POLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS SATIRE: “If Muhammad Replaced Trump” / DarkMatter2525 ☮

Posted on 07.24.2016 by AlwaysQuestionAuthority

If the ideals of Islamism came out of Trump’s mouth, how would the Left & Right react? If any Muslims do respond to this cartoon, I have a couple predictions:
1. Some will respond by saying that the verses are out of context (standard response), but notice that none of these verses are actually justified by their context.
2. Some other verse will be presented that contradicts one of the verses I used, which proves nothing other than the fact that the Islamic texts in question are contradictory.

ABRAHAMIC RELIGION: “Islamophobic” / DarkMatter2525

Posted on 05.06.2016 by AlwaysQuestionAuthority

Fear of Islam is not irrational. Fear of some Muslims can be irrational, of course, but as a religion, ideology, and political system, Islam can be horrific and extremely oppressive and thus warrants fear and resistance.

ISLAMOPHOBIA: “Twenty-six Dead in Brussels . . . Twenty-six Dead in Newton” ☮

Posted on 03.22.2016 by AlwaysQuestionAuthority

CRITICAL THINKING: “What Ben Affleck Missed in the Islamophobia Debate with Bill Maher and Sam Harris” / Andrew L. Seidel

Posted on 10.11.2014 by AlwaysQuestionAuthority

Andrew L. Seidel

There’s an interesting video making the viral rounds. Bill Maher on his excellent show, Real Time, had on author Sam Harris, actor Ben Affleck, writer Nicholas Kristof, and political operative Michael Steele as guests. The discussion, debate is a better term, was about Islamophobia.

Maher and Harris argued that criticizing Islam is necessary and is not bigotry or discrimination. As is the tendency when accusations of racism and intolerance are flying, the debate got a bit heated.

Affleck said that Harris’s “argument is, ‘You know, black people, they shoot each other'” and “gross and racist.” Kristof said that Maher’s criticism of Islam has “a tinge of how white racists talk about African-Americans and define blacks.”

It is a bit frustrating to watch because the two sides are talking past each other. Maher and Harris are clearly correct. Affleck, Kristal and Steele are making valid points, but not against the arguments Maher and Harris raised.

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