NEW BLOG: Just Asking Questions – The Sudden Death of Scepticism
My take on Abi Roberts and other co-called "vaccine sceptics" baselessly attributing the deaths of young people to Covid-19 vaccines.
Adult human beings in the year 2018 protesting their government's decision NOT to murder a mother of five for commiting the imaginary crime of blasphemy.
JK Rowling spending days generously praising fan-art sent to her by young children, only for trans activists to spam the threads with vicious abuse and porn is the most contemptible fucking thing I've ever seen on this site.
Labour campaigner on my doorstep just now. I showed her the video of Corbyn describing Hamas as "dedicated to peace and social justice". She asked when he made that statement. I told her 2009. She replied "ah well, that's before the whole Israel/Palestine thing kicked off."
Yes, very astute comparison. Because one of these kids is a psychotic who murdered 26 women and children in a hail of bullets.
And the other smirked at a man playing a drum.
HuffPost has reported that
#AsiaBibi
has been refused asylum in the UK amid "security concerns".
The fact that a woman cleared of blasphemy in Pakistan is unsafe in the UK, and represents a security issue due to her mere presence - is an absolutely outrageous state of affairs.
Reminder of Mehdi Hasan's classic self-own:
He once accused the Daily Mail of being "an immigrant bashing, women hating, Muslim smearing, gay-bating" outlet... after having sent them a fawning job application praising their integrity and morality.
His name is Ahmad Manasra. He was convicted of attempted murder after he & his cousin stabbed 2 Israelis including a 13-year-old boy.
Of course Islamists are comparing his incarceration to Hamas's abduction of Israeli toddlers, because they're moral cretins by definition.
Council removes terrorist's name from London Bridge attack report.
Councillor Gillian Pardesi said: “...My concern is that mentioning the name of this person, who happens to be of Pakistani descent, further demonises the Muslim community..."
"We have normalised bigotry towards Islam..."
Once again,
@mehdirhasan
illustrates that he believes it's possible to be bigoted towards a religion. And in doing so, illustrates that he uses the term "Islamophobia" as a euphemism for blasphemy.
A close friend of mine has political views I find ridiculous.
I have now cut all ties with this person & will be posting withering mockery of him all over the internet to satisfy a mob of strangers.
*The 1st sentence is true. The 2nd isn't because that's not normal behaviour.
'It's so damn sad that Dawkins, a world-famous biologist and staunch opponent of religious dogma, chooses to die on the hill of defending biology and opposing religious dogma.'
Comedian Jim Jeffries neatly illustrates the effectiveness of simply talking to people, rather than attempting to censor them or shout them down.
#FreeSpeech
Surely this self-declared "representative of Islam, ambassador for Islam, believer in Islam, and follower of Islam" is not seriously claiming that a preference for one religion over another is bigotry?
This is not acceptable from a spokesman of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. Israel is a red line for all Muslims and the IEA must be unequivocal in its rejection of the Zionist Entity. I hope and pray that this error by the spokesman will be rectified swiftly.
My grandfather also fought in World War 2. He was a soldier and he killed Nazis.
What he didn't do was run around smashing up minority communities in his own country, committing random acts of violence, and stealing TV's. And I'm sure he'd greatly resent the comparison.
My grandfather was part of an Antifa organization.
It was called the United States Army when he was in World War 2 and fought the fascists and Nazi in Europe for the freedom of the world.
When did being anti fascist become a bad thing in the US?
This is like an educational sketch written and produced specifically to debunk as many thoughtless antivax canards as possible in nine minutes.
Peterson appears to have never before contemplated a single counterargument to his embarrassing conspiracism.
The number of people impressed by Affleck's infantile strawmen and his total refusal to even attempt to understand the argument he pretended to be rebutting, is as concerning now as it was almost 10 years ago.
Shamima Begum may have been a child when she decided to join a genocidal terrorist death cult - but she's not one now. And she's completely unrepentant.
She's not the victim here. Her kids are. And the people massacred, raped, and brutalised by her cult are. But she's not.
The answer is not remotely complicated and this attempt at pretending that it is, is pretty bizarre. "Tomboys" are female, by definition. "Alpha males" are male, by definition. The fact that people exhibit a range of personality traits has no bearing on their biological sex.
What is a woman? It’s a question that’s suddenly everywhere, and it turns out the answer is complicated. Jon breaks down the gender binary and gender spectrum in this week’s episode. Stream the free episode now on Apple TV+.
2 years ago today an Islamic fascist murdered this beautiful little girl and 21 other innocent men, women, and children.
6 years ago today an Islamic fascist murdered this soldier on a London street.
I never met them. But I'll never forget them.
#ManchesterRemembers
#LeeRigby
"We are confident that this is an isolated incident that has been contained."
A Met Police deputy assistant commissioner is giving a statement about the Streatham terror attack, saying they believe the attacker was 20-year-old Sudesh Amman.
Live updates:
Maybe wait until he's out of hospital to tell him there's no free speech issue in Islam?
I'm sure he'll be interested to hear that the decade he spent in hiding was unnecessary and that the numerous killings & bombings that occurred in response to his book were coincidental.
"I am one of the millions of oppressed women in Iran... I wore whatever they told me and repeated whatever they ordered. Every sentence they ordered I repeated. None of us matter for them, we are just tools."
Iran's only female Olympic medallist defects
In less than 10 years, Islamists in
#France
have:
- murdered almost 300 people
- wounded nearly 1000
Those who take issue with Macron defending the right of satirists to do their jobs without being slaughtered by Islamic fascists invariably forget to mention this.
In less than a year
#France
's Macron has:
- Defended insults of Islam's prophet
- Launched anti-Muslim crackdown
- Branded Islam a "religion in crisis"
- Banned biggest Muslim charity
@Barakacity
Now this!?
#Macron
is worse towards Muslims than Trump!
#Islamophobia
Defending
#FreeSpeech
should invariably make you feel uncomfortable. Because the majority of your time will be spent defending the rights of people you find abhorrent.
But it's nothing compared to how uncomfortable *not* defending Free Speech should make you feel.
The Godfrey Elfwick account was abandoned in 2015 by it's original creator (Tony.)
The account was then resurrected by the brilliant Lisa Graves and run in conjunction with him until the middle of last year. Since then Lisa has run the account on her own.
What a spectacularly revolting and hypocritical take from a man who described non-Muslims as "cattle...living their lives like animals, bending any rule to fulfil any desire."
Opposing an ideology is perfectly congruent with abhoring bigotry and violence against innocent people.
And again, Mehdi Hasan apparently wants to make it absolutely crystal clear that he is not using the term "Islamophobia" to refer to bigotry against Muslims as people, but to silence criticism of his religion.
The audacious doubling down is quite remarkable.
Yeah. No one ever mentions Hitchens' miraculous feat of managing to vote in the 2004 U.S presidential election despite not becoming a U.S citizen until 2007.
Political and social commentator CJ Werleman here reminding us that he knows an anti-Semite when he sees one.
- Definitely anti-Semites: *checks notes*... Jewish author Sam Harris and Jewish comedienne Roseanne Barr.
- Definitely not anti-Semites: *checks notes again*... Hamas.
5 years ago 11 Parisians were killed for blasphemy against Islam.
3 weeks ago 2 people were stabbed over perceived Islamic blasphemy in the same location.
Today a teacher in the same city was beheaded for the same reason.
This time tomorrow we'll have forgotten about it.
BREAKING: A gunman shouting Allahu Akbar while beheading a man has been shot by police in northern Paris, local reports said on Friday.
Reuters coverage (in French) -
The absolute fucking audacity of spending your every waking moment pushing Islamist propaganda and defending jihadi terrorists, and then when they strike, calling for moderated language from the victims.
An absolute cesspit of an organisation.
1. No you don't.
2. Derogatively describing someone's clothing is not incitement to violence.
3. Neither is it racial hatred, particularly when a distinguishing factor of the clothing in question is that it obscures the race of the person wearing it.
Palestinian Ex-detainee Rushdi Abu Mokh visits his mother’s grave, immediately after spending 35 years behind the Israeli bars. His mother passed away after 33 years of longing to reunite her son, only 2 years before the end of his sentence.
I supported Maajid Nawaz not because I thought he was going to reform Islam, but because he was one of the only people in the UK regularly using their large mainstream platforms to challenge and expose Islamists.
And I still think that was worthy of support.
"Why are the media not inexplicably reporting on this random crime I've dredged up from 3 years ago for which the perpetrators have already been jailed?"
I've never read Hasan's book 'Win Every Argument', but judging by his behaviour I assume there's a long chapter in which he recommends pretending to misunderstand your opponent's argument so you can call them names.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they'll be pigeonholed and infantilized by patronising middle class slackademics who'll judge their every thought, utterance, action, desire, and belief through the prism of skin colour.
As if he hadn't done a good enough job of decimating his reputation already, here's Maajid Nawaz retweeting a claim that the Ukranians are using actors to pose as casualties of the Mariupol hospital bombing.
Because of course he would.
Muslim parents on LGBT-friendly schools: "It's not the state's business to teach our children equality, and respect, and tolerance, and liberal values!!!"
Muslim parents on 15 year old girls joining ISIS: "The state failed her."
Today the American Humanist Association Board voted to withdraw, effective immediately, the 1996 Humanist of the Year award it bestowed on Richard Dawkins.
Tap the preview below to read the board's statement explaining why.
The comparatively muted outrage over absolutely explicit Jew-hatred in recent days has made it pretty clear that many Anti-Racists™ are more comfortable focusing their efforts on imaginary cases of racism rather than real ones.
HUGE GASP in room at
@WEP_UK
conference as
@sanditoksvig
reveals she gets just 40% of what Stephen Fry got for hosting
#QI
and only the same as Alan Davies.
#WE2018
'7 people, including two students & a parent of one of Mr Paty's pupils, were detained.
On Wednesday, prosecutors said six of the suspects had been charged with complicity in a terrorist murder.'
France teacher attack: 7 charged over Samuel Paty killing
He was guilty of intent to supply Cannabis, Cocaine, Ecstasy, & Ketamine worth £2,500. She lied about her knowledge of this, engaged in nepotism by gifting him a £50k job, and threatened to smash a journalists face in with a bat.
Not quite the situation you describe
@OwenJones84
"I don't need to rehash the problem with this statement because it's been done so many times already."
If you're going to attack a respected biologist for apparently getting biology wrong - I'd suggest you do need to explain the problem with his statement.
Hi
@UsmanAli4Ward5
. It appears that your statement whereby you describe an autistic child slightly blemishing a Quran as 'a serious provocative action which needs to be dealt with by all the authorities', has now been deleted without comment.
Care to explain why?
This is an excellent response to
@BretWeinstein
and the rest of the tediously idiotic 'Sam Harris has lost his mind' crowd.
Sam Harris |
#335
- A Postmortem on My Response to Covid
There is absolutely a defacto blasphemy law in the UK, but it applies to only one religion.
And the fact that it is the one religion that predictably issues credible threats of murder in response to blasphemy is no coincidence.
Religions are *not* all 100% wrong.
They're wrong to different degrees and in different ways. And those differences matter because they result in different real-world consequences.
I remember Sam Harris having to spend 3 hours of his life explaining this simple point to you.
That's the point. He doesn't hate them equally. I'm an atheists who thinks all of the religions are 100% wrong. Bill Maher and Sam Harris single out Islam as worse. Why? Because you have to pretend that Muslims are irredeemable so that you can justify occupying them forever.
New Blog: The Descent of Maajid Nawaz
Detailing LBC host Maajid Nawaz's irresponsible promotion of conspiracy theorists and his circulation of dubiously sourced misinformation around covid and the vaccines.
That ridiculous paraphrase is nothing like the original statement.
Probably not advisable to sign off a tweet with "you can't make this shit up", when the rest of the tweet is shit you've made up.
How is it even possible to be this morally confused over such a straight forward issue?
I wish the apologists who write these articles blaming the Charlie Hebdo cartoonists for "inciting" their own murders would simply title them: In Defense of Al Qaeda.
Notice this less than subtle shift from "question about Islam" to "talking about Muslims behind our backs".
Any scrutiny of Islam is instinctively perceived & treated as an attack upon Muslim people. This is how Islamic blasphemy codes are effectively enforced in the West.
Jeff Goldblum's question about Islam to the performer wearing hijab in
#DragRace
always makes me wonder what folks say about us Muslims behind our backs. This was him holding back & trying to be sensitive. He's well-traveled, informed & he's from "liberal Hollywood." I wonder...
Reminder of
@mehdirhasan
's rather questionable grasp of the burden of proof, and indeed reality.
Christopher Hitchens once said that Abrahamic religion "can't be believed by a thinking person". Hasan does his best here to prove him right.
Ayaan was a victim of FGM. A death threat aimed at her was pinned to the body of her murdered friend with a Jihadi's blade. Her life is under constant threat from Islamists, & she is smeared daily as a bigot. Yet she continues to fight.
She is not on the oppressor's side.
I'd be nice if someone would explain to this egomaniac that having your conspiratorial gibberish endorsed by Maajid Nawaz and Joe Rogan does not constitute vindication.
270 innocent people murdered and nearly 1000 injured in Islamist terror attacks in France in the last 8 years. 2 French citizens decapitated by Islamists in as many weeks.
How astronomically morally confused do you have to be to identify French secularism as the problem here?
Comedian Norm MacDonald trolls a couple of leftists who've been pushing the "Islamophobic backlash" narrative.
Inevitably, the joke goes straight over their heads.
The internet lynch mob descends again. This is rightfully recognised as obnoxious when done *by* hysterical far-leftists.
It's equally obnoxious when done *to* them. Be better.
More than 1,300 people sign petition urging the NHS to sack protester
The people who claim to be dedicated to "social justice" often seem to be the people most willing to lie about the views of others & unashamedly smear them as having the most reprehensible motives.
This is a definition of "justice" that I'm unfamiliar with.
A teacher in Colchester has been suspended for having a Jesus and Mo mug.
The Metro have obviously censored the image in their report because apparently we as a society have now decided that we will operate in accordance with Islamic blasphemy codes.
The "Muslim organisation" who awarded
#TrevorPhillips
"Islamophobe of the Year" was a pro-Hezbollah group who gave the same award to the slaughtered cartoonists of Charlie Hebdo and joked that they couldn't be there to collect it in person.
At the 2019
#ConservativeParty
conference,
#TrevorPhillips
chaired a fringe event that whitewashed Tory
#Islamophobia
& tackling the idea that Islamophobia existed.
He joked that he was awarded the title "Islamophobe of the Year" by Muslim organisations.
#Labour
This is the moment a businessman fought off four armed robbers alone, during a terrifying raid on his home. Mr Ali is offering a £5,000 reward to catch those responsible.
Here's the footage of Weldon standing up for Rushdie in the face of calls for his murder.
Prior to this, Mr Islam/Stevens on the same TV show had stated that he would execute Rushdie with his own hands in an Islamic State.
Very strangely worded report in the
@guardian
. This man did not commit his disgusting crimes 'as revenge for the 7 October attacks in Israel'.
He's an Islamic terrorist who no doubt approved of the 7 October attacks.