Piers Morgan on the “evil cult” of Scientology – why is Dianephobia not a hate crime?

Jun 22, 2017 by Jill

by Archbishop Cranmer:

“Why do you not want to read the violent paragraphs of the Qur’an?” Piers Morgan was asked by Ramthrax on Twitter after interviewing the ‘hate preacher’ Tommy Robinson. To his credit, the Twitter colossus (5.8million followers) bothered to respond to the Twitter flea (33 followers): “There are many more violent paragraphs in the Bible. Should I read those out too?” he parried. His grasp of theological hermeneutics clearly isn’t great: he appears to lack any methodology of scriptural interpretation, or any appreciation of how one may discern contextual truth, ambiguity or falsity in a purported divine message. But Piers Morgan doesn’t really care: he is a professional media gob. He smites whatever gets under his skin, which is, of provocational necessity, both thick and thin. Anything might rile him, but nothing and no-one will trounce him. He is smug, self-righteous and invincible. It’s his job.

As Robinson held up a copy of the Qur’an as the root of all Islamist evil, Morgan scolded: “Show some damn respect for people’s religious beliefs. You’re sounding like a complete lunatic. You’re sounding like a bigoted lunatic. You’re stirring up hatred.”

Hm…

Writing in the Daily Mail previously, Piers Morgan showed a marked lack of respect for Tom Cruise’s religious beliefs, which are grounded in Scientology. Robinson sought to expose Morgan’s hypocrisy by highlighting this article. By calling Scientology a “vile cult” in the article and an “evil cult” on Twitter, some might say he sounds like a bigoted lunatic stirring up hatred.

He would, of course, never refer to Islam as a vile cult (or an evil cult): he leaves that to bigoted lunatics like Tommy Robinson. Nor would the Mail have commissioned such an outrage (for obvious reasons). Only religious bigots and right-wing extremists set out to offend Muslims with blasts of Islamophobic zealotry and racist hate. Piers Morgan slings mud at many bodies and bands of people (especially when he is paid to do so), but the followers of Mohammed are not among them (for obvious reasons). You simply don’t juxtapose the religion of Islam or the name of Mohammed with the word ‘evil’, or all hell breaks loose, as Pope Benedict XVI found in the global response to his Regensburg lecture.

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