Still Hating America.

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Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
Champagne, caviar and a tickertape parade.

:partytime

At least until the reinstate the temperance movement....

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Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
Muslims have rioted over Danish cartoons depicting Muhammad. Why? One claim has been that Islam forbids visual depictions of Muhammad, which is strange given how often images of Muhammad appear in Muslim history. We can also find many visual images of Muhammad in European history, all without Muslims rioting and threatening to destroy civil liberties. Here you will find numerous images of Muhammad, some Muslim and some European, accompanied by verses of war and violence in the Quran.

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Wait, you mean medieval Europeans depicted Muhammad without riots?! Shocking!

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
Muslims have rioted over Danish cartoons depicting Muhammad. Why? One claim has been that Islam forbids visual depictions of Muhammad, which is strange given how often images of Muhammad appear in Muslim history. We can also find many visual images of Muhammad in European history, all without Muslims rioting and threatening to destroy civil liberties. Here you will find numerous images of Muhammad, some Muslim and some European, accompanied by verses of war and violence in the Quran.

from About.com

William Donohue has foamed at the mouth over Amanda Marcotte's jokes about the Virgin Mary. But I've heard lots of Priests make Virgin Mary jokes without William Donohue foaming at the mouth or his minions sending death threats.

[SlaveNoMore]

Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
William Donohue has foamed at the mouth over Amanda Marcotte's jokes about the Virgin Mary. But I've heard lots of Priests make Virgin Mary jokes without William Donohue foaming at the mouth or his minions sending death threats.

But if you're a muslim and you dare to criticize other muslims, you get 4 years in jail

[SlaveNoMore]

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Wait, you mean medieval Europeans depicted Muhammad without riots?! Shocking!

Yes, it is always shocking when muslims aren't rioting.

It happens less frequently than sightings of Halley's coment.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
Champagne, caviar and a tickertape parade.

:partytime

You know they're not keen on premarital sex, right?

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
But if you're a muslim and you dare to criticize other muslims, you get 4 years in jail

Wouldn't it be great if autocratic Middle Eastern governments like Egypt's were less repressive?

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by ironweed
Speak in tongues. I have some tapes of Hank drunk-dialing fringey that I use to practice.

If you have the 15 Dec tape, i need a copy for an upcoming hearing.

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
Yes, it is always shocking when muslims aren't rioting.

It happens less frequently than sightings of Halley's coment.

I found this accompanying one of the illustrations in your link. Apparently, lack of reading comprehension is not exclusive to lawyers.

Fight in the way of Allah against those who fight against you, but begin not hostilities. Lo! Allah loveth not aggressors. Do not fight wars of aggression. And slay them wherever ye find them, and drive them out of the places whence they drove you out, for persecution is worse than slaughter. And fight not with them at the Inviolable Place of Worship until they first attack you there, but if they attack you (there) then slay them. Such is the reward of disbelievers. But if they desist, then lo! Allah is Forgiving, Merciful. And fight them until persecution is no more, and religion is for Allah. But if they desist, then let there be no hostility except against wrong-doers. (2:190-193)

[SlaveNoMore]

taxwonk
I found this accompanying one of the illustrations in your link. Apparently, lack of reading comprehension is not exclusive to lawyers.

Amazing that the later Suras contradict all of that - and that tens of millions of Muslims worldwide don't feel the same way.

PS - yes, lack of reading comprehension also extends to millions of Muslim women, since their men won't ever let them learn to read.

[SlaveNoMore]

Tyrone Slothrop
Wouldn't it be great if autocratic Middle Eastern governments like Egypt's were less repressive?

Ain't it amusing then, that Egypt is one of the more liberal governments in the ME?

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
Amazing that the later Suras contradict all of that - and that tens of millions of Muslims worldwide don't feel the same way.

Would it startle you to learn that many evangelical Christians ignore or interpret in odd ways many Biblical passages? Maybe even tens of millions of them?

[SlaveNoMore]

Tyrone Slothrop
You know they're not keen on premarital sex, right?

They don't kill you for it.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
Ain't it amusing then, that Egypt is one of the more liberal governments in the ME?

I don't think "amusing" is the right word.

[SlaveNoMore]

Tyrone Slothrop
Would it startle you to learn that many evangelical Christians ignore or interpret in odd ways many Biblical passages? Maybe even tens of millions of them?

Would it startle you to realize that - once again - your moral equivilance here is so absurd, that it's startling?