation on the beat…
Quite beautiful. All that lovely order. So tidy.
The paradox is that some women do choose to be, and I was exploring the reasons why.
You want to close all religious schools, despite most getting above average results and deny taxpaying religious parents the freedom to send their children to religious schools.
And the idea the average C of E primary is telling all its pupils all day long they will burn in hell forever is laughable
The founding fathers also intended the USA to be a Christian nation just with no one denomination predominant
Yeah, he says he gone hippy, mellowed after the kid etc. Maybe he just flipped?
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House Speaker Mike Johnson played a key role in efforts to overturn the 2020 election
"Well before he was elected House speaker, Rep. Mike Johnson, R-La., played a key role in efforts by then-President Donald Trump and his allies to overturn Joe Biden’s electoral victory in the 2020 election.
Johnson, who was the GOP caucus vice chair and is an ally of Trump, led the amicus brief signed by more than 100 House Republicans in support of a Texas lawsuit seeking to invalidate the 2020 election results in four swing states Biden won: Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
- https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/mike-johnson-january-6-house-speaker-nominee-rcna122081
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESXW7_LUlmc
The ‘I heart Hamas’ types have already left Labour anyway.
Torture doesn’t really work very well, and is considered a bit rude as well. And in these environmental times, trying to run electric shocks off solar cells is a real fiddle.
Brain washing doesn’t really exist, despite the CIA spending a fortune on LSD.
Old fashioned “burn all the heretics” is a possible. But how do you get the permits for public cremations on an open fire? The particulates from that would be something fierce.
I would submit that these are to be found in the Sermon on the Mount.
It is certainly true that social progress can reverse.