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I'd like to clear up something once and for all, if I may.
From the correspondence I've received it's clear that
a number of people in what's called the "atheist community"
have taken exception to some of my opinions
and no longer consider me one of their own.
Apparently I've violated some kind of atheist orthodoxy
and I've been, for want of a better word, excommunicated.
And I have to say that really is quite an honour.
Thank you very much indeed. I feel so liberated now
I could almost go into a church and give thanks.
Almost.
If I cared what atheists thought about me
I'd never be able to bring myself to say a critical word about Islam.
And that's what I think about the "atheist community".
I've noticed that many atheists are very happy to attack Christianity
with the full force of their finely honed intellects,
driving home their arguments like fence posts,
yet when it comes to Islam it's a different story.
Suddenly atheism takes a back seat and political correctness steps forward,
and the argument gets inverted like an hour glass,
with the sand running in the opposite direction as they rush to find excuses
for religious fascism and to condemn anyone
who speaks against it as a racist.
What about all the Hindus and Sikhs I hear from
who feel the same way about Islam? Are they racists as well?
Atheists pride themselves on examining the evidence,
yet too often when evidence to do with Islam is presented
it's filtered through political correctness and rendered inadmissible,
because there seems to be a default assumption that
drawing attention to the ongoing soft jihad against western values -
that's soft like a velvet hammer -
is somehow a slander on Muslims, that the religion is essentially benign,
and that its critics are motivated primarily by bigotry and hate.
I've encountered this attitude so many times now
that I'm no longer surprised by it, but I think the people who are afflicted with it
are as much in denial as any religious bigot.
They're equally irrational, equally delusional.
They're just slaves to a different dogma.
I'm an atheist, but I don't love atheism.
However, I do love freedom.
I've said before that freedom is my religion,
and I wasn't joking, because we all know that you should never joke
about something as solemn and sacred as religion.
I don't worship freedom because I don't worship anything,
but I do regard it as the highest virtue
and the one from which all other virtues spring.
And of course it's extremely un-Islamic,
which between you and me is one of the best things about it,
but don't tell anyone I said that, as I would hate to cause disharmony.
I'm a fairly recent convert to the religion of freedom.
Most of my life I've taken freedom for granted.
It has just been there in the background being reliable and boring.
But since the rise of the European superstate,
along with multiculturalism, the religion of peace,
and all the insane *** that goes with it,
I'm pleased to say that my appreciation for freedom as a concept
has been fully awoken, and has now reached genuinely religious proportions.
Hallelujah.
It isn't the usual kind of religion, admittedly,
as it doesn't require anyone to think less of themselves,
which might be a problem for somebody who believes there's virtue in self-hatred.
Nor does it preach hatred against any group of people
like, for example, homosexuals or Jews,
which will obviously limit its appeal
among those of the single braincell persuasion.
But if you measure religious conviction by strength of belief,
(and why shouldn't you?) then freedom is definitely my religion,
and I warmly recommend it to any atheists who may be looking
for something tangible and worthwhile to believe in,
as clearly some of them are.
The reason I make videos can be summed up in three words:
Freedom from religion.
And given the way the world is right now, inevitably that means
especially freedom from the religion of peace.
And if that makes me a bigot or a racist
or a fascist or a hatemonger,
or any of the other choice names I've been called by atheists,
then so be it, I'll just have to wear it,
because I don't actually have a choice.
You see, Islam rejects individual freedom,
and therefore, in accordance with my deeply and sincerely held convictions,
I am obliged to reject Islam,
which I do unequivocally.
It is, to borrow a term, haram to me.
I avoid it the way a Muslim avoids pork.
To hear someone advocate the obscenity of sharia
is as offensive to me as it would be to Muslims
if I were to stroll into my local mosque during Friday prayers
handing out bottles of beer and bacon sandwiches.
However, I believe Islam wouldn't be the problem it is today in the western world,
and sharia wouldn't even be an issue,
if not for the grossly irresponsible self-indulgence
of cultural guilt and political correctness
which I believe has literally turned us into our own worst enemies.
It's the rot in the foundations of western society
through which the poison of religious fascism is being allowed to seep.
And if we carry on as we are making ludicrous allowances for it,
mollycoddling hate, tolerating intolerance,
and looking for excuses to make excuses for Islam,
our society will be poorer for it and our children will be less free,
especially the female ones.
And history will condemn us as the generation
of liars and cowards that let it happen.
The generation that was morally and politically
so far up its own *** it didn't even notice the lights going out.
And I don't want that on my conscience, thank you very much.
I don't want to be the person who wishes they had said something
when they had the chance. And frankly the last thing on my mind
is what atheists may or may not think about it.
Peace.