Canon Media Award winning hate speech merchant decides to have a go at the Muslims

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Miraculously, just as John Key needed some distraction from questions over his role in the GCSB aided assassination of a NZ citizen, Canon Media Award winning hate speech merchant and Prime Ministerial confidant, Cameron Slater, decides now is the right time for a bit of good old fashioned Muslim bashing.

“Jihad?” screamed the NZ Herald, “Jihad!” Whaleoil roared back.

A juvenile and violently bullying power play between two factions at a mosque has suddenly been elevated to Terror Alert Apricot. NZ should brace for Taxi Shuttles to be rammed into the Beehive and Air NZ Planes to be flown into the Sky Tower. The boss of security took the chanting and convulsions as a serious ‘religious assassination’, and the Herald even managed to rope in an Academic to throw some petrol on this brewing religious war.

The mainstream reporting around this has been so shrill it’s made Slater almost bass line funk in comparison.

Almost.

Where the NZ Herald will insinuate, Whaleoil can declare. Apparently we are now on course for the end of Western Civilisation as we know it. In his pogrom inspiring blog, charmingly entitled, “WHAT WILL YOU BE DOING WHEN THE “JIHAD” COMES TO YOU?“, Canon Media Award winning hate speech merchant and Prime Ministerial confidant, Cameron Slater, warns us all of the impending Muslimocalypse…

I expressed my concern about the Islamification of the West, and how we, as New Zealanders can avoid the lessons learned the hard way by other countries. These are lessons that include bloodshed and death. And not in the Middle East – in the center of cities that a few decades ago looked just like the ones you and I are living in.

…he’s as pleasant as road kill isn’t he? If book burning were a sport, Slater would be Olympic medal decorated. He continues with his hate rant…

Bluntly put, their expectations and way of life can not be integrated with ours without one side making a compromise they aren’t willing to make. If left to its natural cause, this causes the types of violence and armed conflicts we are seeing in Europe.

…he’s almost hopeful that there will be violence isn’t he?

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Here’s my view on religion. If you need to take your ethical and moral cues from a supernatural being, good luck to you. Expect to be the butt of satire from time to time, because hey, what’s not funny about listening to an invisible flying magical wizard right? But if you want to believe in that, then who am I or the State to intervene? That’s between you and your invisible flying magical wizard friend.

Now do I personally believe that when Muhammad was asked how people should dress and he said, “modestly”, do I think for one second he meant wearing a burqa? No, I don’t think he meant that, but seeing as this isn’t my religion, it sure as hell ain’t my right to tell others who do follow it how they should interpret it.

We live in a free Democracy and we don’t allow the State to decide what you can wear and what you can believe in because the overbearing weight of such a State would cease being free and Democratic and quickly deteriorate into full blown fascism. No Government should have the power to tell you what to wear and no Government should have the power to punish you for believing in something, that’s giving the State far too much power.

If we in the West want to stop radicalising Muslims, then we in the West need to stop creating the grievances that give that radicalism righteous currency.

Open dialogue and mutual respect is the way different communities learn to integrate and live together, singling out extremes in the other and attempting to use fear to decide our responses based on those extremes is a certain recipe for the very conflict Slater claims to want to avoid.

What Slater is doing here, and why it is so dangerous, is tarnishing an entire religion with the actions of a fringe minority. The extremist factions of Islam are about as representative of the vast followers of that religion as the KKK are to Christianity. We don’t Judge the majority of Christians as cross burning racists, and it’s just as childishly stupid to do it to Muslims.

Slater is fanning a hate the mainstream media seem all too happy to fuel.

Ugly all round. We are a better people than this debate.

19 COMMENTS

  1. Slater should have engaged his brain before opening his mouth (yeah right!). These radicals are very unforgiving to those who insult their religion. They might just decide to add him to the jihad list of enemies who need to be taught a lesson.

  2. With the collapse of Communism and the end of the iron curtain the US military industrial complex needed a new enemy. Re-purpose the mujaheddin who’d been their proxy soldiers or simply redirect them according to this article, re-brand them as al’Qaida, by inference malign all Islamists with the Wahabbist brush and exploit a divide that goes back to the Crusades and you’ve got a totem that raises emotions and kills logic and reason stone dead.
    With a setup like that, the heavy lifting’s been done and Slater just has to blow on the embers like a good little shill and the rednecks accrete like moths to the flame.
    “Fanning the hate” is all part of the narrative that we are to live by.

  3. Here’s my view on religion. If you need to take your ethical and moral cues from a supernatural being, good luck to you. Expect to be the butt of satire from time to time, because hey, what’s not funny about listening to an invisible flying magical wizard right? But if you want to believe in that, then who am I or the State to intervene? That’s between you and your invisible flying magical wizard friend.

    Try pushing that viewpoint in Saudi Arabia or Pakistan.

    • And your point is?

      Because the inference I’m reading is that “the West is one-sidedly tolerant of Islam”…

      Canon Media Award-Winning stuff.

      • My point?

        I wholeheartedly agree with the quoted paragraph.

        I’m also under no illusions that holding or expressing such a viewpoint in several countries where Islamic doctrine heavily influences the social and penal codes is not out-rightly dangerous. Countries that have death penalties for apostasy or for those who profess atheism. Countries that use Sharia law to justify stoning to death, beheading and mutilation for what we in this country call trivial offences.

        I have no desire for religious doctrines embracing medieval brutality to take root here.

  4. It is wiser to let NZ Muslims revolve their own doctrinal problems. They’re a diverse and highly educated group, and a shamefully crude and ignorant moron like Whaleoil has nothing worth saying to them. Or indeed to anybody else.

  5. Air NZ Planes to be flown into the Sky Tower.

    I’m all for that, being a person who considered 9/11 to be a major victory in the war on terrible architecture.

  6. I shall await with interest the leftist response when the Wahhabists start expressing their feelings re gays, women and of course, the kaffir. But we must be ‘tolerant’ right?

    • Tolerance for diversity and a philosophy of inclusion doesn’t mean a tolerance of inequality and injustice.

  7. I think you’re missing the point that religion tends to be the cause of many and various wars in history, and most certainly in our future.

    In fact, I’d bet my life savings on it. Religion will be the cause of war, death and suffering in the future.

    Religious extremism is dangerous. “My god is the ONLY god!” says one, “No! MY god is the ONLY god!” says the other, before they blow each other up and a few innocent bystanders into the bargain, and then start a war in the name of their god.

    All religion should be wiped out. Let people just be. What divides us is an illusion, made by man in his confusion.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8_zG1-ks6A

    • A peek inside most religions reveals a moderate if not pacifist philosophy. “Religious extremism” is pretty much a manmade extension of religion as a lever for power – the danger is in its political application not in the underlying philosophy.
      George Carlin summed it up pretty well.

    • Religion is a significant cultural artifact, perhaps the most significant. Condemnation by ignorant charlatans like Dawkins or Hitchens is hardly determinate, Hitchens thought Mother Theresa was a bad ‘un because she thought burying the dead mattered.

      Religion is a force for good when channeled appropriately. Rigoberta Menchú identified it as a positive force for social change, but noted that many people did not understand it well.

      It is easy to blame religion – but things like the Palestinian situation are the product of a colonial land grab – the religious difference is merely a cultural veneer that differentiates the competing groups. Prior to the world wars the region had Arab, Jewish, Christian and related but different sects like the Druze in sufficient amity that intermarriage was reasonably common. The contemporary conflict reflects colonial injustice, not religious intransigence.

      • Dawkins is interested in truth. When he argues against religion, he is arguing against the pure illogicality of belief in something for which there is no evidence.

        Hitchens criticised Mother Theresa for various things. She embraced poverty and suffering, in herself and others, as a way to be closer to god. She argued against contraception despite the fact that giving women autonomy over their own bodies is perhaps the most important factor in ameliorating poverty.

        These aren’t charlatans. It’s easy to blame religion because so much has been done on its behalf that is blameworthy.

        Of course religion can be a force for good. Any dogma that tells you that you will suffer for an eternity if you transgress is likely to compel good behaviour. But ideally we would aspire to a society in which we committed good deeds because we knew them to be good, rather than because we were afraid of punishment. And we certainly wouldn’t take our moral cues from a book that bans menstruating women from church, condemns homosexuality, and sets out rules for slavery.

  8. Expect to be the butt of satire from time to time, because hey, what’s not funny about listening to an invisible flying magical wizard right?

    An entity such as a ‘flying invisible wizard’ would be an object within the world, and is therefore entirely unrelated to the understanding of God in Greek Philosophy, Hinduism, Christianity, Islam, and Judaism. It’s not satire Martin, it’s an indication of your confused ignorance.

    • If you want to throw around claims of confused ignorance, I’d suggest you start by spelling my name correctly.

  9. All religion should be wiped out. Let people just be.

    Your first suggestion would necessitate a course of action that would rather contradict your desire to ‘let people just be’.

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