Two great pieces

Pat Condell has never let us down! His latest is particularly good: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPG3-1gogXU

Sam Harris is also pretty much always spot on: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sam-harris/losing-our-spines-to-save_b_100132.html

My favourite quote:

Muslims appear to be far more concerned about perceived slights to their religion than about the atrocities committed daily in its name. Our accommodation of this psychopathic skewing of priorities has, more and more, taken the form of craven and blinkered acquiescence.

Given this “psychopathic skewing of priorities,” he concludes:

The problem is not, as is often alleged, that governments cannot afford to protect every person who speaks out against Muslim intolerance. The problem is that so few people do speak out. If there were ten thousand Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s, the risk to each would be radically reduced.

This is indeed a problem, is it not? Even if you are Muslim, or even if you are not, how can we tolerate intolerance to criticism? EVER? This is not okay at all. There’s simply no positive outcome from limiting the ability to criticize. Harris says this another way, a better way, by quoting famous Muslim apostate Ibn Warraq:

There is no such right as ‘the right not to be offended’.

Can you imagine if there were?!!

(If there was ever a clear sign that political correctness MUST GO, this is it!)


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