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Originally Posted by Chris
Right, so:
- "across the globe" is actually a selection of the usual Islamic suspects.
- The "report" is a campaigning document written by a lobby group with an obvious self interest, the International Humanist and Ethical Union.
- The Indy is very happy to promulgate the notion that an intellectual, philosophical or evangelical attack on a belief or a set of ideas, is to be equated with the denial of rights.
- The IHEU appears to have tried to use Scotland as a fig leaf to avoid a charge of Islamophobia. Does it really see a moral equivalence between faith schools in Scotland and the denial of identity documents, forced adoptions and executions of atheists in certain Islamic states?
Apart from that, top marks.
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Good to see you read the report before you judged it.
Oh wait, no you didn't. Had you done so you'd have noted criticisms of varying degrees leveled against states throughout the world, with Scotland and the UK stuck in mid-table obscurity, and with no 'campaign aim' other than secularism - the equal treatment of all regardless of belief with special privilege for none.
Gee how very wicked and selfish. Can't have those horrid
atheists / Christians / Muslims / Buddhists / Hindus delete as appropriate having the same rights and privileges as those
Christians / Muslims / Buddhists / Hindus / delete as appropriate the state favours.
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- The Indy is very happy to promulgate the notion that an intellectual, philosophical or evangelical attack on a belief or a set of ideas, is to be equated with the denial of rights.
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I'm not going to respond to in any depth as a considerable proportion of said reply would be caught by the swear filter.