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Category Archives: Moral relativism
Is this the “counter-Enlightenment”?
i’ve not posted for a while, mostly because of pressure of work, but there are a number of things which are currently causing me to more or less lose sleep.
recently, i gave up posting on pickled politics, partly because of the level of personal animosity i was facing, but mostly just in frustration at my [...]
Also posted in Anti Fascism, Anti Muslim bigotry, Antisemitism, Blogosphere, Christian Evangelical Nutters, Civil Rights, Democracy, Entryism, European Fascism, Freedom of Expression, Freedom of Religion, Human Rights, Identity Politics, Interfaith, Islamism, Jewish Extremism, Multiculturalism, Obscurantism, Sectarianism, Secularism, The Far Left, The Regressive Left, UK Politics 37 Comments
White Liberals and Politically Correct Racism
This is a cross-post by Edmund Standing
The white liberal is an unhealthy type of creature that you will undoubtedly have encountered, if not in real life, certainly via the media. By ‘liberal’, I do not mean simply someone who has a generally liberal outlook, in the sense of a ‘live and let live’ philosophy, nor [...]
Also posted in Anti Muslim bigotry, Racism, The Regressive Left 8 Comments
Relativism is the death of liberalism
Gauri Viswanathan interviews Salman Rushdie for The Hindu. An excerpt:
GV: The question of relativism is a very interesting one in your work: it seems to work for you when it comes to resisting a single origin from which all things and beings derive. But you draw the line when it comes to saying that cultural difference cancels [...]
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Using Muslims to protect Islamists
Consider two stories carried by Bob Pitt on Islamophobia-Watch.
Exhibit A, published by I-W on June 25th, is the story of Sureyya Ozkaya:
These are the shocking injuries inflicted upon schoolgirl Sureyya Ozkaya during a brutal daylight assault near her Thornton Heath home.
The 14-year-old’s hair was set on fire and her hands and feet were cut with [...]
Also posted in Anti Muslim bigotry, Islamism 13 Comments
When Multiculturalists Get Bitten By Multiculturalism
Eight years ago, Kenan Malik wrote an important and remarkably prescient essay on multiculturalism called Against Multiculturalism:
Proponents of multiculturalism usually put forward two kinds of arguments in its favour. First, they claim that multiculturalism is the only means of ensuring a tolerant and democratic polity in a world in which there are deep-seated conflicts between [...]
Also posted in Multiculturalism 17 Comments
Is Gaza Starving?
The UNDP has published its yearly Human Development Report (HDR) and the results are surprising to say the least. It will put paid to a few received notions held dearly by the moralists of the Left, the Islamists of the religious right and pretty much everything else in between. I say that with irony at [...]
Also posted in International Affairs 10 Comments
Sing When You’re Losing!
Sunny Hundal is overjoyed. Evidently Amnesty International have published a report detailing their human rights activism in Afghanistan. Hundal seems to be suggesting that publication of this report legitimises Amnesty UK’s partnership with the jihadi pressure group Cageprisoners:
Wait! I thought they were in league?? I’m getting all confused here, because according to certain defenders of human [...]
Also posted in Human Rights, Islamism 2 Comments
Pro-Shariah Nonsense from The New Statesman
Good Lord. Now the New Statesman comes out with a position piece advocating shariah law.
As is sadly so often the case, the nuances in the lecture Rowan Williams delivered at the Royal Courts of Justice in February 2008 failed to have any impact on those whose closed minds alit on the word “sharia” and decided [...]
Also posted in Sharia 25 Comments
Morality Bypass
Ten muslims are shot and killed aboard a flotilla bound for Gaza and the world erupts in righteous moral indignation. Elsewhere, more than 100 Ahmadi muslims are slaughtered while they pray peaceably in two separate mosques in the city of Lahore in Pakistan, a country which refuses even to recognise them as equal citizens and [...]
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Veiled Values