1992 al-Disnee introduces hijack resistant air travel!
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| Tebbit attacks 'unreformed' Islam |
| 2005-08-19 |
| Islam is so unreformed there have been no real advances in art, literature, science or technology in the Muslim world in 500 years, Lord Tebbit says. The ex-Tory chairman also told the e-politix website multiculturalism was in danger of undermining UK society. In the 1980s he questioned the loyalty of immigrants who backed cricket teams from their countries of origin. He says if he had been heeded it might have stopped the London bombings. A key Muslim group said he was "misguided". "To reduce the terrorism problem to simply blaming multiculturalism is blinkered and indeed dangerous," a spokesman for the Muslim Council of Britain said. He added it was true science had not made the progress in the Muslim world that it has in the West. "I do not believe this is due to Islam but instead due to a restrictive interpretation of the faith by too many Muslims." "When it comes to art and literature, Lord Tebbit is completely wrong - there is a vibrant arts scene in many Muslim countries. He would recognise this himself if he understood Arabic or Persian or Turkish or any of the many languages in the Muslim world." In is interview, Lord Tebbit said the 'cricket test' was a means of gauging whether a community had integrated. "If a community was looking back at where it had come from instead of looking forward with the people to whom they had come to, then there is going to be a problem sooner or later." Lord Tebbit said multicultural society was "an impossibility" because if there were two cultures there would also be two societies. "A society is defined by its culture. It is not defined by its race, it is not a matter of skin colour or ethnicity, it is a matter of culture. "If you have two societies in the same place then you are going to have problems, like the kind we saw on 7 July, sooner or later," he said. He warned London was "sinking into the same abyss that Londonderry and Belfast sank". On Islam holding back progress Lord Tebbit said: "The Muslim religion is so unreformed since it was created that nowhere in the Muslim world has there been any real advance in science, or art or literature, or technology in the last 500 years." |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #4 WITT - The Crescent Moon appears as a symbol of Islam because Allah originally was the 'Moon God' of the people of Mecca - and was simply a black rock - when Mo came along and started sprouting his BS.... See Prophet of Doom - tho he is a tad extreame (but not much). |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2005-08-19 23:03 |
| #3 I'm sorry about this, but I've had few and I feel a rant coming on.....You know, after reading Lord Tebbit's comments, the crescent moon as a symbol of Islam holds a whole new meaning for me... it could be viewed as a representation of unreformed Islam in the sense that it portrays the darkness covering the light. The radical clerics now operating in and against the West seem in many ways committed to blocking out and destroying instead of enhancing things. As Lord Tebbit alludes to in questioning the loyalty of such immigrants, perhaps we in the West should start to question the costs and benefits of the current cultural exchange, but maybe it will take another attack or two. Being a WASP several generations removed from the Isles, and one whose ancestors rightly ascribed to the view that aristocracy did not necesarily have a monopoly on common sense, perhaps the guilt associated with Empire was a misplaced one. What possible benefit would a Liverpudlian ever get from having a radical cleric from god-knows-where-Pakistan who detests them living down the street from them? Why was this such a great idea ? Is England such a waste land that having such individuals come and form their own enclaves where they would be free to preach hatred and jihad against the descendents and servants of their former colonial masters was considered an improvement ? |
| Posted by: WITT 2005-08-19 21:41 |
| #2 1992 al-Disnee introduces hijack resistant air travel! |
| Posted by: BigEd 2005-08-19 18:46 |
| #1 "... that nowhere in the Muslim world has there been any real advance in science, or art or literature, or technology in the last 500 years." But, but what about the buzzing prayer rug and robot camel jockeys? |
| Posted by: Xbalanke 2005-08-19 16:35 |