Saturday 17 September 2011
Maryam Namazie makes my day.
Today's March For Secular Europe was predictable in a number of ways. A few hundred of us trudged along the mercifully short route from Victoria Embankment to Downing Street for the usual rally and speeches. Don't get me wrong. I may have misgivings about fighting for the separation of Church and State when in reality I would prefer to see the abolition of both, but none the less, I support the Secular Europe Campaign. The less influence that priests, mullahs, ju ju men and god botherers of every description have in our world the better and if undermining their power involves me with a liberal humanist current- so be it. This was pretty much what was going through my mind this afternoon. That is until Maryam Namazie of the Council Of Ex- Muslims took the stage. What a speaker! This is a lady who takes no prisoners. Not for her any wishy-washy liberal concerns about relativism or treading on the toes of some supposed minority. For her the only good religion is one that's on the back foot. Religion is a political force and resistance to it is a political act. If you have not heard her speak catch up here.
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Mmm. Some pondering required. Certainly a great spokeswoman against the inhumanity of the current trend and resulting threat of an ever politisised Islamic culture.
Little mention (apart from some criticism in her blog) of Judaism and our acceptance of the Israeli point of view on the influence of pro Judaism versus the demonised critic as anti semite and the resulting isolation of the people of Palestine.All rational discussion about Judaism/Christianity/Islam is immediately swamped with a whole lot of standard "racist" assumptions which would appear to supercede any consensus or agreement.At this point my humanity dries up and I would gladly march every priest, mullah, rabbi, guru,politican,capitalist, and entrepreneur to the gallows. Ni dieu ni maitre.
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