I concur.

Neither can I.

That’s for sure

Your scenario plays a certain tune.

And then we know that the United Nations drafted a treaty to eliminate all forms of discrimination against women. Those refusing to draft and sign are some of the usual suspects. Those are Iran, Somalia and Sudan.

Oh...and the United States. Because the religious right here, here in our borders continue to demand to treat females as "less than" from birth to grave.

But nearly all the 9-11 attackers were Saudis, but bush2 took us to war with Afghanistan and Iraq. I don't think anyone really excuses the honor killings who is outside of it. But men in the US have even recently been exonerated for killing a wife they believed was cheating.

@BufftonBeotch Dubya had his own agenda because his father lost the presidency and Saddam Hussein was still in power at the same time. He invented Iraqi involvement to carry a torch for GHW Bush and 1991 Iraq Kuwaiti war. True the 19 hijackers were all Saudis. They were also all Mohammedans who killed 3K people for their religious jihad. Honor killings are acts of savages. Don't forget Charlie Hebdo. Don't forget Islamic jihadists posting videos proudly beheading Americans. There are plenty of Muslims who still defend it all. People were dancing in the streets of Palestine on 9/11. People will swear that didn't happen but it most certainly did.

@barjoe And what of the Mexican women and other Latina lost. All of them nearly exclusively devoted christian.
Nearly all religions are lethal to girls and women.

@BufftonBeotch We can't single out Mohammedans. Maybe Richard Dawkins was describing yourself.

@barjoe I just only see small degrees where Islam adherents are worse than others.

After all, there is a treaty in the UN for codify that women are human beings deserving of equal rights ad protections. It has been signed and ratified by all countries in the world except these -- Iran, Sudan, Somalia, Tonga, Palau -The Holy See (big surprise) - And the United States.

Forgive me if I continue to think that the US is NOT any better.

The Salman Rushdie case is a prime example of what savage animals they are.

@barjoe Not to mention the various attacks in France, Denmark, US and others. Any group who believes their way is the only way (including Israel, who claim to be "God's chosen people" ) should be ignored.

@fishline79 Eradicated? Who said anything about eradicating people? You did? You need to shut the fuck up with that shit.

@barjoe
Eradicate: destroy completely; put an end to.
"this disease has been eradicated from the world" OK maybe that was a bad choice of words and not what I meant. I changed my comment. I was referring to the philosophy or institution, not the "people". Lighten up.

@fishline79 When you speak of eradicated regarding a group that means genocide. I saw you changed it to "ignored". I am openly critical of religions, Islam in particular for their misogyny, violence and tyranny but that doesn't mean I want to eradicate Muslims or any other group.. When I read stuff like that, I can't "lighten up", lest my silence taken to mean I concur.

Eraducate will win the OED's neologism of the year.

Eraducate is a portmanteau of eradicate and educate.

Its use is largely confined to religious debate on whether or not an infinity of angels dance on the head or the point of o pin e.

@barjoe Suit yourself. I think I conceded to your complaint, and explained myself as much as I'm prepared too. If that's not to your satisfaction, that's your problem, and you are a self-righteous prig. Frankly I'm the last person to be called violent or bigoted, so sue me.

@waitingforgodo The people who post here are the most intolerant dorks I have ever encountered, for "freethinkers". So I spelled eradicate wrong in it's first usage! Excuse my typo. W.t.F. does OED mean, anyway, or "Point of o pin e"?

@fishline79

I wasn't complaining about the typo, I was lauding its inadvertent brilliance.

The OED is the Oxford English Dictionary.

Head of a pin: o pin: o pin e: opine.

Then the people here must be the most intolerant dork prescriptivists and the most intolerant dork descriptivists you have encountered.

@waitingforgodo Sorry, but lately I seem to get "raked over the coals" for every comment I make, even the most seemingly innocuous. Besides, you have what is, to me, a rather cryptic way of writing.

Cite the school and the date this happened.
Or did you learn about this on a blog?
For one thing the child would not just "pass around" the Quran. They were probably taunting him and snatched it and were tossing it around.

@BufftonBeotch

I don't know if this BBC radio programme can be accessed from outside the UK, but it discusses this incident.

[bbc.co.uk]

"The cover of a Quran was torn in a school in Wakefield, Yorkshire and four students were suspended. The next day, police were called after the boy involved in the incident received death threats. It lead to debate online about whether our laws should protect religious people from offence, or should uphold free speech. We'll get to the bottom of what went on and explore how you balance respect for religion with free speech?"

Needless to say, no action will be taken against the people who made death threats because that's a natural response from such peaceful people when their book of bigotry is attacked.

@BufftonBeotch [independent.co.uk]

Touchy !!. I have no great love for Suella but I agree with her this time.

@David_Cooper Blasphemy laws were repealed in the UK as recently as 2008 although I am sure there were no convictions for many years before this.
Whenever i am told by Christians how loving their religion is I tell them to ask the descendants of Archie Aitkenhead. Difficult, a he was the last person to be executed for blasphemy in Scotland c 300 years ago.

@David_Cooper The death threat are obviously coming from the insane. But the bullying was also grounds for severe punishment.

That's my outlook. And civil liberties in the US are far more endangered by Xtians than any other religion.

@BufftonBeotch Yes, in this country, the Xtians are, by a large margin, the greatest threat to freedom.

There is alot of things like freedom and how the Muslims treat sexuality, I would not agree with. A Good point, is to live and let live. As long as their tribe is not harming my tribe. Or mandating anything force against me or my tribe's .Will not except if anybtribe is being harmful or dishonest against my tribe as an artist, bio-orgamism and individualism. Certainly, I will challenge back or crawl back into my cowadly tiny box..

@FrancoFran nothing is a religion to me, to assume that without knowing who I am is not only asinine but outright stupid.

He's not at all senile, he's just old enough that he doesn't give a shit and isn't afraid to tell the truth.

I wouldn't insult his intelligence, though I don't like the generalisation he makes. I agree that true liberals (and conservatives for that matter) would never abandon their principles.

Dementia for speaking the truth ? You wold be fortunate if you had 1% of his intellect you pathetic asswipe.

@repcon
He’s a hero for sure:

@repcon try "would' instead of "wold" and try rereading my comments...i worship neither gawd or dawkins, unlike you apparently.

@AnneWimsey

@biguy12 Says the guy making thinly-veiled sad references to his junk........

What is the purpose of any post? What is the purpose of your comment?

@barjoe Exactly .I did not wish to answer this idiotic question .

@barjoe

Seeking to explore the motivation of @biguy12, and more recently, his incisive riposte.

Evidently you do not know much about one of the most famous and familiar atheists ,evolutionary biologists and authors on the planet There are numerous videos on YouTube with him stating this in person ,including debates, Also many publications .

@biguy12 I could not locate an exact quote as your OP above. "Liberals and Leftists are cowards” in Google produces your OP. Nothing by Dawkins himself. No luck with “They believe in protecting the rights of feminism”. "they are completely silent" "dawkins" doesn’t yield anything relevant. Was it a paraphrase instead of a direct quote?

I know enough about Dawkins to realize he popularized George Williams’ concept of the evolutionary gene…to much fanfare and per Ernst Mayr merely wrapped “concept” in a fancy evolutionary package with memes. He and Gould didn’t quite see eye to eye on many things. He tweeted plenty of of off-putting things over the years.

@Scott321 The video is posted above by another member Ryo1

@biguy12
I asked if that entire quote attributed to Dawkins was direct or just a paraphrase and you evaded by directing me to an hour long video. Starting just after timestamp 50:11 it is at best a paraphrase and not a direct quote excepting the “So they overlook the HOMOPHOBIA and the rampant MISOGYNY”. The whole “ "Liberals and Leftists are cowards. They donot believe in their own principles.They believe in protecting the rights of feminism, Gay people but when it comes to Islam. They are completely silent." is not even close to verbatim.

Coming from the auto-generated Youtube transcript which may itself be off we get Dawkins kinda saying: “decent liberal people who I regard as my own people I've always been among among those people who I regard as cowards because they they cave in and they do not observe their principles of feminism of gay rights all the things that decent liberal people believe suddenly they forget about them when it comes to Islam…” At about the 51:07 mark we get “they overlook the homophobia and them and that the rampant misogyny and the rampant homophobia of extreme Islamism…”

Puberty blockers are looked on approvingly for promising, young female gymnasts to keep them smaller in statue and from developing too much.
But this is further approved because it may be administered without the mere females consent or will.

@BufftonBeotch

Sweden banned puberty blockers because it would sterilized reproduction systems and harm bone structures.

And it is the goal of the right wing extremists to coerce all children to do specific Xtian prayers in schools and to replace science with bible study.

@BufftonBeotch FKN Neanderthals.