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Julie Burchill Apologises To Ash Sarkar
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Full statement was posted here:
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in it she says that "I also now understand that it is blasphemy for a Muslim to worship Prophet Muhammad and I had no basis for stating that Ms Sarkar does so."
I am grateful that Burchill has been held accountable for her spiteful abuse but this comment does seem odd to me... surely the prophet is central to islam? Can anyone explain why/how it is "blasphemy" for muslims to worship him?
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in it she says that "I also now understand that it is blasphemy for a Muslim to worship Prophet Muhammad and I had no basis for stating that Ms Sarkar does so."
I am grateful that Burchill has been held accountable for her spiteful abuse but this comment does seem odd to me... surely the prophet is central to islam? Can anyone explain why/how it is "blasphemy" for muslims to worship him?
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Untitled, //that would seem to go very much against the "veneration over worship" angle. Would you mind explaining or linking?// The Koran (the word of Allah, allegedly) says that no alteration may be made to his creation - the human body - but Mohammed advised circumcision - and that’s what Muslims do. Oddly enough - or, since Mohammed hijacked both Judaism...
13:09 Tue 16th Mar 2021
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I had no idea who Ash Sarkar is.
After searching I am not much wiser.
She is a leftwing female journalist who works for the Guardian and the Independent.
Not sure why Burchill fell out with her.
// Burchill stated: "I should not have sent these tweets, some of which included racist and misogynist comments regarding Ms Sarkar's appearance and her sex life." She further apologised for "liking" posts which called on Sarkar to commit suicide. //
Burchill has had to pay damages and pay Sarkar’s legal costs, as well as issue the grovelling apology. Her publisher has postponed her book.
Good that the libel laws are being used against idiots on Twitter.
After searching I am not much wiser.
She is a leftwing female journalist who works for the Guardian and the Independent.
Not sure why Burchill fell out with her.
// Burchill stated: "I should not have sent these tweets, some of which included racist and misogynist comments regarding Ms Sarkar's appearance and her sex life." She further apologised for "liking" posts which called on Sarkar to commit suicide. //
Burchill has had to pay damages and pay Sarkar’s legal costs, as well as issue the grovelling apology. Her publisher has postponed her book.
Good that the libel laws are being used against idiots on Twitter.
//Remind me how old his wife was.//
One of his wives was six years old when he married her - the marriage was consummated when she was nine - hence Islam’s propensity for child marriage. Although some countries impose laws relating to minimum age, failure to adhere to the rule is often overlooked. To criticise that would be to criticise Mohammed - and that’s a definite no no.
Another thing is that there are examples - one in particular - where Mohammed’s advice overrides Allah’s instruction - but no devout Muslim would ever concede that.
One of his wives was six years old when he married her - the marriage was consummated when she was nine - hence Islam’s propensity for child marriage. Although some countries impose laws relating to minimum age, failure to adhere to the rule is often overlooked. To criticise that would be to criticise Mohammed - and that’s a definite no no.
Another thing is that there are examples - one in particular - where Mohammed’s advice overrides Allah’s instruction - but no devout Muslim would ever concede that.
burchill accused Sarkar of "worshipping a paedophile"... which it turns out is not correct. She also by her own admission encouraged some truly awful anti-muslim abuse against her.
//I had no idea who Ash Sarkar is.
After searching I am not much wiser. //
She is a leftist commentator... she describes herself as a "communist libertarian muslim" which I must say to me does sound like a combination of ideas that are very very difficult to reconcile... communism is atheistic by nature and not very libertarian, for example. But she obviously copes somehow so I might take a look into some of her writing to see if and how she squares these things.
//I had no idea who Ash Sarkar is.
After searching I am not much wiser. //
She is a leftist commentator... she describes herself as a "communist libertarian muslim" which I must say to me does sound like a combination of ideas that are very very difficult to reconcile... communism is atheistic by nature and not very libertarian, for example. But she obviously copes somehow so I might take a look into some of her writing to see if and how she squares these things.
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