Somehow, I doubt Deft will be more specific, given that France has deported people for calling for Sharia law, due to its inherent violations of the country’s secular law, and even wearing veils in public is illegal in the country. The current French government, unfortunately, is indeed trying to dismantle the concept of “laicite”, or secular society, but this has been more in line with promoting Christianity than the acceptance of Islam, and has been criticised by both the left and the right in the country.

Deft,

If you’ve decided that anti-gay stickers in London were placed by Muslims because of the colour of one of the culprit’s skin, you’re going to have a hard time coming across as rational. Ditto for supporting the TVC. Is there any more evidence to connect this to Muslims, or, for that matter, about why these ideas are somehow more acceptable when the TVC states them?

Do recall that this is an organization whose founder has suggested forcing AIDS victims into ghettos and insists that LGBT suicides are caused by sexual assault of youth by gay counsellors. The crowds that the TVC appeals to and the rhetoric that it relies upon in making these appeals are, ultimately, drawing from the exact same kind of inflammatory and fundamentalist way of thinking that animates radical Islam.

As a gay man, I can agree with you on one point. Sharia law, in most of its manifestations, like Judeo-Christian law, is almost always far-right and almost always anti-gay and anti-woman. The values of the TVC, however, prevent it from ever being an ally to anyone in our community.

You challenge the author of this article to wear western clothes in a part of France where Sharia law is the ruling system. This may well be impossible given the reality in France, but nonetheless, I wonder if you would be so quick to take up a similar challenge of your own. I won’t suggest you try announcing your sexual orientation and support for the TVC’s position on Islam in one of these far-right churches, because nobody deserves to suffer the reactions that you’d be likely to get.

Do not be fooled, the values espoused by the TVC and the values of Sharia Law have a very great deal in common, and this is far more a conflict between two similar but rival forms of religious extremism than any honest respect for the US or any other secular constitution.

“[France] now has more than 700 ( officially designated) ‘no-go’ zones where aspects of sharia have already been implement and where the laws of the French Republic are no longer applied.”

While I have no doubt the situation in parts of Europe is pretty bad for gay people and Jews, I am a bit skeptical about the “officially designated” part. Could you be more specific?

I’m sure you truly appreciate TVC’s extremely tolerant and uplifting stance on homosexuality. And the fact that they would never, ever describe the lifestyle as an abomination.

Right?

[I think you might want to take a very serious think regarding TVC's politics. Just because they oppose Shari'a does not mean they would support, much less tolerate you as an open homosexual.

While yes, the enemy of my enemy (for the record, I do not consider Islam my enemy. Just using the phrase) is my friend, that does not mean the amicability is mutual. I know you have a functioning mind. It is time to use it critically.]

Aron

There is nothing more homophobic ( nor more Far Right) than sharia law and the radical islamists who wish to implement it.

The rest of this article is just a smear and offers nothing positive or constructive.

Two weeks ago in London, islamists plastered one of the city’s neighbourhooods with stickers declaring the area a gay-free zone.

The authorities not only did nothing, they attempted to blame the anti-gay stickers on Far Right elements, but later had to recant when it came out that at least one South Asian individual ( more than likely a Muslim) had been caught on CCTV cameras plastering the stickers everywhere.

In Europe more and more attacks on gays ( and Jews) are being committed by Far Right islamists, but at the moment few are up to speed in recognising this transformation.

Islamists aren’t the ‘New Jews’, they’re the New Nazis, and I have no illusions as to the lengths they’ll go to in an attempt to implement their fascist program.

And for those who ridicule the idea that sharia can never happen should take a look at France, a country that now has more than 700 ( officially designated) “no-go” zones where aspects of sharia have already been implement and where the laws of the French Republic are no longer applied.

The author of this article is a women. I challenge her to enter some of these sharia-dominated, no-go areas unveiled and in western clothing.

It’d be a Lara Logan moment.

“Jordan, radical Islam, radical Catholicism, as well as theocratic implementations thereof, are all on the far right. The worldviews of Al-Qaeda, the Taleban, and the Saudi royal family, and what they want for the world, are the same as extreme American conservatives.”

Exactly. I dislike Christianity more than Islam, but both are proselytizing religions. I admire and respect Judaism and Buddhism more because they don’t actively proselytize, at least not on the same level as Christianity/Islam.

Ryan,

Well said. And the movie is “The Princess Bride”.

(Too, would it be stretching things to imagine where Afrikaans is included in the Christian National Homeschooling syllabus for much the same reasons as above?)