I suspect that you cannot answer these two questions.
1. I simply mentioned that the same dilemma applies to you. Moussawi is a notorious anti-Semite, and for you, him preaching at a university conference is perfectly acceptable. If I am a Muslim-hater, you are an anti-Semite. You are trying to impose your delusion that a political conference in a university is somehow equivalent to a technical, impartial issue. When I questioned this, all you retorted with was a childish comment about how the Oriental Studies is supposed to decide whether Moussawi is impartial or not. Perhaps the two "massively right-wing MPs" who invited Wilders into the UK also considered themselves impartial, who knows?
The same dilemma does not apply to me. I was against Wilders' visit for what he wanted to do. You were against Mousawi's visit for what you assume he believe. I am not an anti semite. I am definitely an anti zionist, but that is by no means the same thing. I believe that you have got more of a problem with Mousawi being a muslim than supposedly being anti semitic. Furthermore, it was not a political conference. It was a lecture on politics, to be given to students.
By the way, you still have not answered that question
2. I directed you to Ummah.com, which is a cesspool of hate. You have failed to refute this example of freely-preached Islamic radicalism in the UK, wherefore your argument has crumbled.
Your quirky speculations about how I hate Muslims and Islam are totally worthless. I have very little respect for people who shelter behind a diluted version of Islamic victim mentality to suppress the critiques of Islam they find unpalatable. You can keep thinking that I'm full of shit. Far from discouraging me, this childish comment of yours shows that I'm on the right track.
Your only proof that extremism is tolerated is a few posts on a muslim forum, from people who are probably all mouth and no trousers. I think that Ummah.com can hardly be called a cesspool of hate as I have found the majority of posts to be very tame. Combat 18 and the British National Party have online forums as well. Does that mean that they are tolerated? I however, gave you solid evidence that extremism is not tolerated.
I am not hiding behind a diluted version of Islam. However, I do think that the majority of Muslims (at least in the UK) do follow a diluted version of Islam and are not a threat to anybody. I will give you an example of when I told somebody that in Islam, a woman's testimony is worth half that of a man's. First, she did not believe me. Then when I showed her the evidence, she said "that is not the Islam that I know".
Even in Pakistan, they had a general election last year and had the chance to vote in the Islamists. The three leading parties, however, were all secular! Although a lot of Muslims may say it (maybe because they think they have to say it), I doubt they would want to live in a Sharia state.
Face it Zaephon! The majority of Muslims are nice people who want to live a normal life.
At the end of the day, we are never going to agree. I think you are full of shit and you think I am full of shit! I think we should call it a day.
And the easiest way to get out of a debate is by calling the other person childish.
Topic: Islamophobia & Infidelophobia