So much for free speech
Hung over, after a day at The Club, where my young nephew whose 18th birthday we were celebrating, thanked me the Tankard and informed me that he was looking forward to voting BNP in future elections, I have done nothing but flip from site to site looking for something that would encourage me enough to put pen to paper.
In the end it was the views expressed by Inayat Wataplonka Bunglawal, the Assistant Secretary General of the government in waiting. The Muslim Council of Britain that energized me.
He is outraged (aren't they all and always) that the mad preacher, Yusuf al-Qaradawi has been refused a visa to come to the UK for medical treatment. Inayat sees the refusal has having worrying implications for free speech.
You may not like what is written or drawn, we were told, but as long as it does not break the law, you need to learn to put up with it.Well I am a great believer in free speech and so I thought I had better check out just what this creature from the past had to say that was dangerous and came up with this short list of some of the things that Qaradawi advocates.
- Killing Muslims who have turned away from Islam (apostates)
- The execution of gay people in Islamic societies
- Suicide bombing of innocent Israeli civilians
- Female genital mutilation (female "circumcision")
- Compelling women to wear the hijab, even if they don't want to
- Violence against disobedient wives in certain circumstances
- Blaming rape victims who dress immodestly
- Flogging women who have sex outside marriage
All fun stuff and so it is little wonder that Qaradawi is defended by the likes of Red Ken Livingstone, The Socialist Workers Party, the Muslim Association of Britain and also the Muslim Council of Britain in his fight to live and put of the day he goes to rot in hell with the Dead Paedophile whose rantings he follows.
Peter Tatchell also defends this preacher from Hells right to come to the Country he has avowed to destroy, despite pointing out the following on his site here.
Qaradawi is also a hypocrite because he is seeking medical treatment, when there are certain circumstances in which he would apparently deny treatment to people who do not share his hardline Islamism. He believes that such people should be allowed to die. Qaradawi is on record as saying that Muslims should not donate organs to people who adopt other faiths or become atheists. An apostate should not be given an organ donation because he has transgressed Islam and "deserves killing", Qaradawi wrote in a fatwa issued on the website, Islamonline, of which he is the chief scholar, on 24 June 2002.Personally, I think we should allow him into the Country, put him on trial and then lock him up for life. Without the medical treatment he needs. Sometime I think I boarder on being a bit of a liberal.
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