I am told the man is the greatest Sportsman ever let alone the greatest Boxer.
From my own perspective, to have a world title stripped from him for refusing to fight for a country that “legally" treated him as less than a 2nd Class Citizen, was nothing short of disgusting.
With regards to his boxing career? I’ve seen the videos, I appreciate his quality. When compared across the eras he’s still held as the greatest by most opinions that matter, including the great Lennox Lewis.
Charismatic? Oh hell yes. His interview with Parky. His Q&A where he announced he would like to organise 2 matches where he fought both top contenders for 6 rounds each within the space of minutes. Sharp Witted.
A legend as a sportsman. A legend as human being.
Unfortunately for whatever reason some experts feel he stayed around in boxing 3 matches too long and some feel those had a lasting impact that affected his quality of life.
I don’t know how true that is. I am just grateful that there have been role models out there that have stuck to their principles and the now Late but VERY GREAT Muhammad Ali was definitely one of them.
RIPMuhammad Ali
posted on 5/6/16
By loved I mean how the hell did he get away with saying this and never ever get criticised for it
posted on 6/6/16
The left is uncomfortable criticizing Muslims x
posted on 6/6/16
comment by X (U4074)
posted 2 hours, 45 minutes ago
The left is uncomfortable criticizing Muslims x
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True I suppose, but by the same token the much bigger concern is that the right should seem so shamelessly comfortable to tar billions with the same brush, fuelling the type of religious and racial hatred that killed so many millions barely a generation ago.
posted on 6/6/16
I know right.
Imagine we lived in a world where white skinheads committed terrorist acts across Europe using guns and explosives.
A world where neo-fascist gangs target vulnerable underaged girls to abuse and pimp. But the local-politicians ignore the crime because they share the same ideology.
The possibility that all this MIGHT happen...
Yeah, that should definitely be your biggest concern
posted on 6/6/16
Call me naive, but if they did, I reckon it's more likely they'd have more support of other neofascists than ISIS and Al Qaeda extremists get from mainstream Muslims, if only because the vast majority of their victims wouldn't be other neofascists.
And yes, I do think it's a pretty big concern given the rise of far-right political parties across Western nations whose main selling point is to stoke the fire of intolerance against immigrants and ethnic and religious minorities in response.
Been there and wouldn't want to go back, thank you very much.
As for attacks perpetrated or planned by far-right extremists, I suggest you either dig a little deeper or open your ears a bit more. And with the current inflammation or xenophobe sentiment, the fear is it'll only get worse.
posted on 6/6/16
If 'mainstream Muslims' (whatever that means) don't support a Caliphate in large numbers, where do they keep recruiting their members from?
Why is Salafism the largest and fastest growing sect?
Why do the majority of them favour Sharia law?
If there is an inflammation of xenophobia in the right, it is because the establishment has failed to protect the rights and liberties of its citizens, non-muslim and muslim alike.
You're afraid of the return of fascism but islamo-fascism is already here. Every day the human-rights of British citizens, trapped in these communities, are trampled on because of a very backward religious morality.
By all means if neo-fascists organizations ever do return to power lets take to the streets and fight them off.
But in the mean time:
Can we deal with the real problem we actually have?! x
posted on 12/6/16
Every time something like this happens, I think back to conversations like this, with politically correct idiots just like you who insist that the big problem in the West isn't Islamism, but the threat of white supremacy.
You and all the other apologists for this backward toxic medieval culture makes me sick x
posted on 13/6/16
You obviously need to attach labels to things so you can vent your hatred, I'm not going to stop you.
Perhaps when you learn to read what is said rather than reading what you'd like to think is said we could have a conversation.
In the meantime I happy for those of your ilk to consider me an idiot, I'll wear it as a medal of honour.
posted on 13/6/16
No I get it; your worried that saying this is a problem of Islam, instead of individuals who happen to be Muslim is racist or Islamophobic. Frankly that is the opinion of a fool.
When the actions of these terrorists are predicated on a religion of peace, and those actions are responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people all over the world; the focus of critical examination should no longer be placed solely on the individuals, but it is the common ideology, which all these attackers share, that also requires attention. Duh x
posted on 14/6/16
No, you're still just twisting my words.