Emma and Chris are veritaphobic

Actress Emma Watson has recently made a speech to the United Nations about gender equality.  A video of this speech is included below.  Meanwhile, the Daily Express has published an essay by Chris Roycroft-Davies, who if I've got it right is or used to be a speechwriter for the war criminal David Cameron.  His essay can be read here.

Chris Roycroft-Davis

Emma Watson makes some good points, whereas Chris Roycroft-Davies makes hardly any.

He begins by quoting Otto von Bismarck about blood and iron, although I'm not sure that Bismarck is the best possible role model for humane government.  In fact I'm quite sure he isn't.

Roycroft-Davies then asserts that Britain will soon be joining in the war against ISIS in Iraq and Syria, although my understanding is that that is subject to a vote in parliament which has not yet taken place.

He argues that Britain has no choice but to enter the war, but he is wrong.  Last year British MPs voted against entering a war against Syria in order to remove President Assad, but now they are expected to vote to go to war against the enemies of Assad.

Perhaps the only truth he utters is that we are faced with an enemy fighting a war without borders.

In recent years, Britain has gone to war against Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria, and each of those wars has made the world a more dangerous place.  This new war is unlikely to be any different.

And so to my central point: Emma Watson and Chris Roycroft-Davies are united in their veritaphobia - the fear of the truth.  Emma Watson does not mention the fact that Islam is a huge obstacle to gender equality.  Islam is after all founded on a book which says that Muslim men may beat and rape their wives.  Chris Roycroft-Davies does not mention the fact that Islam is fundamentally belligerent.

I am proud of the fact that I maintain a high standard of factual accuracy with this blog, but I will admit to having been wrong about ISIS.  I have previously argued that Muslims killing other Muslims cannot be explained in terms of The Koran.  I am indebted to David Woods for pointing out that Muslims are commanded to strive hard against the unbelievers and the hypocrites and be unyielding to them (9:73).

Unbelievers are non-Muslims, whereas hypocrites are fake Muslims.  Any Muslim is free to regard any other Muslim as a fake, and of course the true Muslim is required to be belligerent.

It is highly unlikely that Islamic terrorism cannot be defeated while Islam exists.  The Muslim who is sweetness and light today could be a soldier of ISIS tomorrow.  Missiles can kill individual Muslims, but the war will never be won by missiles alone.

As well as being veritaphobic, Chris Roycroft-Davies is devoted to the cause of open door immigration.  If the British government wants to protect the British people from Islamic terror, then it should close our borders to Muslims, and seek to persuade Muslims in this country to abandon Islam.  I say persuade and not coerce, as coercion rarely works.

I am sure that a lot of people would happily demonise me for holding that point of view, but surely closing our borders to Muslims is more humane than bombing other countries.

Related previous posts include:
Your Muslim faith - really?
Now study Islam
Now ban The Koran
Bacon does not kill Muslims