Loudmouth, I dislike Islam as a religion just as much as I dislike any religion.
If you can find anywhere at all that I have favored any people or religions over another, please point it out.

What I don't like is racism and bigotry.
I would have thought I have made that fairly clear?

Runner, AJP just ran rings around you, and you just can't see it......lol!

Your discernment has always been very poor Susie. You simply prove it again. Have you given up trying to excuse the rapist in Europe.

I quite take the point about Islam being a potential upsetting danger to the cultural framework we have in the west.

I think the discussion can be extended by reference to deeper variables there is an article on http://gaiaqi.net about Islam. It has a look in esoteric terms. There are no suggestions on how to resolve the Islamic issue ... It seems there is no solution accept integration and even that may have its problems.

Hi Suse,

You're as entitled as anybody else to express your opinions. I hope you always continue to do so.

"Loudmouth, I dislike Islam as a religion just as much as I dislike any religion. If you can find anywhere at all that I have favored any people or religions over another, please point it out.

"What I don't like is racism and bigotry. I would have thought I have made that fairly clear?"

Not really.

But if, say, a huge mob of Buddhist* men in Bangkok at that water festival thingy, were harassing hundreds of women, would it be possible to say so ? Would any criticism of their criminal behaviour be treated as 'tarring all Buddhists with the same brush', etc. ?

Or would you call it like it is ? Assault, criminal acts, and the abuse of the power of a mob against individuals ?

And would part of that description of what happened involve some reference to some Buddhist anti-women principle, (if there is one) ?

In other words, would it be legitimate in criticising their behaviour, to refer to a general attitude that Buddhist men may hypothetically have towards women, and for which they cite scripture ? Would it be legitimate to criticise those sections of their scriptures which denigrate women ?

Joe

* No intention to slur Buddhism should be inferred

Lough mouth you need to reread my post, Yes the current crop of religious nuts are bad and should be dealt with.

I talked about witches because there seems to be a bit or misplaced ideas by Christians their their religion is different from Islam. Nothing could be further from the truth. Where ever Secularism doesn't rule religions go nuts.

So good of A.J Philips to once again offer himself up as an excellent example of a 'useful idiot'.