CrossTalk on Tolerance: Burqa Catfight

Ha ha ha. Who said Soviet propaganda techniques were out of fashion? Whilst I despise most of the behaviour of masculine people, and feel sick at violence and training people to kill, I know ill-motivated hypocrisy when I see a full length advert on Soldiers of Conscience, featuring only persons serving in the US military. [...]

Read Full Post »

Airport body scanners violate Islamic law?

First, it is true body scanning might not detect all threats. But it does detect a significant class of realistic threats, which are not feasibly detected by other means. Second, despite political flannel, it is obvious that even excellent intelligence work, which after all would no doubt require extraordinarily invasive access to private data, cannot [...]

Read Full Post »

Yasmin and Terry argue about showing Geert Wilders’ “Fitna” (05.03.10) – TWStuff

OMGoddess, I thought YAB had principles and capacity for critical thinking. Now I realise s/he is programmed by the Islamic Ideology. Instead of debating the argument that freedom of expression trumps your right not to be offended, s/he switches to the usual Islamic Apologist rant about not enough exposé of the “evils” of the Jewish [...]

Read Full Post »

Holographic Universe: Its all illusion – Part 1/2

Hmm, typical bad “idealist” argument. The error, indeed the contradiction in the argument, is to suppose there is a valid definition of “external world”, but then to suffer torments of metaphysical anguish because it seems impossible ever to justify the existence of such a world. As Gilbert Ryle and Co. were forever pointing out, this [...]

Read Full Post »