politicsactuary

Patrick Lee. Actuary. Cartoonist. Applying actuarial rigour to politics, the profession, and everyday absurdity. Free speech. Small government. Secularism.

[politicsactuary @pleepolitics]

This was the very first tweet that the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries said was "professional misconduct" and below it the explanation of the context that I gave to the Disciplinary Tribunal Panel
1. ‘Islam needs urgent reform (if possible?). The majority of its victims are Muslims who live under repressive, backward regimes. It still inspires far too much terrorism, child marriage, & hatred of Jews/gays. It is very sad that in 2020 it has barely changed for centuries.’

This was in response to a tweet from a person claiming to be a Muslim sharing a video of two children with their bare feet bound through metal bars being beaten on the soles of their feet, an extremely painful and dangerous practice known as bastinado and regarded as a form of torture. The individual stated that the person who taught him/her the Quran did the same to him/her when he/she was 5 years old. My tweet is an expression of opinion having seen that the Jewish population of many Islamic countries has reduced dramatically, and that homosexuality is punishable by death in many Islamic countries. My comment reflects (as demonstrated by the tweet I was responding to) that many Muslims suffer under poor human rights within Islamic countries.

[Sonia Sodha @soniasodha]

‘Unisex toilets outside the main toilet area for menstruating girls.’ In a British school in 2026. This is where ‘be kind’ policies have got us.

[Dan Burmawi @DanBurmawy]

If we’re forced to choose between Shia Muslims and Sunni Muslims in today’s geopolitical landscape, then as a former Sunni, I can tell you, I wouldn’t hesitate for a second:

I would choose the Shia every single time.

Hezbollah has devastated Lebanon for over 30 years. They’ve hijacked the country’s sovereignty, dragged it into needless wars with Israel, dealt drugs across continents, and trained militias from Syria to Yemen.

Iran’s regime has exported chaos to the entire region.

I am not here to sanitize the destruction caused by Shia Islam.

But there is no comparison, none, between Sunni jihad and Shia jihad when it comes to the barbarity, monstrosity, and nihilism at their core.

Shia wilāya is a political-theological project rooted in eschatological hope, the belief in a coming world of justice, peace, and divine order under the awaited Mahdi.

This doesn’t make their actions justifiable, but it does mean their violence is directed, however twistedly, against what they interpret as tyrannical regimes or ideological threats.

When they target civilians, it’s typically selective, an assassination of a perceived enemy of the movement, not wholesale slaughter for religious cleansing.

This vision stems from their Muʿtazila-influenced theology, which still gives weight to human reason and moral evaluation alongside the sacred text.

Sunni jihad, by contrast, is a black hole.

It recognizes no moral hierarchy, no ethical filter, no gradation of violence.

There is no distinction between soldier and child, between combatant and teacher, between state and street.

Any non-Muslim, or even any “wrong” kind of Muslim, is a legitimate target.

Bombing a wedding, beheading an aid worker, enslaving Yazidi girls, torching churches, shooting up schools, this is not collateral damage. It is the goal.

Sunni Islam’s dominant theological school, Ashʿarism, rejects reason as a tool for understanding good and evil.

Morality, in this view, is whatever Allah commands, even if it contradicts logic, conscience, or compassion.

If the Qur’an says to kill the unbeliever, then killing is not just allowed, it is good. Period.

This is why Sunni jihadis can burn people alive, blow up their own children, or massacre entire villages, because they believe Allah said so, and that’s the end of the story.

Shia Islam, for all its flaws, is still institutional, hierarchical, and clerically mediated.

You don’t see Shia suicide bombers popping up in random countries every week because violence is still (relatively) controlled from above.

But Sunni jihad is chaotic, decentralized, and viral. Sunni theology is deontological, Shia theology is teleological.

Sunni terrorism is a Frankenstein of Wahhabism, Deobandism, Salafism, and Muslim Brotherhood ideology that teaches followers to reject all modernity, all compromise, and all mercy.

[Ramon Agusta @ramonagusta]

We need to repost this every day from now until the next general election.

[Steve's Law 🇬🇧 @MaximusChud]

Matt Styler, the 50 year old man beaten by the cops, is being charged with assault.

His crime? Sitting on a wall. The officer pulled him off the wall and tried to throw him to the ground but failed, so a dozen of them dogpiled him and beat him bloody.

[Nuriyah Khan @nuriyahk]

1. Henry Nowak’s murder should be a watershed moment for this country.
2. Brown people can be racist too.
3. Critical Race Theory is poisoning Britain and the next generation.

[کاکائو تلخ (Dark Chocolate 90%) @KakaywD20918]

I don't want to hear how much Islam is a feminist religion from a Muslim woman when she lives in America or in west Europe

Say it from Afghanistan، please

[Tom Harris 🇬🇧 @MrTCHarris]

This man is a cretin, over-promoted and under-qualified for the post he holds.

[Harry Cole @MrHarryCole]

There is no need for coordination. The story is all over the US media and being properly discussed rather than shut down.

[Dan Wootton @danwootton]

After refusing to say white lives are as important as black lives, Sly News' Cathy Newman is railing with fury against "far right' Elon Musk, Rupert Lowe and Tommy Robinson.
She's more angry about Musk reposting those patriots than she is the Henry Nowak bodycam footage.
Twisted!

[Pete North @FUDdaily]

Last year when North Yorkshire Police arrested me for the infamous "Fuck Hamas" meme, they sent two gormless plod who were in no way qualified to to adjudicate on a political issue like that. Now it transpires the force has been ideologically captured to serve Islam. It all makes sense now.

[Kellie-Jay Keen @ThePosieParker]

I have to say if my son had been treated like Henry Nowak in his dying moments, I would want the whole world talking about it. I would want everyone to feel righteous anger to fuel change.

Edited note: I’m not criticising his family, at all. I think they agreed to release that footage knowing exactly how people would feel and what would happen as a result. I’m just saying that this establishment message of “the family don’t want this and that” is unlikely to be accurate.

[FischerKing @FischerKing64]

Fear of ‘stirring up division’ led directly to the Rotherham rape gang scandal.

[Meeeeee @DonnaDlm71]

Retired police officer & ive got no daft blind allegiance to an organisation in the current state its in.
So i can unequivocally say whatever the outcome of Henry Nowaks case, inquest & IOPC enquiry, it will stand for me as the most cruel unforgiveable policing i've ever seen.

[mike erwydd. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇮🇱✝️ @mikeerwydd1968]

It's been 5 years since the teacher and his family had to into hiding for showing an image of the war mongering pedophile prophet Muhammad. 5 fxxking years.

All because members of the religion of peace issued death threats.
Religion of peace my arse.

[Jonathan Wong @WONGthink]

Democracy is dragging a teenager who has been stabbed 5 times across gravel, cuffing him despite pleas that he had been stabbed 9 times, couldn’t breathe 5 times, while his hands are as pale as snow because he was drowning in his own blood, as police officers mocked him?

[Inevitable West @Inevitablewest]

🚨BREAKING: A Coroner has ordered an investigation into whether police officers' actions "caused or contributed" to the death of Henry Nowak

This is a BIG win.

[Simon Fox @SimonFoxWriter]

Since when was it standard practice for UK riot police to beat unarmed passive middle-aged men viciously with the sharp edges of their riot shields, and then repeatedly kick them when they're on the ground? Is this some new crowd-control protocol? Just asking for a friend.

[BritMatters 🇬🇧 @britmatters]

Two-Tier Hypocrisy On Video.

Police Kick Muslim Terrorist?
@ZackPolanski "I was traumatised by seeing someone handcuffed and repeatedly kicked in the head."

Police Kick White Protester?
@ZackPolanski "No comment."

#UKNews #CrimeNews #UKPolitics

[Rebecca Butler @rebeccabutlerm2]

If the criminal law states you can’t carry a fixed blade knife in public and yet if you’re Sikh, you can.

Tell me how this isn’t two-tiered justice? 🤔

[Steven Barrett @SBarrettBar]

Yes - thank God for the Americans!

The mainstream media are already running distraction techniques

Fight back by having a memory.

Remember Henry Nowak.