Teddy Bear may bring 40 lashes

[hondo]

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article511199.ece

Oh, those crazy guys from the religion of peace.

 

[JR]

I bet you were practically wetting your pants to post that, but try and stay with the tour:

http://www.sportsjournalists.com/forum/posts/1520864/

 

[zeke12]

It's like the xenophobe special olympics around here, some days.

 

[hondo]

It's like the xenophobe special olympics around here, some days.

You can attack me and make it personal all you want. That doesn't change the fact that some woman may get 40 lashes for naming a freaking teddy bear Muhammad.

What kind of insanity produces that thinking?

 

[hondo]

I bet you were practically wetting your pants to post that, but try and stay with the tour:

http://www.sportsjournalists.com/forum/posts/1520864/

Maybe it's because I have a life. Don't you have an agate page to get out?

 

[zeke12]

It's like the xenophobe special olympics around here, some days.

You can attack me and make it personal all you want. That doesn't change the fact that some woman may get 40 lashes for naming a freaking teddy bear Muhammad.

What kind of insanity produces that thinking?

It can only be personal, hondo. It's clearly not based in any kind of logic. That's been shown to you time and again.

The fusion of religion -- any religion -- with government will produce this kind of injustice. 'Twas ever thus.

Everything else is just you hating brown people.

 

[Herbert Anchovy]

It's like the xenophobe special olympics around here, some days.

You can attack me and make it personal all you want. That doesn't change the fact that some woman may get 40 lashes for naming a freaking teddy bear Muhammad.

What kind of insanity produces that thinking?

The same that condemns a man to the fiery pits for his sexual orientation.

 

[jgmacg]

Good thing we never have overzealous prosecution of ridiculous mistakes here in the enlightened Judeo-Christian West.

Oh.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie_Amero

40 years in prison because IT doesn't update the filter software?



(And yes, I'm posting it on both threads. Grrrrrr.)

 

[Lyman_Bostock]

The moral-equivalency police are working overtime today.

 

[hondo]

It's like the xenophobe special olympics around here, some days.

You can attack me and make it personal all you want. That doesn't change the fact that some woman may get 40 lashes for naming a freaking teddy bear Muhammad.

What kind of insanity produces that thinking?

The same that condemns a man to the fiery pits for his sexual orientation.

Big difference: there aren't people (I presume you mean Christians) actually throwing someone else into fiery pits. It may be someone's belief that will happen at the hands of a vengeful God at some point in someone's afterlife, and you can make your own call on that. But it's not happening in the here and now.

On the other hand, there are Muslims who have been beheaded for homosexuality, adultery, etc.

I've got nothing against people of any color. I have something against people of ANY color who decide they can do this to other people.

 

[hondo]

It's like the xenophobe special olympics around here, some days.

You can attack me and make it personal all you want. That doesn't change the fact that some woman may get 40 lashes for naming a freaking teddy bear Muhammad.

What kind of insanity produces that thinking?

It can only be personal, hondo. It's clearly not based in any kind of logic. That's been shown to you time and again.

The fusion of religion -- any religion -- with government will produce this kind of injustice. 'Twas ever thus.

Everything else is just you hating brown people.

A. Just because there has been religious intolerance in the past, does that mean we should never speak out about it now and in the future?
B. I defy you to come up with any post, any time, that indicated I "hate brown people."
C. Again, you can attack me all you want. Doesn't change a thing about what's going on.

 

[Herbert Anchovy]

Big difference: there aren't people (I presume you mean Christians) actually throwing someone else into fiery pits. It may be someone's belief that will happen at the hands of a vengeful God at some point in someone's afterlife, and you can make your own call on that. But it's not happening in the here and now.

If they could, they would.

And I'd rather they just took their shot than use representative government as their cudgel.

 

[BTExpress]

What kind of insanity produces that thinking?

Perhaps the kind of insanity that would condemn humanity to sin forever because somebody ate an apple.

One person's insanity is another's idea of justice.

 

[black dude with pompano]

Good thing we never have overzealous prosecution of ridiculous mistakes here in the enlightened Judeo-Christian West.

Oh.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie_Amero

40 years in prison because IT doesn't update the filter software?

Gosh, I'm going to take the "crazy" view that both cases are examples of injustices. Is that OK?

Perhaps every post that references another nation should include a corresponding example from the United States, and then we could forestall these inevitable responses.

 

[zeke12]

Or, perhaps, people should devote more time to rooting out justice at home instead of convincing themselves -- and attempting to convince others -- that any particular religious or ethnic group has the market cornered on it.

Be the change, etc.

 

[hondo]

Big difference: there aren't people (I presume you mean Christians) actually throwing someone else into fiery pits. It may be someone's belief that will happen at the hands of a vengeful God at some point in someone's afterlife, and you can make your own call on that. But it's not happening in the here and now.

If they could, they would.

And I'd rather they just took their shot than use representative government as their cudgel.

But they aren't so quit trying to equate beheading someone because they were gay or didn't have their face covered with a Baptist minister preaching that homosexuality is a sin. Depending on your point of view, the Baptist minister is merely being annoying. Hard to put that on the same level as 40 lashes for naming a Teddy Bear Muhammad, but damn if you and JR and the rest of the Ostriches aren't trying.

 

[hondo]

Or, perhaps, people should devote more time to rooting out justice at home instead of convincing themselves -- and attempting to convince others -- that any particular religious or ethnic group has the market cornered on it.

Be the change, etc.

I don't think we have the market cornered. But we have don't have the equivilent of Sharia Law in the U.S. Last I checked, our due process, while imperfect, works just a little bit better than some tribunal handing a woman 200 lashes for being gang-raped.

 

[Herbert Anchovy]

More than annoying, hondo. He's hateful and he's loathsome.

I would stop listening to him if I were you.

 

[hondo]

More than annoying, hondo. He's hateful and he's loathsome.

I would stop listening to him if I were you.

I'm not listening to any of them. I don't believe gays are going to hell. But however you want to judge statements or beliefs like that, they fall far, far short of beheading and lashing.

 

[jgmacg]

How about waterboarding?