howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#1
Captain Haddock
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#2
Unfortunately I can't think of one successful and peaceful country which does not share one foundation myth (religion), one heritage myth (heroic individuals, battles and events 'unique' to history of the country) and a common language.
"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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I know it is not the majority of muslims that think in that way but a sizeable minority seem to think that stoning for adultery, wives obeying husbands and making homosexual acts illegal which is not in line with the views of any rational person in the West
Ross Miller
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#4
And how many Christians/Jews/Sikhs/Hindus etc hold similar views on homosexuality, trans people, or for that matter disabilities, blood transfusions, women's rights etc etc.
These views are much more widely held than just in the Muslim community but it does not play as well to the Expresses readership to mention that
"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today." - James Dean
"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength,
While loving someone deeply gives you courage" - Laozi
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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As the link points out the documentary has been commissioned by Channel 4 and fronted by Trevor Phillips, neither can be accused of being backward looking or reactionary.
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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#6
One of the dreadful things about the Muslim Religion is the way it has stopped progress in the Arab world.
Before Mohammed they were world leaders in science, mathematics, astronomy etc etc.
With their primitive fatalistic mindset they have only managed to scrape together 3 Nobel prizes for science (though laughably 7 for 'Peace'!)
The same goes for art. With their banning of figurative art they have no Michelangelo, da Vinci, etc etc and the whole of their 'Art' is reduced to doing pretty tiling patterns of the sort primary school children do and even then they have to mess up one of the tiles as apparently only Allah can make anything perfect.
Roll on some sort of Islamic reformation. Most religions I can just about tolerate, if people want to have stupid beliefs then so be it and more fool them, but I honestly think that this one is actually bad for civilisation.
"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
Dr. Hunter S Thompson