British Gymnast Banned For "Mocking" Religion

[999tigger]

Absolutely. There's a huge difference between what one does in one's private life and what one does in one's professional life. Everyone has a right to a private life - everyone. Personally, I wouldn't have grovelled in the way that he has done, and he's lost my respect for that. He should have stood up for himself, but then it's easy to say that when one isn't being threatened with death by a bunch of delusional mediaeval psychopaths guaranteed free-reign by lefty libtards.

 

How would he have stood up for himself?

 

He joined an organisation and agreed to abide by its code of conduct.

 

He broke that code.

 

The organisation is entitled to sanction him for that breach.

 

What is hard to understand about that? Happens in all sports.

[mafya]

As long as they are his poppies to burn I don't see an issue.

 

Pull the other one, the Poppy's burnt by the Luton mob were their own but they still got lambasted for it.

[Robin-H]

Pull the other one, the Poppy's burnt by the Luton mob were their own but they still got lambasted for it.

 

So Petminder isn't allowed to have their own opinion?

[mafya]

So Petminder isn't allowed to have their own opinion?

 

Who says he/she isn't allowed to have a hypocritical opinion?

[Robin-H]

Who says he/she isn't allowed to have a hypocritical opinion?

 

Why are they being hypocritical? They say they would have no problem with Amir Khan burning poppies if the poppies were his own. Do you know different? They aren't saying that is the opinion of everybody.

[Petminder]

Pull the other one, the Poppy's burnt by the Luton mob were their own but they still got lambasted for it.

 

Lambasted by some.

 

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Who says he/she isn't allowed to have a hypocritical opinion?

 

My opinion would only be hypocritical if I supported the banning of a Muslim for mocking my beliefs.

[unbeliever]

As somebody with no "faith" at all, I would prefer if we were free to "mock" all opinion. I resent that "faith" is given special protected status. It is after all just opinion, and rather irrational and ill-founded opinion after all.

Given what we have learned at the point about the entire of the universe, operating on the assumption that super-powerful invisible sapient being(s) are somehow pulling the strings of the universe behind the scenes is irrational in the extreme.

I try not to be cruel about this to those for who have an emotional relationship with such irrational beliefs, but it's hard not to point out sometimes how ridiculous it all is.

[RootsBooster]

What would people think if a video of say Amir Khan the Muslm boxer emerged where he was taking the **** out of Christians or burning a poppy at a private party?

 

It wouldn't particularly bother me, although your poppy example is quite a bit more extreme. A more appropriate comparison would be for him to put his hands together and say "God is great, amen", mocking how Christians pray.

[Marx]

What would people think if a video of say Amir Khan the Muslm boxer emerged where he was taking the **** out of Christians or burning a poppy at a private party?

 

He probably wouldn't get an inbox of death threats regardless of what people thought of him.

[Robin-H]

It wouldn't particularly bother me, although your poppy example is quite a bit more extreme. A more appropriate comparison would be for him to put his hands together and say "God is great, amen", mocking how Christians pray.

 

Exactly. The poppy example is not comparing like to like at all really - as far as I am aware Louis Smith didn't burn anything..

 

The poppy is also not a religious symbol so I'm not sure what relevance it has.