This shitty newspaper continues to display an odd attitude to events and issues concerning the religion of Islam.
When an Islamist kills and maims in the name of his “god”, this newspaper does not hesitate to say that not all Muslims support these actions because they are not all the same. Yet when the mildest criticism of Islam is written, spoken or drawn, this newspaper accuses the author of offending “1.6 billion Muslims” as if they are all the same. Odd.
The Comment is Free section is filled with passionate denunciations of what is perceived as sexism, racism or homophobia. Yet the sexist, racist and homophobic ravings of assorted Salafists, Wahabbis, Islamists and self-appointed “community leaders” are either met with silence or defended against “Islamophobic” attacks by people who dare to criticise, often using the same terms as those passionate Guardian denunciations. Odd.
Contributors who would blanch at defending right-wing Christian fundamentalists and their Old Testament ideas about the place of women in society are happy to defend and even applaud the most regressive dress codes for women as insisted upon – sometimes violently- by male clerics. Odd.
Unequal pay for millionaire (mostly white) Hollywood actresses is a feminist issue; the brutal mutilation of the genitals of young (mostly non-white) female children of Muslim parents not so much. Odd.
I genuinely don’t understand this disconnect. As I say, it just seems odd to me. And by odd, I mean utterly cuntish to the power of 1,000,000,000.
Nominated by: Cunt’s Mate Cunt
