Originally Posted by :
I don't care what the Fatma states, that's the point.
No, but then again, you don't think Muslims can do
anything right, isn't it?
Originally Posted by Hax:
No, but then again, you don't think Muslims can do anything right, isn't it?
But one just did, he condemned terrorism. No, this overlapping of state and religion worries me, why does the ministry of foreign affair accept something that condemns something that is illegal by it's own laws.
The Wizard 14:19 03-04-2010
I'd worry a lot more about the overlapping of religious and state affairs in the House of Lords, with its Lords Spiritual, than I would about a single sufi scholar offering a piece of paper to a ministry.
Originally Posted by Fragony:
But one just did, he condemned terrorism. No, this overlapping of state and religion worries me, why does the ministry of foreign affair accept something that condemns something that is illegal by it's own laws.
Um. Why does something being illegal automatically prevent discussion or government action about the crime in question?
Originally Posted by The Wizard:
I'd worry a lot more about the overlapping of religious and state affairs in the House of Lords, with its Lords Spiritual, than I would about a single sufi scholar offering a piece of paper to a ministry.
Along with the Head of State being Head of the CoE etc.
Originally Posted by Subotan:
Um. Why does something being illegal automatically prevent discussion or government action about the crime in question?
What is there to discuss here
edit: not to say that this isn't deeply appreciated, don't get me wrong.
Seamus Fermanagh 20:48 03-04-2010
Frag':
Britain, despite being a secularized state in practice, is technically a theocratized constitutional monarchy with the monarch as both head of state and head of religion (in practice, both roles are titular-only today). Thus, a specifically religious message/connection to government does not contravene British law.
Moreover, the chap in question issued the fatwa at his own discretion. It might have had a far different, and far less appropriate, connotation had he done so at the direct request of, or at the direction of, the British government.
Unfortunately, it is not like Fragony is going to attempt to understand, he just wanted to rag against Muslims and call everything a conspiracy of the left when you tell him off for essentially hate anything arab-looking.
In the other thread, he compared telling him off for discrimination as wanting to call the 2nd holocaust against the jews and institute Shia-law.
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