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Thread #150703   Message #3616252
Posted By: MGM·Lion
06-Apr-14 - 05:51 PM
Thread Name: BS: Small hope for Israel/Palestine
Subject: RE: BS: Small hope for Israel/Palestine
& Re your tautologous oxymoron "racist islamophobia", Jim; it is not self-evidently either phobic or racist to be critical of a cultural tradition whose governments of states within whose jurisdictions forms of it are dominant and authoritative, indulge in a variety of practices of a capitally or corporally punitive nature which are not practised or approved of, in states where what most people outside them [particularly those of your generally expressed persuasions, Jim!], whose inhabitants do not regard them as appropriate to the usages of decent C21 society: particularly for many offences which are not even defined as illegal in most such parts of the world. Are you going to defend the treatment notoriously meted out to adultresses, blasphemers, apostates, in such countries as Saudi, Yemen, parts of Malaysia, Pakistan, N Nigeria, &c. If not, then why are not you 'islamophobically racist' too?

~M~