Mayuki said...

Mayuki at 12:28 AM JST - 21st November

All freedom-loving people should be utterly dismayed by this movement for a "blasphemy treaty", and Japanese people in particular should be disgusted.

In 1991, Hitoshi Igarashi, the Japanese translator of "The Satanic Verses" was stabbed to death, in Japan, by a Muslim who was obeying the fatwa of Ayatollah Khomeini.…

Posted in Muslim countries seek blasphemy ban at 12:28 AM JST - 21st November
Mayuki at 10:11 PM JST - 11th November

No-one is blameless here, IMHO

Er, what? No one is blameless? Can you explain that remark? Or clarify it?

we need to search deeper for the way forward on this planet.

By doing what, for example?

Posted in Blame game erupts over Fort Hood shooting suspect at 10:11 PM JST - 11th November
Mayuki at 10:05 PM JST - 11th November

However, not every Muslim murderer kills for religious reasons and I caution against over-generalisations.

Yes, I know that. I didn't suggest that that was the case, did I? I didn't advocate over-generalizations, or even generalizations. I think that people are so terrified of acknowledging an Islamic motivation for this massacre…

Posted in Obama salutes Fort Hood shooting victims at 10:05 PM JST - 11th November
Mayuki at 01:09 PM JST - 11th November

@cow76

When Christians go on shooting sprees in America, their religion is not worthy of mention. But a Muslim goes nuts and it's suddenly a religious problem?

Yes it is a religious problem. You need to see the slides of a presentation he gave to senior army doctors during what…

Posted in Obama salutes Fort Hood shooting victims at 01:09 PM JST - 11th November
Mayuki at 06:53 PM JST - 4th October

Depressing news.

Posted in Ireland OKs EU reform treaty at 06:53 PM JST - 4th October
Mayuki at 04:14 PM JST - 13th September

@seijichuudo9sha: Good point.

"Mosley’s pro-Nazi followers were met at Cable Street by Jews, communists and anarchists, and a pitched battle ensued."

Nazis were left wing (National Socialists) not right-wing, so the above sentence (not including the Jews) describes a disagreement among factions of the left, not a dispute between left…

Posted in UK troubled by anti-Islam rallies, counterprotests at 04:14 PM JST - 13th September
Mayuki at 03:25 PM JST - 13th September

I am pleasantly surprised by Japan Today's fairly even-handed reporting of yesterday's events. It is still shocking though that the "far-right extremists" and "anti-fascist" tags are not questioned to a greater degree by all news organizations and people generally.

@seijichuudo9sha:

The BBC is sadly no longer reliable as an unbiased…

Posted in UK troubled by anti-Islam rallies, counterprotests at 03:25 PM JST - 13th September
Mayuki at 06:24 PM JST - 12th September

The Australian media shouldn't have reported this until Caster had been informed herself of the test results and given a chance to accept them, supposing she is intersex. I hope this doesn't destroy her.

This case and others before it make old ideas about sex seem ever more incomplete. So…

Posted in S African champion female runner reported to have internal male sex organs at 06:24 PM JST - 12th September
Mayuki at 02:28 PM JST - 6th September

It seems like Mexico is in freefall.

Posted in Mexican candidate, his wife and 2 sons killed at 02:28 PM JST - 6th September
Mayuki at 02:24 PM JST - 6th September

I will bet anybody my next paycheck that this unfortunate event will become increasingly common in England in the next two decades. The multicultural experiment is beginning to go very, very wrong in the UK.

Posted in UK anti-Islamic extremism protest turns violent at 02:24 PM JST - 6th September