Just for interest here’s something from Al Jazeera…hosted by possibly the world’s most untrustworthy journalist, Mehdi Hasan….a devout Muslim, a Muslim preacher no less…but who tells us he is ‘secular and progressive‘.
Whilst the subjects are of interest Hasan probably isn’t the best person to be adjudicating over them as he has a dog in the fight being essentially a hardline Muslim activist himself….though that is a judgment based on past experience as I haven’t had time to listen to any of these debates yet….still interesting all the same.
A selection from ‘Head to Head’:
Head to Head is Al Jazeera’s new forum for ideas, hosted by Mehdi Hasan. In each episode, Hasan asks probing, hard-hitting questions and goes head to head with a special guest to tackle some of the big issues of our time in front of an opinionated audience.
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| Terrorists or freedom fighters?Mehdi Hasan challenges Martin McGuinness, exploring the definition of terrorism and when to negotiate with the enemy.
Mehdi Hasan goes head to head with Dr Saeb Erekat, the chief Palestinian negotiator in peace talks with Israel.
With one question, journalist Mona Eltahawy unleashed a harsh critique of women’s rights in the Arab world.
Controversial Muslim intellectual Tariq Ramadan discusses Islamism and the rise and fall of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Climate change sceptic Richard Lindzen is challenged on his view that concern about global warming is alarmist nonsense.
Scientist and atheist Richard Dawkins is challenged on whether religion is a force for good or evil in the world.
The controversial Canadian author Irshad Manji discusses Islamophobia and the need to reform Islam.
Mehdi Hasan goes head to head with Thomas Friedman on the morality of America’s global role.
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Give me Al Jazeera over the BBC any day. At least Al Jazeera makes no false claims to be impartial when delivering its vile diatribe unlike the BBC.
And you’re not taxed to fund it.
Am listening now to Hasan and Dawkins.
If we remember his view that we`re basically “dogs” as kuffar in his faith world….then at least these appear to be good questions-and certainly ones that the BBC aren`t asking.
Oh wait-they set up programmes about “Free Speech” -but park outside the Mosque in a roll up tent, then happily refuse to answer a “Big Question”/Free Speech piece as put by (what ought to have been) their fantasy cartoon figure…an openly gay Muslim bloke who wants to be a celebrity…dreamland!
And who was in the tent…acquiescing in this lockdown and censorship?…why Medhi Hasan…and he said not a word!
Taqqiya…that`s all we need to know of Medhi and his pals…all depends on who is in the room and who is(or is not) recording.
Over half way through-the run up to the break is good in that Hasan asks questions that confirm that Dawkins is an Archdunce…and well done Hasan for asking them.
Would recommend it….a world where Dawkins and Hawking, Batmanghedghli and Fry are our “leading intellectuals”…and John Lennox, Ian Plimer, Christopher Booker and Robert Spencer are banned or have no access to the media conch shell…is one sick one.
So well done our tacky taqqiya man!
The one thing you have to remember is Muslims cannot be trusted, and I come from an Islamic background.
So that would mean we can’t trust you?
“So that would mean we can’t trust you?”
Pounce is not a Muslim.
Pounce is a member of HM Forces. Thanks to him we all sleep safe in our beds at night.
Pounce, when u “get out”, go into politics. You should be our first non white PM
Be safe
What a disgustingly racist thing to say. Have a look at this article, I am sure you might find it useful. You may have to change some of the words but I am sure you will find a way of making the same arguments.
http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/responses.htm
By the way, if you really are a soldier and not some STAB, then had you been one of mine I would have had you thrown out for that kind of blatant racism. There is no place in the armed forces for racism.
and if you had been in the army when i was in i would be telling you to take your hat and belt off and put yourself in jail you F****** little gobby F****** little Pr*** while pointing at you screaming at the coppers “beast that man”
David Kay: Unless you were a very senior field officer or above I wonder if rather the conversation would have been the other way round. Your use of language doesn’t lead me to believe you were. And if you were a Lt Col or higher and you sanctioned racism in your regiment then you were a very poor Commanding Officer indeed.
Alec Coole: There is no place for racism or bigotry in the armed forces.
It is morally repugnant to assign character attributes to religious, ethnic or other groups. It is exactly the tactic adopted by oppressors throughout the ages to dehumanize them, often with dreadful consequences.
I do not disagree with your comment on the nature of racism but I did ask if a person displaying racism should be sacked from their job.
It is a difficult question to answer. Firstly you can only sanction people for their actions, not their beliefs. Secondly as a general rule, no. There is a difference between a racist machine tool operator or accountant, and a racist teacher or police officer (or soldier).
Thank you. You make sound points.
Do you believe that anyone displaying racism should be sacked from their employment?
Of course he does, he’s defending freedom of conscience by policing peoples thoughts.
What a disgustingly stupid thing to say, what race exactly are muslims?
And the Reductio ad Hitlerum ploy don’t wash the Nazis’ antisemitism was race based.
I do wonder about your agenda ,this is the second time you’ve been appalled by other peoples impure thoughts.
If you are unable to see the parallels then that is your problem. They are glaring and obvious.
I repeat: It is morally repugnant to assign character attributes to religious, ethnic or other groups. It is exactly the tactic adopted by oppressors throughout the ages to dehumanize them, often with dreadful consequences.
Go tell that to the Muslims whose entire religion is based on denigration of “The Other”
Perhaps he wont because he might feel something sharp on his neck.
I don’t see them because they aren’t there
“I repeat: It is morally repugnant to assign character attributes to religious, ethnic or other groups”
Even when that ideology defines non believers as sub humans?
And what of ‘other groups’ you mean like the Klan or the Nazis?
Meaningless cant . The only threat I see here to liberty and democracy , is your censorious parsimony.
Interesting, though, that wide generalisations seem to be rendered acceptable when the word “institutional” is inserted.
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