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Octavius Hite
Joined: 28 Jan 2004
Location: Househunting, looking for a new bunker from which to convert the world to homosexuality.
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Octavius Hite wrote:
He started all this by denigrading the good people of the CF (of who 2 are my family members and are fighting the actual war on terror in Afghanistan) I was just reminding him that whenever they have been called upon they have kicked ass and taken names.
So, it's OK to ridicule the American military, but not the Canadians? |
I have always attacked the way in which its political masters uses and abuses it as well as when it screws up and commits acts of terror, war crimes, etc. If I have ever denigraded the US military I apologize, but I don't think I ever have. And people can feel free to criticize the CF and its crazy involvment in Somlia, but to deny its role in so many positive missions and to denigrate its service to the world in the name of true democracy and freedom is pretty low, but nothing is too low for stevemcgarret and his fellow faculty members at TooyA U. (Talking out of your Ass U). |
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stevemcgarrett
Joined: 24 Mar 2006
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Dr. Porn wrote:
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| of the list again so I took a peak. |
i.e., as in you scaled it because it was there, eh?  |
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freethought
Joined: 13 Mar 2005
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Dr. Porn wrote:
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| of the list again so I took a peak. |
i.e., as in you scaled it because it was there, eh? |
I'll add carrying about one letter spelling errors like writing peak instead of peek, or to instead of two or too as EXTREMELY ANAL!!!
All this anal behaviour must be because of Monday, and if not.... |
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stevemcgarrett
Joined: 24 Mar 2006
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| All this anal is because we know you prefer everything in that locale. |
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thepeel
Joined: 08 Aug 2004
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I don't want to start a new thread about muslims, so I'll just post this here...
I've often said that I fear muslims are forming a parallel society. Here is the situation in Germany.
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A Parallel Muslim Universe
By Andrea Brandt and Cordula Meyer
Germany's Muslim population is becoming more religious and more conservative. Islamic associations are fostering the trend, particularly through their work with the young -- accelerating the drift towards a parallel Muslim society.
Surveys in the country have charted a significant increase in fundamentalist attitudes, particularly among younger Muslims. The experiences of Ekin Delig�z, a member of the German parliament representing the Green Party, underscore the potential dangers. Having called on Muslim women to remove their headscarves, Delig�z faced death threats and now receives police protection.
Disturbing as this trend may be, it cannot be pinned exclusively on Muslim groups. Under the guise of religious tolerance, German society stood blithely by as some parts of its Muslim communities began turning into parallel societies. For years, the country's courts have been excusing Muslim girls from coed swimming lessons and class outings - citing the most absurd reasons for their rulings.
In the following years, the German courts stuck to their guns. In another regional case, the judges had to decide whether a class excursion was mandatory for a Muslim girl. In their ruling of 2002, they parroted the language of a fatwa issued two years previously. The former chairman of the Islamic Religious Community in Hesse had stipulated that a Muslim woman not accompanied by a mahram, a male blood relative, must not stray more than 50 miles from her home - because this is the distance a caravan of camels can travel in 24 hours.
Camels are something of an anomaly on the German autobahn these days. Sympathetic judges nonetheless recommended sending the 15-year-old brother along as a mahram. Given her fear of losing her headscarf or violating other religious laws, the schoolgirl's condition, they argued, was comparable to that of a "partially mentally handicapped person." She therefore needed somebody to accompany her; otherwise, she should not be forced to take part in the trip, they reasoned. |
It is a long, but good read.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,467360,00.html |
Maybe they are in a parallel universe because the Germans facilitate them.
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German judge rules Koran allows wife abuse
BERLIN (AFP) - A German woman judge has refused a Moroccan-born woman permission to file for divorce by interpreting the Koran as allowing husbands to beat their wives.
"Where are we living? Woman judge allows beating in marriage... and invokes the Koran," said a front-page headline in Germany's top-selling Bild newspaper, reflecting the widespread angry reaction on Thursday.
"This Moroccan woman has the same right to protection from a violent husband as any German woman. Anything else would be misconceived sensitivity to the benefit of the husband and would amount to racist discrimination against the wife," said the Tageszeitung daily.
The Central Council of Muslims in Germany also condemned the decision.
"The judge should have made a decision based on the German constitution instead of the Koran," said spokeswoman Nurhan Soykan, who said that violence and mistreatment, regardless of the gender of the victim, were also grounds for divorce in the Islamic world.
A court in the western city of Frankfurt on Wednesday upheld a complaint of bias against the judge lodged by the lawyer of the 26-year-old woman, who has two children.
The woman had filed for immediate divorce on the grounds that the husband, also of Moroccan origin, regularly beat her and threatened to kill her. The claims were backed up by a police report.
But the female judge, who has not been named, made clear in a letter that the wife's bid had little chance of approval because, according to her, Islamic law allowed a man to strike his wife.
German politicians from all parties were united in disgust at the judgement.
"When the Koran takes precedence over the German Basic Law, then I can only say: Good night Germany," Ronald Pofalla, the secretary general of the conservative Christian Democratic Union of Chancellor Angela Merkel, told Bild.
Hans-Christian Stroebele, of the opposition Greens, said the kind of abuse suffered by the woman should be punished by German criminal law. |
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070322/wl_afp/germanyjusticeislam_070322132641
This is the logical end of multiculturalism. One set of laws for one group, and another for the other group.
In Germany, muslim women are lesser beings than non-muslim women, according to this court. |
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On the other hand
Joined: 19 Apr 2003
Location: I walk along the avenue
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re: the divorce case
I would really like to know more about German law in this area. If I'm not mistaken, Germany doesn't have strict church/state separation, and certain churches are regarded as being state churches. I'm wondering if it might be the customary thing in German divorces cases for the judge to base his decision on what rules are upheld by whichever church performed the original marriage. If so, then this might simply be a case of applying a general principle, not giving special treatment to one group. |
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