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All of the following were published as comments on the Facebook pages on the British, The Guardian, and BBC.  They received rave insults and swearing by a large number of English readers.  One of it, probably due to complains by readers and perhaps The Guardian themselves, led to the a2ed's post being deleted and access temporarily blocked for 24 hours. The white man, and the God he's made in his likeness, cannot be challenged I suppose. 😉 Whatever the creativity of Bowie, he certainly didn't do much to ease the affliction of gross Eurocentrism in the west.  If anything, and if the response to his demise is anything to go by, it both revealed and reinforced the affliction. ******* OK OK.   So he was the messiah.  A godsend. A demigod.  The answer to all of humankind's woes.  Forget the produce of the cultures of more than 5 billion people which the west know nothing about, he's the best, and were going to get everyone in the world to think as such wit...

“   Our Consciousness of an atrocious act determines the degree to which it conflicts with our Conscience. The less explicit the act, the less conscious we are of it, and the less it conflicts with our conscience. What a beautifully mephistophelean equation. Ask yourself, "How do I feel after seeing the above?"  What if you were given just statistics instead of all of the above?  How would you feel then? I have to admit, reading these accounts really got my stomach turned. The word, 'Terrible', isn't enough to appreciate these horrendous atrocities in Paris. But, that's the problem isn't it. When i read about how US-UK embargoes killed half a million children in Iraq via embargoes, or this or that drone attack, or invasion, etc, I am just given the information, and statistics. “   This is what I term, 'the 3 dimensionalising' of such deaths in the west, whilst others are just a uni-dimensional statistical print on paper. But when it comes to 9/...

Ed: When you are pregnant, your body belongs to the child as well. The woman's ' choice' is only half as relevant or significant. In the case of triplets.... Well, you do the arithmetic. Ed: How is it that people here care more about goddamn dogs then unborn babies?!?! Lyndsay: Hmm perhaps because dogs are breathing on their own as a fully formed being in the world not inside anyones stomach? They arent just a clump of cells in someone elses bodily organ that would cease to be if anything happened to that host. Elizabeth: Dogs think and feel and communicate on some level. Kai Meiling: They also taste better Ed: You guys are missing the point. What is a dog's potential? Will it one day become a talking, voting, loving, creative, intelligent, empathetic, multicultural, philosophic, religious, insightful, wise....person? Every baby you kill in the womb has the potential for all of that. Do you toss out a seed because it has yet to bloom? In potential, a dog pales in ...

Just wasted an hour and half watching the movie, 'Afterlife', starring Christina Ricci and Liam Neeson. What nonsense. You are given evidence throughout that Christina might be dead, and also evidence that she might be alive. And at the end, as is fast becoming the trend in western horror movies, all the good die and the bad guy gets away to do his shit another day....and gets a young boy to be his student as well! The shows main focus seems to be just increasing the tension within the viewer, not giving the viewer enough evidence to decide either way, and finally ending on as bleak and sick a note as possible. Basically, there isn't really any ending. Evidence is given to make people think either way so that the tension and anxiety can last long after the cinema has closed its doors as people attempt to figure out what really happened.  What the white man seems to be coming up with these days for 'entertainment' brings back memories of those days in Ro...

Great actors. What can we understand by that phrase? There are lots of 'great actors' in the west. Yes. I consider them 'great actors', but within a particular context. A particular 'western' context. Just like there are great Chinese actors, but also within a particular 'chinese' context. What do i mean by 'within a particular context'? Let's look at it this way. Let's look at a children's production in school. Amongst them, there would be 'great actors' WITHIN that particul ar context. You see, in a school play, not that much is expected. No great passion, depth, and so on. Because they are kids. So WITHIN that context, and standard, we determine who is a 'great actor'. Same thing when it comes to understanding 'great actors' in any context, and in comparison to other contexts. Clint Eastwood can act in a children's school play with little effort, whilst a child from that play wouldn't be ...

My response to the issue of women's rights in the middle east and elsewhere...in dialogue form. Nizam: I think its all about men dominating women in our society & justifying it. They want to tell us that Western women or any other are cheap & easy because they wear less. Ed: Well, i'm definitely against treating women as 2nd class. What women should do there is demand equal rights. But by making their protests, demeanour, and expressions similar to western women, they are just playing into the hands of those who want to demonise feminism as a whole by terming it a westernised enterprise. As for western women being portrayed as 'cheap and easy', that's not far from the truth, comparatively speaking. Wearing less is a sign of focus on sexuality as opposed to anything else. The west is pretty much primitive in this and other respects. We will fail to see this if we cast aside our own standards and just view the western standard as the standard for all things....

Well, what is said in the above statement is not untrue. But what is not said is that the Tsunami from the seas that flood the shores of the w.Europeans is caused by a boulder tossed by them.  In a sense, this agitation by these so-called 'terrorists' is actually a call for 'accountability', or a result of the absence of it.  Basically, if a government wants to involve itself in the socio-political-cultural climate of a region, determine the composition of its local authority, impose sanctions and life-threatening embargoes, the populace needs to be represented in the associated parliament that government hails from, and the borders of that nation-state must also be opened to those fleeing the evils of that state or the viciousness of the sanctions of the meddling state.  The peoples of the meddling state cannot be relied upon to exert humanitarian and effective pressures on their governments because they are more forgiving of their governments when they do greater evil...

"Apologists" for those who commit acts of terrorism are partly responsible for the violence, Philip Hammond has said. - bbc 

 Flipmode (211 likes): This just goes to prove these apologists will never agree to our way of life, so why are they here? It always the same religious group blaming everyone else for the barbaric acts that THEIR people carry out. Yet , they only ever speak out when they feel like it, you don’t hear a word about the beheadings,child abuse etc etc, They seem to except that as the norm. Alan (171 likes) : Who is to blame that Emwazi did not think the he belonged in the UK ONLY Emwazi. ALL those from ethnic minorities, especially those from Middlee East, Pakistan and Bangladesh, must embrace british culture.
 Keep their religion but discard all the closed community culture. Aphoristic (1 like): Again all the most accurate views today are the "lowest rated"... It's a bit of a right wing Daily Hate sleaze fest on HYS today.... Was there an...

"Look girl, either you can focus on guys in college or on studies" - just one of the unusual conversations heard in a women-only carriage” - bbc following extracted from BBC Facebook Diane Knight : Can’t you have both!!!!??? Leon Gabriel Kharkongor : Different parts of India have different mentalities. Delhi does not represent the whole of India. Gerard Takiwa : Well done BBC ... For telling India...to step out of the dark and embrace the light ! Sharmaine Mohan : Indians embrace light almost 10000 yrs ago buddy...Educate yourself before making stupid comments.... Ed : You can't blame Gerard too much Sharmaine. Gerard, after all, is product of his western media, unlike us, who pay attention to everything that goes on everywhere. Hence, we are endowed with more perspectives, whereas they don't know anything other than Hollywood and their own culture of drinking, eating, walking dogs, worshipping celebs and footballers.

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I'm Catholic, but This is not about the freedom of speech. It's about the freedom to be a right-wing, self-absorbed, Eurocentric, ass****. For myself, i'm Charlie and Muhammad. Mutual respect and love please. And let's not decontextualise this situation. The cartoons are just the cherry on a cake of historical western colonial abuse of the non-western netherworld. The cartoons are an insult in addition to a long-standing injury afflicted on the Arab/Islamic world. I'm not saying that the attacks are right. Certainly not. However, when you keep injuring another, we cannot be shocked when we are slapped back. I'm explaining it, not justifying it, by the way. * Free speech. Interesting topic. Free speech as a child; or free speech as an adult; or free speech as an empathetic, thoughtful human being? I'm for the lattermost of the three. Of course, freedom of speech is curtailed when i choose the third. Because then i can't rant like a child, or just ...