Aknazer
Regular Member
Priceless, this dude deserves some cash with no expectation of a product or service in return.
The non-christian Arab/Muslim comment is spot on and directly related to the socialist liberal comment. Well, I think so anyway.
It is not spot on. It discriminates against people based off of their ethnicity and then provides an exception if they happen to believe the same thing he does. Aiming it at Muslims only would be one thing as it is saying that those who follow that religion he feels have shown to make a poor choice, but one can't control being an Arab.
Yes he is. As an atheist, and someone who respects the rights of others to believe how they wish, I will not do business with a bigot when I can help it. And yes, he has the right to do business with whom he pleases, but I don't buy his "ability to make sound judgements" argument. I don't believe in the judeo-christian god for the same reason that Christians don't believe in any of the other gods. So by that argument, anyone that's religious doesn't have an ability to make sound judgements-which I do not believe.
I wouldn't say he's a bigot as he apparently tolerates any religion outside of Muslims. The closest thing to a bigotted statement that he makes is blind discrimination against Arabs unless they are Christian. And while yes you can twist his arguement to say that anyone who follows a belief that you don't believe in doesn't have the ability to make sound judgements, that isn't what he comes across as saying. At least to me he has come across and said that he doesn't believe it to be a sound judgement to follow a religion that teaches it is basically ok to wage war on the "infidels" who refuse to follow the Muslim way. One could say it is akin to following Christianity back during the dark ages when it waged war on those who refused to convert and also worked to oppress the the people in order to keep them under the thumb of the church.
Note that I'm not saying being a Muslim is bad choice (though I will say following those extremist teachings are a bad choice), I'm simply trying to look at it from what is most likely his view.