Liberal Tyranny and Conservative Opportunism
Ruth Kelly, Cabinet minister and Opus Dei initiate thinks homosexuality is a sin. Predictably she has received disproportionate amounts of animus from people who have confused her private opinions with her public office. Chris Dillow writes about the Liberal Tyranny that has over-reacted to her personal opinions:
Also, the belief that social and public life consists in the interaction of characters distracts us from the true origins of power inequalities. “The result is that the forces of domination or inequity remain unchallenged.”
Let’s be clear. Gays do not suffer discrimination because a government minister has strange beliefs. They do so because some people have excessive or unconstrained power over others. Ruth’s critics fail to see this.
Inayat Bunglawala of the MCB does the same thing but instead uses the story to defend Ruth Kelly and takes the opportunity to make the statement that Muslims also find homosexuality “un-Islamic”. He goes on to say:
Many Muslims and orthodox Jews among others will be able to recognise and sympathise with the dilemma that Kelly faces.
Yes, they’re called homophobes, by definition. Most Muslims do not spend their waking hours worrying about the “sinful” nature of homosexuality and they, by and large, couldn’t care less about Ruth Kelly’s “dilemma”. What Bunglawala really wants to say is that Muslims, in self-appointed public office such as he, identify with Ruth Kelly’s situation and would like to speak their mind about homosexuality without getting into trouble.
A cheesey attempt to create a false equality of the MCB’s public line with a senior government minister’s personal opinion on homosexuaity for the sake of legitimacy.
May 13th, 2006 at 3:47 pm
In the way these things are, I guess it would take a gay muslim personality to counter this image. Oh dear.
Moderate Muslims usually take the something-not-right line about homosexuality. In response, white liberals decide this is evidence of fundamentalism. I guess there needs to be Euston liberal approach wrt. homos - gay bashers for Labour. Then they could reachout to… Is this getting perverse yet?
May 15th, 2006 at 3:39 am
Euston Liberal Approach - what’s that?!
May 15th, 2006 at 6:58 am
Sonia, I think its a euphemism for Blairite Right-leaning Liberalism. People who got exercised about Saddam’s totalitarianism but are curiously soporific about the abuses of the Iraq alliance.
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