The world we live in is both a wonderful and a dangerous place at the same time. There are some good, talented and great people in this world. There are also evil men and women. Monsters who would oppress and murder to get their way. All these types exist in every nation, ethnic group and religion. Nowhere is perfect though some would have you believe exactly that...on pain of death.
I have never forgotten seeing an Imam explaining to a TV interviewer that that those who leave Islam should be killed because they have been shown perfection and rejected it. The blasphemy laws in Pakistan illustrate the dangers of letting the "one true religion" or any religion whatsoever of having recourse to legal power to enforce it's will upon others.
Ireland has taken a step forward in abolishing it's own draconian blasphemy laws. The next step of course would be the complete separation of church and the state something that should occur not only in that country but also in the UK and all countries around the world.
At the moment the balance hangs as 51 countries attempt from time to time to make blasphemy (against Islam) a crime world-wide. Pakistan's new Prime Minister is more concerned with stopping cartoons of the warlord/prophet Mohammed than ensuring that his own people get proper justice.
Even now as Bibi Asia is freed after the charges of "blasphemy" were thrown out of court there were demonstrations led by power mad clerics using their faith to hold on to their control of the masses by continuing to demand that Bibi is hung.
These clerics are just one wing of the danger facing mankind. The Ayatollah in Iran thinks "feminism" is a Zionist ploy whilst the Islamist-feminist Linda Sarsour campaigns to exclude Zionists from the feminist movement in the USA as those that support Israel cannot be feminists. No reason, no logic.
Both Khomeni and Sarsour are motivated not by ignorance but by political hate. Anti-Semitism pure and simple. A widespread phenomenon in the Muslim world that left seeks to ignore whilst it adapts to the Islamist agenda. The pro-Palestinian stance of the left ignores racism against Jews as an inconvenience and is even able to wheel out organisations like Jewish Voice for Labour to provide cover for it's hate.
More than anything despite having been brought up as being very British I have become very aware of the Jewish inheritance from my mothers side of the family which under Rabbinical law makes me a Jew. Having been an atheist from an early age after being thrown out of an RE class at the age of 15 for daring to raise issues from Eric Von Danekin's book Chariot of the Gods this internal revelation did not come with ease.
I have to remember that being Jewish is more than a religion. It is also an ethnicity a very unique combination but one that leads anti-Semites to develop racial rather than religious bigotry. As an atheist Jew and a British man proud of his nations democratic heritage I will stand against racism and injustice whether it arises from left, right or the religious.
At the centre of my beliefs is the need for free speech. Without this there would be no human rights. Freedom of Speech and expression is a value to us all that must be defended. I have been called "right-wing" a "Zionist" and worse but in my own small way by using both my blog and Facebook page I will continue to stand up for the things I believe in.
I do not accept political labelling in the traditional sense as the terms "left" and "right" have become meaningless with the rise of neo-Strasserism in the UK. The left may think itself "progressive" but the institutionalisation of anti-Semitism in their ideology through rabid anti-Zionism that dehumanises the Jew combined with their desire to bring down Western democracy and a political revolution that would be intolerant and oppressive in practice as their current behaviour shows is a danger to us all.
Howie's Corner only has a small readership and my reach on Facebook is limited but it is my hope that through these endeavours I can reach out and unite at least a few against the growing intolerance and censorship that seems to be defining the current age.
I don't always get it right but will listen to opinions from across the supposed political spectrum that have something to offer in the hope that together we can together put at least a little light into this darkening world.
Shalom.
Howie
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