To tie in with the anniversary of 9/11 racist groups (organising on Facebook) have called a protest outside the central Mosque in Harrow. Groups such as 'Stop Islamisation Of Europe,' 'The England Defence League' and 'Casuals United' (rent-a-thug football hooligans) are backing the protest. They claim not to be racist as 'Islam is a religion, not a
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I understand our point about persecuting someone for their reigious beliefs seemingly being the same as for the religious beliefs and from a purely philosophical point of view where all ideas have equal value your point would be correct. Fascism by its nature has to be treated seperately from this because by its nature - its very reason for existence - is to discriminate, marginalise, brutalise or worse.
I make no apology for being an anti-fascist.
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Because religion is nothing more than an idea.
[I understand our point about persecuting someone for their reigious beliefs seemingly being the same as for the religious beliefs and from a purely philosophical point of view where all ideas have equal value your point would be correct.]
And who is to say that religious values are any better than other values?
[Fascism by its nature has to be treated seperately from this because by its nature - its very reason for existence - is to discriminate, marginalise, brutalise or worse.]
The same is true for religion.
[I make no apology for being an anti-fascist.]
And I make no apology for being anti-theist.
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If they are using "muslim" as a pseudonym for race/culture then they are just using it as a cover for racism. However if they are responding to an actual threat of religious incursion into governance, then they have legitimate claims. Here in the US it is mostly the fundy christians who have a problem with muslims. Likely because they are seen as competition. They want to set up a theocracy here, but they don't want that theocracy to be muslim.
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