Like It Or Not, It Isn't Racism...
Nick Griffin, leader of the BNP is not a very nice person in my opinion. He's a fascist, and certainly as anyone can see, a racist. He, though he may be careful in how he words it these days, believes that people are lesser human beings based on the colour of their skin.
Any sane human being, with any level of education knows he is wrong.
He has today been found not guilty of inciting racial hatred, a charge based on his comments about Islam and Muslims, and lets be honest, expressing a dislike of Islam, or any other religion for that matter is NOT racism.
Yet again we are being blinded by political correctness when it comes to the real issues.
When did finding oneself unable to accept any given faith's version of the truth, and one's ability to voice that non-acceptance, become 'racism'?
It's the blurring of these two distinct issues that clouds many discussions on religion and racism today, and I have a sneaking suspicion it's a cloud that many people want to keep in place.
It gives racists like the BNP a pathetic little 'moral' victory in the courts, in the eyes of themselves and their followers, but it also gives the religious zealots more ammunition in their efforts to corrupt the minds of the young within muslim communities and convince them that westerners hate them simply for being different, when the majority certainly do not. In reality they are arguing about two seperate points.
All the while we let the two separate issues be treated as one, both problems will be insurmountable.
Any sane human being, with any level of education knows he is wrong.
He has today been found not guilty of inciting racial hatred, a charge based on his comments about Islam and Muslims, and lets be honest, expressing a dislike of Islam, or any other religion for that matter is NOT racism.
Yet again we are being blinded by political correctness when it comes to the real issues.
When did finding oneself unable to accept any given faith's version of the truth, and one's ability to voice that non-acceptance, become 'racism'?
It's the blurring of these two distinct issues that clouds many discussions on religion and racism today, and I have a sneaking suspicion it's a cloud that many people want to keep in place.
It gives racists like the BNP a pathetic little 'moral' victory in the courts, in the eyes of themselves and their followers, but it also gives the religious zealots more ammunition in their efforts to corrupt the minds of the young within muslim communities and convince them that westerners hate them simply for being different, when the majority certainly do not. In reality they are arguing about two seperate points.
All the while we let the two separate issues be treated as one, both problems will be insurmountable.
posted by Stevie at 6:10 pm
1 Comments:
Yep, spot on. Islam is NOT a race - it's a belief system that people choose to believe. Griffin is a cunt of the highest order but this case should never have been bought to court. Every right thinking person must stand up against any attempt by the state to try and limit people's right to criticize religion.
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