It is small and it is for many reasons, but I plan to continue to reduce my gas & oil usage. The problem here is that even if the US dramatically reduced our usuage and no longer imported oil, other countries will just step up and buy it instead.
What do you suggest we can do that would actually affect the situation?
Jim {I am not being snarky, that is a legit question}
If we tell them to shape up, they might ask their leaders to demonstrate more tolerance. More likely, they will cheer their leaders who stick it to the man. When they rise up in unison to praise intolerance, who is to say that they would not demonstrate the same dangerous anger toward us at some time in the future? There’s something we can do about that, from a strictly evolutionary standpoint.
I agree. Just watch out, I started an angry thread about a stoning once, condemming the culture that condones such a thing, and then spent 3 pages being called a racist, prejudice, etc.
He’ll be okay, too many people agree with him.
You probably made the mistake of including one offhand word that allowed the PC police to go after you for that and ignore the barbarity of the act you were condemning. It does not take much, but **Silenus ** would appear to have avoiding this ‘pit trap’.
Jim
That OP went through about 3 revisions before I thought I had one that would fly. You should have read the first one - racist would have been the mildest thing I was called! Then I had a drink and thought about it, then re-wrote.
God, I can’t comprehend sometimes the things that go on in that neck of the woods. Who would ever want to be a woman? Who would want to be born?
I have lots more things I could say, but I’ll keep my mouth shut.
Really, obviously we are the corrupt descipacable ones. We’re white male oppressors or the poor victims being oppressed by white men in the most racist, xenophobic, religiously fanatic, imperialistic, genocidal, monstrous, cruel, and callous culture on earth. We just don’t understand how empowered these women really are by.
/sarcasm
Sometimes they are… but the punishments for male adulterers are vastly less than for women. But sometimes they get as many as, oh, 5 lashes.
A good job too. Excellently vanilla RO rant that still expresses your outrage over this barbaric policy.
I know rating rants has fallen out of favor, but I think you did an excellent job. I liked the wood chipper image.
Jim
I don’t get it. How can that be an illusion?
Or is it? I figure it just doesn’t actually hurt that much for a car’s wheel to roll over a bone like that. I had a car roll over my foot once and it caused no problem at all.
Oops, I forgot, we’re pitting. Sorry.
-FrL-
I don’t think the post provides very good evidence that any of those lables fit Silenus.
However, I do object to the content of his post. It is not okay to say things exhorting genocide. You (the one saying it) may understand yourself to be expressing passionate anger in a controlled circumstance which would never cause others to take the notion of genocide* seriously. But you do not know who your audience is, in any detail. And it is wrong to give anyone (even nutjobs) the impression that they live in a world where it is okay to encourage genocidal urges. This does each individual involved, and the society at large, a major disservice.
So I’m just going to write out this ticket and you can have a nice day. 
-FrL-
*This is not really the right word, as the OP isn’t saying we should kill all Arabs. But he seems to be suggesting that all practitioners of Sharia should be killed, or at the very least, all administrators of Sharia. So he’s suggestnig that an entire social group be exterminated, qua that social group. “Genocide” is not the right word by the dictionary definition, but by connotation, its right in the ballpark. There is probably a better word but it’s not coming to me.
And therein lies the problem. People want to say more about how offensive this is but don’t. They don’t want to offend, be called insensitive to the beliefs and practices of other cultures, don’t want to be called racist or xenophobes. They don’t want to be labeled as intolerant.
Bullshit. I thought that after 9/11 people would read about the lunacy of extremist Islam and be so outraged that they would rise up against the loons and round them all up. Nope. We ranted and raged and then went on our way.
I thought after Daniel Pearl was beheaded and the video was spread around the world that maybe we would go after these whacko’s and wipe them out. Nope. We talked for a little bit about how horrible it was, talk radio ranted and then it was brushed aside.
Wahabism is the prevailing teaching in our supposed ally, Saudi Arabia. We laugh at and denounce the Christian fundamentalists in this country and ridicule the Bible literalists, yet we say and do nothing about the Wahabist teachings that threaten peace throughout the world. The Saudis have the money to spend on spreading the word of their idea about what the “religion of peace” means and we do nothing to stop them because they have us by the gas tanks.
Enough! Because of our dependence on foreign oil we have to sit back and let them do whatever the hell they want, no matter how it disgusts us. We can’t keep an eye on Middle Eastern immigrants or mosques because it is considered profiling. If 9/11 had been committed by members of the IRA then I, as an American of Irish descent, would be screaming about how the IRA doesn’t represent me and I would have no problem with the feds profiling red-headed freckled guys named Murphy or targeting the St. Paddy’s Day parade.
Since we can’t get the Muslim communities to stand up and express their outrage at the perversion of their beliefs then the non-Muslim communities and countries should do it. Show the videos of these atrocities (floggings, beheadings, 9/11, terrorist rants) and don’t let it be forgotten. Don’t fold to political correctness. If the Muslim groups won’t police themselves then we will have to do it for them.
Now I will sit back and wait for everyone to pile on me and tell me that I am insensitive, racist, offensive, bigoted and a Nazi.
According to the link in the OP, several men were arrested and convicted for the woman’s rape.
How much are you joking with this post?
I will go on record as saying.
I would be quite happy if every enforcer of Sharia law did meet an early death.
I would be quite happy if every Neo-Nazi did.
I would be quite happy if every KKK member did.
I don’t believe anything I just posted could be confued with genocide any more than Der Trihs’s crazy rants about US soldiers. You might not agree, with my sentiments, but they are a far cry from genocide as is Silenus wishing wistfully for the wood chipper death of the “Saudi Arabia’s judges and Islamic law advocates”. That is a professional group and not a race or religion.
As far as the hypothetical audience, bullshit, they are responsible for their actions. Not posters on a message board. If they were prone to go on a killing spree or become the next Hitler, I hardly think Silenus’ post will be the catalyst that pushes them over.
Jim
“Mullah-cide?”
On Halloween, while Saudi’s ruling monarch was visiting the UK, Saudi Arabia executed five men for rape. So, see, they do execute men for raping women. Oh, wait, no…they were convicted of raping a young man. Nevermind.
I saw that. I haven’t found any real details for the case so I don’t know exactly what happened.
200 lashes is effectively the death penalty, few people survive that many.
I have no doubt using less oil or publicly criticizing them will make a 1400 year old culture change its mind. :rolleyes:
Apparently it means “someone who’ll stand by and watch a rape in progress”.
another interesting case:
Two men in Saudi Arabia sentenced to 7,000 lashes each for having homosexual relations
Interestingly enough, Saudi Arabia is one of the states that is a party to the Convention against Torture - I guess 7,000 lashes isn’t torture. 7,100, on the other hand…