re: #536 Gus

Summarize? Eek. I can’t really. It’s pretty complicated. Maybe Obdicut can do that. Obdicut!?

Two main points:

Ali says a lot of shit without ever backing it up, accusing faceless ‘advocates of silence’ of wanting to suppress all speech critical of Islam. She provides no examples of this. Additionally, the speech of Ali, of many other anti-Islam advocates, is extremely incindiary— he cites her comparing Islam to Nazi-ism— to such an extent that it is obvious there is no ‘silence’.

This leads to the next point: They’re completely free to spew their crap, but the actual statistics about the way that Muslims feel about Britain and the way ordinary Britains think about Muslims shows above-average patriotism in British Muslims, above-average desire to integrate, and the British public having a shamefully negative view of Muslims in general. So their speech is unsilenced, but it is harmful and they should shut the fuck up with their bullshit. Not should be forced to shut up, just should shut up.