Of course in the Maghreb here, muslim majority for thousand years our average age of marriage already ten years ago exceeded the current Indian and now is26 for women and 31 for men… with the birth rate at the higher EU level (2.15, 2014).
Obviously this** must **mean that it is the Hindu saturated cultural environment that is the cause in India…
(of course I am mocking the stupidity of the religious bigotry and the hypocrisy in his lies of omission, but there is a genuine aspect to this - many of the muslim (and the chrisitan) masses of the India are converts from the oppressed lower classes under the hindu custom. They remain at the lowest ladders of the economy. It is an absolutely well established effect that poorer groups have higher fertility all things being equal.)
Your objection was that it was a hideous piece of clothing. So the implication is you prefer underage girls to be in attractive clothing. Whereas you don’t care if grown women are in unattractive clothing. Again…Eeew.
I may not be entirely serious about the whole thing.
I ran into this random news tidbit today, and it immediately made me chuckle & think of this thread for reason that will soon become apparent.
Summarized : a sports apparel store made a basketball related T-shirt spoofing the Iwo Jima statue/iconic PR shot. People on Facebook/Twitter/email raised a full blown, right-wing, INSULTING ARE TROOPS shitstorm. The shirt has now been pulled.
But anyway, Muslims and cartoons and movie boycotts, those guys just plain don’t understand our free speech values, amirite ?
You seem to be confused as to the difference between “expressing your disagreement with speech” and “demanding that government institutions prevent/punish speech.” I’m not surprised, since most Islamophiles seem unable to comprehend what “free speech” means.
It is a bastardization of an indelible American icon of bravery and sacrifice.
What a basketball hoop has to do with it, I don’t know…
At any rate, private actors protesting speech they disagree with seems to be the way it should work. I don’t even understand what your point here is other than “military veterans don’t like to have their historical sacrifices cheapened by phony corporatism.”
It is funny, the frequency that our two bigots confirm even in their native language a low comprehension level or ability to tell when they are being openly mocked and made fun of… and take seriously that like, I think the phrase is “the straight men.”
Whereas Muhammad is just this guy and cartoons showing him fucking a pig’s head are fine, right ?
Nothing. It’s just a random, funny shirt. It’s not even insulting or disparaging of the photo, or of veterans, or of anything. That’s what is priceless about this story.
…and Pac Sun is the latest to taste the (verbal) machete of those patriots who deign to police the T-shirt industry:
I’m sure I’d get a bit more exercised about this if I didn’t think that people going round in garish printed T-shirts are basically slobs. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
No one bombed, decapitated, or imprisoned over a stupid thing that offended some easily offended group? Just stupid people complaining and someone responding to the complaint? Huh, wonder why that is.
I like how you are so good to illustrate the parody of the extremist bigot fanatic with a very poor reading understanding and no sense of the irony or the humor.
Shouldn’t you be saying something along the lines that Pac Sun and Under Armor shouldn’t be caving in to implied threats? I mean, how do you know these people wouldn’t murder the T-shirt makers?
UN officials: Girl hit by IDF gunfire in UN school in Gaza
By Amos Harel, Haaretz Correspondent and AP
Tue., October 12, 2004 Tishrei 27, 5765
An 11-year-old Palestinian girl was shot in the stomach and critically wounded by Israel Defense Forces gunfire IDF troops fired two shots, one of the shots hit a fifth-grade student at the school. Last month, a 10-year-old girl was killed by IDF gunfirewhile sitting at her desk at the same school.
United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) 7 September 2004 At 07:45 10-year old Raghda Adnan Al-Assar was struck in the head by Israeli fire while sitting at her desk in UNRWA’s Elementary
Girl’s School On June 1 this year two ten-year old children in UNRWA’s
Al-Umariye Elementary Boys’ School in Rafah were hit by a bullet from a Israeli tank
In March 2003
12-year old Hoda Darwish was hit in the head by a bullet fired Two 10 year-old schoolchildren were shot in the al-Omaria school run by UNRWA in Rafah, when an Israeli tank fired into their classroom.
Bullets fired from the tank flew through the classroom window, hitting Mahmoud Hamad in the neck and Hisham al Habil in the head. The boys had not even been sitting by the windows but in the middle of the room.
An eight-year-old Palestinian girl shot dead by Israeli troops in the central Gaza Strip was killed while showing off her new school uniform to friends http://tinyurl.com/99kh8zk
Boy of 17, shot by Israeli soldiers, left bleeding overnight to die
September 8, 2003
The bullet ridden corpse of Mohammad Abdullah Abu al-Husni, was found yesterday morning near the town of Jabaliya, where he lived in Gaza.
Haneen, who was eight years old, had been shot twice in the head by an Israeli soldier as she walked down the street in Khan Yunis refugee camp with her mother.
28 July 2003
She was coming down the street and ran to me and hugged me, crying,
‘Mother, mother’. Two bullets hit her in the head, one straight after the other.
She was still in my arms and she died." 'I can't imagine anyone who considers himself a human being can do this' | Palestinian territories | The Guardian
This boy was in his own house and an IDF soldier barges into the house and shoots him dead Mohammed a 7-year-old boy fell dead, still clutching his piece of bread.
Tuesday December 23, 2003
Three shot in the back by Israeli snipers, one a 15-year-old boy
Siege off Nablus
January, 2004
15 year old boy who was shot while standing in front of his house. The sniper bulet hit Amjad in the back. He died on his way to the hospital. The second is Amer Kathym Arafat who was also shot in the back by a sniper bullet. The third is Rouhi Hazem Shouman, 25, who was also shot in the back by a sniper.
An eight-year-old Palestinian girl shot dead by Israeli troops in the central Gaza Strip was killed while showing off her new school uniform to friends http://tinyurl.com/99kh8zk
IDF shoots 13-year-old girl in the back with 20 bullets and then the IDF commander goes over to the girl and shoots her again to make sure she was dead
Tue., October 05, 2004 http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/485274.html
“I have never before watched soldiers entice children like mice into a trap and murder them for sport."
When did anyone refer to the movie American Sniper?
May I ask where you went to school, because if you went to private school your parents should demand a refund, but if you went to public school, I’d like my tax money back.