The Myth of Islamophobia
The real phobia lies with Islam itself (and all religions) and their pathological fear of Reason – which they know can evaporate all their delusions in an instant. Because Reason to religion is like sunlight to a vampire.
Longtime visitors to this site may recall a previous video from Pat Condell which I happily featured some time back. I said then that I’d very much like to feature more of this witty and insightful man’s work here at Merch.
Well, today we enjoy his brief video treatise on Islam and the idea that somehow people of the West are ‘phobic’ towards this noxious belief system. As always, Mr Condell provides and erudite and articulate repudiation:
dude said
am May 31 2009 @ 5:27 am
hey man, all relegions are essentially good and preach good things, there are bad people and extremists from all races and religions, I dont think the blind bashing of one religion or the other is going to help anyone my friend. Please try to preach a message of peace and harmony, learn about the religions of which you speak before spreading hate and mistruths.
peace
John Edwards said
am May 31 2009 @ 8:17 am
All religions represent a weakness of the mind in the thinker in question. Get over yourself and try living in a reality where there is no sky bully to tell you what to do or fairytale narrator to explain how the universe works.
serdar said
am June 14 2009 @ 12:59 am
Hi,
Although I’m not a believer in any religion, the following argument is perfectly wrong:
“All religions represent a weakness of the mind…”
It’s just the opposite: all religions represent the power of the human mind. Look into any product of human mind and you’ll find religion in the roots. Most of the great philosophers, scientists, musicians, painters, writers, poets etc. in history came out of religion in any culture.
In fact, almost everything human-made owe to religion; think astronomy, physics, mathematics, arts…
Finally again, most of the contributions to ‘Reason’ in the history is made by religious scholars. For the ones interested in western culture, go read some Socrates, Thomas Aquinas, Hegel… to find out what I’m talking about; or simply read some Umberto Eco (who is an agnostic) to see how important religion is to mankind.