European Islamophobia

[derspiess]

No that's why I said a couple ie two; I'm pretty sure most Americans don't hold such proto-racist views.

Asian chicks are submissive.

Latinas are not

[crazy canuck]

Salman Rushdie on tonight's Bill Maher. Must watch. 

UC Berkeley disapproves.

I'll be genuinely interest to see the languish response to what he says.

The Canadian consensus at least will be that he can't string two sensible sentences together.

No, he will be easily understood.  Except by Berkut who will tell us that he didn't actually say what he said.  And what he does say will simply play to the Islam is evil crowd.  Its all very predictable and not worth watching.

[derspiess]

I don't plan on watching but I fear Martinus will inflict it on us in some form.  The silver lining is he may stop quoting Piketty and make this his new fount of wisdom just to change things up a bit.

[garbon]

If only Martinus was up for fearlessly disrespecting Piketty.

[Legbiter]

Houellebecq on amongst other things, Islamophobia. This interview is from the 2nd of this month. Worth a glance.

http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2015/01/02/scare-tactics-michel-houellebecq-on-his-new-book/

[Duque de Bragança]

Already posted on the other attack thread though.

[Legbiter]

Already posted on the other attack thread though.

Bah, thanks for the heads up.

[mongers]

I flicked over to RT for 10 minutes to see what they're coverage of the crisis was, actually somewhat 'neutral' as it turned out. And they were interviewing Khaled Mouhameed (excuse spelling, not sure) , British labour MP  for a Birmingham seat. In amongst the expected condemnation and some analysis of the situation British muslims find themselves in, he said British muslim communities have to rise up again this threat.  That was his exact turn of phrase "rise up", very interesting usage, I think he meant British muslims have to reject jihadism and alienate it's advocates within their communities.

Would like to hear more of what he has to say on the subject.

[Duque de Bragança]

Already posted on the other attack thread though.

Bah, thanks for the heads up.

Sorry 
I believe garbon can muster some necessary disrespect to read it though (I prefer the word irreverence but that's just me). Well, more likely than for him to know what champagne is.

[Legbiter]

I completely missed the interview being posted in the other thread, lost upon the sea of raz and garbon. 

[Jacob]

I completely missed the interview being posted in the other thread, lost upon the sea of raz and garbon. 

I read it. Previously my opinion, such as it was, of Houllebecq was based on second hand information. Exposure to his own words did nothing to change that opinion. As for what I thought of the piece itself, that is fairly predictable. I don't think there's a need for me to post a detailed response.

[dps]

Well it seems some of those who were gun-ho behind you guys on going into Iraq to find those WMDs and terrorist training camps, now seem to have backtracked a lot and consider modern islam a beacon of enlightenment.

I don't think anyone here considers Islam a beacon of enlightenment.

Having said that, there are a lot of us that don't see Muslims (or Jews, or Russian, or blacks) as inherently evil, and are willing to say so.

And I was one of the people who was gung-ho about going into Iraq;  I still say it was the right thing to do.  Yeah, we botched up the occupation and rebuilding, but that's a separate issue. 

If I bought the Grallon/Euro line on Muslims, I wouldn't have supported invading Iraq--I would have just supported the idea of simply glassing it over, along with pretty much everything else from Rabat to Karachi, plus several other locations.

[Martinus]

I completely missed the interview being posted in the other thread, lost upon the sea of raz and garbon. 

That's one sea I'd rather not be lost at.

[garbon]

Already posted on the other attack thread though.

Bah, thanks for the heads up.

Sorry 
I believe garbon can muster some necessary disrespect to read it though (I prefer the word irreverence but that's just me). Well, more likely than for him to know what champagne is.

You might like to waste your time reading drivel. I don't.

[Martinus]

I completely missed the interview being posted in the other thread, lost upon the sea of raz and garbon. 

I read it. Previously my opinion, such as it was, of Houllebecq was based on second hand information. Exposure to his own words did nothing to change that opinion. As for what I thought of the piece itself, that is fairly predictable. I don't think there's a need for me to post a detailed response.

He is right at least in one thing - politically and ideologically speaking, Muslims and right wing Catholics could not be more similar. Thank Heavens Lady Eris made them hate each other so much.