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France’s Le Pen Shows Her True Face

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France’s right wing leader Le Pen had made a statement in light of recent events, that shows all the difficulties that come with support for the European political right and its own issues with itself. In order to balance the equation about the burqa (Islamic veil) banning in France Le Pen suggests that France bans the Jewish yarmulka as well.

But these are two different things, first the yarmulka is never big enough to cover a mans face (and is exclusively male), and it applies to all religious Jews wherever you go, when the burqa is not a 100% accepted things across the Islamic world. You can easily see a few different versions of head gear for women in the Islamic nation, some of which only cover hair and ears (like many Iranians).

Besides the (very) French custom of clearing the equation by discriminating another minority in order to please another, bigger minority, this shows us the real face of the French right wing, who has complete lack of understanding why we oppose the burqa, this is not a small thing since motives are important here, and if you are motivated only by xenophobia and hate you’re probably not in the Atheist camp.

We are against the burqa because it locks women behind a wall of fabric, because it assumes that any women who shows her face of her figure is trying to seduce men and therefore is responsible for her own potential future rape. We object the burqa because it is a sign of the male dominance over women and the submission of women to men in the Islamic world, it symbolizes a world that ignores and imprisons half its population and we can not and will not be a part of it.

On the democratic and civilized side we are opposed to the burqa because it is completely contrary to western normal standards of dress and being, we expect to see the full faces of those we are dealing with , we expect to have clear knowledge of the full facial expressions of that person and we expect all our civilizations populace to be responsible for their actions and be accountable for them – which in the burqa case is impossible because you can never identify a person based on how they look with a black sheet over their face and body.

Unfortunately this last statement by Le Pen shows that the French right wing leader is more interested in hurting non Christian French minorities than promoting humanism and progress, lets hope she is not a direct reflection of her voters.

Le Pen Shows Her True Colors, Simple Racism.

 

This Is How Religious Mob Lynching Looks Like

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Imagine being pulled out of your house by the police to face a festivity like mob (with music, drums beating and chanting) to be dragged to a car, all the while suffering blows and fists to your body by the crowds, and all of that because you are suspected of thinking/believing that there is no god.

Watch this video, for the most part of it you can easily think that this was taken at some middle eastern wedding or party, until the last few seconds when a person is pushed out in the frame and the crowd just goes wild on his person. This is how it looks like in the Arab world, if you have the miserable luck of being a non Muslim in a Muslim land you face a very real chance of having this – or worst – happen to you.

 

This is the face of the new Egypt, the “liberated” Egypt, the country who pulled itself out of the tyranny of the former government. In the past few days we all witnessed the explosion of Islamic zero tolerance to anything non Muslim, this was at the boiling point for many years and when the signal was given all believers followed the known pattern, there can be only one religion, there can be only one version.

We in the West did not go through hundreds of years of struggle to form this civilization to see it kneel down before a stone age animalistic and barbaric culture, and we should wake up and make sure this is understood.

A Religious Mob Goes Lynch-Style on a Egyptian Christian-Atheist

Charlie Hebdo Has the Solution

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The French magazine “Charlie Hebdo” is at it once again, its people told the press yesterday that they plan to take out the weekly edition with caricatures of the prophet Mohammed and go another round with the local French muslims, who by the way burned the offices of Charlie Hebdo last time the magazine published offensive content.

This could be the solution to the everlasting hurtful feelings of some Muslims, simply getting them used to the sort of creative critic the rest of the world enjoys for a hundred years now, maybe it is their persistent exclusion from this sort of films/magazines/novels that creates this violent insane response across so many Islamic countries.

In any case it is remarkable that more and more people are joining in on the fight for free speech and opinion, and the right to state your mind, no matter how “offensive” someone finds it, people can easily learn to live with opinions that they do not like, even hate. This is turning to be an expansive month,first we needed to back Tom Holland’s documentary on Islam‘s origins by buying his books, now we need to head to the newsstand to buy a new copy of Charlie Hebdo

New Mohammed Cartoons by Charlie Hebdo Out This Week

Dalai Lama Becomes the First Holy Atheist

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The Dalai Lama has told his FaceBook followers this week that the old time connection between ethics and religion does not hold any more, if only the great Christopher Hitchens would be alive to hear (or read) these news he might have reduced some of his criticism of the Dalai Lama.

Religions hold on to what they consider an exclusive connection with ethics, as if without religions there would be no ethics, as if in a world without religious there will be no morals. It does not take a religious person to know what is right and what is not, it only take a religious person to tell other what is good and what not – and in many cases we have seen in history religion has it wrong, but that does not change the heavy punishments it lays on its followers in the process.

Make no mistake, the Dalai Lama has not turned atheist, he does not encourage people to leave religions or faiths (as can be clearly seen by his loving attitude towards religions), but the one religious leader in the world that truly considers compassion and peace, with little consideration for politics or money is coming closer to the inevitable conclusion that religions are becoming more of a hobby than a way of life.

The Dalai Lama Feels the Times Are Changing

 

The West Battered Person Syndrome

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This “Battered person syndrome” which is actually and originally called battered wife syndrome is exactly how Islamic anger is met through out the Western world, here is what it means (form the Wiki page) –

Additionally, repeated cycles of violence and reconciliation can result in the following beliefs and attitudes:
▪ The abused thinks that the violence was his or her fault.
▪ The abused has an inability to place the responsibility for the violence elsewhere.
▪ The abused fears for his/her life and/or the lives of his/her children (if present).
▪ The abused has an irrational belief that the abuser is omnipresent and omniscient.

And there you have it. Now you know how to call every person out there that thinks that it is more important not to aggravate the believers and limit the expressions of others, these are people who think that its always the West fault, that responsibility for violence does not lie with the people who commit it, people who live in constant fear and thinks that the opposition is too strong to deal with.

This is why, every time Islamists pick up reasons for inflicting violence and damage on others, world leaders stand up and say that we should not do anything to upset Muslims, because even the stupidest thing, said in the most remote and non Muslim corner of this world would, under the right circumstances, send them into a frenzy of blood and riots.

We say it is more simple to do it our way, we say whatever we want, whoever wants listens and can object, anyone is free to be offended and live with it, no one will turn time back to the dark middle ages and limit our thoughts and speech.