'to Hell With Their Culture' - Richard Dawkins In Extraordinary Blast At Muslims

[Flashermac]

TOP academic and atheist Richard Dawkins has attacked western society's relaxed attitude to radical Islam in an extraordinary outburst.

 

The British scientist was appearing on a live TV chat show in the United States when he blasted "to hell with their culture" when referring to some practices in Islam, such as women being made to wear burkhas.

 

Dawkins was appearing on the Bill Maher's HBO show and the pair were debating regressive liberals and, in particular, universities banning those with extreme views from giving lectures.

 

The conversation turned to Islam when Dawkins criticised those afraid to confront the religion on some of its extreme practices, saying the religion was being given a "free pass".

 

The 74-year-old said: "There's this notion Islam and Muslims are this protected species.

 

"That if we talk about them at all or criticise at all, it's somehow hurting or humiliating Muslims. It's a ridiculous idea."

 

Host Maher then added liberals should protect those who are being repressed regardless of whom it offends.

 

He went on to say this includes women forced to wear religious clothing, which led to Dawkins extraordinary comment.

 

Maher said: "We're on the side of the women's movement and poor and minorities and whatever. Gay people, the disabled, the abused, whatever Caitlyn (Jenner) is up to. We're all for it.

 

"And they (liberals) applaud that but if you say something about a woman being forced to wear a beekeeper suit in the hot sun all day…"

 

Dawkins then took over saying: "But that's 'their culture' and you have to accept it. It's the one exception.

Liberal about everything but this one exception, 'it's their culture'.

 

"Well, to hell with their culture."

 

Dawkins went on to say Islam had a "free pass" because of the "terror of being thought racist" if the religion is criticised.

 

He added: "It's confused with racism. An incredible number of people think Islam is a race.

 

"And so they think if you criticise Islam you're being racist."

 

Social media erupted over the conversation, with some criticising the strong use of language against Muslims.

 

"There has to be objective absolute standards of human rights. No allowance for abuses just because they're labeled 'culture'.

 

"That was his point. If your culture allows for wife beating or marital rape, 'to hell with your culture'. Is that so bad?"

 

Maher and Dawkins started the discussing by criticising universities for banning extreme speakers.

 

That was sparked by the news former Muslim Maryam Namazie had a visit to Warwick University cancelled.

 

Dawkins said it ridiculed the whole ethos of universities.

 

He said: "At the university I went to, the University of California at Berkeley, we had the free speech movement in the 1960s.

 

"What a betrayal we're seeing now with campuses all over America and Britain denying people the right to speak.

 

"If you can't speak your mind at a university campuses where can you? That's what universities are about.

 

"They're about free speech, they're about being exposed to ideas you haven't met before or are perhaps hostile to.

 

"If you only get exposed to ideas you agree with what kind of a university would that be."

 

 

http://www.express.c...h-their-culture

[Mekong]

Top Man

 

Basically saying what many of us believe but are too afraid to say for the very reasons given in his outburst.

[Flashermac]

The BBC allegedly has admitted that its reporters are free to criticise any religion ... except Islam.

[pasathai1]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Geert Wilders is a Dutch Member of Parliament

 

 

 

 

In a generation or two, the US will ask itself: "Who lost Europe?"

 

 

"Dear Friends,

 

 

Thank you very much for inviting me. I come to America with a mission. All is not well in the old world.

There is a tremendous danger looming, and it is very difficult to be optimistic.

 

 

 

 

We might be in the final stages of the Islamization of Europe. This not only is a clear and present danger to the future of Europe itself, it is a threat to America and the sheer survival of the West. The United States as the last bastion of Western civilization, facing an Islamic Europe.

First I will describe the situation on the ground in Europe. Then, I will say a few things about Islam. To close I will tell you about a meeting in Jerusalem.

 

 

The Europe you know is changing.

 

 

You have probably seen the landmarks. But in all of these cities, sometimes a few blocks away from your tourist destination, there is another world. It is the world of the parallel society created by Muslim mass-migration.

 

 

 

 

All throughout Europe a new reality is rising: entire Muslim neighborhoods where very few indigenous people reside or are even seen. And if they are, they might regret it. This goes for the police as well. It's the world of head scarves, where women walk around in figureless tents, with baby strollers and a group of children. Their husbands, or slaveholders if you prefer, walk three steps ahead. With mosques on many street corners. The shops have signs you and I cannot read. You will be hard-pressed to find any economic activity. These are Muslim ghettos controlled by religious fanatics. These are Muslim neighborhoods, and they are mushrooming in every city across Europe. These are the building-blocks for territorial control of increasingly larger portions of Europe, street by street, neighborhood by neighborhood, city by city.

 

 

There are now thousands of mosques throughout Europe With larger congregations than there are in churches. And in every European city there are plans to build super-mosques that will dwarf every church in the region. Clearly, the signal is: we rule.

 

 

 

 

Many European cities are already one-quarter Muslim: just take Amsterdam, Marseilles and Malmo in Sweden. In many cities the majority of the under-18 population is Muslim. Paris is now surrounded by a ring of Muslim neighborhoods. Mohammad is the most popular name among boys in many cities.

 

 

In some elementary schools in Amsterdam the farm can no longer be mentioned, because that would also mean mentioning the pig, and that would be an insult to Muslims.

 

 

Many state schools in Belgium and Denmark only serve halal food to all pupils. In once-tolerant Amsterdam gays are beaten up almost exclusively by Muslims. Non-Muslim women routinely hear 'whore, whore'. Satellite dishes are not pointed to local TV stations, but to stations in the country of origin.

 

 

In France school teachers are advised to avoid authors deemed offensive to Muslims, including Voltaire and Diderot; the same is increasingly true of Darwin. The history of the Holocaust can no longer be taught because of Muslim sensitivity.

 

 

In England sharia courts are now officially part of the British legal system. Many neighborhoods in France are no-go areas for women without head scarves. Last week a man almost died after being beaten up by Muslims in Brussels, because he was drinking during the Ramadan.

 

 

Jews are fleeing France in record numbers, on the run for the worst wave of anti-Semitism since World War II. French is now commonly spoken on the streets of Tel Aviv and Netanya, Israel. I could go on forever with stories like this. Stories about Islamization.

 

 

A total of fifty-four million Muslims now live in Europe. San Diego University recently calculated that a staggering 25 percent of the population in Europe will be Muslim just 12 years from now. Bernhardt Lewis has predicted a Muslim majority by the end of this century.

 

 

Now these are just numbers. And the numbers would not be threatening if the Muslim-immigrants had a strong desire to assimilate. But there are few signs of that. The Pew Research Center reported that half of French Muslims see their loyalty to Islam as greater than their loyalty to France. One-third of French Muslims do not object to suicide attacks. The British Centre for Social Cohesion reported that one-third of British Muslim students are in favor of a worldwide caliphate Muslims demand what they call 'respect'. And this is how we give them respect. We have Muslim official state holidays.

 

 

 

 

The Christian-Democratic attorney general is willing to accept sharia in the Netherlands if there is a Muslim majority.

 

 

 

We have cabinet members with passports from Morocco and Turkey.

 

 

Muslim demands are supported by unlawful behavior, ranging from petty crimes and random violence, for example against ambulance workers and bus drivers, to small-scale riots. Paris has seen its uprising in the low-income suburbs, the banlieus. I call the perpetrators settler's. Because that is what they are. They do not come to integrate into our societies; they come to integrate our society into their Dar-al-Islam. Therefore, they are settlers.

 

 

Much of this street violence I mentioned is directed exclusively against non-Muslims, forcing many native people to leave their neighborhoods, their cities, their countries. Moreover, Muslims are now a swing vote not to be ignored.

 

 

The second thing you need to know is the importance of Mohammed the prophet. His behavior is an example to all Muslims and cannot be criticized. Now, if Mohammed had been a man of peace, let us say like Ghandi and Mother Theresa wrapped in one, there would be no problem. But Mohammed was a warlord, a mass murderer, a pedophile, and had several marriages - at the same time. Islamic tradition tells us how he fought in battles, how he had his enemies murdered and even had prisoners of war executed. Mohammad himself slaughtered the Jewish tribe of Banu Qurayza. If it is good for Islam, it is good. If it is bad for Islam, it is bad.

 

 

Let no one fool you about Islam being a religion. Sure, it has a god, and a here-after, and 72 virgins. But in its essence Islam is a political ideology. It is a system that lays down detailed rules for society and the life of every person. Islam wants to dictate every aspect of life. Islam means 'submission'. Islam is not compatible with freedom and democracy, because what it strives for is Sharia. If you want to compare Islam to anything, compare it to communism or national-socialism, these are all totalitarian ideologies.

 

 

Now you know why Winston Churchill called Islam 'the most retrograde force in the world', and why he compared Mein Kampf to the Quran. The public has wholeheartedly accepted the Palestinian narrative, and sees Israel as the aggressor. I have lived in this country and visited it dozens of times. I support Israel. First, because it is the Jewish homeland after two thousand years of exile up to and including Auschwitz. Second because it is a democracy. And third because Israel is our first line of defense.

 

 

This tiny country is situated on the fault line of jihad, frustrating Islam's territorial advance. Israel is facing the front lines of jihad, like Kashmir, Kosovo, the Philippines, Southern Thailand, Darfur in Sudan, Lebanon, and Aceh in Indonesia. Israel is simply in the way. The same way West-Berlin was during the Cold War.

 

 

The war against Israel is not a war against Israel. It is a war against the West. It is jihad. Israel is simply receiving the blows that are meant for all of us. If there would have been no Israel, Islamic imperialism would have found other venues to release its energy and its desire for conquest. Thanks to Israeli parents who send their children to the army and lay awake at night, parents in Europe and America can sleep well and dream, unaware of the dangers looming.

 

 

Many in Europe argue in favor of abandoning Israel in order to address the grievances of our Muslim minorities. But if Israel were, God forbid, to go down, it would not bring any solace to the West. It would not mean our Muslim minorities would all of a sudden change their behavior, and accept our values. On the contrary, the end of Israel would give enormous encouragement to the forces of Islam. They would, and rightly so, see the demise of Israel as proof that the West is weak, and doomed. The end of Israel would not mean the end of our problems with Islam, but only the beginning. It would mean the start of the final battle for world domination. If they can get Israel, they can get everything. So-called journalists volunteer to label any and all critics of Islam as a 'right-wing extremists' or 'racists'. In my country, the Netherlands, 60 percent of the population now sees the mass immigration of Muslims as the number one policy mistake since World War II. And another 60 percent sees Islam as the biggest threat. Yet there is a greater danger than terrorist attacks, the scenario of America as the last man standing. The lights may go out in Europe faster than you can imagine. An Islamic Europe means a Europe without freedom and democracy, an economic wasteland, an intellectual nightmare, and a loss of military might for America - as its allies will turn into enemies, enemies with atomic bombs. With an Islamic Europe, it would be up to America alone to preserve the heritage of Rome, Athens and Jerusalem

 

 

 

Dear friends, Liberty is the most precious of gifts. My generation never had to fight for this freedom, it was offered to us on a silver platter, by people who fought for it with their lives. All throughout Europe, American cemeteries remind us of the young boys who never made it home, and whose memory we cherish. My generation does not own this freedom; we are merely its custodians. We can only hand over this hard won liberty to Europe's children in the same state in which it was offered to us. We cannot strike a deal with mullahs and imams. Future generations would never forgive us. We cannot squander our liberties. We simply do not have the right to do so.

 

[waerth]

Geert Wilder is a fascist of the worst kind. He would vote to reopen Dachau. Apart from that he is sponsored by the religious right wing in Israel. This man only creates hatred.

[pasathai1]

Geert Wilder is a fascist of the worst kind. He would vote to reopen Dachau. Apart from that he is sponsored by the religious right wing in Israel. This man only creates hatred.

 

its scary to think how many people are starting to agree with much of what he says due to recent events

[BelgianBoy]

Geert Wilder is a fascist of the worst kind. He would vote to reopen Dachau. Apart from that he is sponsored by the religious right wing in Israel. This man only creates hatred.

its always easier to attack the messenger that to argue his position, according to the latest poll yesterday, his party would now have a majority in Holland.....over to you.

[jitagawn]

Well common sense says that local citizens that ACTUALLY LIVE in areas that have been inundated with refugees might be upset. and angry.

The balance of their lives turned around. Making it worse is that they had NO CHOICE in the decision process.

I would not like it.

 

The religious right wing in Israel is same same all religious right wings/ Islam/ Christian Fundamentalists/ whatever -all krazy.?

 

Sadly part of what Wilder says is probably true. Is he an extremist also??

Probably ... This is all a terrible set up.

[pasathai1]

if religion was taken out of the equagtion, I think these nut case sheeple could be convinced to fight over some other stupid cause

[Coss]

if religion was taken out of the equagtion, I think these nut case sheeple could be convinced to fight over some other stupid cause

 

That's a very good point, at least with Religion, the majority of the followers are bound by a reasonable set of rules (most Religions).

 

Bit like Soccer, what would Soccer hooligans do without Soccer?