tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24761391.post5672999078840101124..comments2023-10-26T22:06:11.166+11:00Comments on Metamagician3000: The extreme social conservatism of British MuslimsRussell Blackfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12431324430596809958noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24761391.post-36783855607558453362009-05-12T08:48:00.000+10:002009-05-12T08:48:00.000+10:00Russell- you may find the following as "amusing" a...Russell- you may find the following as "amusing" as I do:<br /><br />From the UK Guardian's resident apologist, Andrew Brown:<br /><br />"These polls are not ideal. The sample size, though large in absolute terms (with 500 Muslims and 1000 non-Muslims surveyed in each country) is not large enough to eliminate a large margin of error (5% for the Muslim figures, 3% for the general public) so only the broadest pictures are trustworthy and some results, such as the 0% of British Muslims apparently tolerant of homosexual acts are not to be taken literally."<br /><br />I feel <I>deeply comforted</I> that there may be only 95% of UK Muslims who feel that my active homosexuality is intolerable.<br /><br />However, to be honest, I don't trust these figures. What I would really like to know is how many UK Muslims would find it acceptable to admit to tolerating homosexuality.Steve Zarahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16867968082532563442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24761391.post-15042899378697498392009-05-11T18:20:00.000+10:002009-05-11T18:20:00.000+10:00Anonymous has a point.
One of the most striking f...Anonymous has a point.<br /><br />One of the most striking features of Islam is how prescriptive it is. There's very little middle ground - either you must act in a particular way or you must not. Purely anecdotally, I always found traces of this whenever I had conversations with (British, of Pakistani ancestry) Muslims.<br /><br />Ask someone with this mindset if X is morally acceptable and there's at least a possibility that what they hear is "is X the correct way to behave". That's going to mess up the stats by exaggerating whatever social conservatism there is.Elephanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03949830327417287322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24761391.post-32067471441094483542009-05-11T13:17:00.000+10:002009-05-11T13:17:00.000+10:00It'd be interesting to see exactly how the questio...It'd be interesting to see exactly how the questions were put in each language. That aside, can homosexuality be described as "morally acceptable" or "morally unacceptable"?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24761391.post-29423869943021434012009-05-11T01:31:00.000+10:002009-05-11T01:31:00.000+10:00Ha - our muslims are far more conservative than th...Ha - our muslims are far more conservative than theirs! In your faces, softy fundies!The Juleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10051844634899994750noreply@blogger.com