I'm a family oriented sort of guy. There is nothing as important to me as my immediate and extended family, everything else combined comes a distant second.
I've heard a lot about Islam here, I've been quoted the Koran chapter and verse, I've been told that radical Islam and Wahabbism is not the norm. I've been told that Sharia Law and its parent Islam is a religion of peace and the violence initiated in Islams name is the work of uneducated fools, and my reply is "Islam speaks with forked tongue".
I've heard how I should be accomodating, basically 'live and let live', but everywhere I've looked where Islam has taken hold, I've seen corruption, theft, poverty and loss of freedom. I've been told in my own country that I should respect Islam and its tenents at the same time that I should have a law preventing me from criticising Islam.
I have seen all the advances made by my ancestors, the introduction of secularism, the freedom to question and debate, the emancipation of women and the advances of science and technology (all of which have lead to a time where those who belong to western society enjoy freedoms and living conditions unparalleled in human history) and had them denigrated as the work of the devil.
I will not allow my daughter to be forced to wear head to toe covering or face rape as punishment.
I will not allow my children to be denied the right to question and decide what path in life they will take or how they live that life.
I will protect the rights my ancestors have fought to gift to me, and I will continue their work so that my descendants will have freedoms and living conditions that I can only dream of.
I borrow here a custom of the Arapaho people. I am driving a stake in the ground and binding my foot to that stake. I hold my ground here and will die rather than retreat.
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Originally Posted by Bluesman
I don't care if I've crossed the line with this post, re: not showing requisite respect for another's religion. If I'm to be banned for being insulting Islam/Sharia/Wahabbism, then I really don't belong here, anyway. But as I said, there is simply nothing that rates as high on my priority list now as the defeat of this kind of chauvanism.
It's a mortal threat to freedom everywhere, and it's my enemy.
Victory or Death.
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