Oh!

In case you didn’t realize, I’m not a Marxist.

What would that be like? Would you have to stare off into the distance as he seems to do in all of his portraits? What is that about?

Och, maybe that was Lenin. Who cares?

[SARCASM]Well done, you are SO englightened. Here, have a cookie.[END SARCASM]

“Their horror increases when you tell them that you can see daily in Catholic countries priests and monks who fresh from a bed of incest without having washed their hands soiled with impurities make these hundreds of gods, eat and drink their god, shit and piss their god. But when they consider that this superstition a hundred times more absurd and blasphemous than any of those of the Egyptians is worth to an Italian priest 15 to 20 million in revenue and the domination of a country a hundred miles wide and long, they all want to take arms and kick out this priest who has taken over the Palace of the Caesars. I don’t know if I’ll go on the trip because I’m a peaceful sort, but when they’re settled in Rome I’ll certainly pay them a visit.” Voltaire, Dictionnaire philosophique, Transubstantiation

“England is multi-denominational. ‘In my Father’s house are many mansions.’ An Englishman, as a free man, goes to heaven by the path he chooses.

“However, although everyone may serve God in his own way, the real religion of the country, the one from which money is made, is the Episcopalian Church, known as the Anglican Church or simply the Church. In England and Ireland no-one can be employed without being one of the Anglican faithful. This compelling proof of Anglican teaching has converted so many Non-Conformists that today barely a twentieth of the nation lies outside the bosom of the Established Church.

“The Anglican priesthood has retained many Catholic rites and especially that of receiving the tithe with meticulous care.” Voltaire, Lettres philosophiques: Letter 5 Concerning the Church of England

Etc. ‘Mediaeval mildew’, said Lenin, ’spiritual booze’ (Socialism and religion). Ooh, you can’t say that, and must never ever indicate in any way you think it.

A few links:

recommended here by Major General Tim Cross:
http://www.sant.ox.ac.uk/centres/cross-paper-ht08.pdf

Speaking at a Royal united services institute for defence and security studies event here:
http://www.rusi.org/downloads/assets/FLW_Programme_19_May.pdf

Do you think it’s right for Ben White to write a review on global jihad, considering his opinion of Hezbollah as national resistance and not Islamist?

See #40 and please answer.

Sorry I’ve lost my patience now. So fuck off you little twerp and take yourself to the altar of the Right Reverend Patrick Sookdheo, and take the other clerical fascists with you!

So you were supporting someone, and smearing someone else, without doing a simple google search? It’s right there in Sookhdeo’s Wikipedia entry.

You now expect me to believe this was an honest mistake? I’m afraid I don’t, because you’ve already tried smearing Ben White simply because he has the temerity to criticise Israel.

It’s actually quite clear that you’ll support anyone who criticises Muslims and will smear anyone who criticises Israel.

I wouldn’t be surprised if someone from HP asks you to do a smear job on me soon enough.

Think it through.

Nothing new under the sun, as Sting nearly once said.

I have to say, I love it when people come up with such Orwellian speak because it just illustrates how bereft of intelligence this entire ‘pro-war decent-left’ edifice has become.

Let’s assume Al-Qaradawi were to launch a campaign to support gays in Britain from homosexuality. Would you wholeheartedly join that campaign? Answers on a postcard. Along with the answers to the questions I asked above, that you’ve completely evaded.

I think Sookhdeo approaches Islam principally from a theological point of view, and as a Christian he is inevitably going to claim that Islam is wrong and thus be critical of the religion.

Rubbish. It is one thing to believe that your religion is the right one, another to trash people for following a particular religion. Allowing terrorists and murderers to define a religion followed by millions of people around the world, is not a theological point of view, it is demonisation of the worst kind.

Sookhdeo is as much of a nutjob as those he is criticising.

I’m surprised that Sunny so quickly dismisses the Barnabas Fund’s noble cause of trying to alleviate the suffering of persecuted minorities, especially as PP believes that oppressive totalitarian religious bigotry should be opposed.

Were you aware of attendance at the conference above before writing in his support?

A simple yes or no will do.

Was David T abroad at the time?