To be fair we can't as a nation claim we are not guilty of that ourselves.Originally Posted by Busyman
there is no god
To be fair we can't as a nation claim we are not guilty of that ourselves.
it’s an election with no Democrats, in one of the whitest states in the union, where rich candidates pay $35 for your votes. Or, as Republicans call it, their vision for the future.
Use Logic Or STFU!!!
To be fair, we are a nation severely divided.....how divided are they?To be fair we can't as a nation claim we are not guilty of that ourselves.
Also when are we going to start targeting mere civilians?
Not the same.
Silly bitch, your weapons cannot harm me. Don't you know who I am? I'm the Juggernaut, Bitchhhh!
Flies Like An Arrow, Flies Like An Apple
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So the situation is escalating...
The Danish embassy in Damascus, Syria were set on fire today, and burned to the ground. Later the Norwegian embassy were plundered, with an attempt to light this on fire as well.
Actually, it seems our embassy is burning as well. All in the name of Allah....
Last edited by ahctlucabbuS; 02-04-2006 at 05:36 PM.
en(un)lightened
Lovely, just lovely.
The action is ignorant, but a practice of freedom of expression in appropriate fora.
The reaction is severe and destructive, and poorly directed, into the bargain.
Odd that, in a milieu which does not ordinarily countenance freedom of speech/expression, such acts are neither denounced or punished from within.
We on the outside must grudgingly grant it as a free exercise of the type we enjoy no matter it's effect.
Why, though, is it not looked upon as a home-front exercise of the religious oppression (for that is what it is) which immigrants practice upon their host countries?
With all the sentiment expressed here (and everyhere) about the historical transgressions committed in the name of religion(s), how is it this is so routinely overlooked?
"Researchers have already cast much darkness on the subject, and if they continue their investigations, we shall soon know nothing at all about it."
-Mark Twain
Fat Secret Agent
Strictly speaking, if they burned down the Danish embassy and plundered the Norwegian embassy, then the acts were carried out on Danish and Norwegian soil. Hopefully nobody was murdered when they did this.
It really is quite mad and totally over the top. It seems that some people take draconian retribution as being an acceptable way to behave in the modern World. They feel that it's OK to run their own countries in such a manner, therefore it's OK to treat everyone else the same way. It isn't and I for one am sick of it.
en(un)lightened
If they make the case they are subject to oppressive political/religious sentiment, are we bound to make a countering case?
The international bent toward "global" political-correctness would seem to dictate that this is so...even when any thinking person (as defined by our western sensibilities) would reject their actions as "quite mad and totally over the top".
Again-popular sentiment constantly warns of foreign policy heavily informed/influenced by religion (at least in the case of the U.S.); why are not similar cautions being voiced now?
Seems as though the international "community" prefers (as usual) to patronize second/third/fourth-world brown-skinned people by refusing to criticize their religion.
"Researchers have already cast much darkness on the subject, and if they continue their investigations, we shall soon know nothing at all about it."
-Mark Twain
there is no god
SO you lump entire nations (but not ours) into one thenTo be fair, we are a nation severely divided.....how divided are they?To be fair we can't as a nation claim we are not guilty of that ourselves.
Also when are we going to start targeting mere civilians?
Not the same.
it’s an election with no Democrats, in one of the whitest states in the union, where rich candidates pay $35 for your votes. Or, as Republicans call it, their vision for the future.
en(un)lightened
Okay, I'll ask this very, very plainly, since I'm currently treading about amongst you lot of thickos:
Why do we tippy-toe around the issue of religious conquest as practiced by fundamentalist Islamist whack-jobs?
It is of an undeniably religious nature.
It is insidious, intrusive and intolerant.
It has become all-pervading, and promulgates under the guise of legitimate immigration.
It is being committed by people of a dusky hue.
Have I missed anything?
"Researchers have already cast much darkness on the subject, and if they continue their investigations, we shall soon know nothing at all about it."
-Mark Twain
Team FST Captain
Can you use smaller words next time
I think that the western world should know by now, how serious religion is to them (ME). We should stop picking on them, why should we keep making fun of them (that's how they see it). We're mocking the most important thing to those people. The best thing might be to leave them alone. After all these riots and what not, the ME has lost a trading partner and maybe more.
there is no god
I agree with the sentiment of this with the addition that I think this about all religious "whack jobs". One can try to differentiate between different groups with all the "but we don't do this or that" but at the end of the day fanatics of any design are just that.
I don't believe that anyone should be given a pass when it comes to questioning beliefs (or lack of), but on the flip side I don't expect anyone to like it and just as I feel the publishers of the cartoon in question have the right to do what they did the people that took offence have the right to boycott. What I will dispute with them is the point at which the justification for certain actions has been passed.
Of course there has to come a point where we have to ask ourselves that just because we can do something.......should we ? or is it worth doing?
it’s an election with no Democrats, in one of the whitest states in the union, where rich candidates pay $35 for your votes. Or, as Republicans call it, their vision for the future.
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