Whatever it’s called, if she was wearing that-it’s gorgeous!
and now back to the thread.
As you and Li’l Puck say, thats an excellent idea. I was more focuesed on the fact that people were calling Mindfield a coward for not verbally or physically confronting the El Dirtbag. It didn’t seem fair.
I am sorry I did not get back on this earlier.
In the OP, Mindfield made a statement that implied his ignorance of Islam and where he stated a belief that he was “well aware that the Quran does not actively preach the kind of sick shit”.
I only gave quotes to make him better aware of what Islam preaches.
It is these quotes that are used by the terrorists to justify their acts.
It is quite understanble that these passages in the Koran are perhaps not supposed to be followed per se but who can convince the terrorist to read and interpret them any differently when he is also told that it is the very word from Allah Himself.
They are all Abrahamic religions and share a common history till the time of Moses. It is not surprising if all Biblical scriptures have similar passages.
Also, please educate me about which religions other than the three that arose in the Middle East, contain teachings of violence against others?
Geez, off the top of my head I can’t think of any that don’t contain any such teachings, except perhaps Jainism and some forms of Buddhism.
The Eddas of ancient Norse religion are quite bloody in spots, of course. Even Hinduism, currently associated in the popular mind with nonviolence, condones killing as the warrior’s duty:
wisernow, your motives may have been genuine in posting the Koranic references, but alas they seem to echo similar, multiple, disingenous postings of such material by people with an agenda. Hence my reaction.
Mine as well, and I apologize if that was not your intent. tips hat
Why the fuck has “mouth-breathing” become some sort of generic insult recently?
Some dudes breath through their mouth due to medical problems. I don’t know of one who does so becuase they are stupd or an asshole or a fucktard.
Making a medical condition into a generic insult is simply wrong.
There are a few points that I would like to make since you quote the Bhagwad Geeta.
The quotation refers to a situation in the battlefield where Arjuna is a soldier and is reminded by Krishna of doing his duty. Neither parties in the battle were fighting on account of anything remotely related to religion or belief in different God(s), and therefore have no similarity to teachings that encourage killing because of religious differences.
Second, perhaps you are not aware that Hinduism is not a religion in the sense of the Abhrahamic religions.
The Bhagwad Geeta, that you quote, is only a narration of events that supposedly happened sometime in the past, in a supposed war in which Krishna, supposedly an incarnation of God also participated.
Not believing, or not following what is written in the BhagwadGeeta, or for that matter not following any of the tenets set out in any of the supposedl Hidu scriptures does not make one an apostate as far as the Hindu religion is concerned.
That’s moving the goalposts. You didn’t ask about teachings of violence specifically “because of religious differences”. Instead, you asked, “which religions other than the three that arose in the Middle East, contain teachings of violence against others?”
Moreover, I wouldn’t be too quick to assume that there are no teachings in Hindu scriptures such as the Puranas that encourage violence and antagonism towards members of other faiths (i.e., Buddhists, Jains, and Lokayatas) specifically on the grounds of religious differences. There are definitely a lot of anti-Buddhist and anti-Jain statements in the Puranas and in the dharmasastra texts, for example. Religious intolerance as such is certainly not absent from Hindu scriptures.
Yup, I know that that’s a commonly held view concerning Hinduism, although IMO it’s an over-simplistic reduction of a complex situation (e.g., the fundamental constituents of Judaism are in some ways actually more like the ethnic/dharmic basis of the Indian religions than like the confessional basis of Christianity and Islam).
Be that as it may, though, you didn’t put that condition in your question about “religions” in general.
Recently? “Mouth breather” been around for a long as I can remember. Its purpose is to call to mind the image of a drooling, slack-jawed yokel with a profound lack of social grace. Its origins may be medical in nature, but its use as a pejorative is far more Deliverance than Dr. House. I think you’re being a little overly sensitive here.
Then use “drooling, slack-jawed yokel”.
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Just a few irritating nitpicky observations:[ul][li]He might not have been Indian - probably Pakistani or Bangladeshi.[]The skullcap doesn’t necessarily mean he’s an imam - Jimmy, the Pakistani dude who lives over the road from me, wears one and he’s an auto mechanic.[]I’ve never seen a woman wearing a hijab and a sari (usually worn by Sikhs and Hindus) - she was probably a salwar kameez.[/ul][/li][/QUOTE]
Thank you, this was bothering me, too.
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Oh dear, I think I could spend all day on that site…
In my personal experience, calling random strangers out on racist remarks very rarely ends well. If anything, it might have set him off and made things worse.
Hell, even with people you know, sometimes it doesn’t do any good. I think I’ve mentioned before that challenging some of my racist relatives on their statements only makes them get worse. I’ve found that just changing the subject is the only way to stop it.
I’m not confrontational, but my wife doesn’t take shit from anyone. My wife and I were recently in Hot Springs, Arkansas (having been evacuated from Beirut), and she was in conversation with an older (mid-50s) guy who had previously commented on how cute our daughter was. When it emerged that we had been living in Beirut for the last 6 years, he said “Who would want to live in that filthy hole with all of those dirty Arabs?” My wife let him have it. It probably didn’t make him less racist, but it might have made him more likely to keep his opinions to himself in the future. Fortunately, I wasn’t there; like I said, I’m not normally confrontational, but I would have gotten in his face and asked him if he was calling my 2-year-old daughter (whom we adopted in Lebanon) a dirty Arab. Fucking racist piece of shit. The irony is he was Jewish; my wife pointed out to him that Sephardic Jews and Arabs are of the same racial group. He seemed shocked by this.