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Testify strongly, brother

To follow up my posting "How to blaspheme" about Pharyngula's recent uncharacteristic appeasing of islamists, it's good to see I'm not the only one who finds it strange how many Western atheists, normally so eager to mock and criticize religion, do nothing but grovel in front of islamists, calling for "tolerance" and "understanding". First, Tjic writes in "That's Funny":

The really amusing thing about this is that on absolutely any scale that progressives choose to name (”gay rights”, “gender equality”, “openness to Darwinism”, “freedom of expression”, etc.), Islam is provably about 1,000 times worse than the absolute worst thing that even a lunatic believes about either fundamentalism or Catholicism.

I can no longer doubt Lawrence Auster when he writes that when leftists advocate these things in West, they are really motivated by something other than liberty or female equality. This is absolutely clear from the fact that leftists and feminists don't oppose Muslim immigration here or make any serious demands of implementing these freedoms in the third world. Whenever some feminist complains that women in third world are badly oppressed, she is most definitely not saying that our culture was in any way better than their or (oh dear god no) that we should use force to liberate these oppressed women. She simply wants the western men pay her tribute and compensation for this injustice, since she has the same genitals as the victim and western men have the same genitals as the oppressor, making her morally superior.

And of course, there is the little chestnut that I must have already mentioned a million times: when a white Christian man says that gay marriage is not a 100% positive thing, he is a disgusting subhuman bigot who makes the progressive ashamed to even belong to the same species with him, but when the Muslim culture, instead of debating whether gays should be allowed to marry debates whether gays should be allowed to live, the progressives just gush how we must understand and accept this exciting alternative culture instead of condemning it and being all judgemental. This blatant hypocrisy reveals pretty much everything we need to know about the real motivations of leftists.

On the other side of the fence, Vox Day writes in "More free speech fakers":

It's become inarguably obvious that these secular champions of the 1st Amendment are pansy paper tigers. They're bold and brave enough when attacking a religion that instructs followers to turn the other cheek, but they suddenly find deep sensitivity and respect when a religion of the sword is involved.

Indeed. It's too bad that "Carnival of Godless", in which my postings have been included a few times, has already been assigned far into future. It would be interesting to see an edition of this carnival in which the topic was Islam. This carnival might include not only abstract proofs why that particular religion is false (just modify your classic arguments against Christianity a little wherever appropriate), but also practical observations about how backwards, mockable, stupid, repressive and just plain old inferior that religion is in every respect compared to atheism. You know, there is absolutely nothing here that us atheists haven't expressed a thousands times towards Christianity, and in this case, making these arguments would be as trivially easy as shooting fish in a barrel. As it would be to add a generous helping of mockery and laughter on the side. But you know, for some reason I just don't expect to ever see such an edition of this carnival during my lifetime.

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