Category Archives: Moral relativism

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 sanctions state-sponsored violence against them, and there is near total silence.

Here is an excerpt from an article which compares the unequal responses by political groups, the media and various human rights organisations in Pakistan to the Flotilla atrocity with the mosque massacre of Ahmadis in Lahore. It highlights the skewed moral relativities and the morality bypass which turns some into vocal critics of violence perpetrated against muslims when committed by non-muslim actors (particularly when they are Americans or jews), but maintain a studied silence when muslims savagely oppress their own people.

Don’t you just love the weird and wonderful effects of moral relativism?

Three men from Al-Muhajiroun have been arrested and charged after an attack on George Galloway MP on Saturday 10 April.

George Galloway was set upon by a group of Muslim extremists while campaigning in East London this afternoon. Three men, believed to belong to the extreme sect Islam4UK, the latest name for Al-Muhajiroun, were arrested and subsequently charged with public order offences.
Galloway, who is standing in the Poplar and Limehouse constituency, was with a party of supporters in Watney Market around 3pm when he and his colleagues were first abused and then attacked by the group.

“They called me a filthy Kaffir” said Galloway, “and shouted that no one should shake the ‘filthy Kaffir’s hand’. This lot are the latest incarnation of the banned group Al-Muhajiroun. They don’t want Muslims to vote, they don’t believe in democracy, and because I encourage Muslims to vote and take a full part in our society they hate me. My party, Respect, is the antidote to these despicable extremists.”

Claudio Cordone has furiously back-peddled from this position on “defensive jihad” as a justifiable human right, in an exclusive interview with the Jerusalem Post:

“There is a misunderstanding around this whole thing, because I wasn’t talking about a general concept of jihad in self-defense or anything else. I was referring to the specific views of Moazzam Begg, because he was being accused of being involved in or advocating violence, discrimination and so on. So we looked at what he has said. We have been with him on a number of occasions when he spoke publicly about Guantanamo and did not find anything [to corroborate the accusations against him.]“

Eric Lee submitted his emergency resolution to Amnesty’s Annual General Meeting to have the opportunity to discuss the fallout of the Moazzam Begg-Gita Sahgal controversy and its repurcussions. So how did Amnesty reply?

Dear Eric

Thank you for submitting your resolution on Gita Saghal.

Unfortunately we are not able to accept this resolution.

There is currently an investigation under way at the International Secretariat in relation to Gita Saghal which is being carried out in accordance with the IS’s established human resource policies and UK employment law. The investigation is clearly carried out confidentially in line with established human resource practices and accordingly we do not believe it would be helpful, or carry any weight in the outcome of this investigation, for the AGM to debate the specific issue of Ms Saghal’s employment

Ian McEwan took a real incident that happened at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) and used it as a plot device in the narrative of the protagonist in his new novel, Solar.

Nick Cohen recognises the incident in McEwan’s storyline and recollects the real events that took place at the ICA which involved comedian Chris Morris, author Martin Amis, Andrew Anthony on the panel and an ICA auditorium audience full of irate, sanctimonious, post-modernist, middle class liberals in a marvellous article on what ails the British left. Luckily, Padraig Reidy of Index on Censorship was also in the audience that night.

Here is Reidy’s hilarious account of the events at the ICA from a CiF piece from 2007, ‘When liberals attack!’:

It was at this point that TV’s greatest satirist [Chris Morris], the shaggy-haired Swift of our age, took his turn to speak.

And what a wonderful turn it was.