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QuoteYou're all looking at the story through the lens of your own culture. It's human nature for all people to use such lenses, but it's important for us to recognize that they are inevitably myopic.
Anyhow, tell the local quilting club in Topeka, Kansas that some grade school teacher originally from, say, California or Massachusetts came into their town let her students - children of their community - name their teddy bear Jesus Christ. I'll bet a few of the pillars of the community would be a tad indignant. All a matter of whose ox gets gored.
I think the presence of criminal charges makes the comparison fail. Not to mention the consequence of lashings. That culture needs some sort of Enlightenment, Renaisance, or something to bring them out of the Dark Ages.
" . . . the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley
Butters 0
QuoteYou're all looking at the story through the lens of your own culture. It's human nature for all people to use such lenses, but it's important for us to recognize that they are inevitably myopic.
It's important for us to recognize that they are retarding their entire culture with their religion.
QuoteAnyhow, tell the local quilting club in Topeka, Kansas that some grade school teacher originally from, say, California or Massachusetts came into their town let her students - children of their community - name their teddy bear Jesus Christ. I'll bet a few of the pillars of the community would be a tad indignant. All a matter of whose ox gets gored.
The point is not that Christians are better than Muslims. The point is that we should not let Christians, Muslims, etc... continue to retard us.
"That looks dangerous." Leopold Stotch
champu 1
QuoteIt said charges were being prepared "under article 125 of the criminal law" which covers insults against faith and religion.
[mechanic] Well there's yer problem. [/mechanic]
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Obviously, they were afraid that there would be some confusion as to which was the real Mohammed.I don't see it as any more blasphemous than naming your son Mohammed.
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I don't see it as any more blasphemous than naming your son Mohammed.Pretty much. I guess all the Latino's who name their sons Jesus must be whipped lest I get confused or hurt by the blasphemy. Glad I live in this part of the world.
My biggest handicap is that sometimes the hole in the front of my head operates a tad bit faster than the grey matter contained within.
JohnRich 4
QuoteYou're all looking at the story through the lens of your own culture. It's human nature for all people to use such lenses, but it's important for us to recognize that they are inevitably myopic.
Anyhow, tell the local quilting club in Topeka, Kansas that some grade school teacher originally from, say, California or Massachusetts came into their town let her students - children of their community - name their teddy bear Jesus Christ. I'll bet a few of the pillars of the community would be a tad indignant. All a matter of whose ox gets gored.
Quote from the story:
"Teachers at Unity High School in central Khartoum said Gibbons, 54, made an innocent mistake and simply let her pupils choose their favorite name for the toy as part of a school project."So you see, she didn't name the teddy bear - the children did.
So does that mean that the muslims want to punish the children, for blaspheming Mohammad's name?
QuoteYou're all looking at the story through the lens of your own culture. It's human nature for all people to use such lenses, but it's important for us to recognize that they are inevitably myopic.
Yeah!
I mean, at least they didn't stone her to death.
(Let's keep that bar reallllll low)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7119399.stm No flogging, but 15 days in prison. Over a toy.
Speed Racer
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...and she's to be deported..... Their loss. It's not like they're overrun by teachers and many more will think twice about going there now.
Some countries just need a jolly good shaking and 10 minutes on the Naughty Step.
(.)Y(.)
Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome
Some countries just need a jolly good shaking and 10 minutes on the Naughty Step.
(.)Y(.)
Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome
ExAFO 0
Quotehttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7119399.stm No flogging, but 15 days in prison. Over a toy.
Sharia Sucks.
I am thinking of sending them a bottle of gin and a canned ham.
Illinois needs a CCW Law. NOW.
QuoteYou're all looking at the story through the lens of your own culture. It's human nature for all people to use such lenses, but it's important for us to recognize that they are inevitably myopic.
Anyhow, tell the local quilting club in Topeka, Kansas that some grade school teacher originally from, say, California or Massachusetts came into their town let her students - children of their community - name their teddy bear Jesus Christ. I'll bet a few of the pillars of the community would be a tad indignant. All a matter of whose ox gets gored.
have you been on the crack pipe again?
Andy9o8 2
QuoteQuoteYou're all looking at the story through the lens of your own culture. It's human nature for all people to use such lenses, but it's important for us to recognize that they are inevitably myopic.
Anyhow, tell the local quilting club in Topeka, Kansas that some grade school teacher originally from, say, California or Massachusetts came into their town let her students - children of their community - name their teddy bear Jesus Christ. I'll bet a few of the pillars of the community would be a tad indignant. All a matter of whose ox gets gored.
have you been on the crack pipe again?
Hey, where I get my bright ideas is my own business.
Anyhow, everyone knows how enlightened the United States was by the time the 20th Century rolled around. In 1925, after trial by a jury of his...well, peers, John Scopes became a convicted criminal for teaching evolution to public school children, in violation of a Tennessee law prohibiting it. During the trial, the judge did not allow the defense to present expert testimony on evolution.
That law, the model for similar laws in Mississippi and Arkansas, was passed in 1925 by devout Christians whose principal (if not exclusive) motivation was because they felt - strongly enough to make it a matter of criminal law - that the concept of evolution was contrary to the teachings of their Christian faith. The law stayed on the books until 1967.
In 1999, the State Board of Education of Kansas removed evolution from the state's science teaching standards.
In 2005, the Dover, Pennsylvania school board, by a unanimous vote, mandated that "intelligent design" be taught as an alternative to evolution in science (not religion - science) classes.
Crazy fucking Muslims.
Lefty 0
http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/africa/11/30/sudan.bears/
The Sudanese protesters think they were too lenient. They are demanding her execution.
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About 600 Islamic demonstrators piled out of mosques, chanting: "By soul, by blood, I will fight for the Prophet Mohammed." Some of the protesters demanded the teacher's execution, according to The Associated Press.
The agency reports that some chanted: "No tolerance: Execution," and "Kill her, kill her by firing squad."
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Over a fucking teddy bear.
The Sudanese protesters think they were too lenient. They are demanding her execution.
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About 600 Islamic demonstrators piled out of mosques, chanting: "By soul, by blood, I will fight for the Prophet Mohammed." Some of the protesters demanded the teacher's execution, according to The Associated Press.
The agency reports that some chanted: "No tolerance: Execution," and "Kill her, kill her by firing squad."
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Over a fucking teddy bear.
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Lefty 0
QuoteThe Sudanese protesters think they were too lenient. They are demanding her execution.
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About 600 Islamic demonstrators piled out of mosques, chanting: "By soul, by blood, I will fight for the Prophet Mohammed." Some of the protesters demanded the teacher's execution, according to The Associated Press.
The agency reports that some chanted: "No tolerance: Execution," and "Kill her, kill her by firing squad."
I'll never understand those people.
Provoking a reaction isn't the same thing as saying something meaningful.
-Calvin
-Calvin
Butters 0
QuoteCrazy fucking Muslims.
Story
Quote"Imprisoning this lady does not satisfy the thirst of Muslims in Sudan. But we welcome imprisonment and expulsion," the cleric, Abdul-Jalil Nazeer al-Karouri, a well-known hardliner, told worshippers.
If the only thing that will satisfy the thirst of Muslims in Sudan is execution ... then Muslims in Sudan are crazy.
"That looks dangerous." Leopold Stotch
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I don't see it as any more blasphemous than naming your son Mohammed.
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