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Speaking of atheism 0
A chat about atheism, religion, and science. Recorded December 14, 2010.
Dawkins, Dennett, Harris, Hitchens.
Atheists who assist the jihad 20
We are often more provoked by atheists on the Left than by believers on the conservative Right.
Leftism is a religion. And it is promoting the worst religion of all – Islam.
Douglas Murray writes at Gatestone:
Who has the "right" to talk about Islam? The question arose thanks to the response of a Muslim student society at an American university.
Last week saw the latest in the apparently interminable efforts to make the Somali-born human-rights activist and author Ayaan Hirsi Ali into some kind of pariah. Readers will recall the atrocious treatment of Hirsi Ali by Brandeis University earlier this year, when the "liberal arts university" invited Hirsi Ali to speak and then withdrew the invitation at the behest of certain Muslim students and anti-free-speech activists among the university's faculty staff. As said at the time, the university's dropping of Hirsi Ali was a classic case of dropping a firefighter in order to appease arsonists.
The latest round has already kicked off. The William F Buckley Jr Program at Yale University actually asking Hirsi Ali to speak and did not rescind the invitation. On this occasion, an American university managed to hold firm and not bar Hirsi Ali, but the reactions of two types of students were especially intriguing.
First – and of most interest to the press covering this kind of dust-up – was that among the usual criticisms of Hirsi Ali, this time the attacks also came from members of the Yale Atheists, Humanists and Agnostics society. Ahead of the event, those students posted on Facebook that:
"We do not believe Ayaan Hirsi Ali represents the totality of the ex-Muslim experience … Although we acknowledge the value of her story, we do not endorse her blanket statements on all Muslims and Islam."
What kind of atheists are these who can tolerate any aspect of Islam? Islam is doctrinally intolerant, and intolerance is not to be tolerated.
The very fact that the pro-Islam factions at Yale want to silence a critic proves Islamic intolerance – if proof were needed in a world assailed by jihad.
It is hard to know which of these witless statements to unpick first. The statement as a whole constitutes a motorway pileup of moral confusion. Just take the first point – the possibility that Hirsi Ali does not represent the "totality of the ex-Muslim experience." That is true. It is also something that Hirsi Ali would probably be the first to admit to. But it is also true of absolutely everybody. Nobody represents the "totality" of any experience. Yale Atheists, Humanists and Agnostics might some day realize that not even they represent the "totality of the atheist, humanist and agnostic experience." Not even among students. In the Yale area.
And then there is the other group who, rather more predictably, complained about Hirsi Ali speaking at all. The Yale Muslim Students Association wrote to the "Yale community" as well as the Buckley program heads and staff in particular to say that:
"Our concern is that Ms. Hirsi Ali is being invited to speak as an authority on Islam despite the fact that she does not hold the credentials to do so. In the past, under such authority, she has overlooked the complexity of sociopolitical issues in Muslim-majority countries and has purported that Islam promotes a number of violent and inhumane practices."
It is important to recognize what is true here before getting on to what is false. It is true that Hirsi Ali has, in the past, pointed to teachings and practices that are violent and inhumane in many Muslim-majority countries. Rather than being part of some intolerable smear-campaign, there may of course be a reason for this: which is that there are a vast number of practices that are indeed violent and inhumane in Muslim-majority countries. …
Islam is violent and inhumane.
How about the laws in multiple Muslim-majority countries which punish homosexuals with death by hanging, among other means? What about the laws in many Muslim-majority countries which – if exercised at Yale – would see the execution or imprisonment of members of the university's Atheists, Humanists and Agnostics society?
But, as with the other petition, the question is posed as one of authority. Hirsi Ali is not meant to speak about Islam because "she does not hold the credentials to do so." It is an interesting, sly way in which to frame a censor's argument.
It is also untrue. … Even were it not the case that Hirsi Ali has actually lived the Muslim life, with the personal story she has to tell as a result, any independent person would surely recognize that, if anything, she is somewhat over-credentialed. Hirsi Ali has authored multiple books and written hundreds of original and important articles on Islam. She has been published in every major newspaper in the Western world. She has a university degree from one of the oldest and most distinguished universities in the Netherlands. She has held positions at some of the most important universities and think-tanks in the world. As an extraordinary immigration success story, she was elected to Parliament in the Netherlands in her early thirties and one of the most important figures in the debate on integration in Europe as well as America.
If she is not qualified to speak about this subject, then who is? … There is a reason why she continually draws – even in America – this type of pushback. It is because anti-reformist Muslims everywhere …
Are there Muslim reformists? Into what could Islam be "reformed"? What would be left of Islam if the violence, intolerance, cruelty and lies were taken out of it?
… realize that she presents to their literalist faith a type of poison for which they have absolutely no antidote. Her criticisms are often raw because they are true. Able to do nothing about the truth, they try to silence the truth-teller.
One grows to expect this from Muslim associations. But the atheists? If these students truly believe in education and enlightenment, I would suggest they organize a trip around North Africa and the Middle East. Their experiences may never represent the "totality" of anything. But, especially if they wear their society's logo on T-shirts, it might give them a personal insight into one of the many points Hirsi Ali has brought to the world's attention – a point they might one day see is worth their attention, too.
Douglas Murray is reminding atheists that in most of not all Islamic countries, known atheists are punished with imprisonment, or flogging, or execution – often all three.
But few Leftist intellectuals of the Western world ever subject themselves to the regimes they theoretically support or endorse. As everyone knows, some who have actually ventured to put themselves at the mercy of Islam have recently had their heads sawn off.
[Request to readers: if anyone finds a transcript of Ayaan Hirsi Ali's speech at Yale, please bring it to us.]
Leaving religion for good 6
We dearly love an article we can enjoy examining critically. Best of all we like an opinion that we partly agree with and partly do not.
This article is by Star Parker, whose columns at Townhall on political issues we generally like. And here again we have no quarrel with her political views. It is her conviction that religion is necessary and good that sparks our opposition.
A new Pew Research Center survey of opinion about the importance of religion in American life shows an interesting picture.
Over the last 12 years, the percentage of Americans that think religion is losing influence in American life has increased dramatically. In 2002, 52 percent of those surveyed said religion is losing influence. In 2014, 72 percent of Americans said religion is losing influence.
To us, of course, that's good news.
However, while increasing numbers of Americans feel religion is losing influence, most feel this is a bad thing.
Fifty-six percent say that the waning influence of religion is a bad thing compared to 12 percent that say it is a good thing.
In a survey done by Pew in 2012, 58 percent of Americans said religion is "very important" and only 18 percent said it is not "too important" or "not important at all".
This raises some interesting questions.
One clear one is why, when Americans think religion is very important, has the percentage of Americans who think religion is losing influence in American life increased almost 40 percent over the last 14 years?
Another one is what are the political implications? Certainly, in the Republican Party, there is an increasingly vocal libertarian leaning faction that sees religion as costly political baggage.
Yes – and that is one of the libertarian views with which we are in strong sympathy.
I attribute why almost three fourths of Americans feel that religion is losing influence in American life, while most feel this is a bad thing, to the law of unintended consequences.
She goes on to describe the disaster of welfare policies. We too think they have been – and continue to be – disastrous.
Many Americans have been unwittingly supporting policies for more than a half-century that they thought were good ideas and consistent with their values which have been neither. Now more Americans are beginning to appreciate the damage that has been done and how far the nation has strayed from their own sense of right and wrong.
Take the example of welfare.
When Aid to Families with Dependent Children program was dramatically expanded in the 1960s, it seemed morally correct for government to get more aggressive in the lives of the poor, particularly poor black women. … Massive increases of government in the lives of low-income black families were accompanied by a tripling of single parent households and out-of wedlock births, laying the groundwork for intergenerational poverty.
Right. Those have been and are the causes of "intergenerational poverty".
But we omitted a sentence. It was this:
Who appreciated that the program would undermine the very religious, traditional values that keep families intact, essential for the work ethic that leads people out poverty?
It may well have been the case that Church-taught values contributed to a belief that children should be born to married parents. Many held that belief also because it is plainly best for children to be raised by a mother and a father. The principle is good whether endorsed or not by a religion.
We contend that it is because the state took over the responsibility of providing for children that men could so easily opt out of the traditional role of bread-winner to their families. It was government incursion into private life that did the damage to believers and non-believers alike. Their religion or lack of it had nothing to do with the "unintended consequences" of welfarism.
Now it's happening in the whole country. As we've gotten more government telling Americans how to save for retirement, how to deal with their health care, how to educate their children – American families have been damaged and out-of-wedlock births have increased six-fold from 1960 to 42 percent today. Government has displaced family.
Some say today we have competing views about the role of government.
Conservatives and progressives do have different views about the role of government. That is not a matter of opinion, but a fact.
I would say we have competing views about what life is about.
Yes. We think life can be "about" anything that free individuals want to make it. Star Parker thinks that life was created, and the creator had a purpose, and that purpose, though impossible to define, is somehow helped along by this or that set of religious doctrines. About which set of doctrines in particular, there are "competing views" among the multitude of religions, each of which claims to teach "the truth".
One view – a decidedly secular, materialistic view – sees no mystery in life.
We have a decidedly secular view – materialistic too in that we see the need to sustain our physical existence as well and as pleasantly as we possibly can. But we do not think there is no mystery. On the contrary, we are aware that humankind knows very little. To learn more, to explore what we do not know about our universe and ourselves is the most exciting adventure of our conscious lives, and discovery is the engine of all progress.
Pretending to know that there is a purpose to life known only to a supernatural being who created it but chooses to keep his purpose secret, is to opt out of the great adventure.
The left wing version, which dominates the Democratic Party, says government can solve all of life's problems.
Or most of them. And it's a wrong and dangerous belief.
The hard-core libertarian version, found among some Republicans — says just leave everybody alone — you don't bother me and I won't bother you — and everything will work out for the best.
That is an absurd encapsulation of the libertarian view. No intelligent libertarian thinks that if people are left to make their own choices, if they are self-reliant, "everything will work out for the best". Every individual will make his own successes and failures – and take responsibility for them. He knows that government cannot solve "all life's problems" – and, what's more, does a pretty poor job of solving the one problem it exists to solve: how best to protect liberty.
The other view maintains that you can't have a free society that is not also a virtuous society.
A free society starts off with the virtue of being a free society. Freedom needs to be protected by law, and, if it is, crime will be punished, foreign enemies will be kept away, and the people can prosper. How good they are in their private lives remains forever dependent on individual character and choice.
It was what George Washington meant when he said in his farewell address that "of all the dispensations and habits that lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports".
We are sorry we can only partially agree with George Washington on this. Morality, yes. Religion? What religion has a history that can withstand moral criticism? Some – Christianity and Islam in particular – have a history of carnage and cruelty. That Christianity preaches against both make its actual record all the worse.
It is my sense that more Americans are beginning to wake up to the unintended, damaging consequences of the often well-intended government policies they have been supporting for many years.
More Americans are beginning to appreciate that we can't separate our fiscal and economic problems from our moral problems and that if we want to recapture our freedom and prosperity, we must recapture our virtue.
Certainly. But we won't do that by returning into the mental darkness of religion. We can do it by limiting the powers of government and recovering the idea of liberty as the highest value. That is political and moral virtue.
AHA! – what were Yale atheists thinking? 2
This is from Truth Revolt, September 11, 2014:
Muslim Students Association at Yale University has written a letter expressing concern that the William F. Buckley, Jr. Program on campus is hosting women's rights activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali to speak about Islam.
The Somali-born Hirsi Ali is an outspoken critic of organized religion, specifically Islam, which was used as justification for genital mutilation and attempting forced marriage.
In an email obtained exclusively by TruthRevolt, Abrar Omeish, an MSA board member, asks for campus organizations to stand against Hirsi Ali's proposed talk.
Hirsi Ali (they say) is:
… a speaker who is very well known for her hateful comments towards marginalized groups, especially the Muslim community. It is making many Muslims on campus feel unwelcome and uncomfortable … We would like to point out though that her main source of fame – or, rather, infamy – has been her inflammatory comments about Islam and its followers. Not only are these comments hateful, but they are also very hurtful to the Muslim community, particularly to Muslim students at Yale.
Through its efforts, the MSA managed to recruit 35 other campus groups and student organizations to stand against Hirsi Ali's talk because she "is being invited to speak as an authority on Islam despite the fact that she does not hold the credentials to do so."
Hirsi Ali is scheduled to to give a lecture titled "Clash of Civilizations: Islam and the West" on Monday September 15th.
Hirsi Ali, a best-selling author, drew national attention when Brandeis University infamously rescinded a previously-extended offer of an honorary degree this past April.
Omeish also privately noted that a " number of prominent groups and publications on campus especially those of faith, have joined, and as brothers and sisters in faith we would particularly appreciate solidarity with you against hatred that we both believe God does not teach us to promote. The Muslim community and its allies are disappointed that our own fellow Yalies would invite such a speaker knowingly and that she would have such a platform in our home".
Co-signers to the letter include: Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), J Street U, The Arab Students Association (ASA), Women's Leadership Initative (WLI), The Women's Center, Asian American Student Alliance (AASA), Black Church at Yale (BCAY), The Slifka Center, Council on Middle Eastern Studies (CMES), and the Yale Atheists, Humanists, and Agnostics (AHA).
The last six words intensely provoke us! Why would the Yale Atheists turn against a fellow atheist? Join "brothers and sisters in faith" acting in a way they think "God" would not approve? Against an extraordinarily brave and brilliant woman – and great thinker and writer – who knows as much as anyone can possibly know about the suffering of women under Islam, being herself a survivor of its cruel tyranny?
William S. Buckley, after whom the Program is named that she was invited to honor with her presence, would have held her in the highest esteem.
We're glad to say Ayaan Hirsi Ali did deliver her address at Yale University as scheduled.
We'll post a video or transcript of it if and when we can.
Here, for now, is how she ended it:
Beware the church militant redux! 28
A writer by the name of Enza Ferreri has written an article against Reason. She probably doesn't see that that is what she's done. But that is what she's done. She writes:
It's all very simple. We can't fight Islam in the West without fighting the enablers of Islam in the West, namely the Leftists.
So far, so good.
And, since the Left has many different and separate aspects, we have to fight against each one of them. Secularism, environmentalism, global warming alarmism, homosexualism, militant feminism, sexual relativism, multiculturalism, anti-Christianity, Islamophilia, post-nationalism, internationalism are just as important targets to attack as Marxist economics, the expropriation of the capitalist class (or, in its modern reincarnation, redistribution of wealth), and the dictatorship of the proletariat.
The words we have put in bold mark the issues we dispute with Enza Ferreri.
We don't know what "homosexualism" is, or "sexual relativism".
We consider sexual choices to be private matters (unless they involve children). They are certainly not dangerous threats to the survival of the West.
But while we agree with the author on her other "targets", we emphatically disagree with her when it comes to secularism and anti-Christianity.
First, secularism:
Secularism is not the same as Leftism. Between the founding of the United States of America and the dawning in the 1960s of this Leftist age, there was a very long stretch of secularism, liberty, and prosperity.
But in those times and those countries where a church (in the widest sense) has been the ruling power, there has always been tyranny. What greater tyranny can there be than the imposition of an orthodoxy on every mind?
Communism and Nazism also impose orthodoxy, and punish dissent as cruelly as a theocracy. That is one of the reasons why we class these ideologies as religions. Nazi Germany, Stalinist Russia, Maoist China were not secular states; they were orthodoxies, as tyrannous as the Catholic Church in the Middle Ages, or the newly declared Islamic State now.
The secular state, and only the secular state, is a free state. Secularism is freedom. Freedom is only possible in the secular state.
Next, anti-Christianity:
In a free, secular society, people are free to be Christians. But people are equally free to criticize Christianity.
Neglecting any of these fronts is like fighting a war leaving a battleground to the enemy, like fighting on the Western front and leaving totally undefended the Eastern one.
Secularism and atheism are certainly the first lines of important wars.
So she contends that the prime enemy in her war is freedom. That being so, she has no case to make against Islam or Marxism.
For all that she seems to be speaking for tolerance (being against Islamophilia) and reason (being against environmentalism, global warming alarmism, "militant feminism"); and against Islam (aka multiculturalism) and Marxism (redistribution etc.), she is actually speaking for her own choice of intolerant, irrational, orthodox tyranny.
A secularist West will always lose to Islam, because it will have enough compassion, tolerance and self-restraint from violence that are the remnants of its Christian heritage, but it will have lost the ideals, the passion and certainty of fighting for a just cause that were once part of Christianity and have disappeared with its erosion.
Her assumptions are arrogant to an extreme. Compassion, tolerance and self-restraint from violence are not the legacies of "a Christian heritage" but of enlightened reason.
It is pointless to try and fight one irrational belief, such as Islam or Marxism, by setting up another irrational belief, such as Christianity, in opposition to it. There is no better reason to believe in the Trinity than in Allah or the inevitability of the dictatorship of the proletariat.
Two quotes here serve as epigrams. Robert Spencer wrote in his great work Religion of Peace? Why Christianity Is and Islam Isn't: "People who are ashamed of their own culture will not defend it." And Dennis Prager said during one of his radio broadcasts, "Only good religion can counter bad religion."
We admire much that Robert Spencer and Denis Prager write. And we think Spencer makes a point here worth thinking about. But to Prager's assertion we say, nonsense!
Some people claim that there won't be a religious revival in Europe because we are past believing in God. That this is not true can be seen by the high – and increasing – number of Westerners who convert to Islam. Many of them give as a reason for their conversion the need for absolutes, boundaries and well-defined status. A journalist writing for The Spectator on this subject explained why she is Catholic:
But above all, I like the moral certainties. I don't mind the dogma one bit. I would rather dogma and impossible ideals than confusion and compromise. In that sense, I do identify with those who choose Islam over the way of no faith, or a seemingly uncertain faith, like the woolly old C of E.
Confusion and compromise is inescapable. How can dogma – which is to say being incurably wrong – and "impossible ideals" be better than admitting the truth of scio nescio: I know that I do not know? It is as if the culture on which such persons as the quoted Catholic and the author of the article have been raised was never affected by Socratean doubt, the Enlightenment, the assumption of ignorance upon which all true science proceeds.
William Kilpatrick, in Christianity, Islam, and Atheism: The Struggle for the Soul of the West – a book I thoroughly recommend reading -, writes: Brian Young's friends said he was troubled by the decadence of Western society. David Courtrailler's lawyer said, "For David, Islam ordered his life." These are the sorts of reasons ordinary converts to Islam give. A common refrain from converts is that Islam provides a complete plan for life in contrast to the ruleless and clueless life offered by secular society. As Mary Fallot, a young French convert, explains, "Islam demands a closeness to God. Islam is simpler, more rigorous, and it's easier because it is explicit. I was looking for a framework; man needs rules and behavior to follow. Christianity did not give me the same reference points." If you look at the convert testimonials on Muslim websites, they echo this refrain: Islam brings "peace", "order", "discipline", and a way of life that Christianity and other religions fail to offer.
Islam brings peace! He – and she – can say that with a straight face? While IS (ISIS, ISIL) is rampaging through Syria and Iraq mass-slaughtering, impaling, crucifying, decapitating, raping, enslaving; while Hamas is firing thousands of rockets into Israel; while civil war rages in Syria; while Yezidis, Kurds, Baha'is, Christians, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, other Muslims are being daily killed and constantly persecuted by Muslims?
Astonishing that some women crave the "order" and "discipline" of subjugation; when the "discipline" is exerted by enslavement, beatings, whippings, stonings, legal discrimination.
Human beings will never be past the need for believing in something bigger than themselves, because that need is part of the human mind.
Where are there human beings who do not know that natural forces are "bigger than themselves"? Who among us does not know that we are mortal?
She continues in the same vein. We'll not irritate our readers with all of it. She is a true believer. And what she believes is that Christianity is good and true.
We will skip to what she quotes as wisdom from a Catholic primate:
A clear direction was given by Cardinal Giacomo Biffi, Archbishop of Bologna, Italy. As early as 30 September 2000, before 9/11, when very few in the West even thought of worrying about Islam, he delivered a very forward-looking speech, which included this premonition:
… Either Europe will become Christian again or it will become Muslim. What I see without future is the "culture of nothing", of freedom without limits and without content, of skepticism boasted as intellectual achievement, which seems to be the attitude largely dominant among European peoples, all more or less rich of means and poor of truths. This "culture of nothingness" (sustained by hedonism and libertarian insatiability) will not be able to withstand the ideological onslaught of Islam, which will not be missing: only the rediscovery of the Christian event as the only salvation for man – and therefore only a strong resurrection of the ancient soul of Europe – will offer a different outcome to this inevitable confrontation.
The culture of reason is not a "culture of nothing". It is a culture of rational humility; of admitting ignorance and trying to find the truth, even if one can never be certain one has found it. Skepticism is the only engine of discovery.
"Freedom without limits"? Freedom of action always has a limit. In a free society, everyone's freedom is limited by everyone else's under the rule of law. But indeed the freedom of the mind has no limits, nor should it have any.
Notice the snide swipe at riches and "hedonism". Do you think that he, as a cardinal, pigs it in some hovel?
By "truths" he means the patent absurdities of Christian theological belief.
"Libertarian insatiability". What the heck does that mean?
If the Western culture of reason, secularism, liberty, skepticism, science, cannot withstand the onslaught of Islam, it will be because that culture has been abandoned by people like Enza Ferreri.
She goes on to blame shrinking birthrates on secularism. Then she ends with this:
Militant atheists à la Richard Dawkins have not really given enough thought to the long-term consequences of their ideas, which we are beginning to see.
And of which we are reminded whenever, for example, we read in the news of doctors and missionaries who die of Ebola while assisting affected patients for Christian charities. Not many atheist charities are involved in that work.
How many cures for diseases have been found by scientists among whom atheists are in a huge majority? The medical researchers who eliminated smallpox; those who found how to detect the beginnings of cancer and treat it before it becomes lethal, and how to restore wholeness to lepers and replace a faulty heart or kidney …. the list could run on for hours … cure more people than all the martyrdom-seeking self-righteous preachy Christians out to save their imaginary souls by "assisting affected patients" have ever done or could do in a thousand years.
As a reminder to readers who have a strong stomach of what happened when the Christian Churches provided "order" and "discipline" to Europe and wherever else they could reach, we recommend The Grand Inquisitor's Manual by Jonathan Kirsch, and our own post Calvin: a chapter in the terrible history of Christianity by Jillian Becker, April 25, 2010. (Put the title in our search slot.)
Nothing IS (ISIS, ISIL) is doing now in the name of Islam is worse in type or degree than what those Christians did in the name of Christianity.
The world needs saving from religion.
Spiritual adventures: aesthetical, ethical, and pharmaceutical 1
Sam Harris is an atheist. We like a lot of what he writes and says. Just recently one of our readers sent us this statement of his, which we acknowledge, sadly, to be most probably true:
For the rest of our lives, and the lives of our children, we are going to be confronted by people who don't want to live peacefully in a secular, pluralistic world, because they are desperate to get to Paradise, and they are willing to destroy the very possibility of human happiness along the way.
We have watched videos of him lecturing. We have read some articles of his. And all with appreciation. So when we were sent his new book for review, we expected to like it.
Do we like it?
To read Jillian Becker's review of Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion by Sam Harris, click on its title in our margin, under Pages.
No difference between Islam and Islamism 3
… a Turkish atheist from a Muslim background writes in an article denouncing Islam.
We have taken it from Jihad Watch. The writer is Serkan Engin, who has asked for it to be published although it endangers him in Turkey. (He is a socialist, but is not advocating socialism in this article.)
Why Islam is Worse than Nazism
I am an atheist author and poet, who had lived as a Sunni Muslim for 23 years from birth, and I am still living in a Muslim country, Turkey. Also, my parents and all of my relatives are still Muslim. So, my critics about Islam can be easily consider this an inside view.
I know that the title of this essay seems assertive, but I will explain the rightness of this title step-by-step in this essay.
First of all, you have to learn about Islam that if you are an "outsider", a non-Muslim, for example, a Christian, an atheist, a Buddhist, a Jew or whatever else, all Muslims have the "right" of killing and raping you, grabbing all your properties, your country, land, money and anything else. They take this "right" from the book of their belief, the Quran. In other words, they take this "right" from their belief's core, the theology of Islam.
Here are some examples of this in verses from Quran.
This verse of Quran is about "all non-Muslims", all "heretics"! — Christians, Buddhists, atheists, Jews, etc. — describing them "who wage war against Allah and His Messenger (Muhammad)"
Surat Al-Ma'idah (5.33):
Indeed, the penalty for those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger and strive upon earth [to cause] corruption is none but that they be killed or crucified or that their hands and feet be cut off from opposite sides or that they be exiled from the land. That is for them a disgrace in this world; and for them in the Hereafter is a great punishment.
And this verse of the Quran is about the order to kill the humans who left Islam, the apostates:
Surat An-Nisa' (4.89):
They wish you would disbelieve as they disbelieved so you would be alike. So do not take from among them allies until they emigrate for the cause of Allah. But if they turn away, then seize them and kill them wherever you find them and take not from among them any ally or helper..
… You have heard many times that "Islam is a tolerant religion". That is the biggest lie that you can hear all over the World, and this lie is used as a mask to hide the terrible face of Islam. There is NO difference between Islam and Islamism. This is the main error that the modern world make about Islam. There are not different forms as Islam and Islamism, they are the same thing, and they have the same content. This separation is just only an illusion, and it is used by Muslims to hide the brutal, hateful, oppressive,murderous, genocidal face of Islam.
Islamic theology is based on the verses of the Quran and Hadith. Hadiths are the words and actions of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, and all Muslims must follow these words and actions in addition to the orders of Quran. For example, you have to defecate as Muhammad did, and you have to clean yourself as he did, or you can rape and enslave a "heretic" woman in a war as a sex slave as Muhammad did, or you can torture your enemy in a war to learn the place of his hidden money, as Muhammad did.
You "must" cut the hand of a thief as Muhammad did, not give him any prison sentence as do the modern laws.
You must stone a woman to death as Muhammad did, because she had sex outside of the rules of Islam (but you must only whip her partner a hundred times). If you are a Muslim, you can never set them free while considering that their sexual actions are about their own personal relations and freedom, in accord with modern laws. You must definitely apply the punishments of Muhammad such as stoning the woman to the death and whipping her partner a hundred times if you want to be a good Muslim.
You must kill the man who left the belief of Islam, as Muhammad did. You can't say "This is his own choice and he has the freedom of thought and belief", because it is an order of the Quran that you "must" kill the persons who were Muslim before and then left the Islamic religion.
You must kill all homosexuals according to the orders of Islam. No Muslims can say according to Islam that their sexual orientation is their own natural right, in accord with the human rights norms of our age.
You have the "right" to marry a little girl at 9 years old, as Muhammad did. In other words, you can rape a little child legally in Islam and make her a sex slave, and also a domestic slave till the end of her life.
You can lie alongside of your dead wife for 6 hours, as Muhammad did. In other words, you can rape the dead body of your wife for 6 hours after her death.
Here is Islam … Here is the "tolerant religion" … Here is the right way to the heaven … Here are the orders of Allah … Here are the actions of Muhammad…
You can easily see how civilized the Muslim countries of the world are because of Islam, such as Afghanistan, Nigeria, Turkey, Iran, Sudan and the others. You can see how much they have contributed to the history of philosophy, the history of art, and the history of science of the whole world. You can see how respectful they are to human rights, women's rights, children's rights, the freedom of expression and thought, the freedom of the press, the freedom of belief, etc.
The first genocide wave of 20th century, the Armenian Genocide, the Assyrian Genocide and the Pontic Greek Genocide, was perpetrated by Turkish and Kurdish people of the Ottoman Empire and the new Turkish Republic, getting motivation from the "rights" that they had because of Islam: the "rights" of killing and raping the non-Muslims, enslaving their women and little girls as sex slaves and also domestic slaves, and grabbing their money, houses and lands. However, "The Committee of Union and Progress" … was based on Turkish nationalism; they used Turkish and Kurdish people easily for these genocides because of the Islamic religion's content about non-Muslims. All the Turkish and Kurdish Muslims believed that they would go to the heaven if they killed more non-Muslims, as do today's Islamist terrorists.
The owners of the second genocide wave of 20th century were Nazis, as you know. They took the genocides of the Turks as a sample. It is know that Adolf Hitler said to his military commanders, "Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?," while they were talking about the reaction of the world about the genocides that they were planning to perpetrate.
Nazism was considered a legal and respectable ideology at the beginning of the 1930s, and then the world saw how dangerous Nazism was. Millions of people died because of Nazism, and today it is illegal to support Nazism in any civilized country. You can never make propaganda about Nazism legally. Today, Nazism is not considered as a genuine thought alternative, and it is not included in the freedom of thought and expression.
Serkan Engin is wrong there. Western countries do not (and rightly do not) forbid the promotion of Nazism. Plenty of praise for it can be found in the "social media". Neo-Nazi groups are proliferating and enlarging in many European countries. It is still, however, generally abhorred in the court of public opinion. As the ideology of Islam should be.
In Europe, you are more likely to be punished under the law for telling the truth about Islam, even in private, than for spreading Nazi or Islamic race hatred – and hatred of free speech!
As I have detailed above, Islam is against the human rights norms of our age, and it has more dangerous content than Nazism. Islam is not a belief alternative, it is just a crime against humanity, and any crime shouldn't have freedom in our modern world. So, Islam must be declared illegal all over the world, as is Nazism, because of its vandal content and commands that are against human rights. All actions about Islam must be forbidden and the propagandists of Islam must be judged because of instigating to the crimes of murder, rape, [property] grab and crimes against humanity. Otherwise, the world will meet with a big tragedy when the Islamists will get more power, as the world suffered because of Nazism.
If the article doesn't demonstrate that Islam is worse than Nazism, it confirms that it's quite as evil.
Declaring an ideology illegal will not eliminate it. But Islam could be anathematized by public opinion if the Western governments, the media, and the schools and academies were to tell the truth about it continuously and consistently.
There's no sign that that's likely to happen. Which is why articles like this need to be widely circulated.
Religion poisons everything 1
This video takes little more than 50 minutes to watch, not the hour and more indicated on it.
It's well worth the time.
We agree with almost everything Christopher Hitchens says here about religion. (We do not share all his tastes or opinions. He never quite escaped from the Left, though he edged further and further Right in his last years.)
(Hat-tip Andrew M)
Libertarian conservatism 4
From time to time visitors to this website or our Facebook page query the idea – even the possibility – of there being such a thing as atheist conservatism. They are – almost always, as far as we can make out – Americans whose understanding is that the word "conservative" denotes Christian conservatism. To them, therefore, to speak of "atheist conservatism" is to commit a contradiction in terms. Some have called it an oxymoron.
In Europe too, conservatism has a Christian coloration. Conservative political parties usually declare themselves to be Christian – for example, the Christian Democratic Party (CDU) of Germany. But their support does not come only from Christians. And in Britain the established Church of England has been called "the Conservative Party at prayer", but the party does not exclude members of other Christian denominations or other religions, or the non-religious.
Yet it is an American conservatism that we embrace. It is faithfulness to the Constitution, to the essential idea that the United States was intended to embody as a nation: the idea of individual liberty protected by the rule of law.
The shortest answer we give to those who accuse us of being self-contradictory is to tell them what our prime principles are:
- individual freedom
- a free market economy
- small government
- low taxes
- strong defense
And we point out that those are core principles of American conservatism. The Constitution – southern state critics please be reminded – does not require citizens to be Christian, or religious at all.
Just as often, perhaps even more often, we are told that we cannot be both conservative and libertarian: that the two traditions are separate and even inimical to each other, to the point of being mutually exclusive. Even if that were true (and we don't think it is), we consider it unnecessary to take tradition into account. The issue needs to be looked at philosophically, not historically. Our conservatism, holding the firmly conservative principles we have listed, is manifestly a conservatism of liberty.
And we think it is now, more than ever before, that the libertarian view should direct the political agenda of conservatism. A heavy counterweight is needed to bring America back from its tipping over into collectivism by the Left. Individual freedom urgently needs to be saved.
What is stopping conservatives from accepting libertarianism as its future? The libertarians themselves. Frequently, their public statements reveal them to be inexcusably ignorant of world affairs. They often advocate naive isolationism. They seem to lack a sense of what matters. The legalization of drugs could be wise and necessary, but it is not worth making a hullabaloo about when jihad is being waged against us. A person should arguably be able to marry any other person or persons – or things – that they choose, but it is much more important that America should remain the world's sole superpower.
John Hinderaker also thinks that this should be "the libertarian moment". And he too reproaches libertarians with an underdeveloped sense of what matters to the existence, liberty, safety, and prosperity of the nation.
He writes at PowerLine:
Every major strand of American conservatism includes a strong libertarian streak, because the value of liberty is fundamental to just about all conservative thought. But today, especially, is said to be the libertarians' moment. What once was a fringe movement, politically speaking, has moved front and center in our political life.
And yet, in my view, libertarians of both the capital L and small l varieties punch below their weight. They have not contributed as much as they should to the conservative movement. This is partly because libertarians tend to founder on foreign policy, where many are merely modern-day isolationists. But it is also because they have tended to focus on secondary, or tertiary, issues of domestic policy.
A couple of years ago I was invited to a gathering on behalf of Gary Johnson, the former governor of New Mexico who then was a libertarian candidate for the Republican presidential nomination. I was well disposed toward him, but when he started talking, his first subject was legalization of drugs. Now he is the CEO of a marijuana company. Rand Paul is probably the leading libertarian at the moment; he purports to take seriously the threat that someone drinking coffee in an American cafe will be struck by a drone-fired missile.
American liberty is indeed under attack, and a libertarian movement is needed more than ever. But the threat to freedom is not drug laws or drone attacks.
The principal threat is the administrative state, which increasingly hems in everything we do and depends hardly at all on the will of voters. …
Calvin Coolidge, who knew the Progressives well and understood how antithetical their vision of government is to America's founding principles [said]:
It is often asserted that the world has made a great deal of progress since 1776, that we have had new thoughts and new experiences which have given us a great advance over the people of that day, and that we may therefore very well discard their conclusions for something more modern. But that reasoning cannot be applied to this great charter [the Constitution]. If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward the time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people. Those who wish to proceed in that direction can not lay claim to progress. They are reactionary. Their ideas are not more modern, but more ancient, than those of the Revolutionary fathers.
Today we labor under an administrative state that has metastasized far beyond anything Coolidge could have imagined. It constrains our freedoms, it lays waste to our economy, it has largely rendered Congress irrelevant, and it threatens to make just about anyone a criminal, since no one can possibly keep track of all of the myriad regulations with which we are encumbered. And let's not forget that the administrative state is run by liberals, for liberals.
Despite the fact that it is antithetical to the Constitution and to American traditions, there is little opposition to the administrative state as such. Conventional politicians suggest that regulations can be made less irrational and less burdensome – a good idea, certainly – but hardly anyone questions the fundamental concept of Congress delegating its powers to unelected and mostly unaccountable agencies that are charged with managing just about every aspect of our lives. Nearly everyone considers the administrative state, as such, to be inevitable. …
Why don't libertarians stake out a "radical" position on domestic policy? Why not argue, not just for a moderation in the inevitable drift toward a more and more powerful administrative state, but for a return to the Constitution's central principle – the very first words of Article I – that "All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States…", a Congress that is accountable to the people.
A battle is being fought for the liberties of the American people and, frankly, it isn't going well. The fight has little or nothing to do with drugs and drones. If libertarians are serious about preserving and expanding liberty, they should join the fight that matters. A libertarian movement that focuses on a rollback of the administrative state would be "radical," but it also would put libertarians in the vanguard, not on the fringe, of American conservatism.
Getting heated over hell 15
Now about our enemy on the Right …
This is from Wall of Separation, a web page belonging to Americans United for Separation of Church and State:
US Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) saw fit to hold an impromptu inquisition on Capitol Hill yesterday.
Gohmert and his colleagues on the House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice were supposed to be discussing the state of religious liberty in America. But Gohmert, a staunch Religious Right ally who has said that his faith guides his political activities, used his allotted five minutes to grill Americans United [for Separation of Church and State] Executive Director Barry W. Lynn on his personal theological views.
"I'm curious, in your Christian beliefs, do you believe in sharing the good news that will keep people from going to hell, consistent with the Christian belief?" Gohmert asked.
We will not pause now to unpack all the nonsense in that question. It speaks sufficiently for itself to all but Gohmert's fellow bigots.
Lynn responded: "I wouldn't agree with your construction of what hell is like or why one gets there."
So Barry Lynn believes in some sort of hell consistent with his Christian belief.
Lynn, an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ, was invited by subcommittee Democrats. He spoke on behalf of religious minorities and non-believers who are so often oppressed by fundamentalist Christians in this country.
He spoke for us non-believers? No. We think not. But what we are most concerned with here is this Republican, Louie Gohmert and his sort.
And yet he was attacked on a personal level by Gohmert, who decided an official hearing was an appropriate place to drag Lynn into the theological weeds.
Gohmert continued to press Lynn: "So, you don't believe somebody would go to hell if they do not believe Jesus is the way, the truth, the life?"
Another portmanteau of nonsense which we will pass for the present with no more than a grimace of distaste.
Lynn explained that someone's failure to embrace "a specific set of ideas in Christianity" did not guarantee a ticket to hell. Gohmert didn't much care for that answer, so he pushed on with his surprising line of questioning.
"No, not a set of ideas," he said. "Either you believe as a Christian that Jesus is the way, the truth, [and] life or you don't." …
The hearing was designed primarily by Republicans to give right-wing Christians an opportunity to ask for more special treatment from the government …
O-oh! Red light flashing.
At least Lynn is insisting on the wall of separation. Or we hope he is.
Lynn and Gohmert … may soon sit down to hammer out their differences.
Christians have been trying to do that among themselves ever since their St. Paul invented Christianity, with very little success. What end can there be to arguments over fictions? It's not as if an experiment can be designed to establish the truth.
At least they don't kill each other over their differences of opinion as often as they used to.
After the hearing, the two talked about the possibility of getting together to discuss theology sometime. Lynn said he's up for it.
Whether or not that discussion ever takes place, Gohmert has already proved why church and state must remain separate. Lynn and Gohmert's disagreement over what hell is and how one ends up there is one of many, many ideological divides that exist within Christianity.
"Many, many" indeed. As many a "many" as would cover a mile would not be sufficient to indicate the number of disputes that Christianity has given rise to within itself.
But then comes this:
Other groups have similar disagreements, be they believers or non-believers.
Again, and emphatically, no. There are no shades or degrees of non-existence. There can be no disagreement about non-belief among non-believers.
But then questions are asked which makes sense:
The US government could never accommodate all faiths and belief systems through policies that favor [any particular] religion. Who would be accommodated? Who would decide? It would be an absolute mess that would surely result in oppression.
That's why church-state separation is best for everyone – even Gohmert.
(Hat-tip Frank)


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I like Donna, she's probably my favorite companion from New Who, but Catherine Tate is right it would be impossible to bring Donna back. Even though it would be funny to see how Donna would react to the 12th Doctor.
I am surprised to see Army of Ghosts/Doomsday at number 7. I thought it would be in the top 5 maybe where The Stolen Earth/Journey's end is.
I didn't relies it was the 23rd today. So happy birthday Doctor Who and I can't believe it has been a year since Day of the Doctor. Hasn't time flown by.
Series 8 will be memorable series for me not only was it a great series but it was also my 6 year old niece's very first series of Doctor Who. She loved every episode and she loves Peter Capaldi as The Doctor.
I don't think anyone will beat Tom Baker's record but If Peter Capaldi stays as The Doctor for about 4 or 5 years then that's fine. He's most welcome to stay IMO.
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Even If Steven Moffat did put the Daleks on a few year break, there probably will be people complaining saying that's he ruined Doctor Who because he's got rid of the Daleks. Even though that wouldn't be true. As for me, I'm not really bothered If the Daleks come back or not next series. I have enjoyed every New Who Dalek story so far and anyway to me seems ages ago we watched Inside the Dalek.
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I hope it happens, not only would It be good to see Doctor Who in LEGO but also we would hopefully get a LEGO Doctor Who game. Which would be amazing.
Doctor Who might not have the best budget and they might have a small amount of time to film the episodes but I always feel that the episodes, good or bad, always look amazing. Well done Steven Moffat you are doing a brilliant job and so is the rest of the Doctor Who team.
I am glad that Missy is coming back but I am shocked they are allowed to reveal that so early.
Sea Devils? perhaps.
Osgood death is still on my mind. It was so cruel and when Kate was sucked out of the plane my heart sank. So I was glad that her Dad saved her because Doctor Who needs a Leth-Bridge Stewart but now it looks like we might have two Leth-Bridge Stewart's in Doctor Who. I wonder where he flew off to at the end?
@supermoff is waiting for heaven.... @mrclever has been replaced by Missy @Notsosmartguy Approves of female Master I am sort of hoping it is Osgood that dies. I like Osgood but I don't want Kate Stewart to die because I think Doctor Who needs a leth-bridge Stewart. I also think Danny Pink will be upgraded into Cyberman and probably will die.
I don't know whats going to happen to Missy at the end but I am sort of hoping that UNIT will just arrest her and put her in a high security prison. Then The Doctor has someone of his own kind to talk to and also it keeps The Master around for future stories.
What if Missy and Seb are both The Master. Then maybe they join together and become the full Master. Perhaps played by a different actor or John Simms. It sounds bonkers I know but you never know.
@Notsosmartguy Agent of M.I.S.S.Y. @JFrance Now you have mentioned it. It dose sort reminds me of Bad Wolf.
I'm not bothered The Master is female. Its still The Master and I think that Michelle Gomez pretty good in the role but I think we'll see her truly as The Master next week. As for the episode, I thought it was really good episode. It was quite a low key episode and that's fine because next week is where the action begins.
I enjoy the story arcs in Doctor Who. It makes the show more interesting and it gives fans something to talk about. The whole who is Missy and how Clara fits into her plan theories have been quite interesting and it is bit of fun at the end of the day.
@Beasts_a_Snarling is in some... Dark Water..... Fair enough. I haven't really had any problems of the length of the episodes for series 7 or 8 except for The Power of Three which I felt needed an extra 15 minutes but other than that I've been quite happy.
I find it amusing when fans get happy over an hour long episode. I'm not really bothered if an episode is an hour long or not but its good to see people are happy.
So I guess that st Paul's cathedral is 3W's headquarters then, makes sense as they are dealing with death and heaven.
Well time can be rewritten.
@Thatoneperson I think Its always had SAT-NAV. I think The Doctor mentioned once but I can't remember if it was in an comic or in an episode but for sure he mentioned it.
The episode sounds amazing. As for sacrifices, who say's that it will just be Clara or Danny that dies it could be both of them that dies.
I liked The Doctor's Wife and I didn't mind Nightmare in Silver. So Neil Gaiman can come back anytime IMO.
I don't mind the child actors in Doctor Who. Some of them have been quite good. Also isn't the girl who voices Peppa Pig in this episode?
The thumbnail of the video is fantastic.
I don't think Rose should return to Doctor Who, I feel that her story with The Doctor is done. I wouldn't mind seeing some spin-off material about Rose and the Meta-Crisis Doctor in Pete's world though but not with the The Doctor.
That's not a bad version of that song and the video was nice too. Some interesting clips from up coming episodes as well.
The last hurrah: The train's final journey perhaps.
A sad smile: Is The Doctor thinking about Clara.
I would say a character would need to travel in the TARDIS for an number of episodes before being called a companion. Maybe 5 or 6 episodes. Everyone else are people he just meets like Jackson Lake or allies like The Brigadier, Kate Stewart and The Paternoster Gang. I find River Song is in her own category she's more than a companion and more than ally.
I have always thought that if America ever dose their own version of Doctor Who like a movie. That Robert Downey Jr would make a great Doctor in that movie. He's got that Doctor look.
It dose look like Frank Skinner might be the one off companion in this episode and in one of the pictures he's in the TARDIS. That must of made his day.
It looks like a good episode. I wonder if Frank Skinner is the one off companion.
These pictures are great and I really like the picture of The Doctor crawling on The Moon's surface. It looks like a movie poster. Also this episode sounds and looks fantastic.
I didn't vote for the first poll but if I did I would of giving it a 7 or 8 out of 10 because it was a pretty good episode. I did do the second poll and I voted for Time Heist and the ranking of Time Heist > Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS > The Curse of the Black Spot would be how I would rank Steve Thompson's episodes. I don't think The curse of the Black Spot is a bad episode I just felt Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS was the better episode but overall I felt Time Heist was better than both of them.
What I like to see. Is that when The Doctor brings the survivors (if there is any) back to earth in the future, You see one those spiders at the end but on Earth.
8/10. I thought it was really good episode. So far series 8 has been great.
Looks like a great episode. I wonder if The Doctor and Clara goes to their hive or nest in the episode.
I picked Time Heist. I didn't mind The Curse of the Black Spot and I liked Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS but I felt that Time Heist was better.
That robot looks fantastic. Can't wait to see him in action.
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In a Marquette village board meeting Oct. 8, members raised the water rates due to a United States Department of Agriculture rate study. The study, performed by Randy Hellbush of Nebraska Rural Water Association, indicated an increase in the water rate is necessary.To read more, see this week's print or e-editions.
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The early morning bus trip and the cold weather was worth it as the Aurora Husky marching band received a superior rating in Saturday's Harvest of Harmony field competition. The band also received second place in Class B in the parade competition. The Huskies Aly Faber was named the 2014 Miss Harvest of Harmony and Miss Congeniality at the pageant held on Friday night. Watch this week's edition for a detailed story and more photos.
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The Don't Care Bar and Grill in Marquette got its keno equipment installed recently, and started taking numbers and money Sept. 22.
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The Hamilton County Board of Commissioners appointed Mark Kubik Monday as interim director of the ambulance department.To read more, see this week's print or e-editions.
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February 9 at Amsterdam Bar & Hall in downtown Saint Paul, The SPCO's Liquid Music program will present composer, performer and producer Ben Frost in a rare US appearance previewing new material and a new ensemble prior to a highly anticipated 2013 album release.
Frost's music is about contrast, influenced as much by classical minimalism as by punk rock and metal. Muscular yet cerebral, ambient yet urgent, his compositions merge guitar-based textures, musique concrète samples, and building-shaking amplified electronics into sweeping digital soundscapes. His compositions are created with an acute awareness of the listener and their comfort thresholds, exploiting every Extreme of pitch and volume.
Increasingly in demand for his exorbitant electronic production work, Frost has collaborated with artists as diverse as Björk, Sinfonetta Cracovia, Swans, Tim Hecker and label mates Nico Muhly and Sam Amidon. He was recently awarded Music Protégé in the The Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative and has spent the past two years learning from and working with music producer, theorist, and composer, Brian Eno. Frost has just completed scores on several film and stage productions and is currently writing his first opera, based on the Iain Banks novel, The Wasp Factory.
"One of the most interesting and groundbreaking producers in the world today... showing us the future of electronic music" (Boomkat), Frost makes a rare US appearance in Saint Paul, previewing new material and a new ensemble - including former Liturgy drummer Greg Fox (recently named NYC's "Best Drummer" by The Village Voice) and composer/multi-instrumentalist Paul Corley - prior to a highly anticipated 2013 album release.
The concert will take place on Saturday, February 9, 2013, 8:00pm at the Amsterdam Bar & Hall, Saint Paul. Ben Frost single tickets: $10. Call 651.291.1144, visit www.thespco.org or stop by the ticket office at Third Floor, The Historic Hamm Building, 408 Saint Peter St., Saint Paul, Minn. For more information, visit thespco.org/liquidmusic or call 651.291.1144.
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How to Clean Motorcycle Wheel Spokes
When those shiny chrome motorcyle wheel spokes become dirty they appear very unattractive and dull. Thus, finding the right way to make them shine again without damaging your chrome (or aluminum, or other metal) is of high importance.
Supplies Needed:
You need the appropriate metal cleaner. For instance, if your motorcycle wheel spokes are chrome you need a chrome cleaner. If they are aluminum you need an aluminum cleaner.
You also need a baby bottle brush, soft cloths, bucket, old sheet, and water. Then, you need the right guidance.
The steps to cleaning your motorcycle wheel spokes are as shown below:
- Fill a bucket with warm water. Then, if the cleaning product label instructions say to add the cleaning solution to the water do so.
- Otherwise, do exactly as the product manufacturer states in the instructions, even if it means just spraying the substance right out of the can, or perhaps a spray bottle after mixing it with some water.
- Dip the baby bottle brush in the water mixture, or spray the cleaning solution onto the brush. (Remember the product label's instructions of the solution you use to clean your motorcycle spokes supercedes the directions shown here.)
- Use the moistened baby bottle brush to scrub any hard-to-reach areas of your motorcyle rims. The baby bottle brush is perfect for this job because the bristles of the brush fit right in between the spokes.
- When you are done cleaning the spokes, rinse them off thoroughly with water. If necessary repeate the above steps with the hopes that your motorcycle spokes will be clean after a second round.
- Make sure you dry the spokes immediately after rinsing. This will prevent water spotting or streaking. This is also the best way to ensure proper shine of your bike wheel's metal parts.
- Note: You should just wipe the metal of your wheel spokes dry with just the cleaner and no water if the product instructions say so. Never use water if the label or instructions provided with a metal polisher/cleaner say not do so.
Also, you are advised to test the metal cleaner before you use it in a place that is noticeable. Maybe you can even try it out on an old motorcycle rim or even an old bicycle tire.
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You could follow the procedure above until you get to the part about dipping the baby brush into the metal cleaning solution. You could instead douse strips of an old sheet into the solution and/or the water.
You can use these strips to wipe between the spokes as you would the bottle brush. The effect is similar. However, if you do not want to do this yourself, you could always take your motorcyle into a shop and have it cleaned professionally.
This will save you from committing serious damage to your bike. Of course, paying someone to clean your bike spokes costs you more money. Therefore, consider whether or not it is necessary to pay for this service before you bring your motorcycle in.
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