> It was the selectivity with which you satirised which so disturbed me
If you try to kick in two directions at once, you fall over. Unless
you're Bruce Lee.
Protesters or bullies? I say bullies: their purpose wasn't to
highlight a cause, to make their views heard, but to obstruct and
intimidate. Hizb-utTahrir are the same fuckpigs who used to heckle
LGBT society members coming out of student unions, and make violent
threats against Muslim students they considered insufficiently
observant (heaven help you if you were an actual apostate). If there
is a credible basis for distinguishing morally between them and a gang
of BNP thugs chanting racist slogans, I fail to see what it is.
As for the putative "resistance": what they are attacking may be
dreadful, but many of them are not attacking it because it is
dreadful; the fact that it is dreadful is merely convenient to them,
because it wins them the sympathies of those who would otherwise
abominate them. One is not resisting murder, larceny and hypocrisy if
one is trying to set oneself up as chief murderer, larcenist and
hypocrite.
Dominic
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