Comments on: Religious sectarianism and censorship http://www.pickledpolitics.com/archives/1890 Current affairs for a progressive generation Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:02:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Cover Drive http://www.pickledpolitics.com/archives/1890#comment-114966 Cover Drive Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:35:41 +0000 http://www.pickledpolitics.com/?p=1890#comment-114966 The problem here seems entirely local to Glasgow where you have two football teams representing fans belonging to two sectarian groups. Unfortunately that is the reality. So when fans of one team think they are being made fun of in the press some of them take offence. Personally I think they are better off ignoring it, but as I said writing letters of complaint is better than damaging property or attacking people. However, to think that Catholics per se oppose free speech is ridiculous. The media attacks Muslims more on free speech as result of the Rushdie controversy and other controversies since that. There's plenty of shit written about Christians and their faith nowadays but we’ve become more tolerant about it. The problem here seems entirely local to Glasgow where you have two football teams representing fans belonging to two sectarian groups. Unfortunately that is the reality. So when fans of one team think they are being made fun of in the press some of them take offence. Personally I think they are better off ignoring it, but as I said writing letters of complaint is better than damaging property or attacking people.

However, to think that Catholics per se oppose free speech is ridiculous. The media attacks Muslims more on free speech as result of the Rushdie controversy and other controversies since that.

There’s plenty of shit written about Christians and their faith nowadays but we’ve become more tolerant about it.

]]> By: the ill man http://www.pickledpolitics.com/archives/1890#comment-114942 the ill man Wed, 23 Apr 2008 12:35:51 +0000 http://www.pickledpolitics.com/?p=1890#comment-114942 It's a strange one. I know a few Catholics who see the funny side of the term, but then that's due to the fact that they don't take themselves, or much else, too seriously. I also know Catholics who would never talk to you again if you called them a 'rattler'. Using the term in a newspaper article though..........Not very bright. It generally pays to tread carefully when it comes to what people believe in, take nothing as read. It’s a strange one. I know a few Catholics who see the funny side of the term, but then that’s due to the fact that they don’t take themselves, or much else, too seriously. I also know Catholics who would never talk to you again if you called them a ‘rattler’.

Using the term in a newspaper article though……….Not very bright.

It generally pays to tread carefully when it comes to what people believe in, take nothing as read.

]]> By: Roger http://www.pickledpolitics.com/archives/1890#comment-114927 Roger Wed, 23 Apr 2008 11:43:28 +0000 http://www.pickledpolitics.com/?p=1890#comment-114927 What's wrong with calling left-footers bead-rattlers because they rattle beads? Is the fact that some muslims rattle beads too involved? What’s wrong with calling left-footers bead-rattlers because they rattle beads? Is the fact that some muslims rattle beads too involved?

]]> By: Cover Drive http://www.pickledpolitics.com/archives/1890#comment-114912 Cover Drive Wed, 23 Apr 2008 10:34:47 +0000 http://www.pickledpolitics.com/?p=1890#comment-114912 Letters seem a sensible way of lodging your complaint rather than harassing people, issuing death threats, picketing outside the offices of the newspaper and smashing the windows. Hence the lack of publicity. Letters seem a sensible way of lodging your complaint rather than harassing people, issuing death threats, picketing outside the offices of the newspaper and smashing the windows. Hence the lack of publicity.

]]> By: sonia http://www.pickledpolitics.com/archives/1890#comment-114899 sonia Wed, 23 Apr 2008 08:55:31 +0000 http://www.pickledpolitics.com/?p=1890#comment-114899 The Archbishop is coming to LSE to talk about <a href="http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/LSEPublicLecturesAndEvents/events/2008/20080311t1447z001.htm" rel="nofollow">religious faith and human rights.</a> should be very interesting! The Archbishop is coming to LSE to talk about religious faith and human rights.

should be very interesting!

]]> By: billericaydicky http://www.pickledpolitics.com/archives/1890#comment-114887 billericaydicky Wed, 23 Apr 2008 07:18:43 +0000 http://www.pickledpolitics.com/?p=1890#comment-114887 Sunny, When Muslims are fully assimilated into our society, or enough of them so that the nutters are isolated, anti Catholic bigotry will still exist. It's the oldest prejudice in these islands and is deeply engrained into a sizable section of the population. It's particularly bad in Glasgow and until the 1950s in Liverpool there was an Anti Catholic party that had councillors. Catholics were seen as loyal to a foreign ruler, the Pope, and until the mid nineteenth century could not vote,be an officer in the armed forces or an MP. The nearly fifty year conflict in Northern Ireland was because of anti Catholic discrimination. You will see a Muslim Prime Minister before you will an end to references to bead rattling. Sunny,

When Muslims are fully assimilated into our society, or enough of them so that the nutters are isolated, anti Catholic bigotry will still exist. It’s the oldest prejudice in these islands and is deeply engrained into a sizable section of the population. It’s particularly bad in Glasgow and until the 1950s in Liverpool there was an Anti Catholic party that had councillors.

Catholics were seen as loyal to a foreign ruler, the Pope, and until the mid nineteenth century could not vote,be an officer in the armed forces or an MP. The nearly fifty year conflict in Northern Ireland was because of anti Catholic discrimination. You will see a Muslim Prime Minister before you will an end to references to bead rattling.

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