When you’ve got them by the short and…
June 18, 2016 by Paul McKeever · Comments Off on When you’ve got them by the short and…
short and pearlies,
their hearts and hairs
will follow.
Judging people by their code of ethics is not tribalism
June 15, 2016 by Paul McKeever · Comments Off on Judging people by their code of ethics is not tribalism
In the aftermath of the Orlando massacre of June 12, 2016, the Ayn Rand Institute’s Elan Journo has written an article in which he condemns the positions of the presumptive presidential nominees of the two biggest political parties in the USA. Journo accuses both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump of failing “to understand the centrality of philosophic ideas in animating the jihadist cause”, and he sums-up Trump’s proposed ban on immigration by Muslims as “tribalism”. I am sympathetic about what he says about Clinton, but I think he gets this one wrong with respect to Trump. Read more
The Virtue of “Sin”, and the Great Satan
June 14, 2016 by Paul McKeever · Comments Off on The Virtue of “Sin”, and the Great Satan
A university student I know naturally was concerned about the June 12, 2016 murder, by an Islamic Jihadist, of 49 people in Orlando, Florida – many of whom reportedly prefer members of their own sex, sexually. Those murdered, it is believed, were murdered because of who they are attracted to or love. Being my friend, the university student naturally condemns the act, and does not share the murderer’s negative views on homosexuality. On facebook.com, he wrote the following:
“Islam is homophobic by nature. Muslims who tolerate homosexuality do so in spite of their faith, not because of it.”
The response came swiftly from another student at his university: she commented that he is a “hater”, and that she was sad that he hails from the same university. In lieu of actually addressing what the first student had written, she posted a tweet of a young man named Shawn who said he is both gay and Muslim. I can only imagine the “quality” of the arguments she makes in her university essays. Read more
