There is an unlimited amount of ignorance on the internet.
But have you ever come across something so stupid that you felt it will give
you a heart attack or an aneurism if you don’t confront it.
The particular thing that ground my gears today was a
YouTube video broadcast by Stefan Molyneux titled The Hidden Rape of Europe. I have seen many of Stefan’s broadcasts
over the past year, and have appreciated his points of view, even if far
removed from my own. Stefan has advertised his broadcasts as a daily dose of empiricism.
This broadcast was riddled with conjecture and had no sign
of empirical evidence backing up any of the assertions being made by the guest
speaker, Toni Bugle who was representing Mothers Against Radical Islam And
Sharia.
At one point very early on, she states that a million girls
have been raped by Muslims in the UK. There is no reference of where she
obtained these statistics, or over how long of a period these rapes took place.
They make a bold assumption that the mainstream media is not
broadcasting the full scale of the problem. I don’t know how a million rapes
could be hidden from public knowledge. The most notorious case that has been
well documented in the mainstream media is that of Rotherham. But to amount to
the figure that this woman was claiming, we would need to have incidents like
Rotherham in every city in England, Scotland and Wales.
It’s dangerous misinformation like this which propels racial
stereotypes and obscene social bigotry. At one point she stated that there are parts
of the UK which are unofficial no-go areas, simply because they are not “safe”.
Which echoes shades of the story broadcast on Fox news about Birmingham being
radicalized. She states that someone with her beliefs wouldn’t be safe in certain
areas. I felt she was just projecting her own social insecurities on to others.
People cannot tell your beliefs just by looking at you, so long as you’re not
ranting and bothering people, I think you are pretty safe walking down any
street in the UK.
I really took issue with Stefan saying Islam shouldn’t be referred
to as a religion, just as communism shouldn’t be referred to as an economic
platform because it’s really about “world domination”. Couldn’t the same argument
be made against capitalism? Life, much like philosophy is all about
perspective. It’s such a shame to see a talented philosopher with such a closed
mind.
This video actually made me feel ashamed for being a subscriber
to his channel.
