You know what I find repellant, people who try to find ways to justify behaviours for some folks but not for others. I find stoning repellant, lashing a woman for being raped, Shariah law, death threats for a God dam cartoon etc. I also find it repellant that the youth in France would go on a crusade and burn cars and stop buses in the public transit system beating people up. I find it repellant that there are so many radical nuts in some areas of Europe that they will not even allow the police to enter these areas. I find it repellant that we have to watch not to say Merry Christmas so that we don't offend anyone. Seasons greetings is more politically correct. Since when did any other minority group of immigrant get this special consideration. We have all tried to intergrate. My fathers an immigrant for Christ sake.
Don't call me a rasist either, I dated a Belly dancer from Damascus who would literally kiss the televison set when Saddam Hussein would come on. Enough is enough.
Growing up as a Jehovahs Witness no one gave a God dam that I was the only one that had to leave the class when the Lords prayer was said. No one gave a shit that I had no fun at Christmas or any other holiday. No one gave a crap, that on Valentines day everyone's desk was full of valentines cards and mine wasn't. Now we all have to be sensitve. Why is that? Are you scared? If there were less of them here, and there were no problems in the Middle East would you still give this kind of consideration? I think not. Despite what our forefathers died for, Majority rules! Despite the fact that many may indeed be moderate, the hidden agenda has not changed, and integration is not on that agenda. Just study the history of Islam. Check out whats happening in the Sudan, Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Palestine etc. Acommodating is not part of their vocabulary.
Just as i can't stand the majority of Witnesses' I know there are some good folks in Islam. Does this mean I will change my behaviour to suit them. It might, if there was a great deal more of them, and they made open public threats such as the demonstrations they have held in England.
If you pulled that kind of shit in their countries they would barbecue your testicles. In Dubai just giving someone the finger is enough to send you to prison!
If someone is nice to me I will be nice to them, but I refuse to change who I am.
Scotsman with all due respect, you have a good Muslim freind there. Mahmoud Amadinijad recently gave a lecture in New York stating that this Phenomemon of homosexuality does not exist in Iran. The audience laughed, but he was being dead serious. You know why that is. Cuz in Iran if you are caught, you will get a bullet between the eyes. Thats a sobering reminder of why we must place more value on our rights instead of going off the deep end to accommodate thinking from the 7th century. Keep in mind this clown has openly stated he wishes to wipe Israel off the map and tried to disprove the holocaust.
With all due respect to decent Muslims. It is my understanding that to leave a harmful religion and the brainwashing you get from birth I still find it hard to shake off my witness ways. Islam has been mixed with politics, and is being used as a powerful tool to control the masses. It has even more power than regular bonafide politics because it is not just a political force, it is a beleif system that that uses fear coerscion and tradition.
You want to say Christianity has done the same thing . Yes, you are right. But give that argument to someone else. That is why I am not religious.
