A counterweight
Mina Ahadi has the right idea. She also has police protection, because – you’ll never guess – she’s had death threats.
Human rights activists have formed a “Central Council of Ex-Muslims in Germany” to help women renounce the Islamic faith if they feel oppressed by its laws…Iranian-born Mina Ahadi, 50, said she set up the group to highlight the difficulties of renouncing the Islamic faith which she believes to be misogynist. She wants the group to form a counterweight to Muslim organisations that she says don’t adequately represent Germany’s secular-minded Muslim immigrants…Renouncing Islam can carry the death penalty in a number of countries.
Misogynist? Just because of a few little death threats? Nah.
I’m also critical of Islam in Germany and of the way the German government deals with the issue of Islam. Many Muslim organisations like the Central Council of Muslims in Germany (ZMD) or Milli Görüs engage in politics or interfere in people’s everyday lives…The associations pretend that they represent everyone and to some extent are acknowledged as such by the German side. That’s bad. We have to give a signal against that and say: Not in our name. We are secular humanists. We want to give these people a voice. Someone has to make a start. We’re advocating human rights…We want to form a counterweight to the Muslim organisations. The fact that we’re doing this under police protection shows how necessary our initiative is.
Yeah, you could say that. Good luck, Mina Ahadi.
So we need to ask what other people can do to support this. If ever funding was needed for women’s refuges and people with guns to protect them, its for women fleeing medievalism and slavery and the murderers that enforce them.
And speaking out against nasty litlle pieces of work like the president of the muslim association at Cambridge, over his really vile piece of religious blackmail over the Clare College magazine “controversy” – and the appalling, craven,appeasing dhimmi attitude taken by the “college authorities”
See:
http://www.secularism.org.uk/clarecollegescandaldeepens.html
And not being frightened to point out that islam is a religion, NOT a race, and it deserves NO “respect”.
( Except in the gangster-sense of “respect”, I suppose)
Death threats. Predictable. And depressing.
This reminds me of a time when I was unfortunate enough to be a frequenter of a website that caterers for a certain types of lefties. When the subject of some Islamic court which had sentenced a woman to stoning for some ridiculous non-crime was raised, one commenter was unwise enough to say the ruling was an example of “Islam at its worst”. He was quickly told he was ignorant and stupid and it was only reasonable to say it was an example of “misogyny at its worst” or “humanity at its worst”, but Islam was sacred.
I realise that’s slightly off-topic, but I suddenly felt the need to vent about it.
Today’s Wall Street Journal reports on the meeting in St Petersburg Florida of Islam’s true radicals, all of whom reject the violence, some of whom reject the religion itself. Unfortunately it’s now behind a subscription wall, but they sometimes release important articles a few days after initial publication.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB117314819125027850.html?mod=opinion_main_featured_stories_hs
“This man had no kith or kind and was demented and beside himself with worry.”
What an absolutely horrible story. Very typical, I’m afraid, but horrible.
Yeah, his superiors some years later transferred the priest in question, – to a Border Parish. Thankfully, so for John-Joe, who died, happily, from the “services” perspective, many years later?
This particular village, or its immediate environs, rather, brought the Government to its very knees, because of a clerical scandal. It rocked the country. I was at the time residing in the village. There are stories that I could tell which would make ones hair stand on end. If luck should have it, when I moved to the most southern easterly part of the country, it followed me like the plague. I found myself in the midst of yet another clerical scandal that also took the country by storm and led to a high profile religious resignation. I was told later that Pope John Paul II asked the senior figure to reconsider the resignation. Does that not tell one about the inside Rome workings of Roman Catholism. I Am now in Dublin, and guess what, yeah, you have guessed correctly, there is presently an inquiry into clerical abuse. I wonder if the next move will cause a clerical stir? “Moving on” and me do not gel, so I will stay put.
I HAVE ALBEIT GONE OFF THE BEATEN TRACK.
“I’m also critical of Islam in Germany and of the way the German government deals with the issue of Islam”.
She does not have much of a head start with such distrust of the German Government. She is right, and should watch her back – and look behind her – at all times. The devil you know is better than the devil you do not know!
Correction = catholicism.