This interview highlights a huge problem in the West. The desire simply to BELONG manifests inimical ‘groupthink’ - especially, among the young.
People are indoctrinated into holding extraordinarily passionate political views without once pausing to think that actually, they know absolutely nothing about the issue (beyond the false, jingoistic mantras, and the shallow slogans!)
This natural human tendency is then leveraged (and its effect amplified) by bad actors who manipulate public opinion for nefarious goals.
It takes real courage to swim against such insidiously strong currents. She’s a brave girl!
@antonioguterres The UN has been hijacked by left-wing activists who’ve contrived a ‘climate emergency’ and who leverage it to justify their real political goal: international redistribution of wealth.
It’s always been about money and politics - and never anything whatever to do with climate!
@PaulEmbery@JohnCleese The question was politely expressed, wholly inoffensive, perfectly reasonable, and reflects one of the principal current concerns of a huge proportion of the British electorate.
Astonishing Welsh Labour Party arrogance and abuse of power.
Whither democracy?!
@Miatsf There is no climate crisis. It's all pseudoscience!
However, the UK's energy supply is woefully expensive and precarious to the point that we could easily suffer power outages this winter.
THAT is what you should be focused on!
@MaajidNawaz is a decent man who is evidently wrestling with internal conflict. In truth, he is trying to convince himself as much as anybody else!
He is desperate to find ways of interpreting and presenting Islam as reasonable and acceptable despite knowing that much of it is wholly incompatible with Western culture.
Consequently, he resorts to sophistry, specious rationale, and all manner of rabbit-hole distractions.
We should recognise that his only alternative to this self-deception would be to abandon Islam altogether, which would scramble and uproot his entire existence.
Frankly, I very much doubt @AbdulElSayed is a communist.
His main objective is the advancement of Islam in the US (and in the West generally!)
Socialism is his 'Trojan Horse'. Just as the Greeks tricked their way into Troy, he's used the ploy to garner left-wing Democrat votes (in addition to the guaranteed Muslim block vote!) to enter the Senate.
You can be pretty certain he'll now use his political power principally in the inimical interests of Islam.
@Rebecca_SPaul It’s farcical that we need the Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport to propose an amendment to a Parliamentary Bill so it makes clear something a two-year-old knows instinctively!
@mehdirhasan Typically disingenuous from @mehdirhasan!
He knows full well that it’s the background of tens of thousands of 21st-century Islamic terrorist incidents that makes the question immeasurably more pertinent for her to put to a Muslim politician than a Jewish or Christian one!
Exactly the same Islamo-socialist 'alliance' has adversely affected UK politics for some years - e.g., Sadiq Khan (the Labour Party's London Mayor) seems set to retain the mayoralty ad infinitum simply because the city's block Muslim vote holds the balance of power!
I’ve said it before but it warrants repetition: @Ed_Miliband
is a clear and present danger to the UK.
He is the flagship, the living embodiment, of Labour’s puerile, ill-considered, student politics.
He has no managerial experience (I doubt he even ran his school tuck shop!) yet his influence in the current UK Government is outrageously extensive - and he egregiously mishandles absolutely everything he is involved in.
I’ve said it before but it warrants repetition: @Ed_Miliband is a clear and present danger to the UK.
He is the flagship, the living embodiment, of Labour’s puerile, ill-considered, student politics.
He has no managerial experience (I doubt he even ran his school tuck shop!) yet his influence in the current UK Government is outrageously extensive - and he egregiously mishandles absolutely everything he is involved in.
@DanBurmawy Quite right!
@AbdulElSayed is cynically peddling false equivalence.
Canon Law principally regulates the functioning of the Church itself - whereas Sharia mandates the conduct of individuals and the functioning of society as a whole (and it demands absolute compliance!)
@John_B_RIC@rich_toronto It’s impossible to have an intelligent, sensible debate with people like @John_B_RIC.
Like so many of his ilk, he is not just ill-informed, he is downright ignorant - and obnoxious to boot!
@LiamHalligan Extraordinary and mystifying decision by The Daily Telegraph.
Journalists of the quality of Liam Halligan and Alison Pearson are the principal reason people read the paper.
Like many, I shall be deliberating in due course whether to renew my subscription.