MDI Comment: In the oldest Secular Liberal Democracy on Earth, Britain, new ‘counter-extremism’ powers are to be introduced to silence all individuals who advocate opinions that Secular Liberal’s deem to be ‘extremist’ under the excuse of tackling ‘Islamic Extremism’. However, the tidal wave of laws to force ‘social cohesion’ […]
The first time I heard the term ‘whataboutery’ was on a recent BBC Big Question’s debate regarding whether Human Rights has achieved more than religion over the course of human history. Aside from the unsubstantiated self-congratulating apologetics of many of the Human Rights supporters in the panel, what I […]
MDI Comment: A timely article on the Discrimination and persecution of Muslims in the UK Some UK ‘anti-extremism’ pro-government speakers from Muslim backgrounds, like to claim that there is no discrimination or persecution against Muslims in the UK since ‘Muslims are equal citizens under the law, and so […]
Article Originally posted on Huffington Post 3rd July 2016 7/7 Bombings Anniversary Poll Shows More Than Half Of Britons See Muslims As A Threat By Jack Sommers More than half of Britons now regard Muslims as a threat to the UK, far more than in the immediate aftermath […]
The Big Question: How Free Is Speech? A debate looking at the limits of Free Speech in the West, should freedom to insult Religion be allowed, while Freedom to criticise Western values be prohibited? This debate took place on Friday 13th February 2015 at Queen Mary University of […]
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