This fragments society into interest groups according to sex or gender , race, sexual preference etc. The assumption is that these attributes essentially define people, and also offer added value. For example You mention justice and vengeance as two sides of the same coin. What do you mean? Many, many millions of people were brought across the Atlantic on slave ships.
This had effects for a long time afterward, and the question then is how do we try to level it [i. These incidents, Murray claims, did not occur in a vacuum.
In other words, precisely when it may seem that the situation of Blacks has never been better, social science departments have chosen to shift gears in the fight to eradicate racism, and to pave the way for reverse racism as a form of affirmative action. Still, one cannot help but wonder: Was George Floyd judged by his personality when Officer Derek Chauvin knelt on his neck, suffocating him to death in Minneapolis? Were the players of the English national soccer team judged according to their personalities when, following the recent loss to Italy in the Euro final, they were victims of violent racist abuse from many media outlets?
Reward and punishment. What I mentioned is a challenge to liberalism actually, which is: Ought an adult voluntarily be able to seek spiritual counter-counseling?
And I think the answer to that has to be yes, we should leave the window open for that, because I think there is an issue of religious liberty and an issue of personal freedom.
We do have the issue that the gay rights campaign has used in the past, which is consenting adults should do what they want in private.
It is an example of not doing in victory what you argued for when you were the underdog. You talk about superiority, and in your book there is no recognition of the long years in which the LGBTQ struggle did not bear fruit.
A struggle that is not actually over. I mean, everybody has written about it. And I think we were all bored with it. I hope to do so soon. For example: The fact that a woman may be sexy and also crush the man who dares to be tempted and to touch her without her consent why do they even put on makeup and wear high heels to work if not to seduce men?
Or that women are identical to men in every important aspect and can compete with them on every court, but at the same time, are superior to them in , immediately after the global economic crisis, he cites as an example, the theory arose that the world would be better if more women ran financial institutions.
You point out these contradictions, but women still earn less, for instance. There are these things that by themselves are very interesting to look at, but do not necessarily denote, for instance, that the employer is either racist or sexist or that the system is sexist or that the system is racist. It is a multidimensional problem.
My point is that pointing to innate or institutional sexism as the explanation would at best only deal with one possible explanation.
And I think that we should be open to the whole range of possible explanations. Some will be cultural, some the result of biology and life choices. And so on. In one word: righteousness. He is only trying to point out some of the contradictory conventions we have become accustomed to following. For example: The fact that a woman may be sexy and also crush the man who dares to be tempted and to touch her without her consent.
In the name of affirmative action, Harvard quite understandably wants to increase its representation among students and faculty of the Black minority and other minorities.
But what happened in the Harvard admissions scandal was the realization that in order to do this, they had to mark down other groups. Because there are two groups that are overrepresented, as I understand it: One is Asian Americans and the other is Jews.
And so if you do decide to prioritize access to one racial group based on racial characteristics, it obviously means you are going to have to diminish the chances of attendance at Harvard among one of the overrepresented groups. And this group of Asian students sued Harvard and discovered this was exactly what Harvard was doing: that they were marking down Asian applicants before even interviewing them, on character traits.
This discussion worries me enormously. In the book, you gave an example of an acquaintance who was offered a salary increase at the end of the year, regardless of his performance, in order to present to the board of his company a semblance of diversity and equality.
You point out that he really did not need a raise, while someone else in the company might. I was there for the latter part of last year. Following the Charlie Hebdo shooting in January , he was advised by the police not to appear in public.
Murray is a frequent critic of Islam, and has identified what he sees as, "a creed of Islamic fascism—a malignant fundamentalism, woken from the Dark Ages to assault us here and now". It has subsequently been published in more than 20 languages worldwide. In he was hired as a contributing editor of The Spectator. Members of Al-Muhajiroun tried to segregate men and women at the entrance of the event, despite GIS's assurance that the event's security was provided by a third party.
Violence broke out even before Murray arrived. Conway Hall management canceled the debate in protest to the forced separation of men and women. Outside the building, a confrontation between Choudary and Murray over the cancellation of the event occurred. Murray alleged that the event was not neutral and that it was being policed by Al-Muhajiroun guards. Murray's Center for Social Cohesion, had published a study showing that one in seven Islam-related terrorist cases in the UK could be linked to Al-Muhajiroun and the organization was indeed banned shortly afterwards, due to its links with extremism.
In , Murray was prevented from chairing a debate at the London School of Economics between Alan Sked and Hamza Tzortzis, with the university citing security concerns following a week-long student protest against Israel's attacks on Gaza.
In , Murray listed the cases of 27 writers, activists, politicians and artists - including Sir Salman Rushdie, Maryam Namazie and Anwar Shaikh, all three of whom had received death threats due to their criticism of Islam. Murray said that "Unless Muslims are allowed to discuss their religion without fear of attack there can be no chance of reform or genuine freedom of conscience within Islam.
In , he published a defence of neoconservatism — Neoconservatism: Why We Need It — and made a speaking tour promoting the book in the United States.. The publication was subsequently reviewed in the Arab journal Asharq Al-Awsat by the Iranian author Amir Taheri: "Whether one agrees with him or not Murray has made a valuable contribution to the global battle of ideas.
Klaus Naumann, Gen. Jacques Lanxade, and Gen. Henk van den Breemen. Bosie was awarded a Lambda Award for gay biography in In March , Murray wrote to Home Secretary Jacqui Smith warning that he was planning to instruct his lawyers to issue an international arrest warrant against Ibrahim Mousawi if he entered Britain; the Home Office eventually refused Mousawi a visa.
The move drew strong criticism from conservative press such as The Daily Telegraph and The Spectator. In , Murray was told by police not to attend a debate scheduled between him and Islamist Anjem Choudary for fear that he might be attacked.
It emerged that the security hired to protect the event were actually members of Choudary's group al-Muhajiroun. In December , Murray announced that he could no longer give his readers advance notice of his speaking engagements, citing "security reasons". Personal life Murray is an atheist, having previously been an Anglican, but has described himself variously as a cultural Christian, and a Christian atheist.
He is openly gay. Works Murray, Douglas ISBN Murray, Douglas Neoconservatism: Why We Need It. London: Dialogue. Islamophilia: a very metropolitan malady. As co-author:. Biography Lists News Also Viewed.
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