Hi Dan,

I apologise if you feel I have insulted you. Wait for the new Roxon laws and then you can sue me :)

But Islamist terrorism is "not too dissimilar to the Christian version, (A rebellion against Liberalism)" - so you would go into bat for Opus Dei as well ? Is that where the Witless Left of Australia (WLA) stands these days ?

You then make the perfectly honest qualification: " ... but much more violent." Yes, indeed with some 1,800 terrorist attacks around the world since 2001, they are a bit more violent that the most rat-bag Christian groups. Not even Opus Dei can match that.

So what is this "Morality of Islam" if not a repudiation of gender equality, a rejection of standard freedoms (especially the freedom of belief, or non-belief) and an uncritial worship of the unchangeable Word, the Book, the Desert 'Knowledge' ? i.e. a rejection of all of the freedoms and hard-won human rights gains that the West has had to go through a thoudand years of persecution for ? A struggle that Islam has not yet begun, by the way.

So there it is for the WLA - choose the certainties of a backward ideology, or take the risks thrown up by the imperfect, hard-won and human Enlightenment.

It's your choice.

By the way, why do you think the West, esp. the US, is so keen to diminish its reliance on oil, by developing renewable sources of energy, and to do so by promoting the menace of AGW ? And could that diminishing reliance be one reason for resentment against the West in the oil-producing countries ?

Joe

Some more footage has emerged of the counter protest against Wilders out at the La Mirage reception centre in Melbourne:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjPtGRe_GGQ&feature=player_embedded
The guy in the grey shirt assaulting the older man is Yarra city councillor Anthony Main, the bald guy is is Main's sidekick and fellow UNITE union organiser Alex Sproule.

JOM:

Mains twitter A/C suddenly dead in the water since 21 Feb. Maybe he's where he should be! The "Blue-Alliance" springs to mind.

Dan

Hi Cdan,

I apologise yet again for seeming to offend you: I lay awake at nights trying to work out how and where.

But in the meantime, you may gain something from this article by a good friend of mine:

http://www.quadrant.org.au/magazine/issue/2013/3/choosing-to-be-offended

There's a lot of that around. I remember arguing with an Aboriginal student back in about 1996 and he simply said "You're a racist." When I asked him swhy he thought so, he said simply, "You're disagreeing with me."

Well, on the continuum, there's disagreement, there's argument, there's offensive remarks, there's insults, there's incitement to smack some idiot in the mouth, and there's incitement to attack smebody because of their ethnicity/race/gender/suppot for Western Sydney Giants.

Cheers,

Joe

Joe:

Sleep well!! Serious.