COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE BY HOLLY BAXTER IN THE
INDEPENDENT
“London needs a Muslim
mayor now more than ever"
That is as silly as anything Trump might say, perhaps more
so.
The truth is that London needs a mayor now more than ever,
whatever his religious affiliation or racial origin.
Sadiq Khan - and it has nothing to with his identity -
quickly proved himself a rather poor figure of mayor.
Right after election, he started making self-serving
interviews and speeches having far more to do with his further political
ambitions than anything about the city and what he can do for it.
Truly an ineffective and annoying "small time"
politician with nothing of substance to offer London's people.
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Response to a reader
who commented: “Islam is not a race, it's a violent, 7th Century ideology.”
Well, you are wrong, as any educated person knows.
However, if one were to accept your characterization for
whatever bizarre reason, then two conclusions follow immediately:
Conclusion One, Christianity is a violent, 1st Century
ideology.
Need I remind of the immense record of violence in
Christianity? It went on for centuries and, indeed, continues. Crusades for a
couple of centuries, Inquisitions, Autos-de-fe, Reformation and Counter-reformation,
Hundred Years War, the bloody "conversion" work in the New World,
huge massacres like the St Bartholomew's, papal wars, and on and on.
And never forget, Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini were all
products of Christian churches.
Conclusion Two, Judaism is a violent, 5th Century BCE
ideology.
Go read your Old Testament, especially the Pentateuch (aka
Torah). There you find little beyond war, killing, rape, slavery, sparing no
one, and extremely harsh rules to be imposed with severe punishments, to say
nothing of the idea of stealing someone else's home being blessed.
All religions are the same essentially because all people
are the same. We really are violent chimps just dropped out of the trees, so to
speak.
