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Tuesday
Oct112005

'The sick face of Islam' – GALHA

The latest issue of GALHA's Gay and Lesbian Humanist magazine contains a feature on what they call "The sick face of Islam".

Editor Andy Armitage explains: "Our front-page headline this quarter is deliberately ambiguous: it could be saying this is only the sickening face of this religion called Islam (implying that there is possibly another face); or it could be saying this is the face of Islam, and its face is sickening. Interpret it as you will. But I suspect that many who thought the former some years ago may well now be thinking the latter..."

The issue includes quotes such as: "There are two terms that, increasingly, annoy us: Islamophobia and moderate Muslims. What we'd like to know is, first, what's wrong with being fearful of Islam (there's a lot to fear); and, second, what does a moderate Muslim do, other than excuse the real nutters by adhering to this barmy doctrine?" ... "for homosexuals, it is doubtful that there is any such thing as a 'moderate' practising Muslim, or that the Koran can be regarded as anything more than just a squalid murder manual" ... "it is not racist to be anti-immigration or anti-Islam" ... "the reckless and mismanaged immigration polices of successive governments have led to the demographics of our major towns and cites being for ever changed by huge numbers of foreign settlers" ... "Legal or illegal, many of these Third World and Eastern European newcomers are criminals of the worst kind, and many more are hopelessly ill equipped to live in a complex Western democracy, unable even to speak English in some cases. A parasitic few are bent on the destruction of Western civilisation" ... "Redundant churches are sprouting onion domes and minarets. We are becoming strangers in our own land" ... "the fastest-growing religion is Islam. Chillingly, it continues to grow like a canker, both through immigration and through ... unrestrained and irresponsible breeding" ... "In the Netherlands, the warnings of popular gay politician Pim Fortuyn were tragically snuffed out by a left-wing assassin before he could sufficiently alert people to the damage the influx of Muslims is doing to his own native land". And these are just a sample.

I believe Brett Lock of Outrage is a member of GALHA. Perhaps he'd care to comment on these articles on his blog?