No one is as murderously 'Islamophobic' as Islamists are.
Nick CohenTag: politics murder religion islam islamism islamophobia
Antisemitism is unique among religious hatreds. It is a racist conspiracy theory fashioned for the needs of messianic and brutal rulers, as dictators from the Tsars to the Islamists via the Nazis have shown. Many other alleged religious 'hatreds' are not hatreds in the true sense. If I criticise Islamic, Orthodox Jewish or Catholic attitudes towards women, for instance, and I'm accused of being a bigot, I shrug and say it is not bigoted to oppose bigotry.
Nick CohenTag: women religion feminism antisemitism dictatorship islam catholicism racism bigotry sexism nazism islamism orthodox-judaism conspiracy-theories hatreds tsardom-of-russia
London is one of the world's centres of Arab journalism and political activism. The failure of left and right, the establishment and its opposition, to mount principled arguments against clerical reaction has had global ramifications. Ideas minted in Britain – the notion that it is bigoted to oppose bigotry; 'Islamophobic' to oppose clerics whose first desire is to oppress Muslims – swirl out through the press and the net to lands where they can do real harm.
Nick CohenTag: politics activism religion oppression journalism islam bigotry theocracy london arabs britain leftism islamism united-kingdom right-wing-politics religious-fundamentalism islamophobia reactionary
The faster you strip cultures down, the more you find contrariness and disputation, rather than a solid core, until eventually you reach the individual, a mammal shaped by evolution, material needs, cognitive biases and historical circumstances no doubt, but still a creature with a better right to state his opinions than kings and clerics have to silence them.
Nick CohenWhen society gives censors wide and vague powers they never confine themselves to deserving targets. They are not snipers, but machine-gunners. Allow them to fire at will, and they will hit anything that moves.
Nick CohenTag: censorship free-speech
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