toughb said:Britian is a free country and everyone has a right to express their view. So that said why doesn't that jihad loving muslim shove the cone up his ass and go back to where he came from.
End of porblem...............
Other Wanderer said:I don't think the English or Americans need any further assistance in fucking up "here" - a few of them are doing an admirable job on their own.
To the dude who doesn't like Burger King - he spouted off and made a comment because he was pissed off. I guess I'll pretend I haven't heard what I've heard during a football match in an English pub by comparison.
I'd say the guy was doing nothing other than imitating the locals, and becoming as British as he could. Why does this rise to the level of even news?
Every day in every school board in North America, somebody is pissed off about something. Some Christians want evolution banned, some of the gay lobby want Christianity banned, let's not even get into whether the Merchant of Venice, Tom Sawyer, can be taught unedited to account for a few folks who are Jewish or African-American/Canadian.
The guy was pissed, others are too, we shrug our shoulders and decide if the thing was truly insulting, deliberately so, accidentally so, or not at all, make a business decision and move on.
And that's the only definition you could find is it? In all your sancy dictionaries you never came across the more common meaning:lenharper said:Jihad, To fight and kill in the path of Allah, the enemies of Allah, for the cause of Allah. ...
sounds like there is at least the potential for moderate bodily harm there, especially with regard to the fighting and killing part.
You actually read what the guy said:2. A crusade or struggle: "The war against smoking is turning into a jihad against people who smoke" Fortune.
[Arabic jihd, from jahada, to strive; see ghd in Semitic roots.]
And came to the conclusion that when he said "This is my jihad", he meant he was going to "kill in the path of Allah", and not "this is my struggle"?He was not satisfied by the decision to withdraw the cones and has called on Muslims to boycott Burger King. He said: "This is my jihad
Ah yes, the voice of our superior western "civilization" has spoken.What is so fucked up about "here", we are on the top of the crowd developmentally and have a kick ass lifestyle, the envy of the world. The eyeslams don't have that.
The difference between a statement made in n English Pub and something said by one of them is that we can take statements as they come , the world has 1.8 billion of those largely uneducated and violent buggers who seem to love the mob mentality and lack any higher social skills that would allow them to restrain themselves. You are right that we shrug our shoulders and move on, thats what a developed civilized society does. These mindless drones act in concert when their leaders stir them up. That is what the big deal is.
LOL, that is a great post.Neverenuff$ said:I believe Smyth is pointing out that the Jewish community complains as well as the Muslum community .
a Muslums complaint about Ice cream lids , is equal in nuisance value as a building named Hitler, and Holocaust-deniers is to Jewish people
Jews lost 6 -million to Hitler, Muslums have lost untold numbers to Ice cream lids with religous swirls embosed on them.
woolf said:Yes, all he had to do is look around and see that unlike Muslims and their silly aversion to having their religious symbols co-opted, other religions are perfectly ok with having their sacred symbols co-opted ... there are all kinds of products named "Jesus Christ this" and "Virgin Mary that" ... why right after work I'm dropping into the "Crucifiction Drug Store" to pick up a box of "Star of David Condoms".
xdog said:I've lost respect for BK for bowing down to useless complaints. His concern is right up their with those idiots who complain that records played backward promote satanic causes.
I like how Smyth always posts anti-jewish posts whenever someone posts an article that reports a person who happens to be a Moslem in a bad light.
Why is an Islamic person going to BK in the first place? Does the quoran allow believers of the Islamic faith to eat at a fast food restaurant?
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Go ahead. People in North America are a little more tolerant to that kind of stuff. A bunch of folks will moan and groan and that'd be it.woolf said:So what do you think of this idea then? I'd like to market my "Star of David Condoms" and "Virgin Mary Spermicide" ... if any of those of the Christian or Jewish faith complain about these products being insulting to their religion I can count on your support right?
I would only have a problem with these products if they had a hidden message that would glow after holding it up to a special light on the eve of sighting Hailey's comet.woolf said:So what do you think of this idea then? I'd like to market my "Star of David Condoms" and "Virgin Mary Spermicide" ... if any of those of the Christian or Jewish faith complain about these products being insulting to their religion I can count on your support right?
I agree. Religious fundamentalists of all stripes take their religious symbols pretty seriously ... I would never pretend to tell someone that they don't have a right to worship their french fry, or complain when someone desecrates their grilled cheese sandwich.I remember rioting when "Jesus Christ Superstar" came out, the play and the movie. Get a grip on reality in the west, people complain as is their right but that's about it. I'll aslo bet that someone has marketed something along the lines you suggest.
Every time a french fry ends up looking sort of like the virgin mary, every religous nut celebrates. I don't see how and ice cream decoration that happens to resemble the word Allah is any different.
Don said:Go ahead. People in North America are a little more tolerant to that kind of stuff. A bunch of folks will moan and groan and that'd be it.
Heck, remember the Brooklyn Art Museum in NYC had a portrait of the Virgin Mary smeared with elephant dung and surrounded with pictures of vaginas? Some catholics were upset and tried to get the exhibit removed but their case was rejected under freedom of expression and when that failed, they tried to prevent tax payer dollers to fund the exhibit and that too failed. Other catholics around the world, including the vatican barely noticed or cared. It even got minimal coverage in "Jesusland USA".
Now what if it was mohammad in place of the virgin mary?
I think it's pretty clear that Muslims around the world are very sensitive to any negative characterization, as the Pope found out this week with his rather ill chosen quotes. To be told by your elders that your religion is the greatest of all, and then realize that this has not translated into an equal position of prosperity and power with the developed nations, I'm sure is extremely frustrating.Don said:Go ahead. People in North America are a little more tolerant to that kind of stuff. A bunch of folks will moan and groan and that'd be it.
Heck, remember the Brooklyn Art Museum in NYC had a portrait of the Virgin Mary smeared with elephant dung and surrounded with pictures of vaginas? Some catholics were upset and tried to get the exhibit removed but their case was rejected under freedom of expression and when that failed, they tried to prevent tax payer dollers to fund the exhibit and that too failed. Other catholics around the world, including the vatican barely noticed or cared. It even got minimal coverage in "Jesusland USA".
Now what if it was mohammad in place of the virgin mary?
That's why I fear the muslim world overall is much more sensitive and prone to more radical acts of protest than the christian world. I do not think radical religious groups are good for the world and currently I feel there are more of these groups in the muslim world than the christian world and they worry me more.Asterix said:I think it's pretty clear that Muslims around the world are very sensitive to any negative characterization, as the Pope found out this week with his rather ill chosen quotes. To be told by your elders that your religion is the greatest of all, and then realize that this has not translated into an equal position of prosperity and power with the developed nations, I'm sure is extremely frustrating.
right. But the worldwide reaction of muslims was anger that turned violent with the burning of embassies (for Palestinians to burn the norweigen embassy! how short-sighted! One of the world's largest donors to palestinian aid and one of the biggest critics of Isreal!). The worldwide reaction of catholics was much more subdued (I don't even think most of the world was aware that such an exhibit existed). Mainly because most people who call themselves catholic are a lot less fervent in their faith.woolf said:But that has already happened as well ... remember the Mohammad terrorist cartoons in the Western Standard (or whatever the name of that thrice bankrupt Alberta conservative rag was at the time.)
As is the case of the art that desecrated the image of the Virgin Mary, people of that faith complained ... freedom of speech won out in the end.
I think you hit the nail on the head.Asterix said:To be told by your elders that your religion is the greatest of all, and then realize that this has not translated into an equal position of prosperity and power with the developed nations, I'm sure is extremely frustrating.