Hear here! And you can stuff that whole bit about the crucifixion too! It was a long time ago. Give it a rest already.
First the came for the Union Jack, and I said nothing.
They they pointed their sabres toward Switzerland, and again I did nothing.
Then they focused their outrage at the Dominican Republic and I asked, what the fuck is going on here?
I’ll bet we can guess with pinpoint accuracy how Rahman stands on a potential pigs in a blanket crackdown, too.
That’s what I’ve never understood. Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, but nobody in America really hates the Japanese, because we kicked their fucking asses. Eventually, the Muslims kicked the Crusaders’ asses … why the 1000 year old grudge? Even England and France took only a few centuries to get over their differences.
Ahem. Britain’s patron saint? Nope, that animal-hating chappie from don’t-know-quite-where in Middle east somewhere who killed poor endangered dragons is not my patron saint. 
Nor that of Wales ('cos they’re quite fond of prettilly coloured dragons there).
Aw, yer all English to us <d&r>.
Anyway, while “Love it or leave it!” is usually and rightly attributed as the utterance of yahoos, there is a point when I begin to wonder exactly why some of these folks left their home countries in the first place. One has a right to rail against obvious bigotry, of course, or bigoted acts, but Piglet? I mean, was it a deep dark secret in the Arab world that British women don’t cover their heads, or that Christians eat pork, or that the press can say whatever they want about you ? What exactly do they expect to find when they get to the UK or anyplace else in Europe?
[Gumby]
I’m offended by the Slavery used to build the pyramids! My Grandfathers bones are wedged between one of those blocks!
I will not rest until the pyramids are torn down and I’m given reperations!
[/Gumby]
Oh, and my scottish blood is still pissed about Falkirk.
We don’t discuss that with outsiders.
Why oh why do Westerners continue to provoke the reasonable people of the Islamic world with their use of primary colors and simple shapes?
OI WOULD LIKE TO SEE… CHRIS DOYLE’S IMPERSONATION OF JOHN THE BAPTIST.
In other news, I’m starting a campaign to change the colors of Christmas trees. Everybody knows green is the color of Islam, and red is the color of blood. It’s offensive!
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Don’t worry, I’m doing everything I can to stop continental drift.
Maybe I’m just being an ignorant American, but how is banning of carton characters a victory for tolerance and understanding? Up till now I’ve been an opponent of proposals to evict Muslims from Britain or any other place, but jeez, they’re going to make it hard to keep like that at this rate.Stuff like this makes me wonder who this Doyle guy is that he thinks Dhimmitude is a wonderful way of life?
Even better: it’s a thousand year old grudge that pretty much only affected a tiny segment of the Middle East, because the Crusaders didn’t give a fat damn about anything outside of Jerusalem.
My BIL has a t-shirt that says “Stop plate tectonics!”
He claims, though I hesitate to believe him, that he’s had people offer to donate to the cause.
Oh you’re just doing that to set up your run for President in 2008. I’m on to you. . . :dubious:
One would think that the Orthodox Church would raise more of a ruckus over The Crusades, since they seemed to have devolved from an effort to “liberate the Holy Land” to just another excuse to sack Constantinople.
The Crusades also happened in response to several centuries of militant Muslim aggression against Christendom. Your curriculum may have left out explaining how Islam spread across the Middle East and into Europe and whom they displaced.
That doesn’t make them “okay,” but it does make it pretty obvious that if you go back far enough, everyone’s grandfather was a dick to everyone else’s grandfather. The claim that Muslims have some sort of special victim status based on the crusades is ludicrous; that does not, however prevent some from seeking it.
Ugh! What to say about people who get offended and insulted about Cartoon pigs on a mug? In the name of tolerance for Muslim sensibilities
Isn’t crusades merely an inner struggle?
Much of the crusades weren’t even about Muslims or Arabs. There were the bloody crusades in France against some Christian sect. The Danish army and German knights waged a series of crusades over hundred of years in the Baltic. One crusade ravaged the Christian city Constantinople. Then there were the crusades in Spain and southern Italy and Sicily. Do they object to them as well?
My grandfather was not a dick. He was a nice man.
Likewise. Seems to me it’s a victory for whining and, perhaps, for patronising attitudes (since Muslims because they’re ticking time bombs and can’t think rationally, so we have to accomodate them).
Oh, like you need an excuse.
C’mon, if we’re really going to offend Muslim sensabilities, I say we start in Iraq. Every wounded hostile gets a packet of pigs blood in the mouth, and then we treat them for their wounds. The dead are wrapped in a pig’s hide, then buried upside down and facing away from Mecca. I’m rather sure that they wouldn’t be soooo angry with Piglet if this started happening. Or burning mosques. That’s always a popular thing to do. Better yet, burning them during services and shooting the fleeing survivors with pork coated bullets. That’d be great!
~Mang
(PS: For those of you who can’t hear sarcasm over the net, that was sarcastic. I do not support the burning of places of worship nor the shooting of fleeing survivors of such an act of arson. I do support sending each hostile found dead in Iraq to Muslim hell or whatever they call it.)