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November 6th, 2024

Happy Islamophobia Awareness Month!

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  3. Well, to be fair … it kind of depends on the definition of racism. There is something there that people hate and fear, but it isn’t really theological, is it? Islam isn’t what created the problem, any more than Christianity created a superior alternative. Islamophobia is basically about a cultural group – not really racial, hence the definition problem, because we sure do sometimes consider racism in terms of identifiable cultural differences. Yeah, sure, Islam reinforces the destructive traits of that culture, but what’s the odds it would have come out that way? About 100%.

  4. There’s also a missing “is” in panel 2. But thank you for pointing me in the direction of the Ahmadia Muslims. Moderate, preaching love, integrated into the modern world…I can see why they’re so persecuted by the mainstream.

  7. Northern Conservative Baptists Great Lakes Region Council of 1895 or Northern Conservative Baptists Great Lakes Region Council of 1912?

  11. M27, I was not convinced that is particularly Voltaire’s razor.
    But if you say so I believe you, however preposterous the notion may be.
    Beware …

  14. Anybody who has an invisible friend that talks in their head is potentially a dangerous lunatic…M27’s statement of gge month…

  17. I see the Arch spunk womble of cunterbury is under attack for allowing a serious child abuser to continue his abuse till his death. He would have died a lot earlier if he had tried to cane my adolescent arse…

  21. Whoever becomes the new Archbishop Canterbury will face the same problems that Welby did. In recent years, in response to rapidly dwindling congregations,the C of E has become much more reflective of the community it serves, embracing LGBTQ rights (to the point of offering blessings but not solemnising marriage) and female priests.

    This has not gone down well in the wider Anglican Communion, numbering in the tens of millions, mostly in the West Indies and central Africa. There, the Church’s traditional misogyny and homophobia, in many cases stoked by evangelicals from the USA, is part of the appeal of the brand, to the extent that African bishops boycotted the last Lambeth Conference.

    This year alone, six states (Kenya, Ghana, Namibia, Niger, Tanzania and Uganda) have taken steps to tighten their anti-homosexuality laws, mainly to include gay women and to deny healthcare.

    The Church of England may have to split from its own worldwide congregation in order to survive.

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