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So what happened in this case then? Was the notice not given or was it given and the parents didn’t opt out? Anecdotal but when my eldest was in primary one girl was excluded from religious education because her parents were atheist and didn’t want her taught about religion. The same patents...

In my experience Muslims like most people of faith are very open to discussing their religion. In fact my experience is they feel honour bound by their faith to do so. So in the original context of the thread was it right for a teacher to discuss Islam with a class and indeed discuss the...

Depends on how you’re using child abuse to offend Catholics. Of you say all Catholics are child abusers that’s obviously offensive as there’s nothing to suggest that is in anyway true. If you point out that there’s historical evidence that abuse has not only happened in the Catholic Church...

You seem to be offended by anything linked to Arabic culture so that’s hardly surprising.

I’m an atheist myself. I struggle to see why anyone would set out to offend faith or anyone of faith based on offending their beliefs. It’s a shitty, insensitive and unnecessary. Unless you get your kicks from offending people. No one has to print images of prophets and offend religions and...

The irony there is that opinions tend to be based on facts whereas belief tends to be based on conviction. When people say it’s the opinion of Muslims they’re completely misunderstanding exactly what faith and belief is so they’re already starting of on the wrong foot.

Again it’s not some, it’s a consensus. So you’re not offending “some” Muslims you’re offending a faith.

Firstly it’s not an opinion it’s a belief. Big difference. Also the belief is that Muslims shouldn’t eat pork not everyone shouldn’t eat pork. The image of prophets are offensive to Muslims as they are to many belief systems. Where they stem from is an irrelevant. If you must insist on using...

So you’re inventing imaginary situations and imaginary responses to those imaginary situations. Clever stuff. What’s it proving exactly except you detachment from reality?

Which is fair enough. Doesn’t mean that people don’t have the right to be offended or that the intent was to offend in the first place. Although I have sympathy for the teacher I can’t help but think he isn’t the sharpest tool in the box. As far as I know showing the images isn’t part of the...

Was talking to someone just yesterday who’s just getting over his second bout of Covid. He caught the second after he’d had his first shot too. Please get the second.

Of course offence is given. If I choose to call you a c**t (I wouldn’t by the way) I’d be doing that with the intent of offending. It’s like Grendull with his homo erotic fantasist put downs. He’s not doing that as a compliment, he’s doing it in an attempt to offend me (presumably because he’s...

Some people on here clearly think that they’re not offensive full stop. The only actual point I’ve made is that that they’re offensive to Islam as a general consensus so therefore they are offensive. Some have tried to downplay that to some as if it’s a minority of Muslims when it’s clearly a...

Argue the point not the person.

Grendulls back with his sexualised fantasies.

Yet they voted for the Northern Ireland protocol. Which coincidentally they’re also backtracking on.

So are you saying that Muslims don’t have the right to be offended? Fuck me that bacon argument is as about a stupid argument you could make. For the simple reason that for it to be an equivalent you’d have to force feed bacon to a Muslim. Which of course would be offensive.

That’s assuming that that the remaining 50% don’t find it offensive. Jews for instance have very similar beliefs on images of god. Images of Buddha can be very offensive to certain Buddhist demographics even though it’s widely used by Buddhist themselves in temples. A lot of other religions have...

They’ve backtracked. There is literally a vote on the commons record stating which Tory MP’s voted against animal rights in the Brexit bill.

Not some, almost all. That’s what a consensus is. It’s based on Hadiths that are centuries old. It isn’t a new belief, it isn’t a minority belief, on pure weight of numbers it’s not just offending “somebody” it’s offending a whole religion.