Chicken, Meet Egg…

Which came first? The ban or the separation of society?

If the aim of the terrorists who took so many innocent lives in Paris, Nice and elsewhere was to foment hatred and conflict, then the French authorities have more than fulfilled their ambitions

Uh… Yeah… Who, exactly decided to be “apart”? Who, exactly, decided to create this conflict? Who, exactly, decided to reject the values of the host country and stick two-fingers up at them by wearing medieval Islamic bin bags?

Actually, I take the same approach regarding banning Islamic dress as Jackart – that it is generally counter productive and that it is not the place of the state to dictate what people wear.

However…

What have is an invasion  of Wahhabism exported  from Saudi Arabia. They are the extremists here, they are the ones displaying intolerance. And those who wear this vile, overt display of their primitive belief system and culture are certainly sticking two fingers up at the host country. There comes a time when refusing to tolerate the intolerable and intolerant is inevitable. Yet bans go against my grain. Far better to repeal all those stupid hate speech laws and do away with the diversity, multiculti bollocks behind which they hide. We should be able to openly express ridicule, derision and, yes, hatred of this religion and those who would impose their values upon us. No respect, no special allowances. Allow ordinary people to shun those who flout their misogynistic religion in public, give them two-fingers back. No need for a ban.

However…

In this case, a ban is appropriate. School is no place for brandishing one’s religion like some badge courage. School is a place of learning and those doing the teaching should be able to see the faces of their students. So, yes, schools banning the veil are right to do so.

4 Comments

  1. Do you get the feeling that, at this moment in time, that ninety percent of the world’s problems are caused by effing Islam? Just think what a better place the world would be without it.

  2. Agreed, in fact most of our problems seem to have been created by politicians trying to change the natural order.

    We need a campaign such as: “Make The World A Better Place – Let’s Get Rid Of Islam” and if that forces real debate so much the better.

    On a related topic: Why are Scotland’s police (and others) allowing the hijab? For a secular state this is not acceptable; for a state where its head nominally gets her powers via a (C of E)’Christian’ god it is ridiculous.

  3. The problem isn’t specific to Islam. The problem is ignorance, both wilful and imposed. This is what ALL unreformed versions of religion do: it’s literally what they’re for. They exist to tell their congregations that the answer to “Why?” is “Because we say so”, albeit dressed up so that they can point the finger at an invisible, suspiciously fickle sky fairy with some obvious signs of mental illness.

    The reason it’s been next to impossible to set up a proper democracy anywhere in the Middle East is simply because a working democracy *requires* an educated and informed populace. Religions don’t like educated and informed congregations: such people tend to ask questions like: “How can your God be both omnipotent and all-loving, yet he can’t find a way to heal an innocent baby or child without making his presence known? Do you even know what ‘omnipotence’ means?”

    Islam isn’t unusual in wanting to impose its own legal system. Many Christian sects aimed at doing so, and even today, most Western countries have clear traces of Christian influence on their own systems. The difference is that Islam has seen few of the changes seen in the other Abrahamic religions. (There are some more progressive sects, such as Ahmadiyya, but these have had little influence on mainstream Islam so far.)

    The problem, then, isn’t specific to Islam, but is an inherent feature of many older religions: suppression of knowledge, education and information.

Comments are closed.